A New Venture

With the job situation as it is, particularly me being out of work for nearly 3 years now, my wife and I have started a new venture.
With the ever rising cost of food and the uncertainty of the political scene around the world, we decided to become distributors of the products offered by Shelf Reliance. This fine organization produces high quality freeze dried and dehydrated food. We looked at our household grocery expenses and found that we were actually throwing away at least 15 percent of what we bought. Uneaten left overs, spoiled food and out of date products all take a toll on our grocery budget. With the freeze dried products we can use only what we need at the moment. And no more worry about shelf life. An unopened can of freeze dried food is good for 25 years or even more. Once opened they have a shelf life of a year. We have our first personal order on it's way now. I will be giving reports on how our life changes after we start using this food every day.
We have been to 3 Shelf Reliance Thrive parties where we got a chance to taste dishes made from their food, such as salsas, chicken quesadilla's and tacos. We also got to try some of the food that has not been rehydrated. The sweet corn is like eating candy. My wife is really sold on the pineapple chunks and strawberries. I like the raspberries and black berries.

I also look at is as excellent preparedness food. Great tasting, high nutritional content and a long shelf life. Please take the time to look at our web page and check out some of the products. I'm sure you will be as impressed with the food as we are.
www.TempyCarder.shelfreliance.com

What to prepare For?

With all the talk, shows, blogs, books and articles about preparedness you might wonder what do I need to prepare for ? Depending on where you live, work, travel you will have different things you'll prepare for. Pick you favorite or try to prepare for an overall situation.

Tornadoes...food, water, clothes, tools, first aid, emergency money, weather radio, generator, gas

Hurricanes...food, water, tape, tools, information/communications, relocation plans, weapons, ammo, first aid, emergency money, generator, gas

Civil Unrest/ mob rule...weapons, ammo, food, water, information/communication, first aid

Pandemic... Food, water, first aid, natural healing items, vitamins, white suits, face masks, information

I think you get the idea. Decide what you need to prepare for and gear up for that thing. Gear is not a panacea. You have to add skill, knowledge and information to the gear to make it work right. Looking at the list above you see that many of the needs overlap. That's a good thing as it lets you get a head start on preparing for something else. That list is in no means complete but it gives a real good starting place.

Enjoy the long weekend!

A wandering Friday

I have lived most of my life in Missouri and it has been pretty good. I did move to Texas as soon as I got out of high school. I thought that would be like heaven as I always heard about all the great hunting in Texas. Whoa! Them Texans wanted you to PAY to hunt. That was a whole new concept to a boy from Missouri. The fishing needless to say, was great, but you had to cough up major dough to shoot a tiny little deer. In the last few years the pay to hunt program has appeared in Missouri. Now pretty much any where you go in this state you can shoot a nice whitetail deer. The middle and upper portion of the state deliver some real monsters. The rates around here aren't to bad but if you're lucky enough to have a friend or family member with huntable land then you are truly blessed. Of course there is an abundance of public land to hunt and there are a lot of deer taken from public land but, after having several hundred acres to myself it almost scares me to drive through a public preserve during deer season. Orange dots as far as you can see. I am truly appreciative of all the fine folks that have allowed me to hunt their property all these years. When you get down to it though, a place of your own is the only way to go.
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We are still experiencing globull warming here in MO. The high today was 75 and the sky was cloudy all day. All my life August has been HOT and clear. I wonder what the winter is going to be like? I have read that there has been little to no sunspot activity this year and that is supposed to cool things down. We're putting away a little more kerosene for the auxiliary heater and closing off the unused upstairs for the winter to try and use less heat.
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Well I slipped a little this week and didn't do anything to boost our preparedness this week. No canning, no more ammo, no learning. What a wasted week. How about you?

Obamageddon, 9 Trillion, Gettin' ready

With all the financial problems facing this country and people, can we ever expect to see a turn around in the near future? I don't think so and I predict that there will be some improvement after the 2010 elections when many liberal Democrats as well as liberal and centrist Republicans are voted out of office. Gerald Celente from Trends Research believes that we are facing,what he calls an Obamageddon. Trends Research has made many accurate predictions in the past and with this background in prognostication many still say he's full of Hot Air. Judge for yourselves.
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With all the grandiose plans the current pseudo administration has made and all the massive "changes" implemented, it is rumoured that Barry's folks are going to present a 9 TRILLION DOLLAR 10 year budget DEFICIT! That's up 1.9 TRILLION or so from their previous guesstimate. So when good Ol' Barry is removed from office by the 2012 election the next President or two can expect to catch hell about the deficit "they" have created when really, it'll be the deficit "he" created years before. Remember those first couple years of Bush 1's administration when the economy started to go to hell and every one blamed George? Then, after a year or two of investigating the numbers, it was found that the economy was screwed up from what Bill had done. Watch and see.
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This week I refreshed my memory about canning food, bought 300 more .22 rounds and 50 lbs. of sugar. What have you done to improve your preparedness for you and your family? Try to do something every week. Learn a skill, gain some important knowledge, beef up the larder, beef up the armoury, beef up your muscles and endurance, make up some emergency plans. Even if you don't have dollars to spare there are a lot of things you can do that don't cost anything but your time and maybe some sweat.
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Today I made some more picante sauce since my aunt Lori was good enough to give me some more tomatoes. This batch is hotter, a little sweeter and definitely tastier. Cherry Pie made venison lasagna for supper. With the outstanding weather we've been having we have the air conditioning turned of in AUGUST. WTF? The canning and cooking today made me want to turn it back on though. Basically, we have layed around reading and drinking sweettea all day. It's been nice.