Trying To Keep Cool! (also a FREE movie for you)

Trying so hard to keep cool inside. have the windows all covered. Just relaxing and watching movies all weekend was fun. Spending time with family is always great. We had to go out yesterday to get a tire repaired on hubbies truck and stopped by thrift store and got a box full of vhs tapes , about 75 of them. I lost count because my daughter was over and she was grabbing ones she wanted to watch. I think she took about 20. But anyway got all of them for $6.00!!! Pretty good deal. So we got the old VCR out and started watching movies. Armageddon , Deep Impact, and some Veggie Tales for the Little Man. A bad storm blew thru last night dropping hail on us that was the size of ping pong balls. So all of those disaster movies kind of had us freaked out. We had watched Knowing already yesterday morning. So it was a disaster movie day in our house. The Veggie Tales really were good after all of that mayhem. LOL. Here is Knowing for you to watch. Great movie. I had downloaded it to our Roku , but you can watch it here for FREE. Have fun and keep cool!



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All the world's quakes since 1898 mapped - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazingPlanet - msnbc.com

All the world's quakes since 1898 mapped - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazingPlanet - msnbc.com

This is pretty awesome. 

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Homestead Survival: Camping Hand Washing Field Sink DIY Project

Homestead Survival: Camping Hand Washing Field Sink DIY Project

I have got to share this - this is so awesome.

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Staying Clean Off The Grid

I found something out by accident yesterday afternoon! You could use a kiddie pool to warm water up and use to take a bath in a Living off the Gridsituation. My little man has a Little Tykes turtle kiddie pool that has a cover for it. Well, I got out there and realized it still had the water in it from last week when my little man was swimming and it was hot! First thing I thought was dang this could be great for using as a bath in a SHTF situation! It was really hot water after being in the triple digits here all week. Would even be good to wash clothes in if you had to. Use any type of kiddie pool and have it covered to keep the water inside and it will warm up in the sun. Br great to cover it with something black. Also can paint milk cartons black and set them outside filled with water to warm up small amounts for cleaning dishes and more.

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Tsunami Early Warning System - SMS to Mobile phone. Free membership

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East coast be prepared. The El Hierro volcano in the canary islands is bulging and they are on alert. This would cause a tsunami into the east coast.



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Food Storage Recipe - Nacho Bake

This recipe is so yummy and so easy. The local grocery store always has this velveeta shells and cheese on sale for 10 for $10 also. So I have this on hand all of the time. In fact , I got this recipe from the side of one of the boxes.



Nacho Bake

1 box of velveeta shells and cheese

1 pound of ground beef

1 pack of taco seasoning mix

1/4 cup of water

3/4 cup of sour cream

3/4 cup of shredded cheese

3/4 cup of salsa

crushed tortilla chips

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Prepare the shells and cheese as on box directions. brown the ground beef and drain well. add the seasoning mix and water to the ground beef and simmer for a few minutes. Stir the sour cream into the prepared shells and cheese. Put half of the shells and cheese into a oven safe cassarole dish , layer the meat mixture on top of this and half of the shredded cheese. Then place the rest of the shells and cheese on top of this. Cover and bake for about 15 minutes. Top with the salsa , shredded cheese and the crushed tortilla chips. bake uncovered a few more minutes. Serve.









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Garden Update

The beans, baby, corn , and tomatoes are doing great. Tons of tiny green cherry tomatoes that I just cannot wait to get to. Really surprised about the beans. Have tried growing them the last 3 years and this is the first year they have grown. Huge bushes, only bad thing about them is that they over run the Brussel spouts! :( Which I wanted so bad. I love Brussel spouts. Oh well. Next year will plant them some where else. By their selves. We are in a drought though, so I have been having to water them every evening. Thursday we are supposed to have heat index of about 120 degrees so they might have to be watered 2 times. The local weather man said that "it will be the hottest that most Hoosiers will have ever felt in their lives"! I grew up in Texas so I have felt hotter. But for Indiana this is super hot.

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Yellowstone Supervolcano

This is what I watched this morning. Kind of scary. How do you prepare for something like this? We live in Indiana and it would pretty much be messed up to by the ash cloud. Something like this would be the worst thing to happen to the world.

There is some information online about the supervolcanos. But, I really think that it is something that no one can really know how bad it will be. Most likely be worst than we could ever imagine and would affect the whole world. Keep track of the recent earthquakes in that area on USGS recent Quakes List. Looking at it now there have been a few in that area. My husband was out in that area a couple of weeks ago and they had shut down some of the park and roads because of rocks falling. Pretty scary stuff going on and something to keep an eye out for.



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An Organized Food Storage Pantry

There is nothing worse then trying to find something in a pantry and not being able to find what you need or because the Pantry is so disorganized you don't even know what you do have. You have got to have a plan and an ongoing shopping list so that your food storage is well-stocked and organized. In a pinch you will have what you need to make your family a great meal.

Know what you use the most of and what your family likes. Don't fill your pantry with foods that you do not use often. That is just a waste of space and money. For example: If your family doesn't like rice, then don't rush out and get a 50 pound bag of it.

Only buy in bulk the stuff that you use the most often. You do not want a lot of bulk items in your pantry that will not be used and end up going bad.

Stock up on canned items as often as you can. Canned tomatoes, beans, veggies, etc are a great thing to have a lot of on hand. They can spruce up a soup or any meal in a pinch. Especially when you do not have fresh items on hand. In an emergency you will have canned items on hand to be able to make great food.

Sometimes unwrapping items will make them fit better in your pantry and make room for more of that item. I have to do this a lot since I have such a small place to put food and paper items.

Keep your Pantry cool. Don't store long term food storage next to any appliance that might give off heat. This can greatly reduce the shelf life of your food storage.

Manage your pantry by keeping an ongoing inventory. I have a notebook right with my stockpile where I keep track of what is used and what is added. That way I know exactly what is needed. Also this helps remind me to rotate the food storage! The new goes into the back and older in the front so that it gets used first. No risk of wasting food with this set up. Saves us money and keeps up stocked up. Right now I am pretty confident that we have about 6 months worth of food storage. Slowly building up to a year. Now that I have a bit of extra money each week it will be built on a bit quicker.

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