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Check out http://www.pioneerliving.net/top10survivalmyths.htm for a taste of the online magazine:  http://www.pioneerliving.net/

It has a list of ten survival tips usually thought to be myths, yet in reality are true. Using an ice lens to create a fire, whether to chose high or low ground for shelter building, or wearing shoes when crossing a stream are all part of the list.

http://www.survivalcampingstore.com/How-To-Signal-For-Help_b_12.html was an internal link found in this article, talking about the various, albiet obvious ways to signal for help. They did go into more detail in discussing the various options, like making a triangular fire formation, signaling with a flash light 3 times, then waiting 10 seconds and signaling again. Of course, Dual Survivalists have taught us that both color and motion are important for getting attention.

There are a lot of links on this site to good reading, both for the survivalists in nature and the survivalist post grid down.

I always figure if you can make it in the wilderness, you can make it in a natural catastrophe, if the human population doesn't kill you first.

I find many people lump these two ideas together, the survivalist being one who anticipates and end of the world as we know it.

I am a female survivalist who loves just getting out in the wilderness to challenge myself, much like you see on the Dual Survival Series, or Survivor Man with Less Stroud. These dudes are real, nothing faux about it.
The Man Woman Wild series is interesting too. I love how real she is, puking her guts out after her husband encouraged her to drink his pee in the desert. I love my guy. I'd never drink his pee.

Getting out on natural adventures, living out of a minimalist backpack for weeks, a person knows they'd be able to fend for themselves should the Grid actually collapse for any length of time.

A young female cougar was sighted near the Boise River. She was seen feeding on a deer carcas. I went down to a local junction to check out the river. A sign was posted, yet it allowed entrance if you just followed a few rules. No problem.

This essay was sent to me by Imogen. I read it with great interest, and believe you will find it worth while.

Every night I read the Idaho Statesman. I love turning the newsprint, an old fashioned way perhaps of catching up on world news, local news, sports, ads. As the summer approaches, so many activities are available for the outdoors person. I definitely will be getting a road bike with long distance bike trips in mind. Hey, Flo! Come on out here and join me!

I'm not seeing many actual jobs listed in this great newspaper, but that's ok, cause I got a plan.

I've learned over the course of time when things look overwhelming, you just gotta break it into small pieces.

Like, looking for a new job.

First, I'm getting the resume in order, and making sure the e-mail addresses of my references and phone numbers are up to date.

Then, I'll ask someone to proof read that, making sure the cover sheet is concise, yet speaks to the potential employer. A lot of times this resume can and should be done as a word document, able to be sent via attachment, or down loaded to the online application site.

We live in a very modern world.

Next, I'll start applying to the jobs you want, online. I'm finding many websites have such opportunities. Taking my time to do a great job, not trying to do too many on any given day, gives me a chance to enjoy a cup of coffee now and the fresh air later.

I'm well on the way to a full recovery from the recent surgery I  went through.

Ok, back to the job hunt prospect.

I plan to follow up with a phone call to the employer, the HR department, at an appropriate interval.

By breaking this pending task into segments,  the entire thing gets done.


Of course, this is real world stuff. I miss the woods and mountain jaunts, playing freely by the crazy bubbling streams hunting gold. But I'm an optimist, and I Shall Return to my play soon!

Shout out to my dear friend, Matt, who has learned to e-mail. I look forward to his daily musings, and chuckle at past references to Saffron robes and such.

We worked together in Yellowstone a couple years back. Both of us cooks, we had lots of common ground. I do miss it.

Part of the deal with e-mails is the necessity of remembering all words can be read a couple different ways, like tone of voice.

How many times have you ever told your friend, "You're Brilliant!"

That could sound so many different ways in real life. Practice saying it out loud. It could leave a person feeling stupid, smart, or confused.
I try to be careful writing an e-mail. My friend seems to have a knack for it. I'm so glad, cause a person can go back and enjoy the same message a couple times over.

The choice of words, tone of voice, and punctuation of electronic communications is something to consider before hitting the send. I've made those oopseys before, and try harder to take the moments necessary to think, if I send this message to my mom, might she think I'm complaining? Humm

Love reading all your comments, readers. Please keep following these survivalist posts as we work our way through the life changes brought on by my lastest adventures. Looks like I'll be living near a bigger town, working full time in Food and Beverage, grabbing Sawtooth wilderness escapades, fishing in the Samon River as needed.

There's five chickens running loose in the yard, five young Angus being raised next door, a great breeze turning my bouquets into dried flowers. One thing about Idaho, its windy and dry.

I just received this e-mail and thought it very worthy of an indepth answer, having learned much. If you would like to read and see more photos of the wood stove project, please enter it in the search tool to the right of the blog.

I am sorry for the lengthy intervals between postings here at the female survivalist. Presently I am going through one of the hardest battles of my life. The many doctors can't seem to find out what is wrong, why my body seems to have deserted me.

I have learned so much going through this painful process, among them that a person without health insurance will lose everything they have worked for, saved and scrimped their entire lives just to make it to retirement.

Medicaid or medicare, (I get them mixed up),  for adults requires total poverty. Anyone my age, having worked hard all their lives and has lived a minimalist lifestyle, is usually not poor enough to qualify. Then, insurance premiums are sky high, especially for those of us who work in the Food and Beverage industry.

Why am I writing this post now? Just a heads up to all of you without any health insurance in place. My oldest daughter has proven to be my angel, my other children as well, offering all kinds of assistance if I simply call.

Its so strange to be in this kind of situation having been healthy as a horse all my life, installing wood stoves myself, panning for gold, doing crazy bushwhacks, hiking thousands of miles alone, living out of a back pack, enjoying adventures of the wilderness kind. When I get well, I will be working in Yellowstone.

Stuff happens. No one is immune. My arsenal of pain killers, all lined up neatly, sits on the desk in my rented motel room, with a dosing chart. We learn to live one day at a time. That's a great lesson too.

OK, so the good news. We never give up hope. The body wants to be well. It wants so bad to get back to work, to play and to be of service to others. I am living in Livingston, Montana under the care of some skilled physicians. They say they will solve this, and I will be well again.

If you could send good thoughts my way, pray, whatever strings you can pull or contact God, please do so. Some have suggested I offended God in some way and hence I suffer so He can get my attention. I'm listening. I repent here and now for any offense. I don't know or understand the Powers that Be. I don't think we poor little mortals can understand the being that created universes so magnificent, yet designed the tiny amoeba.

At this point I am willing to do anything.