As the summer heat hits its zenith and your tomatoes and cucumbers are staggering to the finish line, you are probably thinking that gardening season is about over. You’ll hope to get another picking of beans and some pumpkins yet, but they will be the last hurrah, right? Not so fast. Fall is a great […]
August 27, 2011
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
August 26, 2011
For years I dismissed the notion of a headlamp, sticking faithfully by my Mini MagLite for my after hours visibility needs. I considered a headlamp to be the camper’s version of a pocket protector, or at best a fad that would soon be forgotten and replaced with a new and improved gadget. I guess my […]
August 25, 2011
Honey has long been a valued foodstuff. Unlike sugar cane and other sources of sweetness, the work is just about all done for you. You don’t have to plant, weed, or harvest anything. You let the bees do what God programmed them to do and you get a share. Being the good little preppers that […]
August 24, 2011
In the first several installments in this series, I addressed our definition of training, what it may entail, and how you may go about training your own children. At this time, I want to talk about some of the things we feel are integral to our children’s education and training. What skills should we be […]
August 23, 2011
How We Chose Our Guard Dog I have been researching dogs for defense for a while now. The reason I began looking was to protect our livestock, especially poultry, which disappear at an annoyingly regular rate. I began with “livestock guardian dogs” which typically are Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherds in our area, with the […]
August 22, 2011
Summer can be a hard time for rabbits. They have those lovely fur coats… and it’s 100 degrees. Almost without fail, when I pass the rabbit hutch, all the rabbits are stretched out to their full extent, feet pointing in opposite directions, in the middle of their cages. They lie there in a heat-induced stupor […]
August 20, 2011
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ~ George Orwell
August 19, 2011
The words “road less traveled” (paraphrased from Robert Frost’s poem) may conjure up a bucolic image of a crooked dirt road leading off into the wooded countryside on a pleasant sunny day. And that would be a nice mind-picture to dwell on. I could wax philosophical and pull out phrases like “stopping to smell the […]
August 18, 2011
“Enjoy the next few years, Albert; you’ll probably be dead before you’re 50.” Those were the last words then Army Major Albert Brown heard as he walked out of a military hospital. He was in his mid-forties and his body had endured more than a man twice his age, more than any man should ask […]
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