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TGIF! With the weekend coming up, we’ll be doing slightly more time-consuming challenges. ( But don’t worry, nothing that will take all day.)
If you missed the previous challenges, you can catch up here:
Today’s Challenge
It’s Friday night, time to kick back and put your feet up. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still do a prepping challenge!
Tonight, have a movie marathon. Look for a good survival movie or series and hang out with your family to watch. Take note of the silly mistakes the characters make and think about what you’d do differently. Use it as an entertaining thought exercise.
- Here’s a list of survival movies you might enjoy.
- Here’s a list of survival series to binge-watch.
- And if you prefer non-fiction, here are some survival reality shows to watch.
What are you going to watch?
What are you watching? Is it a movie you’ve seen before? Tell us about your movie night in the comments!
Here’s the post in the forum so you can win some prizes.
Not much of a TV watcher, but have watched “Day After Tomorrow” a couple of times, “Dantes Peak” -a long time ago, have “Divergent” on my recorder. Not into stuff like “The Walking Dead” or other “ghastly” movies right now tho’ guess I’d better be prepared for what’s to come.
Would much rather read books and need to print off the list of those mentioned.
Good list of shows. Most I don’t watch or can’t get here. I used to watch Mountain Men. I’ll have to admit I’m not real comfortable with a lot of them. Its because I ran for my life and hid in the hills living off the land for 10 months the year I was 21. I can identify with a grayman walking out of town to get to a safe place. It took me three days carrying my one change of clothing in a paper grocery bag. Once out of town I changed to nights walking the shoulder of the road and hid and slept in the day time. Water was easy but probably not the greatest. Food, just as winter was changing to spring was just early enough to be scarce. It took 3 days to get to my target place. I knew it from my preteen years running the hills. I stayed 10 months eating what I could find and figuring out how to share rabbits. I knew many wild edibles from Forraging with my Mom when I was little. Hunting was totally alien to my mostly vegetarian upbringing. My prized possession became an old can with a corn label on it. I drank tadpoles and pollywogs with it and cooked in it. I made a crude bow and arrow. To get the apples out of the top branches of an old gnarled apple tree. I survived. It colored most of my life ever after. I’m probably still food insecure. I’m always putting some up for later. I can and dry fresh foods and buy at caselot sales. “Saving for a rainy day”. I’ve had days and whole years that rained so hard in my life that I survived on those things. Then I start putting more back again. I didn’t know peppers did that when I started it was just how I was raised. You planned so you could eat by the cycles of old time farm life the way my parents were raised. You ate from harvest to harvest by planning ahead.
I may see if we can find something to watch. But I have two projects that will have my attention today. I recently bought an old treadle sewing machine. I want to get the belt back on it and check it out mechanically. Then decide how I want to repair a drawer with water damage. After that I’m taking my husband out for dinner. He has a favorite place. It’s his 82nd birthday today.
Tomorrow it’s back to work with friends who have built an 8′ x 8′ Deck and steps and are returning to build a 36 ft. wheelchair ramp in case we need it. We are already enjoying the porch and steps with a sturdy railing. I’d saved most of the wood from an old mobile home a friend and I tore down last year. I’d bought cement footers and 4x4s and some 2x4s. They brought plywood and we’ve been pulling 2x6x14s out of the pile of saved wood. Were using a mixture of my tools and their tools.
I bought a mandolin (vegetable slicer) recently. I may try it out slicing cucumbers for pickles this evening. I have enough for 3 or 4 pints. I found an interesting looking recepies in an old cookbook that I’m wanting to try.
I’ll be interested to ready more replys as you post more chalkenges.
I think I could contently sit and just listen to you tell me about your life.
Blessings to you and your hubby.
I don’t own a TV set. We do sometimes buy DVD’s but I normally buy used ones. Movie watching here is like two or three movies a year. We watch it on our computer. It is a several hour drive for me to go somewhere to buy a movie, so I usually order what I want through Amazon. So tonight will not be a movie night. I have seen some of the movies on the list, but most of them I have not.
Watched “How it Ends” on Netflix tonight. Couldn’t find 6 others on Netflix. Did watch the first 3 or 4 episodes of Jericho, that’s pretty good and will watch some more.
I have watched many of these fictional movies and series and found them to be unrealistic, Hollywood focusing on ratings and profit, not facts. I would suggest time would be better spent reading the William R. Fortschen series “One Second After,” “The Final Day” and “One Year After.”
The point, Cathy, is to do it as a family, and critique the movies. 🙂 That’s a lot harder to do with a book. But thanks for your input!
Family, hmmm. There’s only the 2 of us, and my hubs wants no part of prepping. No TV, don’t subscribe to Netflix. However, on the computer I watched a good part of a season of Townsend’s (18th century re-enactor supply with a marvelous You Tube channel) and also watch several homesteading channels. For north country folks there is a channel called My Self Reliance…Canadian building a homesite in northern Ontario by hand (chainsaw with Alaskan sawmill to cut your own boards is by hand, right?). Tries to eat off the land as much as possible.
Don’t forget the hungry gap if you are trying to grow all your own food. After planting, before harvest.
We recently watched American Blackout. Not totally realistic. Things will be much worse if the power grid goes down via EMP or cyber attack. Neverthless it was thought provoking. I truly hope more people wake up to the times in which we are living. Be sure you are prepared in not only the physical needs but spiritual needs as well. The Lord is our salvation. No one who is in Christ need worry over tomorrow. Be good stewards and obedient and He will lead the way.
I used to see several survival series, the one with the two guys (one who insisted on being barefoot!) ,the one with the Canadian guy who played the harmonica, and Bear Grylls. Saw naked and afraid a few times, but it seemed really staged.
For movies, I’ve seen War of the Worlds, The Towering Inferno, Jaws, and the Sharknado series. One of the best books is The Stand, and another is the Earth’s Children series by Jean Auel.
The only problem is that the characters always seem to find exactly what they need just in the nick of time – life doesn’t work that way.
My takeaway from any of these is that knowledge is paramount… materials may not be available or can be lost, damaged or stolen.
The only problem with any of these is that everyone
I really liked the first 2/3 of The Stand and consider it one of my favorite books. But toward the end, I didn’t really are for the supernatural part of the book.
Daisy. Are you aware that twice now your blog/email has been sent with the name Dagny instead of Daisy. I’m afraid to open it in case it’s hackers. Is this you?
Yes – it’s from our writer Dagny Taggert. 🙂 These are personal notes from us to all of you so I told her she should put her name on the emails she sends out.
Oooh great list. I have watched birdbox already – great eye opener to what could happen here in a revolution, and what particularly hit me is that I will have to put aside the feeling of “stealing” from a supermarket – as it will be survival. Now, onto Netflix it is for me.