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Are You Fit Enough to Survive?
The worst has happened and the social order is in a state of break-down. You had hoped that this wouldn’t happen, but you were smart enough to plan ahead in case it did. You have a comfortable home...
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Some Links to Electronic Projects for Survival and Preparedness
I know next to nothing about electronics which is kind of embarrassing since my dad was an electrical engineer. He designed missile guidance systems, and I can barely operate a flashlight. I must...
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Don’t Forget the Work Gloves
It’s easy to get seduced by the flashy side of preparedness. By this I mean the assault rifles, the freeze dried foods, the exotic off-grid energy systems, etc. I’m not saying that these things...
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Renewable Spaghetti
My wife and I both love spaghetti, and we keep a good supply of angel-hair pasta in our food storage; but in a long term survival situation, we will eventually run out of pasta. No more spaghetti....
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How Much Food do You Need for a One Year Storage?
Most people don’t have a clue about how much food they eat in a year. This is easy to understand because who goes out and buys a year’s worth of food at one time? Back in the day, a homesteader...
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Make Scent Blocking Spray for Deer Hunting
Deer have a highly refined sense of smell. If you are going to be a successful deer hunter, you must cover up your human smell. You can go to a sporting goods store and spend from four to twelve...
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Build a Manger for Your Goats
For most of the year I feed my goats brush from the woods along with a little all-stock feed. Goats love leaves, bud, and shoots; and it’s a simple matter to cut down a good load of greenery for them....
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Don’t be Deterred by Prepper Snobbery
I don’t care what it is that you’re interested in, there’s always going to be somebody that is sure that they know how to do it better, that they are more knowledgeable, more evolved, and more precise....
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Make Kale Chips for a Healthy and Delicious Snack
These days, many people are looking for healthier alternatives to some of the snack foods that we have been eating for years. I have found kale chips to be a great substitute for the potato chips and...
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Avoid Confusion with a Garden Journal
When I was working as a teacher it was easy to keep up with my garden. I planted in the spring and harvested when things were ready. I didn’t plant anything in the summer or fall because I wouldn’t...
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Weather Measurement and Prediction
What with weather satellites, Doppler radar, 24 hour weather channels, and internet weather reports we’ve become pretty spoiled at knowing what the weather will be; but this is all fairly recent stuff....
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How to Make a Comment
I have been writing this blog for a few years. I’ve posted over 240 articles, and I’ve had about 1.2 million hits. So I guess it is to be expected that I would receive a few obnoxious comments over the...
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Make Flu-Flu Arrow Fletchings from Craft Store Feathers
Flu-flu arrows are arrows that are designed to travel at regular speed for about thirty to forty yards and then to abruptly slow down and drop to the ground. Flu-flus are used in specific situations...
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Some Thoughts on Personal Hygiene in a Post Apocalyptic World
Most of us today have rigidly entrenched habits of personal hygiene that simply won’t be tenable in a post-apocalyptic world. Many of the personal hygiene products that we use will no longer be...
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Good-Bye Little Buddy
My daughter rescued Sammy as a puppy. She assured us that he was a Chihuahua, but it was obvious to everyone that he was not. He grew to be a medium small dog. He was a funny looking little guy with a...
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All Machines Will Eventually Fail
We’ve all read those prepper novels where the protagonists escape to there well equipped retreats that have everything they need to survive. They have tractors, garden tillers, chain saws, generators,...
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Make an Inexpensive Reflector Tarp for a Warm Survival Shelter
The wilderness survival community has, of late, taken a keen interest in using reflector blankets or reflector tarps to help create warmer lean-too shelters. The idea is that if the inside of your...
View Article13 Things You’ll Wish You had when Your Smart Phone is Useless
I recently watched a video called “Thirty Things Your Iphone has Replaced.” It’s pretty interesting to see how many things that used to be common accessories in everyone’s homes 25 years ago, have...
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