I located some of my photos taken after hurricane Ike came through the Houston area in late September '08. It was the experiences of evacuating prior to hurricane Rita (3 weeks after Katrina) and the devastation of Ike that really go me thinking about how fragile our society really is.... Continue reading

I'm adding a little bit to our home survival cache whenever possible. While I'd like to get a generator sometime soon, that's a bit too much to be spending right now for us. Instead, I decided to start on #5. We didn't have any oil lamps at all, so I... Continue reading

A friend of mine sent me this list as a word document and I've decided to use this as the foundation of my prepper journey (I have no idea where this came from, so can't give credit to whoever put the list together). Using this list has helped me keep... Continue reading

I guess it's been around a year or so that I've been thinking about working more and more towards self-sufficiency. The changes in DC, the banking fiasco and bailouts, and the subsequent economic recession have created lots of uncertainty for all of us. Over the last 6 months, I've slowly... Continue reading