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 […]
January 16, 2012
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 […]
January 14, 2012
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. ~ Woodrow Wilson
January 13, 2012
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 […]
January 12, 2012
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 11, 2012
Some things in life are indisputable and unchangeable. “The call of nature” is one of them. We all have to “go” at some point. None of us are immune. From the most respected member of high society to the “Average Joe” working two jobs to make ends meet, we all have one thing in common: […]
January 10, 2012
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 […]
January 9, 2012
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 […]
January 7, 2012
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson
January 6, 2012
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 […]
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January 17, 2012
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