This will cover a number of subjects, like Yurts, Log Cabins, construction, housing and care of animals, etc. Basically anything that we will have to deal with in getting WilderWolf set up . . . → Read More: Homesteading Information Links Archive.]]> I will be starting a page with links to the best articles and websites that I find that deal with homesteading.

This will cover a number of subjects, like Yurts, Log Cabins, construction, housing and care of animals, etc. Basically anything that we will have to deal with in getting WilderWolf set up the way that we want it.

If you have a favorite site that you would like to see listed, post it in the comments and I will add it to the list.

Test post from phone

We have made an offer on a house in Idaho and will hopefully be . . . → Read More: WilderWolf and more.]]> A lot has happened in the time since I last posted here and it would take way to much time and space to fill you in on everything that we have done in the many months since I last posted.

We have made an offer on a house in Idaho and will hopefully be moving soon. We will be calling our new place WilderWolf.
Tiffany made a new blog dedicated to it and you can find it here. I will be posting at least once a week there about the improvements that we make to WilderWolf and ideas that we have for the new house and homestead. These will be general posts, with pictures of the planning process and where on WilderWolf we are putting things. They will not be technical posts about the construction and the nuts and bolts of the project. The details of construction will be posted here on The Umbafa Chronicles.

I will be doing a lot of research on the improvements that we want to make, and posting the results here with pictures and links to future projects. They will be posted here because I do not want to clog the WilderWolf site with a bunch of technical information.

A sneak peek of the garage

TW

We live in an industrial area, in a metal building so we get almost no TV stations. I took my battery powered TV out front and we sat there amazed at . . . → Read More: Emergency information and where to get it.]]> Thursday night when the news of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan started to come in, we, like many people were looking for information.

We live in an industrial area, in a metal building so we get almost no TV stations. I took my battery powered TV out front and we sat there amazed at the reports and video coming out of Sendai. When we came back in I was able to find some live coverage on the internet, but not a lot. I had no idea were to go for coverage. As a prepper I see this as a major hole in my preps. In the event of a disaster any where in the world, I want to be able to find the information and news coverage I need to be informed. I do not want to be Googling news sources when a disaster hits, I want to have the websites I need already bookmarked, and I want them on my laptops, my Tablet, my phone and my I-pod and on a thumbdrive running Firefox or Google portable applications.

I laid in bed listening to the radio and the news coverage of the Tsunami and decided that I needed to gather together as many news sources as I could.

This morning before work, I was checking the forums that I belong to and of course there where a few posts about the earthquake. Some people had posted some links to various sources for news coverage. I also found out that a dear friend has family in the Sendai and was frantically trying to find out if her family members are OK. One of my coworkers has a daughter who is on the Island of Okinawa, and he was able to get right through to her this morning.

Researching what is available on the internet I have come up with these sites that I found to be helpful.

This is the Emergency E-mail and Wireless Network. You can input the state that you live in and get emergency notifications sent to your e-mail and phone.

This is the U.S. Geological Survey main page. There is a ton of information here, everything from Avian Influenza to Wildfires.

This is a link to justin.tv . They have CNN International, MSNBC, BBC World News, and quite a few local stations.

This is VueToo . You can look at the websites of the major television networks, as well as major newspapers from all over the country. This site can be customized to see what you want. I need to play with it some more to see how I like it.

I am going to do this post in a series, I can see that it is going to take some time to get the information that I want all together and sort out which sites are the most valuable. This will be part of my weekend research.

If you have any sites that you use and you think should be included in this list please post a link in the comments section.

TW

I did a bunch of research on some things that . . . → Read More: What did you do this week to prep? 3.7.11]]> This week was a busy week at work. The construction industry is still very slow, but we are seeing more projects up for bid in the last month. Not the multi million dollar jobs of a few years ago, but hey work is work.

I did a bunch of research on some things that I want to write about soon. I have some good ideas for some posts, but I want to do some more research on them.

I downloaded Gary Veynerchuk’s book CRUSH IT, and a book called BREAKTHROUGH – How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World by Jon Queijo. I l love all kinds of history, and am looking forward to reading this one.

Yesterday we had our monthly TSP meet-up. This month we were shooting in Burro Canyon. We had 24 people there, the largest group ever. We even had 4 kids under 10 years old, and they were great kids, it was great seeing them shooting and having fun.

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