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Book bomb day for The Prepared Family Cookbook! 25 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
Today is the official launch day for our friend and neighbor Enola Gay's new book, The Prepared Family Cookbook. We've watched and cheered Enola for the last couple of years as she's brought this vol...
Home invasions for fun and profit 24 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
Here's my WND column for this week entitled Home Invasions for Fun and Profit (they changed my original title slightly).
Battling hummingbirds 24 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
On August 5, I belatedly hung up the hummingbird feeder after noticing a couple of hummers hovering on our front porch in a very pointed way. Considering I haven't hung the feeder since summer before ...
Make sure your tetanus booster is up-to-date 22 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
I was climbing over a stack of wood yesterday when I brought my full weight down on a board with three nails on it. It's a sick sensation to feel nails punch through the sneaker and into one's foot. ...
How do you find like-minded people? 21 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
In response to my post Signs of the Times in which I showed a Nickel's Worth ad for preppers -- and the understandable suspicion most of you expressed -- a reader asked a very good question. Here's h...
Treasure hunt 21 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
If there's one thing chickens love to do, it's to find a dark and quiet little hidey-hole to lay their eggs. Some people get around this tendency by keeping chickens locked in their coop until noon o...
Signs of the times? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
My husband came home with a Nickel's Worth newspaper a couple weeks ago (in some places it's called the Penny Saver or some other variation -- y'know, the free weekly newspapers of advertisements). H...
This house is proudly gun-free 19 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
The silliness, it seems, never ends. A reader provided a link to an article about how Seattle leaders plan to launch a "gun free zone" program. Local business can invite armed robbery by putting deca...
Busy busy busy 18 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
Man oh man it's been a busy day. As usual, my morning started around 5:30 am. By 7:30 I was out feeding Samson and two cows (the cows belong to a neighbor, they're getting bred by our bull) who are i...
Sale on Jar Boxes 18 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Have you ever heard of Jar Boxes? In May 2012 when I attended the Self Reliance Expo in Colorado Springs, I met a lovely woman named Jeri McFarlane who invented something called a Jar Box. Jar Boxes...
