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Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — February 8, 2023 February 8, 2023
On February 8th, 1963 the Kennedy administration issued an order prohibiting travel to Cuba and banned financial transactions and commerce with Cuba, by U.S. citizens. Remnants of that order remain in place today, 60 years later. Evidence of the U.S. commerce embargo can be seen in the large number of sturdy 1950s American cars that […]
James Wesley Rawles
Winter Foraging, by Mrs. Alaska February 8, 2023
Climbing the learning curve from “erstwhile city slicker” in Texas to remote rural life in Alaska, my acclimation has been immeasurably aided by several courses in botany, which have enhanced both gardening and foraging for food, home remedies, and construction materials. Currently, I am enrolled in a fascinating on-line course in Applied Ethnobotany. It is […]
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SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets February 8, 2023
This 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. — Where is the western bumblebee? The super-pollinator […]
James Wesley Rawles
The Editors’ Quote of the Day: February 8, 2023
“Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.” – Ann Coulter The post The Editors’ Quote of the Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.
James Wesley Rawles
Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — February 7, 2023 February 7, 2023
February 7th, 1867 was the birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder (died February 10, 1957). SurvivalBlog highly recommends the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as well as her biography. — Just a couple of the 1,100+ folks who’ve bought 2005-2022 SurvivalBlog archive USB sticks wrote to mention that they thought that they weren’t working. Apparently, on some […]
James Wesley Rawles