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by Kim B.

Many years ago, my family knew a gentleman in his late fifties whom was living off-the-grid. He had his own garden to supplement his grocery bill, used lanterns for lighting his home and outhouse, heated his home and cooked all of his food with a wood stove and even caught fish once or twice a week right from his own back yard setup.

In all the time that we knew him, normally running into one another at our local post office, we had visited his residence only once as we had not received an invitation until one special day in which he wanted us to see what he had just installed onto his land.

Taking him up on his invite, we drove to his house and upon arrival we received a smile and an outstretched hand. After a bit of conversation and explanation about how he was living he excitedly began to tell us that he turned a pickup canopy upside down and filled it with water which he let warm up for a few weeks before putting several Gold Fish in. He explained that he set it up so that if the fish were to die then he would know that the water was not safe to drink.

Although we have never seen him since, I have never forgotten him and I still think that his creativity was unique and interesting even though it may not have been a foolproof means of ensuring the safety of that water. Personally, I would not use a canopy because it is made of metal that may not be good for ingestion but I think that if he had lined it with the right materials he would have had something there.

Currently, I am preparing to return to an off-the-grid lifestyle on five acres and planning for a live food supply. To save myself some money, time and labor, I have decided to build a few four-foot long by four-foot wide, two-and-a-half to three-foot high, wooden frames in the style of boxes with the corners reinforced with two-by-two’s, line the bottom with several inches of sand and the interior with a thick food-grade plastic. To not only clean up the exterior but to give the walls a little extra support, which I know is not necessary as I have already built and used an identical tank for years, I will use some small concrete blocks all the way around.

Because there may be little to no usage of the grid for many people and stores may no longer have fish and other “cold” or “frozen” foods available, I have planned to fill a few tanks with Gold Fish of different ages so that when I want a fish dinner I can go to the tank, slide open a lightweight one-fourth inch Carpenter cloth-covered top frame that will help to keep vipers and other creatures out, and catch and supplement my diet with the oldest of them. Unless I have enormous tanks with hundreds of adults and babies in them, the supply will not be for eating from on a daily basis but will be there when truly needed.

Fish are cheap to feed, easy to care for and have quite a few offspring when the time comes due and, with proper quarantine, I should be able to keep many of the babies from being eaten by their grandparents and thus a food supply going and ready for another day.

When Winter comes along, an unprotected tank will freeze over pretty good and I was taught by my mother, which also has an outdoor tank, to set a pan of hot water on the hard ice at one of the corners to help melt, or soften, the surface so that a hole can be cleared to let out any built up gases. If at first she does not succeed she will refill the pan and continue the process until she does.

I do not want to have a supply of fish that I cannot get to in the Winter so I will park each tank against or very near to the walls of my house, on the shady side for the purpose of keeping it cooler in Summer, and place a tarp over the wire-covered frame with six to eight inches of materials over it to help insulate the water from the cold. I know of several ways to protect the water from freezing and one that I have chosen, secondarily, is to lean a sheet of plywood from the outer edge of the tanks to against the wall, to sit at an angle, and protect the open ends with several layers of tarp which should insulate them enough and allow me easy access.

Even a space-limited prepper, if they have a few extra feet of space and something that will support the weight of a tank’s water, can have Gold Fish for the future. For the land and indoor limited preppers, they might do better to use a glass tank because when a wooden one leaks the locations can be difficult or impossible to detect . I would like to note that with a glass version, the only areas that will spring forth are where the edges are glued or cracks have been made. Relining a wooden type is generally the only option and will therefore require that the occupants are relocated to holding tanks with a proper saltwater solution to help with the stress of the moves from and to their home, the interior fully emptied of the few hundred gallons that it holds, completely relined, filled with cold water and left devoid of life until the correct temperature has been reached which is entirely dependant upon when the process is undertaken.

Some people raise fish as pets and their minds and hearts form attachments to them. Anyone that intends to kill and eat what they obtain for future meals, especially if they have a soft spot in their heart, should avoid talking to or interacting with them too much because when the time comes to sever their heads and slit their bellies to open and clean them, they may not be able to do it. The truth is that fish were not meant to be kept as pets but they have been marketed, like all animals for sale are, for the financial rewards that they can bring.

To watch fish in their natural environments it would become evident that one fish will eat another and they are a nutrition supply for other animals as well. For the soft-hearted to survive, they are going to have to look at the facts pertaining to fish which may not be very easy to digest when what they have learned has been distorted mostly by money hungry or other soft hearted individuals.

This is not to say that having a heart is bad or wrong nor that to love another living creature is either but there may come a time when a choice has to be made and it will be to either eat the fish or go to bed with a painfully hungered stomach.

Every person’s survival will depend upon having as many resources available as they can possibly have and fish, that can be raised cheaply and easily at home, are no exception.

by Lindsey J. from Pa

Will you be ready in a moments notice? I have asked myself this question on a daily basis. I just wanted to send along some things that I do, to make sure that if I would have to leave now, I would have less to worry about.

I work part-time, so whenever I take my son to his grandparents for half the day, I always make sure that he has not only his regular clothes on, which would be socks, sneakers, undershirt, jeans, long sleeve shirt, and coat. He also always has a sweatshirt, gloves and hat. No matter where I am going these are always a must! I wear dress clothes to work, so I always have a spare set of clothes, and shoes in my car.

Now, I am sure that many of you already do this, just view this as a quick reminder.

This is a list of some simple things in my day-to-day life that I make sure are always done.

First off would be dishes. I despise doing them, until I got to thinking. What if the power went out tomorrow, and never came back on? Then doing dishes would be even worse. I would have to go get the water. Boil it to make sure it was sanitized, wash my dishes in one bucket, and then dip it in my rinse bucket after it was washed.

It is much easier to just fill up one side of the sink, wash the dishes and then turn on the spicket and rinse. Now don’t get me wrong this doesn’t make me like doing them any more, but I now do them immediately! You never know when your power may be gone whether it’s from a storm, or teotwawki.

This realization got me thinking about all the other tasks around the house that would become more difficult. These are just a few others that we as preppers, male or female should keep up with. Since, you never know when that task may become for difficult.

What about your laundry. There are six people in my household and at a minimum I do one load of laundry a day. So lets say I decide to skip a day or two and then the powers out. Now I have to wash them all by hand…just because I couldn’t stop for two seconds to throw a load of laundry into the washer. Let’s also not forget how fast our clothes currently dry in the drier. Now I will have to hang them outside and wait for what could be quite awhile, depending on the day. Does everyone have a scrubbing board?

Now cleaning bathrooms and mopping the floors is much easier with running water. But I have to admit that I don’t look at those tasks as needing to be done every day, since we as a family will not be bugging in. But, every couple of days, absolutely.

Think of it this way, the cleaner and more organized your household is the more prepared you will be. If I am not organized and there is some warning that we need to bug out I will have an easier time getting the things that I want, along with any extras.

However, if I am not well-organized then the situation will easily become more stressful than it already will be. I think of it this way, because say we have some warning a bank run or you name it, my son and I have a bug out location.

If there is warning, my family has calculated that we will have about an hour to get everything in our vehicle and go. Our plan from there is to get to my parents house, and from there we should have approximately a 3 to 4 hour window from their location. That being said, there is a lot that can be done in that time period. Extra food, clothes, blankets, equipment. You name it, so having everything in your household well-organized is key.

For our household, I keep everything in labeled boxes such as batteries, toothpaste, toothbrushes, soup,…you name it. When I have completely filled boxes, then the next time we are going to our bug out location it goes with us and is placed in the appropriate location, where everyone knows it is.

Then I start on my next box. Stacked nicely in the same closet with our bug out bags for quick access. I always have extra boxes and plastic bins on hand, so if we have time, all our boxes and bags are a quick load, and we can then move on to the rest of the food in the house, some extra clothes and bedding. I keep our drawers as organized as possible, with a bag right next to them, so I could potentially just dump, zip and go. I have a set of clothes in different sizes for my son at our bug out location.

This was hard for me to decide how to do. He is currently a size 2T and I have up to size 5T stored for him. This would include about 6 different long and short sleeve shirts, 3 pairs of jeans, and 3 pairs of shorts and 2 sweatshirts. A pack of socks and underwear in each size, and at least one pair of sneakers and boots in each. Along with any winter gear that may be needed. For myself there is 3 of each, shorts, shirts, pants. Along with boots and shoes.

Keep a list for everyone, that in the event of bugging out, they can follow who grabs what, if there’s time what extras would you want your kids or spouse to throw in the car? Knowing these things before hand is what matters! It’s about being well-organized down to that last moment of whose shutting out the lights and locking the doors.

Hopefully we all keep our vehicles gas tank at at least half full, and keep any extra gas cans full. But what about the rest of your vehicles maintenance? Do you make sure that you get your oil changed when it needs it. Do you make sure your tires have good tread and are pumped up? Are all of your fluids full…windshield wiper fluid, antifreeze…you name it make sure that these simple to do things are always taken care of.

These small cabin plans were sent to me by B Fockler and with his permission, I’m sharing them here with you. If you’ve ever wanted to build a small cabin these are a great set of free small cabin plans.

To view the full-sized free cabin plans right-click on the image.

Well, folks, according to the latest reports old Joe Biden has tested positive for the the super deadly, (a 99.97 survival rate if you get it) Covid-19 or as we call it here the coof! Now my question is how did he catch it after all he has been double vaccinated and boosted.

One would think that he would be as healthy as a horse with all the jabs and pharmaceutical drugs he has running through his system. But nope coof positive! Who would have thought. He probably caught it sniffing someone or more likely a little girl.

After all, he loves sniffing those young preteen girls so much that he just can’t resist doing it whenever one is unfortunate enough to get near him. Yeah, old Joe is a sniffer.

But that’s not all… nope, wait… there is more!

According to him he also has cancer! But, then he also said that he was a truck driver… yeah, he said it, despite the fact that he never has done anything besides being a corrupt politician and child sniffer. So who knows…

Yeah, old Joe is a case… a nut case that is… and I truly hope that he gets everything that he deserves. What’s the earned punishment for being a life long pile of shit?

When old Joe goes, his druggie, whore hopping, pervert of a son Hunter will surely fall apart without his dad to help him along. I mean no more big oil company jobs and big money under the table to buy the pounds of coke and VD infected whores. He will be a basket case in an hour after sucking down his last bowl of crack.

But even with all his problems old dementia Joe is pushing forward the agenda of his WEF masters who pull his puppet strings and vows to push the “green new deal” through with or without congressional support. And he can get it done too with his almighty emergency powers and executive pen.

Speaking at a shuttered coal power plant in Massachusetts, Biden declared that “since Congress is not acting as it should,” he would use his “executive powers to combat the climate crisis in the absence of executive action.”

Biden’s decision to rule by decree on climate issues came after West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, told party leadership last week that he would not support a raft of climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act, a $2 trillion funding bill that cannot pass an evenly-split Senate without his support. Manchin said that such a massive spending bill would “add fuel to the inflation fire.”

Meanwhile, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warns Ukraine could ‘disappear from the map’ and dismisses Joe Biden as ‘a strange grandfather with dementia’. And he is correct on both accounts. From The Daily Mail:

Russia’s former president today warned that Ukraine could ‘disappear from the world map’ amid Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of the country.

Dmitry Medvedev, a Putin ally, also dismissed US President Joe Biden as a ‘strange grandfather with dementia‘ in a scathing post on Telegram.

Medvedev warned NATO was ‘creating a real threat of world conflict and the death of a significant part of humanity’ by sending military equipment to Ukraine and troops to countries on Europe’s eastern flank, such as Estonia and Lithuania.

His warning comes just days after he said Ukraine and the West will face a ‘Judgement Day’ response should they attempt to militarily dispute Russia’s control of Crimea. 

The refusal of Ukraine and Western powers to recognise Moscow’s ownership of the peninsula poses a ‘systemic threat’ for Russia, the former president said on Sunday, before declaring the Kremlin would hit back with maximum force if the territory is attacked. 

And let’s not forget about the quickly increasing inflation numbers, a national debt of over 30 trillion dollars officially, (in reality it’s at least 3 times that), the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency, a supply chain breakdown, an open southern border, a mega drought in the west, a crumbling power grid, a deliberate fuel and energy crisis. 

But don’t worry folks old Joe has got this… just give him an ice-cream cone to lick, wipe his bottom, a little girl to sniff, and his executive pen and he will sign whatever is put in front of him by his handlers. FJB, 

I’ve been telling you all what was coming for the past several years and now we see it more everyday. It’s becoming so obvious that even those who’ve had their heads buried deeply in the sand are starting to wake up to the fate that the nation, and in fact, the world is in trouble.

In the video below Mike Adams gives a great report and overview of what is going on right now.