When the Power is Out

  Print this and save for later. Trust me, you'll be glad you did Your Sister, Husband and 3 Kids, just came through the back door. You had planned and practiced for your immediate household to be resolve and to stay the course with any crisis that comes to your neighborhood and you, your wife and children are ready to handle what comes your way.  And so it happens. The disaster.  Now the immediate crisis has passed and it's time to take inventory of your situation. Family, ok/check. Supplies, enough for several weeks-check. Skill set, wife and yourself are well seasoned in many modalities-check. Water and medical supplies are adequate-check. Yep, things are well and under control, when. . . Two days later Your sister, her 3rd husband, their 6 kids, two big dogs and a cat show up at your house expecting you to take them in because they know you have an alternative source of heating and it is getting cold. They took notes when you were bragging ...

"The two most important days in your life were the day you were born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/    Spanish Flu and WWI--1914-1919       Covid-19   October, 2019 continuing through 2022 Most Likely           But then came new inventions. . . . .  Domestic Diva's                                                                       Rejoice          "It is almost impossible to realize what a changed and wonderful world we live in today."                                   Opal Amsler, Indiana   Circa 1921       ...

How to Survive and Thrive When the Power is Out - J.L. Noakes : Xlibris Now available in your local bookstore and on Amazon.com http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-001006390/How-to-Survive-and-Thrive-When-the-Power-is-Out.aspx When the power is out is a compilation of secrets, recipes, remedies and daily basic know-how for living at a time without electricity. Great Grandmother survived very well without electricity and passed on her household secrets, preserved here before they are lost to us forever. Take a look inside-----  ISBN:978-1-5035-4866-4 Section 1 Analyzing a disaster (natural and man-made) 35 Items that disappear first after a disaster 10 diseases seen first after a disaster Section 2 On your own Your sister, husband and 6 kids. . . . Section 3 Water and the human body Thirst and dehydration Collecting water To make a simple saline solution To make an oral hydration solution That water is not safe Filtering water the natural way S...

The temperatures this February evening dropped rapidly as the wind kicks up the powdery white stuff and lands it in places where it is least welcomed. The woodstove chimney shivers with protests as old man winter admires his own strength. It seems as if it were forever since the warmth of the sun comforted my old bones. I think I'd even welcome a huge wood spider stomping across the ceiling right now as opposed to this draft streaming through the cracks of our tired old cabin. Husband and I had a serious discussion last week about whether to continue the homestead or move to warmer digs. We even went as far as to contact rental agents, we felt this was the right move, at least at that moment.  When it came right down to it, what we discovered, we didn't have the heart to leave, to just abandon, our homestead children. So until or when our bodies finally have had enough, we will continue to dedicate ourselves and to nurture that which we have etched out of this foreste...