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Product Review: What’s Better, Beef Jerky or Biltong?

When it comes to dried meat, jerky is an American stable. But how does it compare to biltong, the favorite snack food of South Africans?
The track up the mountain in the snow and fog

Prepper Diary December 29: We Repair our Water System

Disasters never seem to happen when the weather is nice. We have to climb the mountain to repair our water system on a cold, wet, foggy day.
faucet Dripping

Prepper Diary December 26: Bitterly Cold Weather Brings Frozen Pipe...

Wind chills drop to the negative teens and we work on keeping the house warm and preventing our pipes from freezing.
Snowy scene from our window

May you have a Very Prepper Christmas

We are enjoyed a white Christmas, which is both a blessing and a little but of a curse when you live on a steep mountain. This is the time of year when you wish you owned a snow machine.
We go into Self Quarantine to prevent COVID-19 infection

Prepper Diary December 17: We Begin to Self-Quarantine Again

Five month after we lifted our own, personal self-imposed quarantine, the rising rates of COVID-19 are causing us to withdraw from public once again.
Winter Landscape with Trees. Image by Ina Hoekstra from Pixabay.

Prepper Diary December 17: The Winter Storm Strikes

As much of the North East was blanketed with snow, we weather our first winter storm in our new prepper property.
A dirt road.

Prepper Diary December 13: Our Move is Over but the Fun...

Our move is over but the unpacking will take days. We are exhausted, but the poor truck diver had a really bad trip.
hunting rifle. Photo from BigStock.

Are Your Guns as Well Prepared as You Are?

Guns break under the best of circumstances., but stocking a few key parts and some handy tools can keep your armory up and running in good times and bad.
These are the keys I tossed before we moved.

Prepper Diary December 9: It’s a Wasteland Around Here

The move is now 24 hours away and the house is a wasteland, with nothing to eat and no table at which to sit and eat. We can't wait to move to our prepper property.
Food bank visitors. Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash

Until Help Arrives: Should You Expect to be Rescued?

Many people expect that the government or someone else will rescue them after a natural disaster or other calamity, but that may not be the case.