Posted on 06/25/2014 8:38:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
“Have you watched Doomsday Preppers? Man, those people are crazy!”
“We’ve got this neighbor down the street who’s prepping for the end of the world. What a weirdo!”
We’ve all heard these comments (or similar ones). As for the wife and me, when friends, delivery men, in-laws, out-laws, offspring, or third cousins (who only show when they need something) come by the house, we don’t want them thinking we’re crazier than we are. Most importantly, we don’t want them knowing we’re prepping. For obvious security reasons, we don’t want those cousins to be the first at our doorstep when SHTF. So, how do we prepare without looking the part?
The wife and I are blessed to live in a good home on a remote farm in eastern Tennessee with plenty of resources at hand– good garden space, open fields in front, timber around, plenty of storage space, and a good defensible arrangement. We’re fortunate to keep most of our food stored in sheds and have a dry, cool basement to store food, ammo, medicine, and whatever else we need. Everything is stored in dusty old boxes and bags, clearly marked for what is NOT in them. When asked by our children why our milk is powdered or why their Mom makes her own washing detergent, we convincingly (and truthfully) respond that it saves lots of money.
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From Anne Graham-Lotz:
...issuing a national prayer initiative entitled 7 7 7: An Urgent Call to Prayer. The Call is for God’s people to pray for each of the first seven days in the seventh month-July 1-7. Then on the 7th day, July 7, we are to pray and fast for 7 hours. The purpose is…
For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.
For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.
For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.
See more at http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/events/urgent-call-to-prayer/
Surprisingly, it's hard to convince people that they need snow tires with four wheel drive.
My daughter spent some time in Australia this fall and some people were commenting that they heard there were special kind of tires for driving in snow and asked her about it. She and a girl from Germany were laughing and told them *Yes, it’s true*.
The girl from Germany told her that snow tires are mandatory for the winter there.
My son is aboard DDG III now, USS Spruance. The one on THE LAST SHIP is the same type, newest destroyer. Looks to me exactly like a real destroyer, and I spent a week aboard the Spruance on a Tiger Cruise so I’m aware of how they look inside and out.
So I checked Netflix but it has Alec Baldwin. Still recommend it?
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
I watched the first one... and my interest started to wane when the female sailor complained about the problems with contacting her girlfriend. Can't anyone write a good screenplay these days without constantly throwing the homosexual angle at us?
If you've already taught them the Greek alphabet, then Cyrillic won't be too much of a stretch.
According to IMDB, it's Adam Baldwin, not Alec. They're not related to each other. Adam's the one from shows like Firefly (SciFi) and Chuck (hilarious), and he's fairly conservative for a Hollywoodite.
Yeah, that bothered me, too. I guess they want everyone to know that gays can now serve openly in the military. They also showed a man and woman officer smooching. If they show two guys or two women that’ll be it for me.
I believe it’s Adam Baldwin. Not Alec. And this Baldwin isn’t one of THE Baldwins.
Put a Bible in your Bug-Out Bag.
He ain’t heavy ... He’s my Savior.
That's why I stopped watching AMC's new show Halt and Catch Fire. All of a sudden the leading character launched into an extended lip-lock with another guy.
I ran directional treads backwards on the front, which caused tire store folks some consternation until I explained it. (You do 100% of your steering, and 90% of your braking with those tires, why would you want the tread facing for best traction toward the rear?) They got it.
I have been off the road (unplanned excursions) twice in nearly 40 years, and I drive in conditions up to and including white-outs.
Both times were on black ice, and on that you are just along for the ride if you do anything sudden (steer, brake, speed up or slow down). If you find you are on it and are still in control, relax and keep doing what you are doing. decelerate slowly, if that makes you fell better, and always avoid driving in a crowd if possible--where you will be forced by other people to react in ways that can cause you to lose control. You may have better control with studded tires, but I run the same skins year-round (Summer means mud...) and studs have to be off some time in April.
I was getting sick of the lead character in Halt and Catch Fire. His character is completely one dimensional. Then he decides to kiss some guy and haven’t watched it since.
NYS winters aren’t much different in length and no different in quality.
When the firearms liberties of Australian citizens became very restricted, it was not the Australian army that went door to door collecting prohibited firearms. Australian soldiers refused to do the task. Thus, an outside army was sent to do the evil deed.
You’ve never hid in a rice daddy or the jungle have you?
We have had a couple of mild winters lately, but I have seen -60 (without the wind chill-wind chill was -146). Spit, and it freezes on the way to the ground.
You get more snow, but ours is a mite hard to measure, because it is on its way to Minnesota (that windy). Here I have seen a month go by with the high for the month a balmy zero degrees F.
First frost 2nd week of September, last frost second week of June.
You have winter, but not like we do.
We don’t have the cold but the length of the seasons doesn’t vary much and it has snowed in July in NYS in the past.
And as far as which is worse, cold or snow, I’d say it’s a toss up. Cold can kill quicker, but shoveling out several times a week from either a nor’easter or lake effect event is no picnic.
It can make you wish for cold without snow very quickly.
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