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I don’t know about you, but when we finished pulling our produce out of our garden this year, I wanted it to be DONE. Strangely enough, that’s also the time that we began to dream of what next year’s garden will look like. But there’s a problem. What do we […]
It’s Thanksgiving week. Oftentimes, this week or this month is one that we take to reflect on the things that we are thankful for. But, I’m betting some of you out there have had a rough year. Some of you may have lost a loved one. Maybe you were diagnosed […]
If you’ve been around here for awhile, you know that I am not at all alarmist. I don’t work on fearmongering. I usually just present ways for all of us to prepare more, to live better, do more with less, or to teach you more skills. But something is going […]
The days are still fairly warm, but the evenings are starting to get chilly. After the sun goes down, which is earlier and earlier, I can’t sit out on our back porch swing without a jacket or sweater. Fall is definitely in the air around here. The trees, which have […]
It’s ALMOST Fall! With fall, we can often experience storms – especially where we live on the prairie. And one of the results of having little storms on the prairie (too much?) is our power tends to go out fairly easily. So how do we make sure that we’re ready […]
Oftentimes we think of Preparedness in terms of what we have. Do we have enough groceries to go A Year Without the Grocery Store? How about making sure that we have enough personal care items or household repair supplies? That can feel so overwhelming in itself, but it also pigeonholes […]
Every Friday, we have a tradition that my kids love! We take my mom and father-in-law grocery shopping. Okay. That’s not the part that they love. They love what comes AFTER off-loading all of the groceries. We sit down together and eat pizza and watch a movie. For us, we […]
We’ve all heard the laws of 3’s. You can live 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. Water is high up on the list and unfortunately, we need it for so many things! It isn’t just for drinking. We need water to clean our […]
When we are cooking without power – especially if we’re cooking over a firepit – we need to be able to start a fire. But what if we don’t have matches? Yes, we’ve all seen the bow-drill method. Yes, we’ve probably watched Survivor and seen people start a fire with […]
I don’t usually start thinking about firewood until much later in the course of the year. But this year with rumors of rolling brown-outs, with the prices of electricity, natural gas, and propane already going out of the roof, I’m taking proactive steps to make sure we’re well stocked. Keep reading […]
