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In a recent piece, I proposed that all serious preppers should invest in a set of cloth diapers.  I followed that up with a post on how to wash and dry the diapers.  In this installment in the baby care series, I want to focus on preventing and curing diaper rash in a less than […]

Last week, I wrote a post about what you may want to tell your children about the reasons you have decided to prepare.  I only touched briefly on the topic of fear, so I wanted to give that some more attention here. There are a lot of unsettling things in the news these days.  Some […]

In keeping with my recent theme, a few weeks ago I downloaded another apocalyptic novel, The Raggedy Edge by Michael S. Turnlund.  It was an interesting, though not ground-breaking story.  A middle class family of 4 realizes they must flee their small city to the nearby rural town after the electrical grid goes down without […]

Long time readers are no doubt very familiar with my series on backyard chickens.  I think the meat and eggs that can be produced by a flock of birds is very valuable for the preparedness minded person. This time, however, I want to make an argument about how you should give serious consideration to the […]

For most of us who are “prepping” for an uncertain future, our families are our primary motivation.  I have often heard people say that they love their spouse/children/siblings/etc., and so they prepare.  Sometimes that is because those loved ones refuse to see the wisdom or are incapable of acquiring needed supplies for financial or other […]

A while back, I wrote a piece extolling the virtues of vinegar.  I want to focus some attention on another inexpensive multipurpose agent-  sodium bicarbonate. Nearly everyone has a box or two of this humble stuff hanging around.  You probably have one in the pantry and maybe another in the fridge to keep it from […]

For those of you who have never used cloth diapers before, the idea of washing them may seem a bit daunting or too icky to consider.  For 30+ years, most people have simply been wadding up the whole soiled diaper and sending off to the landfill for disposal.  In a situation where there is no […]

January has its icy fingers in us after a couple of rather mild days.  Now the time has come in earnest when we will have to bundle up when we go out and take special care with the animals. How is wintertime flock management different? 1.  Keeping drinkable water available While you may have struggled […]

I tend towards insomnia despite my fatigue at the end of the day.  Most often I try to use the time to either get some blog posts written or to read.  I always start my reading with my Bible since that is still the most valuable book I own.  After I have finished my “quiet […]

When someone has sustained an injury, we are pretty well conditioned to check for breathing, heartbeat, and profuse bleeding.  In the absence of problems with any of those, we may be tempted to dismiss the injury as “no big deal” when other things may in fact being going on within the body that are harder […]