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12 Nov 2013

How to Make Wine Cork Keychains: Perfect for Boating

If you are out on the water and are afraid of loosing your keys you could go out and buy a floating key fob. But if you drink wine (or have friends that do), you can make a Cork Key Chains.

Get a long shanked eye-hook
Next, screw the hook through the center of the cork.
Finally, attach a split ring to the eye and thread on your keys.

This won’t hold a maintenance man’s key ring above water, but it will hold your boat, truck, and house keys…\

I love boating and being out on the water, and having a floating key fob is nice – having Recycled Cork Key Chains that you made from wine you have drunk with friend is cool.

If you have a lot of keys, you can hide the key ring in your truck and only have your boat and truck key on the fob. That will ensure that it will float.

They even now have little chips you can put on your keys to help you find them – but if you loose your boat key on the lake you may have problems getting the boat out to the key chain oyt bobbing around.

10 Nov 2013

Baby Discusses Obamacare

Even an 18 month old baby boy knows that Obamacare was sold to us as a lie.

If it was as good for us as they say, then why aren’t they upfront with us.

What I don’t understand is how just the website cost enough to give every single American one million dollars – how did they pay for that?

Oh yeah, they mortgaged my boy’s future…

This is an attempt at humor, because gallows humor is about the only thing left after this disgraceful law was passed “without having read it”.

So listen as my baby discusses obamacare with me.

I realize not everybody thinks that Obamacare is a bad thing, but statistical evidence backs up the claim that the majority of American’s are happy with their healthcare, that most without healthcare choose not to have it, and that most of the supporters only want to ensure that those that can’t get coverage are allowed to.

It seems that throwing the baby out with the bathwater is the chosen solution.

The entire argument is false and based upon a lie – it seems that the commerce clause of the US Constitution is being touted as a reason the Government can pass such sweeping legislation, but the commerce clause only impacts trade across state lines – when there is a federal law in place that says insurance cannot be sold across state lines.

The government passed a law using something they had outlawed. and it only gets crazier from there…

10 Nov 2013

52 Prepper Projects: Book Review

Book Review: 52 Prepper Projects — Buy at Amazon

52 Prepper Projects is a book about self-reliance and the journey toward a more self-sufficient life.

The author, David Nash, has been a “prepper” his entire life, and has always tried to learn how to do things instead of searching out where to buy things.

This book is designed to start with simple projects and progress to more complex projects. The projects get better as the reader gains more skill and confidence.

Each project in this book can be completed with simple hand tools and many projects build upon tools and skills created in earlier projects.

The 52 Prepper Projects Book is full of projects like the ones in this site. Actually some of the projects are on this site. However, in the book they are better documented and arraigned in a manner that makes sense.

The Book Is Similar in Content to This Site

This book is a companion to the tngun website. I feel like the projects in the book are worth having on paper in the even the internet is ever throttled or shut down. At one time that idea seemed like a 1984 type conspiracy, but Google and other internet giants have been working to reduce this type of information on the web.

This is more likely to happen than most American’s think. Therefore, having paper copies of things you find important is becoming more vital every day.

5 Nov 2013

How to Make DIY Mosquito Repellent Holders

My boy loves being outside, but kids are especially sensitive to mosquito bites, due to the bees we cannot use traditional pesticides, but I did see this idea on an Alaska bush craft site and decided to try it out while camping.

It worked very well for us last summer, and I finally got around to documenting it.
One of the most popular bug repellent to cover large areas such are patios, decks, and yards is the mosquito coil.

These coils use an incense style delivery system where you light one end and it burns as an ember producing smoke containing the repellant. As the air currents spread the smoke around the bugs high tail it out of the area. This is handy when you are working in an area and need wide coverage.

The problem is the small metal coil holders aren’t always appropriate for putting the coils around your work or recreation area. The ones that are able to hang can cost up to $7 to $11 a piece.

Here is a method to make as many as you want for less than a dollar each.

I happen to have some left over rabbit cage wire I used, but if you don’t have scrap, purchase a one foot by three (or four) foot piece of metal screen at your local hardware store.

How to Make Mosquito Repellent Holders

Cut the pieces of screen into units that are 5 inches wide and 12 inches long.
Fold the piece in half.
On either edge adjoining the folded edge, bend the screen over itself, thereby creating a holder with two sides open.
Insert a wooden pencil or dowel between the two halves of screen and gently reshape the metal fold to create a bit of a space or gap between the two sides so that it won’t pinch the mosquito coil. (The coil may extinguish itself if the screen is pressed tightly against the coil.)
Add a loop of cord or an “S” shaped piece of wire for hanging on whatever objects are handy around the area you want to protect.

Hang several in large areas or where changing air currents require positioning coils in many locations.

27 Oct 2013

PRN Episode #41 27 Prepper Precepts

52 Unique Techniques for Stocking Food for Prepper — Buy at Amazon

One of the things I hold most dear is my moral compass, my morals may not line up perfectly with “traditional” morals – and I know they don’t line up with modern “morals” – but as Heinlein said “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

This isn’t a political show – nor a talk show that deals in morality – it’s a prepper show – so how in the world does this apply to disaster preparedness?

My moral code, precepts, are guides for action that make me who I am, and since the underlying foundation of who I am determines how I act. It is the reason I work so hard to be self-reliant, self-determining, to take responsibility for myself. This explains why I choose to do things to protect my family instead of going the easy route.

My 27 precepts guide me in deciding how best to do those things.

My rules are why I spend so much time DIYing. It shows why I choose to bug in rather than bug out, why I have guns, and why I don’t have a LOT of guns.

Frankly, my precepts are what make me, ME. While that has it’s faults, I am sharing my 27 precepts with you because I feel that some of them may help you prepare for disaster.

I am interested to know if your principles are similar to mine, or how they differ – I am not looking to change my core beliefs, but I am interested in how and why people think as they do – as it helps me learn and grow as a prepper and a person. Please feel free to email me and share your thoughts on today’s podcast.

The show is scheduled for Monday at 10pm central time at this link.

If you cannot listen on Monday, you can always download the podcast for listening at your own leisure.