Why the silence?

I've intentionally been silent up to now on a lot of matters, mostly on the issues of Japan's disaster. The main reason for this is because I'm tired of knee jerk reaction to current issues. Remember the tortoise and the hare? It is far better for you to prepare on a daily basis, step by step, towards a more self-reliance lifestyle, a more off-grid experience then to run out to the store and buy iodine pills right now.

Disasters hit the Earth everyday, the events in Japan are no different then the countless other things that have come to the media's attention in the last few years. I am not trying to down play the pain and suffering the people of Japan, but rather down play the panic as a result.

Because I am an ex-information broker, I have been asked a lot of questions about what the risks are to the people of North America as a result of the Nuclear power plant meltdowns in Fukushima and Daiichi. I will try to answer all those questions now. ...

I hate the idea of eating horse meat, I admit to the emotionalism behind the idea of killing and eating such a noble animal. However...

Recently someone pointed out to the staff over at Backwoods Home Magazine (www.backwoodshome.com) that there was an old article on the site about eating horse meat, which resulted in a bit of a fuss. For the record, I am glad the magazine kept the article available, free speech and all that. To be honest, if SHTF there would be one thing that would give me pause about eating horse meat if there was a risk of starvation, and that reason is because I do get vaccine shots from time to time, and so do the horses themselves.

Continued from The Bug Out Bag (Part Two)

First Aid Kits come in all shapes and sizes for differing reasons. Industrial First Aid Kits contain eyes washes as a standard, and the ones for homes sometimes contain an Epipen for injecting epinephrine when needed in an emergency.

Another Sunday Must Read, simple little posts on Sunday make my life much easier.

Here is a simple survival knife you can make, personally I prefer to use these to make lock picks, but I do like the idea of a simple 10 cent survival knife.

- Wolfe

What people are forgetting is that there are actually two types of H1N1 viruses on record. My own in-laws are currently suffering from the 'novel' version of these viruses (current) as I write this, and we are heading straight for them. As we get ready to cross Canada in the next 25 days we will be meeting and coming into contact with with strangers from Vancouver, British Columbia to Toronto, Ontario. It is during this time that the flu season will be at it's highest point in the year, and this year may prove to be the most proficient flu season to date.

The Prepper's Network has a chat room (link in my menu on the right) which is visited by many of us preppers/survivalists including a friend of mine (MapDude in the chat) who runs an online map of the H1N1 virus, as well as several other constantly updated data maps (some of which are in my data menu on the left), all of there are constantly updated by him while he watches 12 monitors of incoming feeds and news casts. Trust me when I say that the Prepper's Network is becoming very well informed about all sorts of threats, not just information about the H1N1 virus, is largely due to him. (Another special note about our Prepper's Ham Radio Network, it is growing just as fast. And which another regular chatter 'trixter' is creating a West Coast hub.)

I just finished reading a post on Wolf Tracks by Shy Wolf, in which he goes into great detail on how to sharpen a knife. The reason he did this post was in reply to a post on M.D. Creekmoore's survival site.

I really like not only the post, but the fact that Shy went out of his way to point out that idea behind the post came from a question on Creekmore's site, so in hopes of starting a trend among prepper bloggers, besides the fact that I am packing like a crazed lunatic to move to the farm, and don't really have time to post on my blog, here is a link to Shy's post.

Whetting a Blade

enjoy,
Wolfe

Here in British Columbia you might think we have no need to be paranoid about Pandemics ... personally I think the cure is much worse then the virus in question recently. But if you think I'm wrong, take a look at the following video (THANKS CATMAN!) which was made by A channel news here in BC.

I was just over at James Rawles site checking out his list of fiction when I noticed an advertisement from Ready Made Resources about a water filter. First let me say that Ready Made has a good rep, and second this is the water filter I have been looking for. 0.015 microns!

Just thought I'd pass this on.

(The link is taken directly from survivalblog.com so if you buy one please state it is because of their ad on survivalblog.com not wolfeblog.net although a mention would be nice.)

Wolfe

OK, I know I post a lot of links to other blogs, in fact I'd say that 99% of my twitter updates are such, and 99% of those are to other survivalist's blogs.

So that fact that I am make a point to link to a post on another site, just because I found it funny, well, just read it. I just wanted a more permanent link to it then just the twitter archives.

- Wolfe