Salty and I have a rural bug-out location (BOL) and weekend hangout. We’ve been developing it a bit at a time for years. The first thing we did was put in a pond. The next thing that happened was erosion… Continue Reading
Ye Ole Prepping Fails: Yet another year has passed us by, and like every year we’ve had a lot of prepping successes and failures. Our one biggest failure of the year, a broken ankle by Salty, had elements of prepping… Continue Reading
Few things make for crankier campout mornings than waking up wet. To be fair, by the time morning comes you’ve often been up for a while, shivering and miserable and trying to fix problems that can’t be quickly fixed. If… Continue Reading
Sometimes you get the bear … and sometimes the bear gets you. It’s really frustrating to put time and effort into prepping and only to see the effort fail. It will happen though. We can’t really see the future as… Continue Reading
Eliminate things? Cut back? It’s a hard thing, to get out the loppers and cut a perfectly decent limb off of a fruit tree. You can just see the fruit it might bear come fall! Of course, the way it’s angled it will… Continue Reading
We admit it. We’re human. We screw up. A lot. We do, however, think that one vital prepping skill is the ability to admit to our many prepping mistakes, and learn from them. We also try to learn from other… Continue Reading
Salty and I are not big on New Year’s resolutions; but there is a value in giving yourself a checkup now and then, considering what’s been going well and what needs to be improved upon. In this podcast, we do just… Continue Reading
It was a lovely fall day out at “The Place”. Spice was doing her last mowing of the season, and we had been out picking up chunks of the trees we recently removed. Work was done, and after a bit… Continue Reading