Pioneer Living Survival

Here is real simple way to install real solar lighting and avoid the cost and equipment of panels. 

I installed some in the Solar Bathhouse this weekend and it really made a difference.

Using only a empty coke bottle, all I did was wash it out...

It has been a while between posts on here so I thought it would be good to give an update on the Bathhouse to those who do not follow the Modern Day Redneck Blog over at blogspot.

The weather and work has kept me tied down for the past couple of months but finally there is now water in the bathhouse. The system is ready to go.

I have been really busy the last couple of weeks building a Solar Bath House.

When completed, the water will be pressured from the harvested rain water through a 12v on demand pump. It will then be heated in the batch water heater and delivered into the Bath House. 

Inside, the bathroom will have a home made composting toilet, sink and a bathtub/shower combo made from a horse trough. Light will be from solar lighting during the day and oil lamps at night.

Here are some...

This is my first blog.  Within the past ten years and especially the last five, there has been some exciting new research being conducted in the organic world.  The humus molecule (aka humic substances) is being analyzed down to the sub-atomic level.  The findings are rewriting the textbooks.  Questions and misconceptions are being addressed concerning how humus gets formed, how it gets into our soils, what it does, (new scientific papers galore about its many benefits) et...

With all the buzz on prepping for "IT", most if not all the prepping/survival blogs that deal with Bug out Bags I have read only talk about the main bag or bags that will support the whole family for the 72 hour duration. My question is, what about the kids?

Yes they will be covered under your main BOB when they are with you but in a worse case situation and they are at school, then what? We all think if something terrible happens tomorrow we will be able to jump in the car and go get ...

Right after hitting the Publish button for the FireFlies For the Soul post the other day on my blog at http://moderndayredneck.blogspot.com, my phone rang and I noticed it was the wife calling. I answered the phone the same way I always do, "Hey babe, whats up?"

What came next through the ear piece was mixture of tears, panic and total chaos. The first few sentences there was no way I cou...

I was twelve years old the first time I was exposed to the word Survivalist. It took a while to get it in my head what it actually meant, but after I fully understood it I knew I had to be one.

My dad had an old friend that came by every now and then and sometimes while they sat and talked I would ease-drop in their conversation.

The old man would sit and tell stories and talk of his dreams about being a mountain man and surviving in the wilds. He would t...

Sunday was going to be my day to do whatever I wanted but the wife had other plans. Right off the bat her honey do list was handed to me and this was on the #1 spot.

She said she needed a bigger incubator because all of ours are full and we are not meeting the chick demand...

I just completed the little Smoke House this weekend. I have been racking my brain for some time now on a design that would fit the Mini Farm. Most designs I have seen are simple wood or brick boxes with the fire box burried a small distance away from it. I decided to go with the water tower look.

It has been hot this summer here at the Mini Farm. So hot in fact, in spite of doing everything we could we still suffered some causalities. Four of our heavy breed Cochin chickens and one buck rabbit. I hate to loose any animal but with temperatures well over 100 degrees we could not run enough fans or deliver enough ice blocks to make a differen...

It has been a rough and rocky start with the mini farm, but progress has been made. This little piece of land was once a bare cotton field. Now it is becoming a little farm with all the animals to go with it. Since it is a small two acres, every spot has to have a meaning and a purpose. Everything I am growing or building can be used in two to three different ways and most of the time creating a circle back to it’s self so no waste is involved.

I finished ...

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This old barn sits by the road right in the middle of town. I have passed it a hundred times and always wondered about the sights it has seen and the stories it could tell.

  Many years ago I was on the way home from work one day and saw a feeble old man parked and standing by the road with a lost look on his face. I stopped and asked if he ...

Visualize this. The game is baseball. The batter is warmed up and ready. He steps into the batter box, first the left foot and then the right, grinding the toe of his shoe into the dirt to get the right grip. The pitcher is waiting, leaned slightly forward one hand tightly gripping the ball behind his back and staring straight ahead withextreme focus. The batter takes a couple of practice swings to find hisgrove then sets back ready for the pitch. He has studied this pitcher for many years an...