Welcome!

My wife and I decided to start this blog as part of our foray into the world of self-reliance, also known as prepping. We are newbies to this arena and reluctantly started down the road to prepdom (I think I just coined a new word). We actually like the term self-reliance better than prepping, although prepping gets far more press and attention. At their core they are the same. Unfortunately, prepping is now associated with everything from nuclear catastrophe to zombie invasions-just go to any gun show and you’ll see what I mean.

I believe that self-reliance means that you have the ability to take care of yourself, your family and assorted guests before, during and after some type of event (we’ll go into that later). Prepping, at least to me, is being prepared for the during and after phases with little to no emphasis on the before. Whatever you want to call it, it follows the simple motto of the Boy Scouts-“always be prepared”.

Our blog will not be about zombie attacks or events that have an extremely low probability. These low probability events would include alien attacks, the end of the world (think about it, do you really want to be the last person on earth?), 2012 (hype and non-historical hysteria) or nuclear annihilation. Although, we may touch on these if we run out of other subjects. We want to be able to focus on high probability events such as power outages, floods, storms (hurricanes, tornadoes, ice, snow, etc.), earthquakes, pandemic and complete economic collapse.  We will look at how to prepare for, live through and prosper after one of these events and take a close look at subjects such as raising your own food, gardens and seeds, cooking, medical care, weapons and protection, precious metals, etc. We will also post videos of our trials, errors and successes with lessons on everything from seed selection, gun selection, medical kit preparation, hardening your home and car, alternate transportation and alternative energy.We want to educate, but we also want to entertain.

I have a love of history and politics, so from time to time we may venture down those paths. Fortunately, my wife will not let me ramble on and on about politics or history and I hope to only discuss them as they relate to self-reliance.

Thanks for reading our blog. We look forward to being with you on the road to self-reliance.

Hap