Hang In There with Me and It will be Worth It

I have had several viewers already, which I am thankfully surprised, therefore I feel the need to make a quick post for anyone that comes to view my blog.  The first few weeks will be a little slow, although I will be squeezing blogs in as I can but I am in the last few weeks of my quest for my Bachelors degree.  I have been working on my degree for 13 years now.  Before I go on I want to say I truly believe that college is not for everyone and while it might not have been for me either I stuck with it.  I feel an education, whether in a classroom is an important tool for preparedness and an important investment in your future.  I will have a degree to fall back on if I should need it and it prepares me for when I retire from the military to get an adult job.  The adult job crack is only a joke and for those of you who are not or have never been in the military it is common place for those of us who have been in the military a long time to joke around about what we will do when we grow up but the truth of the matter is most of us never grow up we just get older.  I graduate on 19 February and I will buckle down to provide content regularly as soon as possible afterwards.  Until then I will post as often as I can find a minute, although the blogs may not always be long. 

The next blog will be a background of why and how I got started working on my preparedness.  I also will discuss some skills/projects I am working on.  Then in future blogs I will cover those projects and my line of thought on them in much more detail. 

Please leave me messages if you have any questions or ideas of things you would like to see covered.  I want this to be your blog as well as mine.  Have a great weekend!!!

Mission Statement

I thought I would start my blogging experience by laying out what people can expect from my post.  I will key in on aspects of sustainability that are unique to those of us in the military and really anyone that is in a job where they move a lot.  I have really been feeling not prepared enough lately and when you look for preparedness information mostly it seems you find people stocking enough food for years or those hardcore snake eaters who plan to survive out of there bug out bag forever.  All that is great but what about those of us who have to move regularly for the military or any job for that matter, we cannot move a stockpile of food, weapons or equipment. I will discuss pretty much any topic that relates to sustainability and encourage people to email me with feedback and information.  It is important to me that this blog is transactional in nature.  I am by far not an expert in sustainability but I strive to get closer to self sustainability.  I will give you a background up to where I am at now and then you will be able to follow me through my journey toward self sufficiency.

I get asked all the  time if I am a "prepper?"  My answer to that is I believe in being ready for situations but I am not like those guys on "Doomsday Preppers." I think we all need to strive to be able to take care of ourselves in the event there is a natural disaster, food shortage or even if we loose a job.  I am not saying there is anything wrong with accepting assistance if you need it short term but I encourage people not to depend on it.  Also if you are prepared to handle situations they often times do not feel like as big of an emergency.

I also get asked if I am a survivalist?  I am not a survivalist by the radical definition that people have thrown on that term.  I think there are important skills we need to redevelop in order to survive but this concept that we are all going to be in the deep woods starting fires with bow drills is not likely even in a total collapse scenario.

This blog will focus on things people can do to create a HOMESTEAD no matter how temporary your location may be and with things that military and other people who move regularly for work can do for preparedness.

Please let me know if you have any topics you would like me to discuss.