Way to Go, Mamaizzy!!

Thanks gals!
I am reading Eat Pray Love first. Then probably a Maeve Binchy next lol I'll save Jackie for hot, summer nights... hahaha
I pile the reference books up on the kitchen table and flip through them as interest arises (usually while sipping morning coffee before the kids get up).
Tonight we popped out to a second hand store and I got a bunch of Suess and first readers for $5. The bag to Swaziland has now turned into a box! lol

Personally, I like stories where people are not perfectly prepped so we can see a bit of ingenuity in how they overcome the obstacles.
... I will be looking for Earth Abides now!

Every time I go by a junk yard my wife swears that I start drooling, There is so much potential in those old water tanks, car rims and cable. After a collape I could do great barter for stuff needed to be made for survival. Gasifiers, rocketstove waterheaters, drawpumps, bicycle carts....

Personally, I like stories where people are not perfectly prepped so we can see a bit of ingenuity in how they overcome the obstacles.
... I will be looking for Earth Abides now!

Every time I go by a junk yard my wife swears that I start drooling, There is so much potential in those old water tanks, car rims and cable. After a collape I could do great barter for stuff needed to be made for survival. Gasifiers, rocketstove waterheaters, drawpumps, bicycle carts....

And then she will be very happy that you got your goodies and stashed them away 😀

Yard sale find on Saturday... we discovered a box of old cookbooks... we got 11 old kinette, church and school cookbooks for $4.

Found this book at costco for $10! so be on the look out 😉 book marks galore already and i just got it yesterday!

Good score at Costco, Dandyprat!
I LOVE " The Encyclopedia of Country Living" by Carla Emery.....it really is as big as an encyclopedia and has everything!
Also "Making the Best of Basics" by Talmage (?)
Plus "At Home in the Woods" by Vera and Bradford Angier : their story of moving up near Hope BC in the middle of nowhere and living off the land.
I could go on and on......

Lee's Priceless Recipes - it's a reprint of a book compiled in 1895. Very lovely warning at the beginning of the book due to the nature of the advice. It has everything from making fireworks to health to building materials to farm & dairy and everything in between.

Am almost finished reading and highlighting and post-it noting "Edible & Medicinal Plants of Canada". It is by Lone Pine Publishing. It's expensive, $30. But well worth it, in my opinion.

I recommend this book for every Canadian SHTF Preparedness Library.

I love almost anything by Lone Pine Publishing. I have many books from them. It's the pictures, there's so many and they are very clear.

Wow. I thought I read a lot, but some of you got me beat by miles. I started out by reading an old Boy Scout's manual. That gave me some things to remember and think about. I've had my nose in The Reader's Digest Back to Basics ( http://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Editors-Readers-Digest/dp/0895770865/ref=pd_sim_b_1 ) that has me looking forward as well.

Just recently though, I've been reading up on worm composting ( http://www.amazon.com/Worms-Eat-My-Garbage-Composting/dp/0942256107 ) for a city house project, and some agriculture books on pastures and pasture grasses for my small farm project.

Oh, btw - did everyone other then me know that The Postman (the Kevin Costner movie) started as a book http://www.amazon.com/The-Postman-David-Brin/dp/0553278746/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338411185&sr=1-1
I just learned this, so now I'm gonna have to go and get it.

Runs With Scissors

thanks for that; going to check some of those. I have Lucifer's Hammer and it was well-written fiction with enough realism and real science to make me go hmmm.

I've been reading "A Gift Upon The Shore", by MK Wren. I'm half-way through it, and I've got to say that it is really good. It is comparable to "Earth Abides" but was written more recently, and has less of a futuristic feel to it.

Now a request for a recommendation. I'm having no luck finding a good book dealing with field sanitation, especially with medium to long term solutions. "Don't poop near the water and bury it when you're done" is fine for a few days, but it gets awkward after a while. So, I'm looking for books on outhouses, septic fields, low volume waste processing, the works. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I was looking at alternatives as well and came upon the lovely loo. If you google it, you can see lots of info.

The info I was looking at - buckets - all of those non food grade buckets - and peat moss.
Summer at the cottage - seal up the full bucket, write the date on it and let it sit until next year. Open it and it is compost.

If it is longer term, dump the bucket in a compost bin and do the compost thing - add greens turn etc. Humanure. 😐

Found a book on making knives, a few old cookbooks and a book on how to use a slide rule, any one remember those. I have a few old ones from 8'' to a whopping 16''. (girls contain yourselves). So those who are grafted to their pocket calculators, well it might be school time again.