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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.

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Reader Mark J. suggested this Matt Bracken interview on Rumble: Are We Normalizing Military on US Streets? [1] (Matt is pictured above, from a previous interview.)

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Mike in Alaska wrote:

“Summer is over up here in the Arctic …snow is falling in the mountains and on the North Slope while we here in the valley are getting our wet rain (pre-snow?) and all the leaves have started falling in earnest … soon it will snow here too. Here’s an attached photo of a cabbage grown down in Palmer Alaska at the State Fair. It was 84.2 # fully grown. That’s a lot of coleslaw and kraut !! Our meager garden has produced some fine pepper this year, a lot of great tomatoes’, and oddly enough  some Russian cucumbers that are still producing! They are not very fat being only about 2″ round but very long usually about 12″ – 14″ in length and very tasty … I eat them peel and all. But the temps are no in the low 30’s at night and dark comes around 11:30 so it won’t be long now when the sun will fall below the horizon and not come above it for very ling and with the darkness will come snow … the signs are that this winter is going to be very harsh up here; I am not certain what it will be for you folks but I suspect it too will be harsh.

I was amazed to see the 20th anniversary post on the blog … how fast the time has passed.

I pray often for you and ask His Majesty King Jesus to richly bless you all and keep you safe. Our moose mother and her two calves are back again and seem to have taken up residence in our back yard again … they do this every fall and when the snow comes they’ll move on. I suspect that since it is hunting season they know they are safe in our yard and along the power line ally there with lots of food available, a slough off of the river flowing not too far from there for water and no hunting pressure. This year we’ve not seen any sign of grizzly activity. So maybe that’s a factor, too?

Lots of fox and lynx seen, but no wolverines in many years, at least four yearssince the last sight of one running in the snow.
I’ve tried making butter but can’t seem to get the hang of it even with reading directions… since I can get heavy cream I have been using whipping cream, I have to wonder if that’s the problem? The ice cream maker however works marvelously. I’ve been storing dry goods in mason jars using the jar sealer I reviewed in the blog, next spring or summer I’ll start trying some of the items to see how well it kept the food. Mostly beans, pasta, and some of the Ramen Toppings mix I recently wrote about just to see how well it keeps …
I have a one-tube shortwave radio kit I built and I am writing an article about it if you’re interested in having it … it is a simple design and works off four AAA batteries and one 9 volt battery but it is not a kit for beginners despite its simplicity.
… Sarah Sue has been posting some very good stuff and I would ask you to thank her for me.
Keep warm, and may God richly bless and protect you all.”

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Congrats to Tamara K. of the great View From The Porch [2] blog, who just hit her 20th anniversary of blogging.

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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:

“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.

Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.
Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.
The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.
Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.
That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it.”

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D.S.V. spotted this news: Trump to issue ‘paper ballots only’ executive order: ‘Voter I.D. must be part of every single vote’ [3].

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Tim in Connecticut wrote to suggest:

“Where zucchini is planted, surround the bed with tomato plants , basil plants or a combination of both at about 18″ apart, the squash will remain untouched by squash bugs. The bugs will be unable to detect the squash plants because the scent of the tomato and basil are much stronger than that of the squash plants. Third year doing this and have had plenty of squash after many years of disappointment.”

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Mrs.  Alaska offered this advice:

“Last week, a SurvivalBlog reader bemoaned problems getting FedEx and other packages that vendors will not deliver to post office boxes.
In many rural areas of the country, everyone collects mail from a P.O. because there is no residential [doorstep or even mailbox] delivery.  This is what our community does:
For vendors that eschew P.O. boxes, we write out the street address of the post office.  Then, like an apartment or suite number of an office, we write the P.O. box number.  Example:  Instead of P.O. Box 100, Podunk, AL, one cites the accurate address as 123 Main St, #100, Podunk. AL.  This works for most vendors.  If not, we look for others or ask a friend to receive the package for us.  I hope this helps others.”

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Investigation Finds Migrants Used Hidden Cameras to Cheat on Truck License Tests [4].

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Watching the big furor in England on displays of their own national flags is indicative.  For our English kinfolk, it is high time for Callin’ All The Clans Together [5]. (Thanks to reader Mark J. for that music link.)

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