This week’s weather in northern Iowa has been less than ideal. We never really appreciate a day before Thanksgiving snowstorm. Those have a tendency to make travel a bit difficult. School was cancelled on Wednesday due to several inches of snow being on the ground already and more coming down. The kids were to go down to their dad’s house to have Thanksgiving with him on Wednesday. We already had the day planned, had moved Dane’s doctor appointment earlier in…
When talking to people about food storage, most people are believers in using multiple methods to build up food storage as well as having a variety of foods in their food storage. However, increasingly I have been coming across people who only have one or two things they are stocking up on, one method, or one way to stock up. Do not rely on just one method – you need to have a well-rounded food storage. Why? You can buy…
(Preparedness on the Cheap is a series of articles for the prepper and everyone else that do not have a lot of money, but needs to take steps to be prepared. A good deal of prepping is learning, planning and organizing. Prepping doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, but does involve a lot of doing!) I take very regular walks around the yard and evaluate the property. I ask myself questions such as: Do I need more privacy?Does…
Let’s face a fact: most kids are very happy playing with something that is electronic. They would play them all the time if they could. I know the pain of that statement because I had a preteen son who was the same way.I worried about how he would entertain himself if the power went out and the batteries on his Nintendo 3DS died. I worried about how my two daughters at home would entertain themselves without cell phones, computers, Kindles,…
One of the things that could most annoy me is when some one close me to goes “Oh my gosh, she’s a prepper! You should see all the stuff she has put anyway and all the gadgets she has!”Doesn’t matter the glare I give them. Doesn’t matter if I deny it or semi deny it. Doesn’t matter if I walk away from the conversation or try to change the conversation, it goes back to that.And guess what? It really irks…
When you go out for the day, do you know where you are going? Are you aware of potential situations that may impact you? How do you plan to protect yourself (and loved ones) if danger threatens you? Those are questions I think about everyday. They are not easy questions, but they need to asked just the same. Many people think the officers of the law will protect or they will depend of the kindness of strangers to protect them,…