Several weeks have passed since I made my first batches of soaps. They have cured now and we have been using them and given them as well-received gifts. I have learned several things that I thought I would share with others who are interested in getting started. To begin with, I must confess that I […]
January 4, 2012
We are pleased to announce that we are expecting another blessing around Father’s Day! So, in honor of the upcoming event, I thought this might be a good time to give a run-down of the various choices available these days in cloth diapers. The “Old-Fashioned Kind” If you were cloth diapered as a baby, most […]
January 3, 2012
As the long cold days of winter set in, if you are like me, you are perusing seed catalogs and looking longingly at the beautiful fruits and vegetables contained within the pages. Grocery store tomatoes are hard, mealy, tasteless things and the fruits have been imported from somewhere south of the border if not from […]
January 2, 2012
Happy 2012! We hope that you had a good Christmas and a wonderful and safe New Year. As you may have noticed, we took some time off between the two holidays but we’re back at it now that the new year is upon us. We thought it might be a fun way to kick off […]
December 25, 2011
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year! Joe & Laura
December 24, 2011
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Paul the Apostle
December 23, 2011
“America’s youth are in trouble – literally. Parents and non-parents alike might be shocked to learn a new study estimates that roughly 1 in 3 U.S. youths will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23.” That’s the leading sentence in a recent CBS News story that highlights the findings of a study published in […]
December 22, 2011
I think a lot about ways that I can make steps to preparedness look “normal” and “doable” for the doubters in my life. Also, I have been thinking about alternatives to MREs. Those two things collided in my mind when I saw a display of cookbooks in an Amish store. They all featured Meals in […]
December 21, 2011
The following article has been contributed by James Sorick of SurvivalGearGuru.com. It has been published with permission of the author. Assembling food survival kits is one of the most important things you can do for your pets. If something happens and you have to go dashing out of your house, you’ll want to be sure […]
December 20, 2011
I have been tearing through books lately and I can’t get enough survivalist fiction these days. About a week ago, I finished another one that I thought our blog readers may enjoy. Apocalypse Law is set in north Florida. It is winter and this is the third severe one in a row with snow regularly […]
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