Christmas with Guns in Arizona

The North Pole Sheriff’s Department has recently arrived in Arizona. Gotta make sure those presents are safely delivered. So, now I wonder… with Congress currently destroying our country. How many people are getting guns for Christmas? …or how about a CCW permit. Tactical Firearms Training, LLC is offering (at least [...]

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Is Self-Sufficient Living For You?

Escaping the rat-race in our society today may seem like a dream, or even a paradise. No more alarm clocks to shove you out of bed. No more heavy auto traffic to contend with each day. No more stressful workloads. Many people may dream about living a self-sufficient life where your [...]

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Scrapbooking Newspaper Clippings

Most people, at some point in their life, save a newspaper clipping. Not so much now that people get their news from the Internet. As a child, I lived in a small town during junior high. I was in the city newspaper twice, one for science fair and the other for piano [...]

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Emergency Preparedness and Survival Preparation

Perhaps the greatest reason why some people never plan for disaster is that they view the need to prepare for the unexpected as too complicated and costly. They imagine the back yard being dug up for construction of a massive bomb shelter and the basement crammed with row after row of dry grains and large [...]

Square Foot Gardening

Here is a simple way to start your garden if you do not want to take on a huge project. This is based on Mel Bartholomew’s idea of square foot gardening. This is a a square foot garden kit that assembles in 5 minutes, with no screws and no nails. It is [...]

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Big Box Square Foot Garden

Despite the current recession during the Obama administration, there are still a handful of industries and products that are still doing well. Home gardening tops the list of industries thriving during hard economic times.
Just $50 of seeds and fertilizer can yield about $1500 worth of produce, which is a huge return on investment. Yes, of [...]

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Survival Through the Weekend

As an avid support of Constitutional freedoms, I decided to increase my preparedness arsenal. I could understand that automatic weapons (that would be banned by Obama) would be sold out pretty quickly, but trying for just the basics was painful itself. Scopes, magazines, ammunition (all calibers), cleaning sets, gun parts, accessories, cases, and more. Mostly [...]

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Mormon Canneries and Self-Reliance

At the Houston Texas Cannery operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members work on a peanut butter assembly line.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are taught to prepare for emergencies by having a one-year food storage as well as an immediate two-week supply of food, water, and [...]

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Troubled Times are Ahead

For those that have been following the counsel of the prophets and apostles over the course of the past decade know that a repetitive message is that troubled times are ahead. In fact, at a recent regional conference, Elder Boyd K Packer said that “things are going to change, and change drastically.”
During MBA program several [...]

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72 Hour Kits

You never know when a calamity might arise that requires your previous preparedness. I like to think of the 5 P’s: Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. That should speak volumes on the need to be prepared.
The first line of defense to prepare for the first 72 hours. The reasoning behind this is that it [...]

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