Welcome to the 2010 Preparedness Stocking Stuffer Swap! You all know Christmas is coming. If your house is anything like mine, you’ve got stockings to fill, and usually Santa is a little more sparse on the grown-ups stockings. Do you stuff your own? Use a sticky note to remind your Santa not to forget the […]
Archives for November 2010
Thanksgiving and Some Christmas Fun Coming
I’m taking the rest of the week off for Thanksgiving. I was planning on making the whole meal, but then some friends invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner and when the grandma of the family insisted to sweet husband that we were coming over to eat, plans changed and now we’ll be eating with our […]
Book Review: The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making
Do you hunt? Or raise livestock for meat? Maybe you plan to at some point or have in the past. What do you do after the animal is ready to butcher? With our few attempts at farm animals, we called the local butcher, but with our hunting game, I process the meat myself right here […]
Please, Do Something
There are some hard times ahead for many of us, and we don’t know from one day to the next which of us the hard times may fall on. We don’t know if it will be tomorrow or next month or ten years from now. It doesn’t take an earthquake or other natural disaster to […]
Basic Firearms Part 4: Proper Sight Alignment or Sight Picture
Sight alignment is extremely important if you ever want to actually hit what you’re aiming at, and it’s really not that difficult to understand. In fact, you can teach your children as young as 4 or 5 years old about sight picture. Here’s how it works. Most every gun has a rear sight and a […]
What? We’ve Been at this Two Years Now?
I’ve got a lot going this week and will try to get posts up during it all, but for today, I’m going to link you back to a few of the older posts on the blog that I think you might enjoy. I’ve gotten quite a few newer readers here so for them and in […]
Emergency School Backpack Survival Kit Thoughts
Suppose something catastrophic happened while your kids were at school. They are there a good part of the day, right? Unless you home school which would solve this little dilemma for you. But the majority of us send our kids off to school somewhere every weekday. We already have a plan in place with the […]
7 Special Survival and Preparedness Situations
There are a number of situations for which you may need to alter the “standard” preparedness information you read or learn. Not every piece of survival advice applies to every family or each individual, and some can even be dangerous in certain situations. Here’s a list of 7 of the more common “kinks in the […]
A Trip to the Range with the Kids
My husband needed to sight in his muzzleloader for the hunt, so we took a trip to the range this weekend. Packed all the kids and the gear and the guns in the car and headed to an actual range. Usually we just go shoot at the hill outside of town, but for sighting in […]
Chioggia Beets
We grew a couple of new varieties of beets this year. I’m not a huge beet fan, but other members of the family really like them. To me, they pretty much have always tasted like dirt. That is, until last year, when I took my mom’s advice and froze them instead of bottling them. That […]