Water Woes, One Woman’s Experience

Did you miss me? I have had the worst time trying to post while I was away from home. I finally gave up so here is the post from last Friday and I will revise and post today’s tomorrow. Sorry for the delay here and on the yahoo group but now I’m back in the groove! It’s so easy to run and turn on the tap and expect clean water to flow. Unfortunately that is not always the case. There are...

Nothing to do With Saving Money… EMP Answers

This is a quickie post but we have had this question on the yahoo group and I thought the answer was important enough that I wanted to make sure everyone saw is. Question One: Can a surge protector protect equipment against an EMP attack. The answer is no. An EMP attack happens in three waves which are miliseconds apart. The first destroys the most fragile of electronic components but will not penetrate a...

General Store…Fruit

With all the things going on this month I am going to keep this post short so I can concentrate more time on posts for the rest of the week and to cover the holidays. Just a few items first. I still have a few book combos available. It includes an autographed copies of James Talmage Steven’s book Making the Best of Basics, and my ebooks Mother Hubbard: What She’s Doing Now and That Won’t Happen To...

Answer to a question: Cytokine Storm

Image via Wikipedia I had a comment on yesterdays post asking a question I felt others may also have and I didn’t want the answer buried so here it is: I just went to a pandemic preparedness class in my community and they mentioned something called a cytokine storm… have you heard of this? The presenters were also selling products so I tended to be more leary butthis was something that I had not heard...

Answering Questions..Laundry

I occasionally think we must be running out of questions about preparing and the H1N1 and then I check my email and I have a new batch.  My problem is that some come in the form of an email, some by phone, some in person and some as a comment on the blog. If I should ever hail to answer a question you have had please contact me again. I don’t mean to ignore the questions. I have also discovered a few...