As a husband, a father, and a prepper, one of the driving forces for the things I do is to protect my family from hardships. From battery jump boxes in both vehicles in order to prevent my wife from being stranded, to having plenty of ammunition to kill the zombies if/when they show up, keeping […]
Category: animals
Gator Hunting
I’ve done my share of hunting over the years. I started with squirrels, then on to rabbits and the elusive grouse. Eventually I graduated to groundhogs, deer and turkeys. (I put groundhogs in that category because of the longer shots needed on some of those pesky little hole-diggers.) But I’ve never hunted a dinosaur before. […]
Backyard Farming and The Rogue Chicken
When my Everglades tomatoes were devastated by a wind storm and then the sprinkler system failing, I had to find replacement plants for my gardens. I ran across a local person selling plants for $5 each, so arranged a meeting to purchase four of them. When I arrived, the first thing I noticed was a […]
Back At It
As much as I needed to step away from FHB, the longer I stayed away, the harder it became to NOT write. Now that I’ve reached the end of my time away, I am struggling to get moving again. Linear seems to work for me, so I will roll back a few weeks to catch […]
Problems with Automated Systems
I won’t sugar coat it, I am a lazy person by nature. I even taught myself to sleep standing up, the only way it was told it allowed while in my tech school in the military. The training instructor was NOT happy when I pulled it off, so the rules changed again. Sometimes I work […]
Florida Urban Homestead Update Summer 2013
This is one of those boring “Here is what I am doing now” articles. Some folks enjoy them, others hatethem, but they set the tone for the regular readers, so if you are just passing through, the cliff notes version is this:
Snapshots
Look at this picture. I took this while camping, somewhere in the Georgia mountains from the base of Amicalola Falls. The location was a state park, our camp was back behind the top of the falls. This picture has frozen for all eternity (at least until the data is lost) a slice of time. […]
Smoking Rabbit – A Comparison of Two methods
Today’s article was brought to you by the fine folks over at Reef-Hunter.com. Go check out their great line of custom apparel, and tell them FloridaHillbilly sent you! (click to open a new page) BlueTang recently posted an article at www.bbq-brethren.com on his method of smoking rabbit. He had to listen to me raving about […]
A (Not So) Dry Run (Tropical Storm Chantal)
I received a phone call from a life-long friend today. He called to check up on me, and to see if I was ready for the hurricane (his words, not mine). As simply replied with, “Oh, there’s a storm coming? What do You think?” This should tell you two things about me:
Repost: One Bad Day
Note: This is a repost of an article I wrote when I first started FloridaHillbilly.com. I’ve referred back to it multiple times, and feed it is worth revisiting. If you have not read it before, please do so. If you have, read it again, then pass it along to a friend. We should all be […]