It is a cold winter morning in Kansas City. The household rises with the morning light. Pants and shoes are pulled on. The curtains are opened to let light and a bit of warmth in.
Breakfast comes out of a hot-pot packed the night before.
A small propane stove converted to run on methane gas was used to bring breakfast to a boil, then it was packed in a box lined with grass and straw harvested during the summer, and aluminum foil conserved from the days of mass manufacturing. The oats were traded from a farmer, apples and riaisins came from the back yard. Slices of home baked bread are brushed with butter and toasted on a cast iron skillet on the cast iron stove. Yesterday they had biscuits and gravy, with the biscuits baked in a stove-pipe oven on the wood stove. After breakfast, Tammie starts the day's batch of bread dough, and Bob, Sean, Shawn, and Nick go to work in the greenhouse.