The blog hit two milestones this month—over a million hits
and 1500 articles. I certainly never
imagined either ever happening. Of
course, that’s nowhere near the audience other bloggers and Youtubers enjoy,
and that’s ok. Though I really want the
info I share to be spread more widely so that we can all be better prepared to
weather the coming storms, I am content knowing this is what my Heavenly Father
wants me to do. We both know I would
have stroked out at the mere idea of doing videos. (Make-up, hair, cleaning the house to perfection
every day? Shoot me now.) There are those people who learn best from
the written word and appreciate being able to print a hard copy for future
reference. Without all the pictures of
boiling water and rising bread.
I check the numbers that Blogger provides on the statistics
page several times each week. Of course,
most of the hits come from the English-speaking world and through links from
prepping websites and blogs. One reader
informed me that s/he read that the articles here were being translated into
Polish. And over 15,000 views from
Sweden suggest to me that there is a small group of people there who appreciate
this information, even if I don’t provide metric equivalents.
As with last year, I had to repeat a lot of articles due to
time constraints. Many medical articles
were repeats, but not all. And as I
re-ran those articles, I was also reminded of what I had previously learned and
need to retain better in the memory banks for future reference. More articles dealt with gardening and
methods for improving the harvest in adverse conditions.
Food articles, many of which didn’t make the Top Ten list,
centered a lot more on making basics from scratch and using substitutions. Eggless Mayonnaise was one of my favorites,
not for the cost savings, but simply from the standpoint of being able to make
mayonnaise when the hens aren’t laying and store-bought eggs are running close
to 50 cents each.
The nationwide shortage of amoxicillin is probably why that
article was popular, and the Master Medical Shopping List continues to be the
most popular article posted over the last four years. Four Ways to Maximize the Shelf Life of
Cooking Oils must have been linked from a popular blog somewhere, as I wrote it
three years ago and it became the most popular food-related post of this
year.
So below are the top ten most popular articles that your fellow preppers who
read this blog found most interesting.
If you haven’t read them yet, go ahead and check them out. And
share them, if you are so blessed to have like-minded friends and family.
The more we all prepare, the better off we’ll be.
The changes we’ve seen in 2022 are greater than I could have
imagined at the beginning of the year, and at this rate we’ll see far more
interesting things in 2023. The fabric
of our society continues to weaken as if being devoured by moths. Everywhere I hear of increasing rudeness and
disrespect. We’re being invaded and our
electrical grid is constantly being hacked.
I didn’t think we’d make it through 2022 without becoming embroiled in
another war (one that affects us in the US in a very real way), and yet here we
are.
Maybe we’ll get lucky again and have another year to learn and
prepare. But it’s best not to hold our
collective breath on this.
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