Camping – Choosing a GPS Receiver

August 25, 2010

Garmin is the market leader in Global Positioning System receivers, but they’re not the only manufacturer. Magellan, Lowrance and others make good units, too. With so many manufacturers and models to choose from what should you look for? Naturally, the answer depends on what you intend to do with it.

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Traveling Light

August 23, 2010

Like Starbucks, I remember the day when Rick Steves was strictly a local phenomenon in the Seattle area. He was giving travel slide shows through the Experimental College at the University of Washington around 1985. My wife (whom I was dating at the time) and I attended one of his shows and we immediately knew [...]

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Vegetable Gardening – Planning and Planting for Fall and Winter

August 22, 2010

Like Chauncey Gardiner, most of us think of planting in the Spring and harvesting in the Fall. And, for the majority of crops, that’s right. But species vary, climates vary and indoor container gardening often can be carried out year ’round. In some cases, it’s actually very helpful for next year’s crop to plant in [...]

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Sunforce 50012 1.8-Watt Solar Battery Maintainer Demonstration

August 22, 2010

This fellow got one heck of a deal from Newegg on the Sunforce 1.8-Watt Solar Battery Maintainer. Over 2 years ago I purchased a supposed solar battery maintainer from Silicon Solar out of NY that cost twice as much, it did not include shipping, and even though it said it included a blocking diode, it [...]

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Bringing Daylight Indoors

August 18, 2010

One of the things I’ve always shaken my head at was the design of homes that in effect, hide from the sun. And as a result, measures to compensate for this designed darkness are taken such as electric lamps connected to a grid or in an earlier day, gas, kerosene and candle wax. Wouldn’t a [...]

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Home Security – Safes

August 15, 2010

Many valuable items kept in your home are small enough to conveniently place in a safe. Though it’s less common to store documents there, now that computers have taken over the job, you may have a hand-signed will or old family photos you want to protect. If you have antique or rare stamps, manuscripts, baseball [...]

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Solar Power – Home Storage Systems

August 8, 2010

The standard solar power system used to provide electricity today consists chiefly of two components: PV (photovoltaic) panels and a storage system. The PV (photovoltaic) panels generate the electricity. A storage system stores any excess for later use when there isn’t enough sunlight to power all your needs. Batteries That storage system is usually in [...]

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Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham in Jakarta

August 1, 2010

A short video uploaded by MaxKeiserTV. An inspiring video of individuals taking responsibility for their freedom. From the video: “But why do we relinquish our freedom? Why do we allow others to run our lives like that? To me the dinar and the dirham represent the moral movement of absolute individual freedom.” A simple act [...]

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Hydroponics – Hydroponic Gardening Kits

July 28, 2010

Complete hydroponic kits are available that range in price everywhere from a few dozen dollars to a few thousand. At the lowest end of the scale some kits offer little more than someone could make for themselves by gathering common household items. But they do implicitly package a little knowledge needed to get started. By [...]

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Water-Related Websites: 5 out of 10 survived

July 21, 2010

The combination of my anticipation of a severe earthquake occurring soon in an area that millions forget is a California DESERT has inspired me to bring forward a few links I established at the old FH site from 2005 and before. The magic will end when the earth shakes enough to end the illusion of [...]

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Home Security – Safe Rooms

July 16, 2010

A panic room, or as professionals call them, a safe room is very much what the name suggests. The concept is simple: build or select a room within the home that is impervious to intruders. The release of the popular Jodie Foster film, Panic Room, a few years ago brought the idea of a safe [...]

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Maho Bay Camps

July 14, 2010

Maho Bay Camps on St. John in the US Virgin Islands opened in 1976 when the term “ecotourism” didn’t even exist. With tent-cottages on wooden platforms and a path to a white sand beach there is peace and seclusion. Hurricanes? They pull down the tents and after the severe weather bring out the lumber and [...]

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Camping – Stoves and Fires, Convenient Cooking and Essential Heat

July 14, 2010

Not having every comfort of home is part of the camping experience – and a very pleasurable part, as you test your hardiness while enjoying the outdoors. But even “primitive” man had fire, both for cooking and for providing needed heat on those chilly nights. Some campsites don’t allow fires in pits, some don’t allow [...]

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