I was talking with my wife this evening. I was telling her how much I love wearing military cloths at the house but I felt like it is not my “style”, like to me the impression people give that have not been in the military and wear military cloths in public is that they are…

BY THE WAY, THIS IS THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERERY CHOLLA CONSPIRACY BLOG POST! “Buy once, cry once” is a phrase I got from Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast (https://tspaz.com) and I have taken it to heart. If I am going to buy a thing, such as a tool, hose, even socks, I would rather…

I’ll post a picture of the little garden space I’m building for this winter. I have a 20×20 foot fenced in area in my back yard to keep the dogs out. Inside that area, on the east and west, I have mainly gourds growing. I also grew a wall of sorghum diagonally across the square,…

I sit here listening to Disturbed and thinking about what I am going to do with a new triangle of garden space I’m creating. In the middle of my backyard, I fenced in an area about 20×20 to keep the dogs out. I used two pieces of cattle panel that had been affixed to my…

Exposed soil in the desert is vulnerable. Here in the Sonoran Desert, if you go outside of the city and go for a hike, you will not see nearly as much bare earth as in developed areas. You certainly will see bare earth, as contrasted to somewhere like the Northwest where anywhere there is soil,…

I haven’t posted on the blog for quite a while. I have written a couple, but one in particular I have been doing research for it and siting sources so it has been taking a while to write. It is more of an article than a blog post but I will just post it here…