Is Your Home Ready For An Emergency? Four Things You Need To Do Now To Be Ready!

Is Your Home Ready For An Emergency? Four Things You Need To Do Now To Be Ready!

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Our home. We love coming home to it, resting in it, and just generally being home. Our homes are our safe places. Or are they? Getting our home ready for an emergency was not at the top of my to-do list. That was really bad of me, but I was more focused on other areas of preparedness. This year, however, I have become more aware that my home needs some improvements and safety/emergency equipment. The realization that I was slacking…

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Monday Update From The Homestead – April 18

Monday Update From The Homestead – April 18

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Hello! We are having some very lovely temperatures here! The wind seems to want to blow too, but it feels so good to be outside soaking up the sun.We got a fair amount of yard work done. The branches are piled up in three piles around the house and will be loaded into a trailer. Some of it will be burned and some of it will become mulch for the garden. The kids did most of that work as well…

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I Have Been Prepping For Five Years, Now What? A Review Checklist for the Long-Term Prepper

I Have Been Prepping For Five Years, Now What? A Review Checklist for the Long-Term Prepper

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Many of us have been prepping for quite a while. We started by getting some more food, a few cases of water, and some gear. Then prepping took over our lives and we now have a lot of prepping things and a good size food and water storage. I have been prepping for longer than five years, but I know that I have areas of my prepping I need to revisit. I bet you do too. As I have been decluttering…

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Monday Update From The Homestead – April 11

Monday Update From The Homestead – April 11

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What happened this week?This week was a little exciting, a little bit frustrating, and has a little bit more work involved for us.We are down a chicken. One of the full-grown layers was killed by a hawk. In all the problems I thought I would have with keeping my chickens alive, this was not one problem I thought I would have. Hawks are not a big problem, but we had noticed three of them nesting on the property. We weren’t…

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Making Bread Is A Skill You Need To Learn! Bonus: A Round-Up of Great Bread Recipes!

Making Bread Is A Skill You Need To Learn! Bonus: A Round-Up of Great Bread Recipes!

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One of the skills I have probably worked the hardest on was to make my own bread. I wasn’t very positive about my ability to learn how to make bread, but I knew I needed to learn how.I had a bread maker, but I didn’t like how the loaves came out of the bread maker. The crust was very chewy if not hard as a rock. Then I discovered the dough setting. Oh my. I found out that the bread…

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Monday Update From The Homestead – April 4

Monday Update From The Homestead – April 4

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Happy April! April seems to be the month that truly feels like Spring to me. That may be because the weather and temperatures seem to be better. We have had great temps the last couple days, but of course the wind has been blowing hard! We haven’t gotten much done outside as a result.And sorry about missing last week’s update. My mind went somewhere else last week and I totally forgot about this on Monday!Rob accepted a welder position at…

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