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Greetings, people of Steemit! Welcome to my blog! This is a follow up to my previous post about my community garden plot. Because I didn't have enough plastic to cover up all of the grass that I need to

Greetings, people of Steemit! Welcome to my blog! Earlier in the year, I decided to rent some space at the local community garden to grow some food this year. I ended up renting 2 plots that are next to

Greetings, people of Steemit! Welcome to my blog! I've been seeing these stories in the news for the last couple of days, that the Atlantic Ocean currents have been slowing down. According to 1 study,

Greetings, people of steemit! Welcome to my blog! We went to a local gun show yesterday afternoon, Friday, it's always interesting to see what's on the tables at a gun show. There's always a lot of different

Greetings, people of Steemit! Welcome to my page! Today's post is about my Tokorev TT-33 Soviet military pistol. I've had this pistol since 1974, it was the first handgun I ever bought. I believe it probably

Greetings, people of steemit! Welcome to my page! Today's post is about my 1862 Colt pocket police revolver. This a reproduction of the original revolver model that was made in the 1860s. These revolvers

Greetings, people of steemit! Today's post is about some of the food storage methods that I use. I store dry foods and canned foods for times of need. It might be as simple as a financial shortage, or

Hello, people of Steemit! Welcome to my page. This post is about my Webley & Scott Mk 4 British service pistol. These revolvers were produced from after World War 1 to after World War 2. This was the

Hello, people of steem, and welcome to my page. There's a news story that came out today about how the lakes that form in the summer on Greenland's ice sheet are helping to speed up the loss of ice from

Hello, people of steemit! Welcome to my page. Well, some interesting things in the news today. President Trump fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson today, and intends to replace him with current

Hello, people of steemit, and welcome to my page. Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of the massive 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan that caused a major tsunami that killed approximately 18,000 people

Hello, people of steemit, welcome to my page. For today's post, I'd like to tell you about my antique revolver, the H&R "The American" double action revolver, chanbered for the .38 Smith

Hello, steemit people! Welcome to my page! I should start this post by saying that I'm not an expert on cryptocurrency, just an observer with a few thoughts. As most of you know, cryptocurrency is a volatile

Hello to all of you steemit people! This post is about my 1871 Richards-Mason Colt cartridge conversion revolver as reproduced by A. Uberti, one of the most well known names in reproduction firearms from

Welcome to my page, people of steemit! I ran across a news article today about the highly unusual warm temperatures that have been recorded in the Arctic over the past several days. Apparently, at one

Hello to all of you out in the big steemit world! I haven't written a post in a couple of months, life gets in the way of these things sometimes. I'm finally getting back to writing on steemit again, and

Hello, and welcome to my blog! The question is, why buy silver? I think there are several good reasons to buy silver. The first reason, for me, is that silver is a good store of value. The price of silver

Hello, people of steemit! I wanted to show you a couple of the ways that I store dry foods. This probably isn't anything new for some of you, but perhaps someone who sees these pictures will get a few

It's that time of year now, gun show season! There is an annual gun show not too far from where I live that happens every year in the first half of September. I always go to this show even if I'm not looking

Hello, my name is Amos, and I am what a lot of people call a prepper. I sometimes call myself that also, because the definition does fit to some extent. Some people who don't understand the need to be