Author: denob

This one really get my Irish up…A prominent figure in the American prepper world has been arrested on kidnapping and gun charges.  Although, reportedly, the charges are being dropped, authorties had reason enough to detain this person for more than two weeks.  Was it a misunderstanding, mistake, or other explainable issue?  Maybe, but I find…

So go ahead and check for yourself…  Google how much water to store or visit your favorite prepping website and look it up for yourself.  Undoubtedly you will find the same answer everywhere you look, two quarts per person per day for drinking plus two quarts per person per day for cooking and washing.  At…

An interesting topic that is often overlooked…maintaining your health & fitness now will give you a headstart when SHTF. Enjoy… http://www.americanpreppersnetwork.com/2011/06/survival-prep-number-one-health-and.html

Warning – if you never had kids this may be gross….If you have had kids, this might get funny. Just the other morning, I was about to leave for work.  As usual, I picked up my son and gave him a hug goodbye. Then it was my daughter’s turn…that adorable little 1 year old came…

There is a lot of interest in survival and preparedness these days. The airwaves seem to be full of series and specials teaching you how to survive, and there are others that have come and gone that are available for download and even whole Youtube channels with hours of information and how-tos. It’s a good…

Sorry for the lag in posting, I am currently packing my entire home to move to the country house… Things will get back to normal soon.  In the meantime, enjoy this repost from APN.     I just experienced one of those things that leaves you in total awe of how some people think. Now…

The tail end of a storm hit Nova Scotia last night leaving 50,000 homes in the province without power this morning.  The storm was more wide spread than expected leaving homes powerless from one end of the province to the other. This was a great wake-up call. One of my husband’s co-workers was terribly unprepared.  His truck…

As a handicapped prepper I am on the lookout for ways to adapt prepping to my situation – take gardening for example.  Part of a self reliant life style, gardening is both practical and fulfilling.    Where large scale gardening is out of the question for some, gardening in a container can be very doable … if the…

Just this weekend, a neighbor had lost her power for the weekend for reasons I won’t go into.  Although this was a temporary situation, she still needed help getting her genset out of the truck and hooked up.  After lots of fumbling around in the dark garage, the plug was found and the genset was…

If you’ve been watching the news this week, you’ll have seen stories about tornados, fires and floods. Devastating events, to be sure, but they are relatively short in duration and the effects are transient in their nature. They have devastating effects on the areas in which they occur, possibly fatal to some people. Yet in…