I have been wondering about preps and such. You go reading the women preppers and they have a bunch of things they want for the food supply that they say is needed and I never thought of. But that is why God gave them the ability to run a keyboard and communicate with the rest of us, we need to be told of these things. I have been reading about canned butter. Yep. You can stock up on your butter that same as you do tomatoes. And butter is a nice thing to have, especially when the stores are closed or out of everything. We get ours from the Amish but they could run out. It would be good to can a few pints or quarts of butter while it is still feasible. Lasts two years with no refrigeration.
The wife is getting plastic 5 gallon buckets from the Amish with lids for them. Cheap price and we can store lesser amounts of the grains we want than 35 gallon cans. I go for the 35 gallon cans. Once they are full you have the job DONE and I like to have the job finished and over with so I can go on to something else. I think she is looking at corn storage and flour storage right at the moment. Beans will got into large plastic bags, resealable, 3 for a $1, and get put into a larger 35 gallon can. And Pinto beans at our local cut-rate grocery were $1.60 a pound Friday. That is amazing. I will grow beans as best I can. Believe it. But I look for necessary food items to go sky high pretty soon. As if $1.60 a pound AIN'T sky high? But maybe I haven't imagined the soaring costs of the future.
I am thinking about spices. You know what I mean. Those little cans and shaker jars that come home in the grocery bags all the time. If you are in there nosing around looking for goodies you habitually push them aside so you can go on for better things. But did you ever have Chili with no spices in it? Hamburger and bean soup, anyone? Ain't nothin' like a good bowl of Chili! And my wife can make a damn fine pot of Chili. Gonna have to look into growing spices of all sorts. You can get into appetite fatigue if your food ain't varied enough. Kids especially. You gotta try and keep them interested in eating so they will keep strong and healthy. And I want MY kids and grand kids to be strong and healthy. Makes me think that while we ponder the necessaries of protein and vitamins, we better have some fun in there for the kids. I would especially stress having goodies and great tasting menus the first three days of a hard time. Someone, I can't remember who, said that the first three days of an emergency were the most stressful and food was the best way to combat the stress. So ladies, when the SHTF, get the food to the table and try to make it taste good. If rationing is going to be a reality then wait until day 4. Hopefully, most folks of your association will have more than 4 days of food on hand. If they don't, you have a problem.
If you like salad dressing on your salad, and I do, then you had better store up some cooking oils for your wife to make the dressing with. The Handmaiden tells me that buying the ingredients is cheap compared to buying the finished product. And along with canned butter you can put up soft cheese also, if you like a cheese based salad dressing. There are canning methods for soft cheese on the Internet. But hard cheese will keep for a long time if it ain't exposed to air much.
There area so many things to amass preps for. I was reading Mayberrry this morning and I got reminded that I need some different kinds of rope on hand. SURVIVAL TOPICS says I ought to get Paracord along with my other stuff. SURVIVAL TOPICS is an excellent data base for essentials and you can learn how to get them on your on, too. I have waterproof matches right in front of me that the Handmaiden made from the recipe on SURVIVAL TOPICS. And they work every time! She has since made up some more of the little gems but I cannot tell you how many there are. I do know that I bought 10 boxes of strike anywhere matches for safe keeping. SURVIVAL TOPICS also has Fire Steels from Sweden and they are supposed to be the best in the world. I gotta get a couple of those little jewels too! Plus there is a recipe for a firehole set up that will really help cook a meal or dry some meat or whatever. Like I said: It is a storehouse of essentials. http://www.survivaltopics.com/ will take you to the site.
We are happy to announce that we got mentioned on Survival Blog by Mr. Jim Rawles this morning. I read him every day and he has inspired me to go on a lot of times. You will find his URL on the opening page of my blog. I call him the Godfather of Survival Blogs. He has a lot of great info up and can help you in many ways.
Have a good Sunday night and may God bless you and help you stay alive.
Michael
mboone@rtccom.net
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN
Man! Mayberry sent me a rant as a comment and got me all fired up. What in the Hell is the matter with people? Can't you stretch your minds a little bit? We could quite possibly be entering the greatest upheaval in history. What will it be like on the other side? Who does what or gets what when the new hand has been dealt? The dawn of a new day is on the eastern horizon and the light of it has not yet been revealed. But it will be a monster!
It will see the deaths of millions, maybe billions. It will see the forging of new governments and new communities. It will be a time of the making of new peoples to govern the earth. What gets done in the creative days will carry on for generations. How your children will live will be determined a lot in the first few years of this massive change spreading over the world. Some of you are the mothers and fathers of a new age. Rejoice in that. Have a hope in that. The change is coming and those preparing for it have a good chance to make a difference for mankind. A difference for the GOOD of mankind. So be steady in your preparations. Be alert to the events of the day. Teach your children good principles and morals. It will count. It will make a difference. But you must not faint. You have to be mature and long suffering. No matter how things look or how your life has been adversly affected. You must hold on to what the good God of heaven has given you.
The DJIA ended the week below 12,000. The Presidents push team will be meeting this weekend for sure. That stock market has to come up! And it will, for a few days. All those wealthy people are depending on it. And so are a lot of working people whose pensions are tied to the value and dividends of it. "Men will not know which way to go." Where do you invest? What do you do? Where will you go? I'l tell you where to go and what to invest in. You go some where outside of towns and cities and places of dense population. You get back on the land and your get food that will last a long time on the shelf. It's probably too late for a major push toward a garden unless you live in a very warm southern climate. Don't fool with it unless you do live in such a climate. Just buy and store up. The idiots still take FRN's and use this to your advantage. Big Bear sent me a great bit of advice and told me not to worry about gardens any more this year. But I still think getting your seed for next year is important. He predicted a die-off and I do not think that is out of line one little bit. The mush-gut citizens of this country will drop like flies when the going gets tough. But next Spring will be a time of planting, a time of renewal, a time of hope. At least I hope it will!
I have said before and I will say it again, and again, and again: Invest in TANGIBLES. Intangibles are of the fantasy world, for the most part. Get rid of the cable TV and the satellite TV and all that crap. I'd say get rid of the Internet but it is too valuable right now to discard. We need to keep in touch. And don't run around worrying. Don't drink at your local tavern and expect to find solace there. I love my beer but I love my friends and family more so I do without the beer. Don't run to the local church and give your money away for something you can't hold in your hand. God knows what the hell is going on and what you are trying to do. He can see the logic in your thinking. So go ahead and do it! You don't need a sky pilot to shape your destiny. You need things that will allow you and yours to SURVIVE. Does it not say in the scriptures that the Christ thought it not robbery to be equal with God? Does it not say that God sits on his throne, not running around like a chicklen with his head cut off? So be like God and sit down and think about things. Ponder the situation. Seek inspiration. And truly want to do the right thing. You are given a certain set of parameters for your continued existence. You got to have air, water, food, shelter, and sanitation. Think on those things. To Hell with the nebulous things of society. Be free of them! If you can.
I invest in ammo, food, tools, non-hybrid seed and good strong clothing. I am pondering getting medical supplies. I have numerous access points of potable water. Blessed in that area! I have many brothers and sisters in God who live around me, Do they all prep? No. Well, if they don't prep what the Hell do you hang out with them for? Because I know that when the SHTF they will come together so fast it will make you head spin. Maybe we have seen a sixth essential to survival. The GROUP. Aha. We now have a clearer view of the picture. The preponderance of the citizenry does not have the group principle. They are divided, though they live around each other. They have their own selfish desires and to Hell with yours! Someone remarkd the other day that the fedgov did not like people to band together. Much harder to control that way. I couldn't have agreed with them more. That group mind, seeking the survial of all of them, is hard to beat. It is alive and vibrant. It is clever and outgoing. And it will kick your ass if you come around and are up to no good.
Big Bear was prety adamant about stocking up on food. And you don't want to argue with something that size! Hah! And he has brains on top of all of that. Here is another prepper that gives good advice. What I am looking for in all my writing and posting is consensus. Or should I say synthesis. You have thesis. Then you have antithesis. Then you come to synthesis. Synthesis is supposed to be where you arrive at the proper conclusion after having looked at all sides of the equation. This is where you are supposed to find the most good. I don't think all the data is in yet but I think we have looked enough to get ready for something bad to arrive on our land.
Stay the course and don't dismay. History will crown us as intelligent. Our offspring will do likewise. And God will reward us for loving our fellow man.
I was reading a blog that said we were already in a depression. I can believe that. Don't bother me a bit. I've seen hard times before. What is new and different is shortages of necessities. I've never encountered that before. In the hardest of times you could always buy what you wanted. Now, well, something new is on the scene. Remember that word LOCAVORE. It means your food comes from local sources, not half way across the country or halfway around the world. Prepare my friends. Prepare for the goddamn mess that is about to be heaped upon us. Band together and survive. Do the right thing. I will be getting ready myself.
Stay alive!
Michael
rtccom.net
It will see the deaths of millions, maybe billions. It will see the forging of new governments and new communities. It will be a time of the making of new peoples to govern the earth. What gets done in the creative days will carry on for generations. How your children will live will be determined a lot in the first few years of this massive change spreading over the world. Some of you are the mothers and fathers of a new age. Rejoice in that. Have a hope in that. The change is coming and those preparing for it have a good chance to make a difference for mankind. A difference for the GOOD of mankind. So be steady in your preparations. Be alert to the events of the day. Teach your children good principles and morals. It will count. It will make a difference. But you must not faint. You have to be mature and long suffering. No matter how things look or how your life has been adversly affected. You must hold on to what the good God of heaven has given you.
The DJIA ended the week below 12,000. The Presidents push team will be meeting this weekend for sure. That stock market has to come up! And it will, for a few days. All those wealthy people are depending on it. And so are a lot of working people whose pensions are tied to the value and dividends of it. "Men will not know which way to go." Where do you invest? What do you do? Where will you go? I'l tell you where to go and what to invest in. You go some where outside of towns and cities and places of dense population. You get back on the land and your get food that will last a long time on the shelf. It's probably too late for a major push toward a garden unless you live in a very warm southern climate. Don't fool with it unless you do live in such a climate. Just buy and store up. The idiots still take FRN's and use this to your advantage. Big Bear sent me a great bit of advice and told me not to worry about gardens any more this year. But I still think getting your seed for next year is important. He predicted a die-off and I do not think that is out of line one little bit. The mush-gut citizens of this country will drop like flies when the going gets tough. But next Spring will be a time of planting, a time of renewal, a time of hope. At least I hope it will!
I have said before and I will say it again, and again, and again: Invest in TANGIBLES. Intangibles are of the fantasy world, for the most part. Get rid of the cable TV and the satellite TV and all that crap. I'd say get rid of the Internet but it is too valuable right now to discard. We need to keep in touch. And don't run around worrying. Don't drink at your local tavern and expect to find solace there. I love my beer but I love my friends and family more so I do without the beer. Don't run to the local church and give your money away for something you can't hold in your hand. God knows what the hell is going on and what you are trying to do. He can see the logic in your thinking. So go ahead and do it! You don't need a sky pilot to shape your destiny. You need things that will allow you and yours to SURVIVE. Does it not say in the scriptures that the Christ thought it not robbery to be equal with God? Does it not say that God sits on his throne, not running around like a chicklen with his head cut off? So be like God and sit down and think about things. Ponder the situation. Seek inspiration. And truly want to do the right thing. You are given a certain set of parameters for your continued existence. You got to have air, water, food, shelter, and sanitation. Think on those things. To Hell with the nebulous things of society. Be free of them! If you can.
I invest in ammo, food, tools, non-hybrid seed and good strong clothing. I am pondering getting medical supplies. I have numerous access points of potable water. Blessed in that area! I have many brothers and sisters in God who live around me, Do they all prep? No. Well, if they don't prep what the Hell do you hang out with them for? Because I know that when the SHTF they will come together so fast it will make you head spin. Maybe we have seen a sixth essential to survival. The GROUP. Aha. We now have a clearer view of the picture. The preponderance of the citizenry does not have the group principle. They are divided, though they live around each other. They have their own selfish desires and to Hell with yours! Someone remarkd the other day that the fedgov did not like people to band together. Much harder to control that way. I couldn't have agreed with them more. That group mind, seeking the survial of all of them, is hard to beat. It is alive and vibrant. It is clever and outgoing. And it will kick your ass if you come around and are up to no good.
Big Bear was prety adamant about stocking up on food. And you don't want to argue with something that size! Hah! And he has brains on top of all of that. Here is another prepper that gives good advice. What I am looking for in all my writing and posting is consensus. Or should I say synthesis. You have thesis. Then you have antithesis. Then you come to synthesis. Synthesis is supposed to be where you arrive at the proper conclusion after having looked at all sides of the equation. This is where you are supposed to find the most good. I don't think all the data is in yet but I think we have looked enough to get ready for something bad to arrive on our land.
Stay the course and don't dismay. History will crown us as intelligent. Our offspring will do likewise. And God will reward us for loving our fellow man.
I was reading a blog that said we were already in a depression. I can believe that. Don't bother me a bit. I've seen hard times before. What is new and different is shortages of necessities. I've never encountered that before. In the hardest of times you could always buy what you wanted. Now, well, something new is on the scene. Remember that word LOCAVORE. It means your food comes from local sources, not half way across the country or halfway around the world. Prepare my friends. Prepare for the goddamn mess that is about to be heaped upon us. Band together and survive. Do the right thing. I will be getting ready myself.
Stay alive!
Michael
rtccom.net
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