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writings concerning survival, emergency
actions and camping. He is currently 11
years old and I guess he will take after me
eventually and be a writer. Well here are
his first articles that he has completed.
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February 2012
February
4, 2012 - The picture says it all as
BO tramples our constitution.
January
30, 2012 - "Sign Up for Free Text
Alerts from The Weather Channel" I
signed up for this free service
recently. They send you texts based
on what's going on in your zip code.
You can choose what to sign up for
(extreme weather only, or that and a
daily forecast, etc). Granted,
sometimes it gets annoying when they
wake you up in the middle of the
night with a "High Wind" warning,
but I figure the hassle is far
outweighed by the benefits.
January
30, 2012 - These
guys weren’t kidding around when
they converted this 1946 Federal
semi-truck into their very own home
on wheels. It weighs 11 tons and can
carry some 200 gallons of fuel.
That’ is some Bug out vehicle!
January
29, 2012 - "Pure Honey Cough Drops"
I’m a lightweight when it comes to
cough drops. The industrial
strength menthol ones are
intolerable to me. I’ve always
felt like such a weenie about it,
but I can’t understand how so many
people willingly put those things in
their mouths. For a dare,
maybe, for money, certainly if the
price were right, voluntarily, not
me. Click here
January
29, 2012 - "How to Plant an Outdoor
Potted Herb Garden" Committing to
plant placement gives me the
willies. Thankfully, my
neighbor had the solution. A
potted herb garden! To see how easy
it is just
Click here
January
29, 2012 - "Homemade Cheez-Its"
After reading my true confession
about Cheez-Its, a reader took pity
on me and sent a recipe for homemade
cheese crackers (thanks, Amanda). My
sixteen-year-old son took it upon
himself to try his hand at making
cheese crackers and deemed them
“awesome,” not to mention really
easy to make. Trouble is, I follow a
gluten free diet. And let me tell
you: just smelling those homemade
Cheez-Its just wasn’t cutting it.
Taking a cue from this recipe, I
decided to attempt a gluten free
version.
Click here
January
29, 2012 - "Build a Garden Bench
from a Bed" A place to sit is
what turns your garden into a
destination, a place to linger, a
respite from the daily grind.
Seating transforms your yard into a
park like oasis where you can soak
in the beauty of what you’ve labored
to create.
Click here
January
28, 2012 - "How to Kill a Chicken"
By Renee Wilkinson. ***Warning: This
is a pretty graphic post about how
to butcher a chicken, complete with
pictures and lots of description. My
intent is to help people who are
preparing to butcher their first
bird.***
click here
January
28, 2012 - "Make a worm bin out of a
bath tub" Over at LifeBoat Farm they
have created this great DIY Worm
Farm out of an old bathtub.
What I like about this build is they
could have easily taken the bathtub
propped it up on some cinder blocks
and have been done with it.
They took the extra effort with the
wood enclosure (with bonus storage
shelf) and proper drainage making
use of the actual drain it almost
appears that this is the true use
for this bath tub.
Click here
January
28, 2012 - "Making your own toilet
paper planting strips" My previous
attempt at making planting strips
worked ok, lapsed a bit on the
watering, but had a few surviving
carrots. This time around I
decided to go with the classic
technique at making planting strips
with simple toilet paper.
Click here
January
27, 2012 - "Cheap LED Light and Grow
Box" I have one major problem
last year with growing seedlings,
running out of space. I grow many
different types of plants with
various germination/growth rates and
varied start dates. This
forces me to make sacrifices for
placement of my movable light and
eventually forced to move some
plants outside earlier than I
should. The light needs to be
close to the newly emerging
seedlings, but can’t be burning the
more mature plants growing into it.
My solution to this problem is a LED
storage container grow box.
Click here
January
25, 2012 - "No Death Panels? They
Are Here Now" Gary North. When
critics of Obama-care warned of
death panels, the government
dismissed all such talk as
scaremongering. There will never be
such panels. You have the
government’s word. Oh yeah? Tell it
to this mother.
click here
January
22, 2012 - "Trivia" If you live in a
part of the world that has mandatory
gasohol "contains up to 10% ethanol"
you need never buy dry-gas ever
again. The gasoline is already
loaded with alcohol.
January
21, 2012 - "$20 a week food storage
- Week One"
Prices listed are
approximate and you may feel free to
substitute items to suit your family
tastes.
January
18, 2012 - "How to survive a heart
Attack when alone". Let's say it's
6:15 PM and you're going home (alone
of course), after an unusually hard
day on the job. You're really tired,
upset and frustrated. Suddenly you
start experiencing severe pain in
your chest that starts to drag out
into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from
the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but
the guy that taught the course did
not tell you how to perform it on
yourself.
Click here
January
14, 2012 - "Doomsday Gun" Doomsday
Gun was a 1994 television film
produced by HBO, dramatizing the
life of Canadian supergun designer
Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement
in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's
plan to build a supergun with a
range of over 500 miles. It was the
first television drama to deal with
covert U.S. and British involvement
with Saddam Hussein preceding the
1991 Gulf War, and "coolly
eviscerates" the Bush and Thatcher
administrations for violating the
international arms embargo during
Iraq's war with Iran, according to
Variety.
Click here
January
9, 2012 - "A Liberty Bell Prophecy
for America" By Joseph Parish.
America can be proud of its
countless deserving symbols
representing freedom and projecting
a favorable image of our historical
past but none are as legendary as
the Liberty Bell. I chanced upon
some tidbit folklore the other day
as I was wandering around the
internet and wanted to organize and
share it with everyone. It relates
to the Liberty Bell and America’s
future. It proves to be some very
interesting reading.
Click here
January
8, 2012 - ""NASA's Warning" Perhaps
NASA is trying to tell us something.
You look at the video and determine
for yourself what the deal is here.
Click here
January
6, 2012 - "How to make a manual
washing machine – no electricity" It
may seem funny now but when TSHTF
and electricity is unavailable this
method of washing clothing could
very well be a life saver.
Click here
January
6, 2012 - "Honey Whole Wheat Bagels"
By Laura. I used to make these
bagels all the time and then I guess
I forgot about them. Recently
the boys asked, “WHEN are you going
to make those yummy bagels again?!”
(I think they ended the sentence
with “oh our Beautiful Mother
Dearest” or something like that.)
Click here
January
5, 2012 - "Downloads" I was
wandering around the internet the
other day and discovered the
following spreadsheets at
Stealth Survival Website.
They are included in our download
section for you. Be sure to visit
the stealth Survival site for more
great information. To download the
files Click here.
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
December
30, 2011 - "If You Had to Evacuate
Your Home What Is the One Thing You
Would Take With You?" By Barbara
Caldwell. If you had to evacuate
your home because of a disaster,
what is the one thing you would take
with you (besides your family, of
course)? Have you thought about
this? With the scope and variety of
disasters that have occurred over
the past year, many of us are
becoming more and more concerned
that the American Main Street is not
prepared for what could come their
way. Click
here
December
30, 2011 - "Emergency Kit Toilet:
Easy, Safe, and Sanitary" By Mike
O'Hare. Losing one or all of your
utilities for a couple of hours is
an inconvenience, but what if it
lasts longer, sometimes a lot
longer, due to a natural disaster
such as flood, fire, earthquake,
hurricane, or even the unthinkable
act of terrorism? Are you prepared
to support you and your family's
basic needs to survive until help
arrives or government resources can
actively respond?
Click here
December
30, 2011 - "Preparing for Chaos in
2012: Emergency Lighting When the
Grid Goes Down" By Mike Kuykendall.
Whether you think 2012 will be
"just" an economic collapse or "the
end of the world as we know it" (TEOTWAWKI)
as some fear, you need to have an
emergency plan for lighting when the
power grid goes down. Perhaps it
will be gone altogether or maybe it
will just become less reliable, but
either way, candles will not cut it
in 2012.
Click Here
December
26, 2011 - Here is a hint that many
people don't realize. One should
keep a few tubes of super-glue in
your first aid kit for not only to
seal cuts but for repairing glasses
as well. My daughter-in-law found
out the hard way.
Members
please check the member area as
updates have taken place.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS TO ALL
December
25, 2011 - "Food Storage: Powdered
Milk" Learn everything you need to
know about which kind of powdered
milk you should have in your food
storage and how to mix it.
Click here
December
23, 2011 - "How to Make Your Own
Urban Survival Air Conditioning"
Danny Durden. Here’s an awesome
video that shows you how to build an
improvised survival air conditioning
unit for your home. If there is one
thing I can’t deal with its heat and
humidity. If I lost power I know
that I can deal with cold and harsh
winter months by prepping with
winter survival gear, but a hot and
sweaty summer day without AC can be
quite unbearable. Also, this is not
a long-term solution; it’s only a
short-term survival fix and cannot
work in a total SHTF type scenario.
Click here
December
23, 2011 - "Websites of Interest" Be
sure to click on the link to the
left to visit our websites of
interest. The latest update takes to
to SLOOH Space Camera where you can
track asteroids, meteors and the
space events. If you know of an
interesting site that we should
consider for entry please let us
know.
December
20, 2011 - "Mason Jar Oil Lamps"
Pictured are the items you will need
to make these. A jar with lid,
filling (pinecones, potpourri,
Fabric, buttons, marbles, stones,
dried fruit or chilies, glass
ornaments, hard candies, etc. The
only items I know of that do not
work well are photos and chocolate.
A glass wick holder, and fiberglass
wick, 4 to 6 inches in length and a
User safety tag,
Click here
The image says it
all about the two Grinches
December
20, 2011 - "Advice from an Israeli
Agent" Juval Aviv was the Israeli
Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich '
was based. He was Golda Meir's
bodyguard, and she appointed him to
track down and bring to justice the
Palestinian terrorists who took the
Israeli athletes hostage and killed
them during the Munich Olympic
Games. Click here
December
19, 2011 - "">10 Things Every Home
Should Have For Short-term Survival"
by Skip Coryell. A few weeks ago,
the lights in my house flickered,
came back on, then died. The
temperature was 32 degrees outside,
and it was getting dark fast. I live
out in the boondocks and that
happens a half dozen times a year.
I’ve learned to prepare myself for
these little adventures in time
travel back to the year 1794, and
it’s not so bad really. Why, I can
remember as a kid we used to love
when a thunderstorm would knock out
the power or when a blizzard would
come and snow us in for days at a
time. But in 1965 people were better
prepared both physically and
mentally for a loss of power. We
lived in a different era.
Click here
December
19, 2011 - "Eating Insects for
Survival" By Keith McCafferty. How
to tell if a bug is safe to eat and
why insects (most of them) are one
of the most important survival
foods. The first time I floated
Montana's Smith River with John
Hirvela, the only food we took was a
sack of potatoes and a shaker of
salt. My friend assured me this was
all we'd need. We'd cook trout and
round off every meal with watercress
salad gathered at a spring about 10
miles into the five-day float. · It
was the kind of plan that sounds
better at home than it does once
you've launched your canoe.
Click here.
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our links" We have instituted a
change in our format when clicking
on some of our links. In this way we
can generate some funds to offset
our expenses and keep the web sites
functioning. Here is how it works.
When you click on a link you will be
shown an advertisement page and
after five seconds you will be able
to click again to your selected
page. You are not required to click
on any ads displayed other than to
click at the top right hand corner
to visit your page of choice. (see
photo).
January
29, 2012 - "Pure Honey Cough Drops"
I’m a lightweight when it comes to
cough drops. The industrial
strength menthol ones are
intolerable to me. I’ve always
felt like such a weenie about it,
but I can’t understand how so many
people willingly put those things in
their mouths. For a dare,
maybe, for money, certainly if the
price were right, voluntarily, not
me. 
January
29, 2012 - "How to Plant an Outdoor
Potted Herb Garden" Committing to
plant placement gives me the
willies. Thankfully, my
neighbor had the solution. A
potted herb garden! To see how easy
it is just
January
29, 2012 - "Homemade Cheez-Its"
After reading my true confession
about Cheez-Its, a reader took pity
on me and sent a recipe for homemade
cheese crackers (thanks, Amanda). My
sixteen-year-old son took it upon
himself to try his hand at making
cheese crackers and deemed them
“awesome,” not to mention really
easy to make. Trouble is, I follow a
gluten free diet. And let me tell
you: just smelling those homemade
Cheez-Its just wasn’t cutting it.
Taking a cue from this recipe, I
decided to attempt a gluten free
version.
January
29, 2012 - "Build a Garden Bench
from a Bed" A place to sit is
what turns your garden into a
destination, a place to linger, a
respite from the daily grind.
Seating transforms your yard into a
park like oasis where you can soak
in the beauty of what you’ve labored
to create.
January
28, 2012 - "How to Kill a Chicken"
By Renee Wilkinson. ***Warning: This
is a pretty graphic post about how
to butcher a chicken, complete with
pictures and lots of description. My
intent is to help people who are
preparing to butcher their first
bird.***
January
28, 2012 - "Make a worm bin out of a
bath tub" Over at LifeBoat Farm they
have created this great DIY Worm
Farm out of an old bathtub.
What I like about this build is they
could have easily taken the bathtub
propped it up on some cinder blocks
and have been done with it.
They took the extra effort with the
wood enclosure (with bonus storage
shelf) and proper drainage making
use of the actual drain it almost
appears that this is the true use
for this bath tub.
January
28, 2012 - "Making your own toilet
paper planting strips" My previous
attempt at making planting strips
worked ok, lapsed a bit on the
watering, but had a few surviving
carrots. This time around I
decided to go with the classic
technique at making planting strips
with simple toilet paper.
January
27, 2012 - "Cheap LED Light and Grow
Box" I have one major problem
last year with growing seedlings,
running out of space. I grow many
different types of plants with
various germination/growth rates and
varied start dates. This
forces me to make sacrifices for
placement of my movable light and
eventually forced to move some
plants outside earlier than I
should. The light needs to be
close to the newly emerging
seedlings, but can’t be burning the
more mature plants growing into it.
My solution to this problem is a LED
storage container grow box.
January
25, 2012 - "No Death Panels? They
Are Here Now" Gary North. When
critics of Obama-care warned of
death panels, the government
dismissed all such talk as
scaremongering. There will never be
such panels. You have the
government’s word. Oh yeah? Tell it
to this mother.
January
18, 2012 - "How to survive a heart
Attack when alone". Let's say it's
6:15 PM and you're going home (alone
of course), after an unusually hard
day on the job. You're really tired,
upset and frustrated. Suddenly you
start experiencing severe pain in
your chest that starts to drag out
into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from
the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but
the guy that taught the course did
not tell you how to perform it on
yourself.
January
14, 2012 - "Doomsday Gun" Doomsday
Gun was a 1994 television film
produced by HBO, dramatizing the
life of Canadian supergun designer
Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement
in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's
plan to build a supergun with a
range of over 500 miles. It was the
first television drama to deal with
covert U.S. and British involvement
with Saddam Hussein preceding the
1991 Gulf War, and "coolly
eviscerates" the Bush and Thatcher
administrations for violating the
international arms embargo during
Iraq's war with Iran, according to
Variety.
January
9, 2012 - "A Liberty Bell Prophecy
for America" By Joseph Parish.
America can be proud of its
countless deserving symbols
representing freedom and projecting
a favorable image of our historical
past but none are as legendary as
the Liberty Bell. I chanced upon
some tidbit folklore the other day
as I was wandering around the
internet and wanted to organize and
share it with everyone. It relates
to the Liberty Bell and America’s
future. It proves to be some very
interesting reading.
January
8, 2012 - ""NASA's Warning" Perhaps
NASA is trying to tell us something.
You look at the video and determine
for yourself what the deal is here.
January
6, 2012 - "How to make a manual
washing machine – no electricity" It
may seem funny now but when TSHTF
and electricity is unavailable this
method of washing clothing could
very well be a life saver.
January
6, 2012 - "Honey Whole Wheat Bagels"
By Laura. I used to make these
bagels all the time and then I guess
I forgot about them. Recently
the boys asked, “WHEN are you going
to make those yummy bagels again?!”
(I think they ended the sentence
with “oh our Beautiful Mother
Dearest” or something like that.)
December
30, 2011 - "If You Had to Evacuate
Your Home What Is the One Thing You
Would Take With You?" By Barbara
Caldwell. If you had to evacuate
your home because of a disaster,
what is the one thing you would take
with you (besides your family, of
course)? Have you thought about
this? With the scope and variety of
disasters that have occurred over
the past year, many of us are
becoming more and more concerned
that the American Main Street is not
prepared for what could come their
way. 
December
30, 2011 - "Emergency Kit Toilet:
Easy, Safe, and Sanitary" By Mike
O'Hare. Losing one or all of your
utilities for a couple of hours is
an inconvenience, but what if it
lasts longer, sometimes a lot
longer, due to a natural disaster
such as flood, fire, earthquake,
hurricane, or even the unthinkable
act of terrorism? Are you prepared
to support you and your family's
basic needs to survive until help
arrives or government resources can
actively respond?
December
30, 2011 - "Preparing for Chaos in
2012: Emergency Lighting When the
Grid Goes Down" By Mike Kuykendall.
Whether you think 2012 will be
"just" an economic collapse or "the
end of the world as we know it" (TEOTWAWKI)
as some fear, you need to have an
emergency plan for lighting when the
power grid goes down. Perhaps it
will be gone altogether or maybe it
will just become less reliable, but
either way, candles will not cut it
in 2012.
December
25, 2011 - "Food Storage: Powdered
Milk" Learn everything you need to
know about which kind of powdered
milk you should have in your food
storage and how to mix it.
December
23, 2011 - "How to Make Your Own
Urban Survival Air Conditioning"
Danny Durden. Here’s an awesome
video that shows you how to build an
improvised survival air conditioning
unit for your home. If there is one
thing I can’t deal with its heat and
humidity. If I lost power I know
that I can deal with cold and harsh
winter months by prepping with
winter survival gear, but a hot and
sweaty summer day without AC can be
quite unbearable. Also, this is not
a long-term solution; it’s only a
short-term survival fix and cannot
work in a total SHTF type scenario.
December
20, 2011 - "Mason Jar Oil Lamps"
Pictured are the items you will need
to make these. A jar with lid,
filling (pinecones, potpourri,
Fabric, buttons, marbles, stones,
dried fruit or chilies, glass
ornaments, hard candies, etc. The
only items I know of that do not
work well are photos and chocolate.
A glass wick holder, and fiberglass
wick, 4 to 6 inches in length and a
User safety tag,
December
20, 2011 - "Advice from an Israeli
Agent" Juval Aviv was the Israeli
Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich '
was based. He was Golda Meir's
bodyguard, and she appointed him to
track down and bring to justice the
Palestinian terrorists who took the
Israeli athletes hostage and killed
them during the Munich Olympic
Games. 
December
19, 2011 - "">10 Things Every Home
Should Have For Short-term Survival"
by Skip Coryell. A few weeks ago,
the lights in my house flickered,
came back on, then died. The
temperature was 32 degrees outside,
and it was getting dark fast. I live
out in the boondocks and that
happens a half dozen times a year.
I’ve learned to prepare myself for
these little adventures in time
travel back to the year 1794, and
it’s not so bad really. Why, I can
remember as a kid we used to love
when a thunderstorm would knock out
the power or when a blizzard would
come and snow us in for days at a
time. But in 1965 people were better
prepared both physically and
mentally for a loss of power. We
lived in a different era.
December
19, 2011 - "Eating Insects for
Survival" By Keith McCafferty. How
to tell if a bug is safe to eat and
why insects (most of them) are one
of the most important survival
foods. The first time I floated
Montana's Smith River with John
Hirvela, the only food we took was a
sack of potatoes and a shaker of
salt. My friend assured me this was
all we'd need. We'd cook trout and
round off every meal with watercress
salad gathered at a spring about 10
miles into the five-day float. · It
was the kind of plan that sounds
better at home than it does once
you've launched your canoe.
