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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Michigan Republicans Introduce Bill To Become 30th Constitutional Carry State. (A hat tip to blog reader D.S.V. for the link.)
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‘Mike Lee unveils national constitutional carry bill to override ‘hostile’ state gun laws.
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Your Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Sprouts at Home.
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A great 8-minute video: You will own nothing…and be miserable.
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Reader D.S.V. wrote:
“I recently had a poor experience with automatic license plate readers. At a hospital parkimng garage, the reader read the plate coming in. You paid and then drove out with the gate coming up. On the fourth day evidently the reader read the 3 as 2 coming in. I have the ticket proving it. Then, when leaving, the reader read it properly as the 3. So I had difficulty leaving! The human attendant that I guess doesn’t do much gave me a hard time before I could leave. The gate wouldn’t open and she claimed that I had found a paid receipt that had my credit card’s last numbers on it on the ground! I couldn’t pay cash either. We are headed for dangerous times.”
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From our friend and fellow blogger Patrice Lewis: The alchemy of good tea. (We recommend bookmarking her blog.
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Reader WKYHomesteader wrote:
“In his recent five-part article on healthy soils, Hobbit Farmer mentioned how garden plants need trace minerals to thrive, and I thought of this product.
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By way of Tam’s blog: The Bartering Monkeys of Bali — Planet Earth III.
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Wildfires rip through unusual parts of US., raising fears of a brutal season. This article begins:
“By late March, Nebraska was already in the throes of a historic wildfire event that had burned more than a half-million acres. In South Dakota and Wyoming, strong, dry winds are flaring up big blazes. Dozens of residents in two Colorado counties had to evacuate over the weekend as record hot temperatures and extremely low humidity fueled the rapid spread of fires in the parched brush. And until last week, it was still technically winter.
Wildfires are ripping across the Great Plains, and other flare-ups are popping up in Arizona and Colorado remarkably early in the season. Firefighters and experts are watching these giant red splotches of burning forest and grasslands with alarm, warning that the timing, ingredients fueling their startling growth, and what they signal about the fire season ahead is a recipe for concern — perhaps signaling an expanding frontier for fire risk in broader patches of the western half of the United States.”
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