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Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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Tag: peace of mind

Posted on April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

Scenes While Just Mowing the Grass

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

Recent Posts

  • Enjoying Time on the Farm November 2, 2025
  • Planting Trees on the Farm – Good Times December 24, 2024
  • Helping Out in Hot Springs After Helene and Camping on Troublesome Gap November 9, 2024
  • Let Us Race October 27, 2024
  • Damage from Hurricane Helene in WNC October 13, 2024
  • Designing a Gift Basket October 1, 2024
  • Western NC Hurricane Damage Update September 29, 2024
  • Farm and Forest – Digital Detox at Its Finest August 25, 2024
  • Digital Detox June 25, 2024
  • Scenes While Just Mowing the Grass April 21, 2024

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Forward Observer

  • Economic Early Warning for Friday, 09 January 2026
  • The Most Consequential Year Since 2000
  • Economic Early Warning Report for Friday, 17 October 2025
  • Congressional Research Service Reports on MS-13 and M-18
  • Economic Early Warning for Friday, 12 September 2025

Simply Us Farm

  • Honey Locust Need Love Too
  • Transforming the Back Field
  • Making Agave Happy
  • Planting Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Learn to Grow and Prune Berries and Fruit Trees Event

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  • Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — January 27, 2026 January 27, 2026
    January 27, 1939: First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane. Pictured is a P-38 at an airfield in Panama, in 1945. — January 27, 1944:  The siege of Leningrad ended, after 880 days, and the deaths of 2 million Soviet citizens. — Today, we present a guest article from a SurvivalBlog reader. Because […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Are You Emotionally Ready for the Coming Collapse? – Part 1, by Peter Cannon January 27, 2026
    Introduction Much has been written about physical prepping for a future societal collapse. However, what about the mental and behavioral side of preparation? Is it possible that Christians will live through part or all of the Tribulation? If your children are crying due to hunger, would you accept the mark of the Beast to feed […]
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  • SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week January 27, 2026
    This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest.  There was recently a solar storm that caused a nice Aurora Borealis display in parts of the American Redoubt. We missed seeing it […]
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  • The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: January 27, 2026
    “God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or […]
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  • Preparedness Notes for Monday — January 26, 2026 January 26, 2026
    On January 26, 1887, ground was broken and construction began on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.   It was completed on March 29, 1889, in time for the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. The Eiffel Tower then surpassed the Washington Monument as the world’s tallest man-made structure — a record that it held for 41 years. […]
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The Survival Podcast

  • Growing Up in the FL Swamps & PA Woods – TSP Rewind – Epi-311
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  • Geoff Lawton on Ancient Food Forest Irrigation & More – TSP Rewind – Epi-310
  • 10 Life Skills We Should Teach Every Child – TSP Rewind – Epi-309
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  • design thinking
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  • food security
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  • prototype
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