Hey Pack, hope everyone has had a great week and furthered their prepping goals. The weather has been typical Ohio lunacy here – 67 on Sunday followed by snow. We have been spending a lot of time trying to track a massive bobcat that has decided to take up residence in our woods. It is illegal to trap or kill…
Surviving an EMP requires diligent planning. While the basics of survival are all the same no matter what type of disaster you are most concerned about, planning to maintain as much functionality as possible after and EMP, does mandate taking a laundry list of specific precautions. Before you can adequately prepare for an EMP, you must be well-versed in not…
Hello again Pack. I am so sorry not to have checked in with y’all last weekend, but I was sick and took the bulk of the week off work. Thanks to both herbal and unfortunately even some modern medicine, I am back on the end now. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with family and prepper friends. Preps…
This has been a miserable weather week here on our survival homesteading retreat, fellow preppers. It has been not only extremely cold, but the wind has been so bitter it stings your face and makes your eyes water when outside working. Winter, in all of its wretched glory, has arrived in my little corner of Appalachia. We did not accomplish…
Whenever we worked on preps outside this week, we did so quickly in an effort to stay warm. Winter has already arrived in Appalachia. We had no spring because of the last winter that would never end. Going straight into summer thrilled me, I like it 95 degrees in the shade even when going chores. But, this only a few…
Oh pack members, it sure has been a tough week. I really pondered becoming a day drinker, but I am sure my mother would frown upon hearing I was sipping Jack and Coke before noon. There has been a flurry of activity going on here on our survival homesteading retreat. If I do not keep a keen eye on the…
This has been an exciting week here on the homestead. Bobby sent me a text message saying that he bought two tractors. I thought he was joking and messing with because there was such a delay in my response to his question about whether or not I needed anything from Tractor Supply because he was going by there. Well, about…
This has been a long, long, week in a series of long weeks, fellow preppers. We have had tribe members and workers in the house all week as part of our “make the austere lodge look like a home” project. I am counting this as a prep because even though they are cosmetic projects, we save a ton of money…
Hello, Pack. I hope everyone has had a productive and safe week of prepping. We have had a rare week around our survival homesteading retreat – nothing broke! The amphibious vehicle engine rebuild is still a work in progress, but all of the SUVs, trucks, ATVs, tractors, and machinery are all in full working order. Yes, I did just knock…
Hello fellow preppers. I has been a busy and surprisingly productive week here on our survival homesteading retreat. The surprise along the productivity front stems from tasks accomplished even though we got some rain – that of course generated even more mud, and had trouble with the tractor battery….again. Our wood shed is now not only completely full, we have…