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Do not foresee a moment, a battling; foresee two years and more, a
warring.  Pitchfork

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This week’s musings and next week’s again depart from the norm of contemplating the Promise, the pernicious, and the pissant.  This week and next, ‘Fork’s continues showing you his in-process survival stuff that he’s figuring to collect, pack, and take with him and The Missus come hell or high water.

This week was supposed to be about all the survival stuff 'Fork's been thinking about and beginning to get and the following week was supposed to be about survival references.  'Fork's swapped 'em - this week is about the reference and labeled '3'; next week will be about the non-first aid stuff and labeled '2'.  To much to develop '2' to reasonable state of doneness.

The publishing plan that just got scrapped was to include this work elsewhere on this site than the 'fork's blog.  The more he read and learned and asked and got told about survival first aid, tools, clothing, etc., the more interesting his work got to be -

• Some of the items and comments here under are one or two of a kind when it comes to survival gear and are not easily come-by
   

• Respectful, raw, and honest address of this subject of survival references gets to be a long and winding road - not this and that scooped up, shoved in a small bag, and hit the trail
   

• The ‘fork freely admits to errors of commission and omission

  • Particularly this list of references have plenty more than itemized

  • 'Fork's opinion is that at least the list of references is suggestive of the breadth of the subject matter

  • 'Fork's opinion is that at best these references are better, in some cases much better, than most competitors

  • There'll be additions to this list in time, notably to include websites of survival interest
     

• This is his list that he collected from bits and pieces of others and modified to suit him (and her)

  • Your list might well start with this one, and then get turned in your own direction of want and need, e.g. –  

    • You might want to include you favorite pippies or jammies [‘fork has neither . . . anymore]

    • You might need to include attention to specific medical moments of another or others

• While this assortment of stuff started as a three-day gig, that time frame didn’t appear as reasonable to the ‘fork as something longer

  • Particular to ‘fork and The Missus, their survival plans begin by staying-put and, if fit to be overwhelmed, may continue with a brief trip yonder by invitation already made to a more defensible position and territory

    • Hiking is not at the forefront of traveling mechanics for ‘fork (call hiking it Plan C and not yet closely considered of itself, Plan A being homebound and Plan B being that drive yonder) – pity his going-on a half-century of knees damaged well . . . so the weight of stuff to go in a rush is no big deal to the old truck or car or both that’ll get them yonder

    • If hiking is it, there’d be plenty from which to pick and choose . . . yep, backpacks will be considered upfront
       

• There’s an intention herewith not to be a total burden on others who’d take us in with Plan B
   

• There are references here and there to a studied course of development unlike some survival references – ‘Fork and The Missus are not going anywhere exotic or fearsome – no plane [untoward event], no ice flow, no jungle junket – their survival environs are within miles all around ‘em now
   

• Their homebound and elsewhere survival needs may be in any season(s) of the year   
   

• ‘Fork and The Missus are not keen on standing out in a crowd or getting ‘saved’ by being found