Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Great weather here in the woodlands, getting all the repairs done from the Winter damage. Getting that topsoil delivered when I return from the coast later this month... should be able to truck into the garden area without having to send for a D9 to pull it out! LOL! Been there done that! Still too early to plant up here, but boy am I ready!
Wow! Back then I was a nut-case...Now I'm just totally prepared...
Paranoia Pays Alert!
all sorts of AV alarms went off when I clicked on your link... didja boobytrap it with a virus?
Thank you! We have been looking for some good flashlights. I am sick of buying them, using them a few times, and then they don’t work in about a year. I have never heard of these but they look good.
The problem with buying a NightStar is that you have to shake it, or wind it (depending on model), the NightStar is the only brand that truly works and will last forever, the light is a tank, waterproof, LED, and a switch with no breakable parts, even the magnet is buffered at each end of it’s shake by opposing magnets so that it never actually contacts a physical barrier, and there is no rechargeable battery to eventually die. The NightStar really does only need 25 seconds of shaking for 20 minutes of light, but it is best as a backup light, not as the primary flashlight because we all want a brighter flashlight with a simple on/off switch for our normal use, as long as we have batteries.
http://www.appliedinnotech.com/
From this day on, never buy anything but an LED flashlight, the LED (the bulb), never burns out, it never breaks, and it extends the life of batteries by several times over.
Here is a description of a $15.00 LED key chain flashlight that I recommend to friends, the battery is regulated so that for the first 11 hours the brightness stays exactly the same, and then that is followed by 10 more hours of slowly declining brightness as the battery drains, in a normal flashlight batteries only last about 1-1/2 hours to two hours and they start dimming from the first time that it is switched on.
Features
Uses a Nichia white GS LED with a life of 100,000 hours
Constant brightness: 10 Lumens
Uses one 1.5V AAA ( Alkaline, Ni-MH, Lithium ) battery, inexpensive and widely available
7.1cm (Length) x 1.4cm (Diameter)
21-hour working time ( 11-hour sun mode plus 10-hour moon mode)
Made of aircraft-grade aluminum
Durable Type III hard anodized finish
14-gram weight (excluding batteries)
Waterproof to IPX-8 Standard
Reliable twist switch
Capable of standing up securely on a flat surface to serve as a candle
https://www.fenix-store.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=435
The thing to remember is that the old fashioned, breakable, and battery draining flashlight bulb has been tossed onto the trash heap of history, although some companies are still selling them to the uninformed public, the LED has replaced it.
The biggest skill I can think of right now is how to VOTE for conservative(not republican)candidates, but don't neglect the skills I mentioned.
For people like me who depend on heart medication and blood pressure medication simply to survive, I have different recommendations, I will not go into them here.
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Please add me to the new preppers list!!
I have never heard of the Firefox books. I will have to check them. out!
I spent the majority of yesterday reading all about dehydrate. This woman is fabulous. Thanks, I’ve joined her site, sent the links off to my 3 daughters. We’ve got one more tool in our bag. I really appreciate this link.
Never hurts to refresh your memory and supplies!
>>>Yep, water and canned food works better than gardens. Gardens are OK to supplement, but canned food is where it’s at...Last for years if stored right too. <<<
Ummmmm, now where do those things in the can come from?
Maybe the goobermint magically turns our taxes into that food that goes in those cans. (Actually, we are buying quite a lot of it from places like China, Mexico, Peru, etc., etc. - try looking really close like in the expiration date printing on apple juice - yep Product of China, even though my own asparagus is producing right now, grocery store has it from Peru, and tomatoes from Mexico at $1.98 a pound...)
I say, grow your own, can/freeze/dry it - eat it and you have my own vertical integration thing going... Keep the radicals/foreigners out of that loop. Sewage fed shrimp or fish just don’t appeal to me - even if packaged with a really pretty label.
Even with American grown veggies, my spinach didn’t come through that washing plant that also washed 26 million other servings each week. Lowers my risk...
This time of the year, I try to have 13-14 months worth of home preserved food on hand - that way even with a complete crop failure one year, we can still make it till the next garden season.
It is amazing how much you can grow on 2 acres and some sweat and toil...
Ummmmm, now where do those things in the can come from?
From your garden....
BTW, ya left out one tiny piece of my post when ya quoted me:
Canned food is what feeds armies.
Water and canned food, (not gardens) can and do keep armies going for *years*.
It's "MRE's" not gardens...
Please, please, pretty please....
>>>asks nicely. :o)<<<
;-) :>) 8-) :8o)
Ping list me - please...
Yep! Have to agree...Particularly at 76, constant memory refreshing is required...
Constant refreshing of target acquisition and nullification skills as well...
I’ve got the faith covered, but have no skills. Luckily I married someone my neighbors have nicknamed “MacGyver”.
>>> Water and canned food, (not gardens) can and do keep armies going for *years*.
It’s “MRE’s” not gardens...<<<
LOL, cans were in all those C Rations I ate... Nothing like a really cold day and a can of beef stew - chunks of congealed fat the size of strawberries - ooooh how they protected your teeth with their slick film that lasted all day... And those 20 year old ‘crackers’ (or whatever they were) - Mmmmmm
Actually in the field we tried to get some hot freshly cooked meals whenever we were in base camp.
>>>Canned food is what feeds armies.<<<
With MRE’s, should that be pouches???
But, really, hunkering down with 3600 calories a day MRE’s might pack on a few pounds... LOL
Don’t get me wrong...Gardens are great, but for the millions not able to have a garden, a large stash of canned food/dried food, and stored water is imperative when it comes to survival.
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