Had a bit of a scare last night. As the wife and I were laying in bed, her asleep, I was reading, I heard a slight noise at the door the opens to the back yard off of our bedroom. As I listened, it grew into a thumping sound, like someone knocking, trying to scare us.
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Review: Coleman 4D CPX 6 Classic LED Lantern and CPX Rechargeable Power Cartridge
This one is for Brian over at www.thewannabehomesteader.com. Thanks for the request! (My video review at the bottom) Yesterday I mentioned dealing with the power outage, and showed a picture of my family eating with a lantern on the table.
If you don’t like the situation, change your point of view
I ran into this monstrosity in my back yard a while back.
Salt – An Over-looked long term storable and Brining 101
I gave a whole rabbit to SB a week or so ago, and he let me know a few days later that he ended up smoking it whole – something I’ve not yet tried, but wanted to do. One of the things that I was concerned with is that rabbit, being a rather lean meat (but not […]
Thrifty Food Buy and Uses for 22 August 2012
This is my only “regular” weekly post, and it revolves around stores in my area, and food that we eat. We practice “Eat what you store, store what you eat”. Since I try to eat “Paleo”, this means very little food that includes any grains, legumes, or refined sugars. This week, a little change, I […]
How to Open a Brown Coconut
I’ve covered opening green coconuts, and briefly touched on opening browns ones in the comments on the same post, but recently my friend James over at Survival Punk made coconut bars and had an adventure getting the coconut open and the meat out. Apparently, this + this = the need for this. 🙂 Doing what I can […]
A simple recipe: Three plant Edible Landscape Salad for Florida
I heard about this,and want to look into it for several reasons. First, it offers almost year-round availability here. Second, each plant is tasty from the samples I’ve tried so far. Thirds, its highly nutritious, as well as Paleo! The three ingredients are
Pork Fat Rules! or “How to Render Your Own Lard”
Paleo gold! Well..how about ivory? Whatever, its TASTY stuff that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for a while. Yes, I know you can buy it at any grocery store around here. But did you know every can I’ve looked at in every store in three counties all contain “BHA and BHT” ? […]
Long Term Power Loss, and How We Practice For It
I saw on TV today that another tropical depression was heading in my general direction, though currently not projected to hit near my home, but close enough to adversely affect local weather for a week or two. Flipping through the channels, I ran across an episode of the Simpsons where Bart was trying to deal […]
Tomato Juice from Long Term Preps, or “How to Make a Bloody Pirate after a Hurricane”
One of the things we stock plenty of is tomatoes in various forms – sauce, diced, and paste. One of the things we don’t stock up on is tomato juice, though we have made some tomato-based V-8 knockoff that I called “V-13” for the 13 different veggies we put in it. Unfortunately, its a bit […]