Here’s another survival situation that hits close to home: Power Outages. Unless you’ve been able to get your home completely off grid, you’re pretty dependent on power from the local power company to keep your place running. Usually a power outage hits without much warning (except you know it’s snowing or windy or whatever might […]
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 […]
Be Prepared . . . To Help Others
When we are prepared it saves us from a lot of troubles we might otherwise encounter. But one of the added benefits of being prepared is the increased ability to be of help to others. Yep, the “other” people who are in some way less prepared than we are oftentimes need a little assistance. You […]
Church in the Dark–Sunday’s Inconvenience
Saturday we got more snow. Seriously. I’m all snowed out this year. I don’t know if it was the snow or because of daylight saving time or maybe that it was the morning after closing night of the community theater play or maybe none of the above were to blame, but when sweet husband’s phone […]
Living History to Learn Skills
I read a post at Preparedness Pro yesterday about the importance of learning skills. Acquiring useful skills is actually something I’ve thought about a lot in case you couldn’t tell by all the crazy stuff I share with you that I’ve been doing. I believe that having a quiver full of skills and things you’ve […]
Preparedness Enrichment Night
A few months ago I was asked if I would do an Enrichment night for the ladies at church about preparedness. Of course I said yes. Now, for those who don’t know, the LDS church has a program for the ladies called Relief Society, and part of that is having activities or meetings called Home, […]
Are You Prepared?
I got these questions on a handout from church a couple of weeks ago–See how you do or if there are areas you need work on. I had to ask sweet husband about a few of these . . . we still have work to do. 1. Has your family rehearsed fire escape routes from […]
Resourcefulness and the Ugly Birthday Cake
You know usually I put up some sort of information I deem useful. I’m just like that. I’m prone to action rather than much thought (hey, don’t take that too far–you know I think occasionally . .). Something happens and I think, “What can I DO about it?” and get busy instead of fretting over […]
Great Trials Lie Ahead–Prepare and Have Hope
You know I don’t usually wax philosophical on this site or get all gloom and doomy, and I’m still not–you have to watch to the end. This video from David Christenson features words of Latter-day Saint prophets and apostles. If you are LDS (Mormon), you’ll know who they are. If you are not LDS, you […]
Glenn Beck on Personal Preparedness
I really enjoy Glenn Beck. We see eye to eye on a lot of issues (can’t say all, but a lot), and he’s not afraid to speak his mind. So here’s a clip from his program 2/20/09 on preparedness: That’s probably enough for most of you. Don’t go crazy and panic on me here, just […]