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Hoarding or practicality?

Lets get something straight here: preppers have, for years, been ridiculed and mocked simply for being ready for an event, such as COVID-19. Or the zombies. Whichever. Now, many of them are being lambasted in the media, social included, for having those same supplies. Yes, its true that some people have grabbed every item on []

Prepping for COVID-19

I read the news, I hear what people all over the world are saying, and yes, Ive read a few books on the end of the world. Written a few, too. So Im going to give my thoughts on this whole epidemic. Its probably not as bad, or going to get as bad, as some []

CDC

This morning, someone posted that the CDC kept warning us about COVID19 but hadn’t told us what to do—she wondered if we should buy masks or stock canned goods. And of course, she “thanked” Trump for slashing the CDC budget so they couldn’t “protect” us. She also mentioned that the CDC was responsible for “confining” […]

Okay, Boomer!

Let’s see how many people I can piss off today… A couple days ago, I went to look at an advertised page that looked interesting. I filled out the questionnaire until I got to the part about my gender. The choices were “male,” “female,” or “non-binary.” And that’s where I lost interest. And of course, […]

Musings on Government

Not surprisingly, I read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, and much of that includes the epilogue of starting over, of creating a new society and, by extension, a new government. Without exception, each of these new societies and their various forms of government are, respectively, more independent and smaller, more simplistic. Assuming, of course, that […]

Is War Coming?

I’m sure you’ve all heard or read the news lately, and there’s a lot of talk going around. Are we going to be “at war” as we probably think of it? Our troops have been fighting here, there, and everywhere for years, decades even, in one skirmish or another, but it could come to our […]

Homestead Series IX—Homesteading by the Seasons

Here is your handy-dandy guide to homesteading throughout the year, including gardening and livestock care. Any additional things you may do, such as home-schooling your kids or working a day job, will take extra time each day, as will the work you do to build up your homestead in the first place—such as: Perimeter fence […]

Homesteading Series VIII—Gardening

When it comes to gardening, everyone has his favorite crops, fertilizer, and methods. I’m going to cover the basics here, the way I do things, so feel free to improvise and adapt. Furthermore, I’m going to assume this is your first large garden on your homestead. You don’t start your garden in the spring, you […]

Homestead Series VII—Livestock

Let’s talk a little more about keeping livestock on your homestead. Just because you’ve bought your property and have a house or cabin to live in, it doesn’t mean you can find a cute little goat on Craigslist and bring it home. First, you have to know what you’re doing and you have to be […]

OITNB

Last night, we finished watching the entire Orange is the New Black series—if you haven’t seen it, you should. We actually started it when it first came out, but then we didn’t have Netflix for a few years so we just started over from the beginning. I realize this is television, and entertainment, but the […]