You've got this, Mama!
So let me tell you a little sanitation story. My father-in-law came to visit us for Christmas of 2017 and New Years 2018. We had a great visit, enjoyed opening gifts together, and loved the food and the company during his entire visit. On New Year’s Day of 2018, however, […]
While we can only live for three days without water, we can live as long as 3 weeks without food. But it would be three miserable weeks, which would ultimately end in death, if we had nothing to eat.  So we need to get food systems in place NOW to feed […]
Earlier this year, our portion of the Illinois river was seeing the longest flood that it had in almost 100 years! In the lock and dam near our house, the water was above the barrier that the boats usually go UNDER. So you have the height of most of the […]
What should we be thinking about NOW to be ready for TEOTWAWKI later? Let’s get some systems into place. But which ones?
In today’s economy, some of us want to diversify more than just the money that we invest – if we invest at all. I don’t know about you, but keeping all my money in a bank worries me. Last year, my husband and I needed to purchase a car because […]
Guess what time it is? No, I don’t mean what time it is on the clock. If you haven’t picked your head up out of your desk in a while so that you can be assaulted by fliers from Office Max – Office Depot – Staples – and others, It’s […]
Life right now is BUSY!! I’ve mentioned recently that I’ve been walking two miles a day. Besides the time to actually walk, it takes time to get changed and ready. It takes time to get cleaned up afterwards – especially since I’ve been mostly walking outside in the mornings or […]
I wanted to have an honest conversation with you guys (I hope you will join up in the comments) today about the hardest thing about prepping. So much of prepping is “relatively” easy. I’ve seen James Wesley Rawles call it the 3 B’s – beans, bullets, and bandages. Food and […]
It’s almost summertime! It’s a time of baseball games, camping, swimming, outdoor fires in the evening roasting marshmallows, and taking a vacation! For our family, vacations are a highlight of our summer when we are able to take them. But, if you’re like me, that presents us with a little […]
