April 21, 2024April 21, 2024 by Montie Roland

Scenes While Just Mowing the Grass

Sometimes the moment is just enough. I am a blessed man.

Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — July 23, 2025 July 23, 2025
July 23, 1764, James Otis (pictured) published The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, in which he argued against taxation without representation. — On July 23, 1777 Polish military leader Casimir Pulaski arrived in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry. — On July 23, 1944 Battle of Kursk (Koersk) ended. […]
James Wesley Rawles
Preparedness Primer for an Uncertain Future – Part 2, by Single Farmer July 23, 2025
(Continued from Part 1.) Sometimes, when you are lost, often the best course of action if you can is to go back to a known starting point. Trying to figure out where we are on a historical timeline if we could be going into a Third World War, you first need to know how we […]
James Wesley Rawles
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets July 23, 2025
Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — When the Whitaker family members aren’t bluewater […]
James Wesley Rawles
The Editors’ Quote of the Day: July 23, 2025
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” – Samuel Johnson, Letter to Boswell, 7 December 1782, in James Boswell’s ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1791) vol. 4, p. 157 The […]
James Wesley Rawles
Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — July 22, 2025 July 22, 2025
On July 22, 1916, a timebomb was exploded by radicals at a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, killing 10 people and injuring 40 others. — July 22, 1298: The English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk. — And on July 22, 1489, the Treaty of Frankfurt was signed between Maximilian of Austria […]
James Wesley Rawles