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BOL Pond Erosion Control Update

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Spice
clover pond erosion

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 →

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Our biggest prepping fails of 2018

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Salty and Spice
hillbilly engineering fails

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 →

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Sleeping Dry On A Bugout

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Spice
Dry barn

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 →

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Dealing With The Prepping Fails

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Salty and Spice
fails tree apple dead

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 →

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Six Preps to Eliminate From Your Life

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Spice
Health

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 →

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Opps! Six Dumb Prepping Mistakes We Made In 2017

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Salty and Spice

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 →

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Prepper Fails and Prepper Successes: How’d the Year Go?

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Salty and Spice
finish cache

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 →

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Click, Click, Click: Postmortem Of Our Recent Really Dumb Prepper Fail

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Salty
stuff

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 →

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