Day: May 20, 2021

Preparedness Notes for Thursday — May 20, 2021

May 20th, 1942 The birthday of Carlos Hathcock (died February 23, 1999.) He was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. — Our Jeff Cooper’s Birthday Sale at Elk Creek Company ends tomorrow!  The sale began on May 10th (Cooper’s birthday) and ends on May 21st, so order soon. This is the time to round out your collection of pre-1899 Federally-exempt guns!  I’ve reduced the prices on more than half of our pre-1899 gun inventory, and all of replica percussion-fired revolvers. — Happy birthday to my old pal, Brad C. SurvivalBlog …


Improving Heavy Clay Soil and Maximizing Potato Production, by Tunnel Rabbit

This video: How to Make Inexpensive Garden Container Mix: Organic Fertilizer, Lime, Peat Moss, Compost & Dirt shows us the proportions of the basic materials discussed that can be used to make an ideal soil, but it is only a starting point when working with clay.  Last year I was able to incorporate heavy clay as an unmeasured part, using similar methods demonstrated in the video.  The proportion used is unknown as it was my first attempt, and the goal was to produce as much usable soil with the least amount of manure. Ordinary topsoil was used in the video, …


The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “JWR”. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. Today, we look at the increased risk of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and even X-Class solar flares during solar minimum periods. Newsweek Outs the SigRed Infrastructure First up, the integrity of a large multi-layer …