Day: January 15, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — January 15, 2025

On January 15, 588 BC the army of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasted until July 23, 586 BC. — January 15, 178: Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, recommended to the U.S. Congress the establishment of decimal coinage and a national mint. — Today is also the anniversary of the famed 2009 “Miracle On The Hudson” engines-out emergency water landing. — Sales of the new 2005-2024 SurvivalBlog waterproof archive sticks have been very brisk. One reader ordered 10 of them! For a full list of the included bonus books, see my post …


Year Four Review of My Farm – Part 2, by SaraSue

There is a lot to be thankful for! The Infrastructure After several years of working on the Farm, repairing and replacing this and that, there was one last repair that had to be done.  Well, there are a few, but they aren’t on the critical list.  I was able to have the HVAC system replaced so that the farm house stayed warm when needed, and cool when needed.  A huge blessing.  I had an invisible fence installed around the farm to keep the LGDs home; and “the farm truck”, which is just my little car, needed a lot of maintenance …


SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

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. — Reader D.S.V. was the first of several to mention this news: Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF. o  o  o La Niña has arrived. Here’s what that means.  (Thanks to reader C.B. for the link.) o  o  o Reader Rick V. wrote: “I’ve been reading Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War. The …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country … it must invariably and immeasurably increase the powers of the civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. … All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.” – Alexis de Tocqueville