Also, I have a few solar panels, and also quite a few "rechargeable" batteries with charger packs, so that I can have batteries for a while. Maybe 2yrs after the lights go out.

One of the good lessons is to decide how you plan to survive, and which extreme cases will have you not bothering. For example, if we lose the power grids, every nuclear reactor will start spewing radiation after some time. That's a bridge too far for me.
Some people draw the line at cannibalism. Each person has to draw their own lines. And they will have to figure out how they intend to handle the NPC/Zombie neighbors who will be utterly lost and likely not survive the first 90 days of extreme hardships.

Get out while the property values and the water last.
I will never leave the snow belt. It takes a lot of effort to live outside large metro areas. Those seeking freebies are scrutinized more closely and easy to $&$%$ .... if you understand ambiguous code.

One of the things I TRULY Recommend...
Learn to generate PDF Files from websites that have useful topics. Save them.

Load them directly onto Kindle devices. I have like 5 kindles. One of them has over 1,000 PDF files on it, and I often replicate those to a thumb drive.

This includes things like how to make soil, bleach, soap, candles, tallow. I also have a variety of 5V systems to use to charge these, and can charge them from solar. As well as USB type battery packs. So, you can charge with solar during the day, and read after the sun goes down, and when the devices battery gives out, you can use the USB battery feature.

A Few of these would be nice for a community. One can be used to teach from.

I do NOT have a good solution for YouTube videos other than downloading them, and playing them, but that requires a PC and real storage.
Personally, I would clone Kahn Academy to teach math/calc/physics.

YMMV...

When the left completely pulls the plug on our lifestyle with its RESET, I hope they arent able to get rid of this forum and YouTube. I learn so much from these (probably more than I ever learned from schools).

good to hear you are happy. I live in Las Vegas and am totally tired of this place, with all the entitlement and phony bahavior here. Soon we will be swamped with illegal aliens with no skills but a desire to get the goodies the leftists want me to pay for. Its time to move I think.

Dang. Your visuals are quite attractive -- and marketing is a good angle on bringing in revenue.

Bob Ferguson, AG in Washington State (my former place of residence for 30 years) is pushing for the Ministry of Truth. That got shot down at the national level, but it is being drafted for state-wise implementation. Quietly disappearing BF, Molon Labe style, would be a nice simple place to start the cockroach clean up process.

As for the guillotine, I would make a road trip to enjoy the proceedings in person.

I have been saying for many years that it seems like they are blindly following an "instruction manual"

Perhaps it's titled: "TO SERVE MAN" and they haven't figured out that it's a recipe book ?

I wasn't thinking about mess, I was thinking about marketability.
Put the executions on Pay Per View, and watch the national debt evaporate overnight.

It also serves as a warning to future demagogues.

"To obliterate, to punish, and to discourage others." - Smiley's People
(wish I knew how to say that quote in Latin. I bet it sounds much more impressive.)

Thank you for articulating my thoughts.
I live next to Tombstone Arizona -- they have a working gallows. A good strong rope has a low cost per unit use and there's very little mess.

Two in our group, couple, one 35 years allopathic pharmacist, other 35 years homeopathic pharmacist, have the medium freeze dryer. I'm thinking on buying a large ..... I can contract service and do my own. Independence leads to respected interdependence ... Capitalism.
Your friends, from the sound of the mid-western lilt voice pattern, are either raised near me or still living within 500 miles. Region of WI, MN, IA, MO, IL and MI have distinct "as seen on tv" patterns.

I too have noticed all kinds of mold on the trees I've cut and split. White mold as well.
Wonder if that is what has caused a lot of flem in my throat lately with no other symptoms.

Good input Commander. Have tried that, works well, plus freezed yokes ( https://youtu.be/o4Cvzz8zLRE).
Ultimate (for super long time storage is this, freeze drying)
https://youtu.be/UBcxzEScGJQ.
This couple are friends of mine, they do a decent job of training how to “go Galt”.
Regardless, it’s always prudent to make yourself less dependant from the slavers.

https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/wate...

This is almost identical to what I do. I have 8-1/2 dozen water glassed right now. It is a slower production time so I am now into this supply. They have been at room temp for 8 months.
https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/wate...
Used distilled water. Don't trust evap of chlorine or fluorine. Don't use containers of more than 5 quart. Inspect every egg for potential cracks ... one broken will ruin the batch. Once the solution is mixed and eggs are resting in their container, pour the solution onto the eggs keeping the sediments stirred up.
Happy glassing!

An additional update for your ponds/fish. The following was from Mercola this morning.
PFAS: polyfluoroalkyl substances in North American fisheries. Your beloved will know.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...

I found I have a special talent for pruning fruit trees. I trade my insight/service for eggs, pork, beef. I help with the raising, through processing, of the meat birds for "portion".
Within consortium we are growing heritage grains and milling
I'm testing diesel/kerosene mix with veg oil filtered to 1um for my truck and a couple tractors. Missing is a 10 to 20hp wood boiler to turn a 3 phase generator ... have the raw materials but thinking a purchase may be of better value.
And for the past 3 years I get to consume unpasteurized products. My guts have settled down quite a bit. First 9 years of life I was raised like this.
Like you, we have quite a few urban migrants. Considering buying longer bill caps to hide our eyes when we have to drop our heads and look sidelong at each other in wonder/disbelief.

I watched this Tucker Carlson broadcast and came up with a conspiracy theory regarding these events. So, here goes: first, you have CCP buying up significant farmland across the country. second, Food processing plants are clandestinely burned to the ground. Third. millions of chickens are destroyed because of the bird flu (shades of Wuhan). Fourth, chicken feed is tampered with to prevent hens from laying eggs. I see the CCP is responsible for all of it. China will control our agriculture and the federal government is in bed with the CCP and will not stop it.

And I am having a much better time that I moved from Minneapolis 3 years ago. It has taken this much to establish sustainable food production and association with folks who have commodity to trade for my excess. This is like being 3 years old again ... the rate of learning. Despite the pressures, I find real Joy in the activity.

The greatest blessing: The youngsters call me or stop by. My babies didn't make it. I'm being adopted when I thought all hope lost.

What if there is a mechanism to induce fungal meningitis? I'd not put anything outside the desperate actions of the cabal.

Yes, many places wash with bleach, and that breaks the natural seal of the egg. Once done, you cannot safely store it in water.
But many farm houses would store it in a container with water (and I think SALT), for up to a year! FWIW any egg that floats to the top gets thrown away. Only bad eggs float to the top!
But don't quote me. I am ignorant like most city dwellers...

Take a look at the cost of labor in china. The chinese workers are a lot more industrious, and less entitled than American workers at their $15 per hour pay. Americas need to wake up or USA will crash.

Every day is a new day

$4 a dozen is CHEAP. walmart eggs are more like $7 a dozen here in Las Vegas
I think in the future, we will have to buy from local farmers and ranchers- no choice.

hiding in plain sight is the watchword for the future. To be truly independent is very very difficult as we get older. We would have to endure a much lower standard of living. Raising crops is NOT easy, and attending to chickens, etc. isnt any easier.

to destroy a capitalistic society, make its currency worthless (which the left is doing) and then take away their food and energy and you got em cold.