Day: July 10, 2014

Notes for Thursday – July 10, 2014

July 10th is the birthday of British novelist John Wyndham. (His full name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, but Harris shortened that to just John Wyndham for his pen name.) He was born in 1903 and died March 11, 1969. Harris was a good friend of fellow novelist Samuel Youd (1922 – 2012), who wrote under several pen names, including John Christopher. Both men were famous for writing what are often called cosy catastrophies. Several of Wyndham’s novels and short stories have been adapted to film, with varying degrees of success. One of the best of these was …


Sending Your Child from a Fully Stocked/Prepared Home to College for the First Time, by Mom

We have been successful with preparing our “bug-in” home and continue to learn and make mistakes along the way! Our daughter is in her second year of college, and I wanted to share our experience with preparing and sending off your first born into the college world. We were fortunate that she was able to take her car with her during her first year. This not only provided an obvious way to get home but also a mini-storage facility for supplies. If your son or daughter is not permitted to park on campus, the college can typically direct you to …


Two Letters Re: Storage Without a Basement

Hugh, I saw your entry and reply regarding the difficulty of maintaining preps and self in hot areas without electricity. You referred to Backwoods Home magazine, but you may want to just refer folks to “Zeer Pots” or “Pot in Pot” coolers: I’ve used them and they work pretty well, especially when you stack the deck, as in the second article above. I don’t know if anyone has tried to scale them up to locker/container size, but I’d be interested in reading about it if you put out the word and got a reply. – T.J. o o o Good …



Odds ‘n Sods:

Gun Thief – Nawlins’ former Mayor Ray Nagin – Gets 10 Years in Prison Nagin was also a member of Mike Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns pressure group. (Yet another mayor from that group is headed for a long stretch behind bars.) o o o Good information about a snake bite experience on the M14 forum. – L.L. o o o Identifying and Treating Spider Bites. – J.W. o o o If Tuberculosis Spreads … o o o Several readers commented on the unavailability of JWR’s recommendation “Where There is No Vet”. SurvivalBlog reader P.M. was kind enough to send …


Hugh’s Quote of the Day:

“I preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and am ready to give a defense of my doctrine and faith to all men, and at any time it is demanded of me. And if there be any priest, monk, or any other, whosoever he be, who can prove to me that I have taught anything contrary to the Word of God, I ask not only that you drive me out as a menace to your city, but also that you punish me with such severity that no man dare preach who is not well addured of his doctrine.” – Pierre Viret