Dehydrating celery is pretty simple and almost doesn’t deserve its own post except that the results are pretty darn amazing, so I’m posting it anyway. Unfortunately, when I dried this last batch I was in a bit of a hurry and didn’t even take the time to take pictures until the end, so really all […]
Dehydrating Carrots: Steam Blanched or Not
A couple of weeks ago sweet husband did me the favor of digging all the carrots out of the garden even though I told him he could just cover them up with straw and leave them there all winter long. So now I’m having to do something with all the carrots. We had a little […]
Visit our Sponsors for Christmas Shopping
Here’s a plug to visit our sponsors for your holiday shopping. I know a lot of them have some great sales going on for the preparedness goods you want to give (and receive). Any of the sidebar links will get you to what you need. And of course, if you’re interested in a Sun Oven, […]
2010 Preparedness Stocking Stuffer Swap
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 […]
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 […]
