64. The first encounter

Hunter is feeling awkward! It feels as if he is on another planet! All the way from the smallholding he hasn’t seen any moving vehicle. The dirt road now becomes a tar road and he drives in between the first houses in town and still he sees no sign of life. He drives to the main road. His priority will be a butcher. Maybe he can find preserved meat in a freezer. Perishable products, for now, will be the priority. If he finds such a freezer or cold storage he will fill his 4x4 and deliver it to the smallholding. He and Robert built their own freezer and made sure that the battery bank, solar panels and wind turbine they erected, will keep it frozen. In their freezer, there are still a few carcasses but when they are consumed, meat will be as scarce as feathers on a fish and the freezer will be redundant. Luckily, Lyle provided him with a few hens and cocks and they are raising chicken. It will probably be the only protein in the future except for tinned meat from the town’s shops whic