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Preparedness POA&M: Midweek Ed. - 11NOV26 -> The Greatest Prep

Writer: Lee Grey
Lee Grey
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The Preparedness POA&M (plan of action & milestones) is a weekly column focusing on skills, self-sufficiency and taskers needed to shore up those areas that will allow us to be part of the solution. As hard times continue to unfold and resources become scarce, the prepared mind strives to take steps to mitigate those eventualities. In order to shepherd our cause, we must have a plan of action and continuously evaluate our progress via milestones as we consider the path onward.


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Lee's POA&M:


Evening, TBR Readers,


It's been a couple of really great weather weeks since my last POA&M. We are still in the high 60s and low 40s in our part of the O.N.T. They are forecasting a "winter" that never was for most of the country, and we are no exception. I'm still going to purchase 10–20 bags of ice melt in the coming days in order to be ready for that "winter that never was." Don't "contemplate" the thought; contemplate MURPHY (what can go wrong, will go wrong)!


I finished scraping and painting the south deck of the cabin this week (two coats) and readied our wood stores inside the cabin, next to the Buck Stove, and on the south deck for when we need them. I have one and a half downed trees still to cut, split, and stack; however, that should complete our wood preps for 2026.


I also filled 5 more 20 lb. propane tanks for our supplemental propane heater and for grilling... yes, grilling in the winter is magical! While we were at the local Ace Hardware, I saw a couple of really nice pallets sitting on the ground. I asked the young man who was helping us with the propane if, by chance, they were for sale. He radioed to his colleague and reported back, "Everything you see on this end is free of charge." It reminded me of what my dad, aka the Blue Duck, used to always say. He would say, "Bucko, it never hurts to ask. What's the worst thing they can say? No?" Lesson learned.


Please join me in a salute to the BLUE DUCK! I love and miss you, Dad.


In addition, I purchased 10 more square bales of straw for our ducks, chickens, one goat, and our good shepherd Hans (our German Shepherd).


The focus this week is: The Greatest Prep


The picture this week is in the driveway here on Rose Ridge. I was looking straight up through the tree canopy when I saw this amazing rainbow. Typically, rainbows run in an arc formation on the horizon; however, this one was in the middle of a mostly clear blue sky (all hail to the King of country music - George Strait) directly overhead. It reminded me that there is a Creator, and His name is Yeshua (Jesus), and one day He is coming back to put all things to right!


The Bible tells us in Genesis that,


"The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hands." — Psalm 19:1


And in Romans...


"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse." — Romans 1:20


Repent now, while you still have time.


Taskers for the Coming Week:

  • Complete my sit-ups, push-ups, and two-mile walk/run four times this week.

  • Clean out the chicken coop and winterize it for winter.

  • My forthcoming novel, A Mammoth Reckoning, is currently on hold. Stay tuned...

  • Study up on the main medicinal plants for the spring.

  • Read through and/or listen to the Book of Jude.


Folks, the 2026 midterms produced the largest nationwide Democratic popular-vote margin in a non-presidential election since I began following politics in 1996. Governor DeSantis said, "This is close to an extinction-level event for Republicans." This is NOT the time to lean into your "hopium" or post-mill thinking or that we can "turn it around" in the next election. Several radical Islamists were reelected or elected for the first time across the country... and certainly in this part of the O.N.T.


Time is rapidly growing short. Do the things...the things you can do. Leave the rest up to Yeshua.


Prepare Today | Prevail Tomorrow

Lee

Psalm 91


“Faith does not excuse a man from preparation.

It gives him the courage to prepare, the wisdom to act,

and the strength to endure whatever tomorrow brings.”

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Anonymous


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In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of

Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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       He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

       He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

       He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

       He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

       He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

       He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

       He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

       He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

       He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

       He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

       He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

       He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

       He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

       For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

       For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

       For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

       For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

       For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

       For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

       For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

       For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

       For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

       He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

       He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

       He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

       He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

       He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

 

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

 

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

 

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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