Day: January 19, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Sunday — January 19, 2025

On January 19, 1883, the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey. — January 19, 1915: Four people in Norfolk were killed in the first German Zeppelin air raid attack on the United Kingdom. — Today is the birthday of Carla Emery. (Born 1939, died October 11, 2005.)  She is well known in self-sufficiency circles as the author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living. This book was recently re-released in a 40th Anniversary edition.  Emery’s book is featured prominently in JWR’s Bookshelf Page. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present …


A Prepper’s Carpentry Toolkit – Part 2, by A.F.

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) In the upper-right corner of the essential tools photo there is a stack of quick grip clamps. In particular, these are Irwin brand heavy-duty models in maximum working lengths between six and twenty-four inches. A couple of these models have head release slides that allow the user to quickly convert the tool from a clamp into a spreader. When it comes to pulling tightly cut framing into position, aligning materials until they can be fastened or holding the end of a long timber while working alone, these clamps can do it. I …


JWR’s Meme Of The Week:

The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: “Millions” Worth of Hunter Biden’s Art Went Up In Flames, In The L.A. Fire “Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Is There…” News Links: Hunter Biden artworks worth ‘millions of dollars’ destroyed in LA fires. A trove of nearly 200 artworks by Hunter Biden has been destroyed. LA Fires Claim Priceless Art. Posted one year ago: Kevin Morris gave ‘massive’ financial support to Hunter Biden, raising campaign finance concerns: Comer. Another from January, 2024: Hunter Biden KNEW most of his art buyers despite White House ethics plan to keep them secret, dealer …


The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

“And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way. And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, …