Jessica was accepted into the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) Youth Preparedness Council (YPC) in July 2021 after applying for it. The requirements were fairly high so getting accepted is an accomplishment in itself. The Youth Preparedness Council (YPC) was created in 2012 to bring together youth leaders interested...

Making Blackberry Jelly is very easy to do provided that you have access to the blackberries. We are very blessed to have a huge abundance of berries around our house so that is not a problem for us. Picking Blackberries is a little more difficult as the thorny vines...

So, what do you buy your wife for her birthday when she likes living a simple life without all the newest and fanciest stuff? The answer is very simple, a new gun that she does not have. That is exactly what I decided to do for her birthday this...

Salmon have been traditionally cooked using this method from time immemorial so we felt this was important to pass along to our children. We are enrolled Quinault Indians (FYI, if someone claims to be Indian but does not have either an enrollment card or CIB then they are not...

We also enjoy learning about local history during our travels so we will stop at various historical places along the route if they are not too crowded. We like history, not crowds. One stop was at Fort Clatsop outside of Astoria Oregon. Fort Clatsop is a recreated fort that...

If you haven’t had homemade apple cider or apple juice yet you have definitely been missing out on some of life’s simple pleasures. While store bought commercial versions do taste good, they really do pale in comparison to any small batches of homemade or even some small-scale production private...

Our old dining room table had become very rickety and worn out so we decided to replace it before it fell apart at a dinner so we decided to build our own and customize it to our liking. I have years of woodworking knowledge along with years of general...

We have to have a one week or more hunting camp almost every year to help fill the freezer and just to get away too. Our hunting camps have varied widely in size over the years depending on where we go and how many of our friends join us....

Many people think that riding quads and UTVs is just a good weather pastime, which is fine if you are a warm-blooded person. The rest of us like riding whenever we get the opportunity so we will keep riding as long as there the snow isn’t deep enough to...

Early spring and late fall are some of our favorite times of the year to go camping to truly get away from all but the most diehard outdoor enthusiast type of people. The latter doesn’t matter too much anyway because they won’t be camping near other people to begin...