When life hands you pig guts...

Did 'ya hear about the poor butcher who backed into a meat grinder and got a little behind in his work? The daily grind can be so unkind. When life hands you pig guts, make sausage! This Week's Sponsor: The Prepper Shaker: What's YOUR Vision for the Future? This is indeed a world of uncertainty. You don’t know what lies ahead of you––not an hour, nor a day, nor especially what’s coming at you just over the horizon. It's time to catch the vision... Read full article here. From the Funny Farm: Technology for Preppers Upload: Food storage in attic. Download: Food storage in basement. Website: Where the spiders in your survival gear hang out. Web Bots: Dead things the spiders eat. Debug: What you do to the spiders. Laptop: Place where the kitty sleeps. Keyboard: Where you hang the truck keys. Mouse: What gets into your 50lb bags of grain. Mouse Pad: Where the mouse lives, silly! Prep Talk: School for Life 'Ya know what? It really DOES matter where you go to get an education. Take the easy way out now and you'll pay for it the rest of your life. As a junior in high school in the 1960's I had the choice of attending my local high school in suburban Detroit or attending another school in downtown Detroit that offered a much higher quality of education. To get to the downtown school I would be travelling 45 minutes each way by city bus through some of the toughest neighborhoods in urban America. To make matters worse, this was a huge school: 8 stories high, occupying a full city block, with an enrollment of almost 5,000 students of every race, culture, religion, and ethnic group imaginable. Yikes! If I had stayed at my neighborhood high school I would probably have graduated at or near the top of my class. But I chose the other school and graduated 68th in a class of 787. Education for me meant much more than just getting good grades. My two years at Detroit's "Cass Tech" (as the school was affectionately called) taught me to face challenges head-on instead of running from them. I also learned that people from vastly different backgrounds and cultures really can (if they want to) find a way to get along and work together toward common goals. I may not have learned these valuable life lessons in time to do something constructive with them if I had taken the easy way out with my education. Will you or one of your children soon be making a big decision about education? Please think about the consequences 40 years from now and choose wisely. Live to learn ... so you can learn to live. Best Regards, Sharon Iezzi Your Hoppy-Go-Lucky Editor Parting Shot: What's the difference between Recession and Depression? Recession - when your neighbor loses his job. Depression - when you lose your job. Remember: When life hands you pig guts, make sausage! * * * * * The Prepper-Upper is published weekly by James Talmage Stevens, Publisher Author of Making the Best of Basics: the all-new and updated 11th edition. Editor: Sharon Iezzi Subscribe to The Prepper-Upper by Email * * * * * If you find this information valuable, please pass it on to a friend. Your comments are always welcome! © 2009 All Rights Reserved Worldwide. You may NOT copy and distribute any portion of this blog for commercial purposes without written permission. Mail requests to: ready2prepare @ gmail.com