“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” – George S. Patton
Happy Memorial Day.

It occurred to me the other day that someone reading this blog might wonder how, with all of my preparedness efforts, I’ve never once mentioned firearms. There are a couple of reasons for this, and I suppose I should lay them out.
First: As someone who reads a ton of survival blogs (at last count, I [...]

Yesterday, I got a free variety pack of seeds in the mail from Hometown Seeds, which is wonderful – who doesn’t enjoy getting free things? I haven’t used anything from them before, but so far they seem like a nice small business. I plan to use some of the lettuce seeds they sent to replant [...]

I finished transplanting today. This included the carrots, lettuce, dill, peas, and peppers. Somewhat belatedly, as I was working, I remembered that at one point I had started broccolini plants. Hmm. I looked around…none that I could tell, but how would I know what they look like anyway? I’m used to seeing the end product, [...]

…Outside, that is. The plants themselves have, of course, been ready since about a month ago. Really, putting them in soil is a little overdue, although not by that much, since the last frost is pretty late here. Some of the plants clearly need soil – the peas and lettuce are both looking a little [...]

As virtually no one likely remembers, on March 22, I decided to try the mineral oil method of preserving eggs. I read about this method, and, frankly, despite my hope, I was pretty skeptical that it would work. Before I tried this, my main method of storing eggs was freezing, and it wasn’t working for [...]

Things like this freak me out. a little. Not wanting to think about disaster, I kind of understand that. But this kind of wholesale denial…wow. Check it out.
This, in a nutshell, is why people need to prepare. Because even if our government can respond in a disaster, they’ll be too busy dealing with all the [...]

As most preppers know, the single most important thing to have in the case of a crisis is water. Humans can survive without water for about three days and without food for about three weeks. We all know these basic facts. What we can’t really quantify is how much damage it does to our bodies [...]

Well, it’s been a whirlwind month, but I’m finally back from my travels (visiting my in-laws in one area of the country and then my parents in another). I felt a little conflicted about not giving regular updates, but all in all it was nice to step away from the blog (and my obsessive checking [...]