Nailed it
(Via the Woodpile Report) I’ll admit that I like Larry Corriea’s Monster Hunter series a lot, and his take on The Gun Thing even more,…
Month: November 2018
Are you OK? Are you alright? HELP, MEDIC!
Aesop at the Raconteur Report has put up what I believe will be the most important thing I’ve read this month-medical kit advice from someone…
In other news, water is wet
A UC Davis study examining the first ten years after California adopted universal background checks shows that those checks did not reduce homicides. Not that…
A new improved tourniquet
(Via SurvivalBlog) It looks like there is another tourniquet out there that hopes to dethrone the CAT. I can’t say if it’s a superior product…
Water, water, not here, not there, not anywhere
On SurvivalBlog there is an excellent article about the world nearly ending for Cape Town, South Africa. Drought, coupled with the general African inability to…
You got your knife on you?
(Via Kim DuToit) As the son of West “By God” Virginia hillbillies, this sounds so familiar I could be sitting there on the stool beside…
Facing down Hell
(Via the Drudge Report) “I’m not a survivalist, I’m a survivor.” Even in the People’s Republic of California there are hearty individuals-and those who support…
A Happy Thanksgiving to you
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris – ‘The First Thanksgiving’ I like to wish everyone who happens by a Happy Thanksgiving. Even in what I think of…
The hardest part of being a pet owner
I’m a cat person; have been for 35-ish years. I seem to have a knack for getting most of mine to some seriously ripe old…
Veterans Day
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was declared, ending active fighting in WW I. For some families,…
Time to clean up the browser tabs. Again.
This is a bad habit of mine-collecting a bunch of browser tabs that I want to make note of on the blog and then never…
If you’re going to bug out, bug out early
Some California residents are learning a lesson that we in the preparedness community have know for a long time–If you’re going to evacuate, you have…
Who-wee, it’s Fall, ya’ll
It’s 5 weeks or so since I heralded the arrival of what was going to pass for Fall, at least for a while. That weather,…