I know a sure-fire way to never lose your home to a volcanic eruption… don’t live downhill from a volcano. I’ve caught some flack from friends of mine who think my attitude towards the most recent victims of the Kilauea… Continue Reading
Global Warming! I tend to prep for Low Probability Events and one that I think has a really low probability is global warming. 
In order to understand the risk and how to prepare for it, one needs to understand… Continue Reading
Slugs Don’t you just hate slugs? Giant slugs that not only gnaw on your strawberries, tomatoes, and other formerly-fine produce, but leave sliiimmmeeeee all over what’s left…. Don’t even get me *started* about what happens if you walk out into… Continue Reading
Today is Memorial Day in America, and today Spice and I choose to remember somebody who is long gone, but at least in North Missouri he is not forgotten. The solider we honor died during World War 1, and in… Continue Reading
No class of drugs has saved more human lives than antibiotics. Using them properly is vital though, as taking them improperly is not only wasteful but degrades the usefulness of the drug in the long term within your own body. … Continue Reading
You have to know your place. Nah, this post is SO not about telling you to behave; it seems to me when people say “Know your place” in that sense they’re always certain your place is below them, and I’m… Continue Reading
It’s spring, time for spring cleaning! Please pardon our mess as we work on bringing some of our original content up to the current standard, work on search engine optimization and generally make things look better here at 3BY. When… Continue Reading
Toxic spills. Spice & I work as a volunteer on a regional emergency management committee, and the #1 thing we prep for around here is something I don’t hear anybody talking about… probably because it’s not sexy, doesn’t require guns… Continue Reading
I hate giving stock market advice, but in the past couple weeks I have heard some really stupid, apocalyptic, reactions to the recent market gyrations. Salty thought I might want to do a post on the subject, but my initial… Continue Reading
Let’s talk about a need you may not realize you have – screen repair. Heat’s been on our mind as spring rolls toward summer. Recently we did a post about keeping cool when the weather gets hot: It’s Gonna Get… Continue Reading
For those of you who would pause when walking though the woods at a movement in the leaves, then hold stock still as a snake crawled over your foot and think “Oh, just a bull snake. Cool.” …. if that’s… Continue Reading
Long shelf-life freeze-dried foods are ubiquitous in Prepper World. They’re pretty good and have an enormous shelf life, but they’re also fairly pricey. A vacuum sealer & system for mason jars gives you the capability to store a wide variety… Continue Reading
In the first article of this series, we looked at why garlic is useful to a prepper — I mean, beyond being tasty and keeping away vampires. In this part (see Part 1 by clicking here), we look at how to… Continue Reading
Americans have long had a love/hate relationship with the dandelion (Taraxacum species). The early Europeans immigrants clearly liked them; they imported dandelions to plant in their yards. To say the plant was successful here would be pretty accurate. Dandelions show… Continue Reading
As I spelled out in the first article in this series, Spice and I purchased a prefabricated cabin for The Place several years ago. Now that we are further along in the project, we have learned a few tips and… Continue Reading