Essential gifts for your comfort and safety

I did it! After 10 years of wanting this gizmo, I finally treated myself to it! Y.E.S. !!! It is a deceptively simple gizmo and costs about $15.00 bucks. What could it be, you ask? It is called a “LifeHammer.” Here’s a picture: “Uh, Hunt…? Not exactly a Tiffany diamond, is it?” Well, it is […]

Food, Glorious Food ~ Nothing is better….

Second article in a series of being prepared for an emergency. First, you’ve got to have water, next, you’ve got to have food. But what kind of food? How much food? Well, how long of an emergency are you preparing for? A couple of days, a week, six months? We used to talk about a […]

Stocking Up the Cupboard

Beginning a new category – Stocking Up the Cupboard, Freezer, and Under the Couch. Why? Because stuff happens. I was posting with another friendly blogger and we got to commenting on good times to stock up, i.e., March is freezer month.  I have been in emergency management (EM) in one capacity or another for over […]

DP Challenge: Clean Slate

“Explore the room you’re in as if you’re seeing it for the first time. Pretend you know nothing. What do you see? Who is the person who lives there?” Well, doggoneit! I had planned to throw my two cents into the mix re guns, violence, videogames and now I’m distracted. Another rabbit hole. “Whoa! That […]