We need to waterproof Thomas’s fire kit bag. I have done this with canvas but never nylon. I tried a few different things. Eventually I figured out a method that worked. We all need to start doing new things. Not only will we learn more but we will also learn troubleshooting. It’s also important to …
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Future Proofing Your Pantry: Prepper Kitchen
I went to the grocery store with my oldest kiddo and we found some meat for cheaper than we have recently seen it. We had the time, money and opportunity so we went ahead and bought it. Now that we have this meat we need to store it properly so it won’t go bad before …
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Go To The Ant And Be Wise
A lot of “experts” are predicting some sort of recession or worse. I don’t trust their assessments, or I don’t trust them. Either way, we should be prepared for it. But those preparations should also help us if everything goes well. Selling stuff you don’t need will give you a little extra money, but more …
Zero To Prepared
This is the first in a series of videos about becoming more prepared. Not because we are afraid of the end of the world but because on any ordinary day we could deal with an emergency. Like the relatively boring and mundane thing like a flat tire or being laid off. In the up coming …
Fire Kit And Learning Lessons
We started out working on Thomas’s fire Kit to use in scouts. But quickly it turned into a lesson on practicing skills, patience and setting priorities. I know that the Bible requires leaders to be married and have raised kids. I knew why intellectually but didn’t fully understand until I had kids in my life. …
Setting Our Priorities Straight
Sarah and I are pretty bad at organizing both stuff and what order task need to get done. And I am a lot worse. So we have been working on ways of organizing our top priorities. For wedding planning we had a lot of success using a scrum board. We have modified the way it …
Who Are We
https://youtu.be/9EkicJQehtU In this video we talk about the direction our lives have taken this past year and the new directions our new family will head in the future. By extension this will add new things to our channel including cooking videos that Sarah will be doing using food that we have stored to help ourselves …
Word Of The Year (2022 Review And 2023 Plans)
I was inspired by Nicole Sauce to try to do a word of the year this year. I decided to us the word grow. In order to measure how I have grown I decided to pick some areas to look at. I went with Rabbi Daniel Lappin’s 5 F’s and then add some more of …
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Emergency Shelters
This week i wanted to show you how to make shelters with minimum gear. This shelters are not conferrable but will help you stay alive if stuck out some ware in bad weather.
5 Minute Emergency Shelter
This week I wanted to show how to build a hasty ridgeline that is used to make tarp shelters when camping or in emergency situations. It really important that you do the prep work before hand and practice. That way when you are cold, wet and tired you can make a shelter when it counts. …