Finally! The book is finished.

After much work and a steep learning curve, I have managed to finish off the book, put it into a .pdf format and add images. Any spelling mistakes or typos still in there will have to wait for the next edit of the book. I am too busy converting all my other books and booklets over to the same format and get them on the site for sale too.

Here is the site information you have been waiting for.
www.MJK-Private-Income.com , that is the site to order from. I have Paypal as my shopping cart and transaction handler. I will be putting my books on my website on ebay as well. A simple click on a button will take you to paypal and they will take care of everything else. I will have a distinct button for each book or booklet I put on.

"What Money Can't Buy" only $10 Canadian funds

"You can make bee's wax candles, firestarters and hobostove fuel cells" only $5.

Tell me how you like them and leave a comment here on this blog. If you have any suggestions for new material for me to research and write about or if you need a specific subject researched , I can be hired to do that as well.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com),www.mikesworms.com and www.onthespotmassage.biz

Can I survive Christmas?
This is the time of year where you are trying to gather your thoughts about what you have done this year and what you left undone and what you need to work on in the coming year. That would be fine and dandy if you did not have to make so many family arrangements. My Girlfriend has her grown kids (and girlfriends) and her ex and maybe her other family over for Christmas morning. Friends with little ones may or may not drop in if the friend's ex gets the kids or not. I have to make time to see my family the next day and see my kids and extended family and make a few dozen calls and emails to all concerned. That covers just the 25th and 26th.
We have already attended a couple of Christmas parties,missed one and have a few more to go to. I have not got all my presents wrapped or made or bought. In between all this I have to see the doctor and get some scans done,pick up my laptop(YEH!) from the shop and find time to do my online work as well as shovel snow for myself, my neighbour and my girlfriend(then anyone else willing to pay me). I have 2 computers I have to work on, a massage or two to exchange with another therapist and still have time to relax. Toss an upcoming election in the mix!


Here is my list of things I need to survive the holidays.

Patience
a few extra bucks
a few extra hours to work
a few extra hours to sleep
a few classic movies on tap
hot apple cider and hot chocolate
my thermal underwear
good sturdy boots and a warm coat .

What's your list?


Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises , Mikes Worms and On THe Spot Massage

XBOX 360, VoIP and Hemp
What do these have in common?
All three are new technologies, all are offering a way of expanding your mind and all three can be expensive.

Wait a minute. Hemp??? A new technology? Well yes and no. Hemp has been around as long or longer than farming and there is a bit of cloth made from hemp that is 8000 years old, so there is nothing new there. What is new is our ability to grow enough hempseed to get enough oil to be made into gasoline and alcohol made from the rest of the plant to replace fossil(dirty oil) fuel.

Climate changes, asthma, endangered wildlife, urban sprawl,soil depletion, ozone depletion,diabetes,obese children,obese adults,heart attacks and a whole host of other ills can be traced back to using cheap fossil fuel to run cars. More cars means more roads, more roads mean wider spacing of people, wider spacing of people means more cars. The loop is closed. The entire loop is run on cheap, but dirty oil. Now that we know it will not last forever we are panicking ( just look at the latest spike in gas prices). Our survival depends on breaking the loop and making it more accountable and sustainable. We can continue to drive vehicles, but if I had my way , they would all be radically changed.
First off, the fuel would be renewable and not quite as cheap, the vehicles would be smaller, light-weight and made from hemp. They would be strong and impact resistant and safe. Next I would incorporate fuel and solar hybrid motors to run them and they would be closer to enclosed motorcycles than the cars we have today If they ran out of gas the could be pedaled to next station. Think of an enclosed 4 wheeled bike with a gas/alcohol/solar motor assist and the body made out of fibregrass instead of fibreglass. The wheels would have to be made stronger than a regular bike to handle the highway and still be durable enough to carry 4 adults and luggage as well as the body and motor and still not weigh alot. Hitch-hiking would be encouraged because laws would be beefed up to allow only vehicles with 2 or more people on the highway. In-city travel could be allowed only for electric vehicles, hence the need for a multi-fuel motor. That would encourage walking, mass transit and cycling (in all it forms)in the large urban centres.
The result would be cleaner air and healthier people (not to mention quieter cities).

Here is the list of things need to pull this off.
1)Laws changed to allow for unlimited hemp production.
2)Laws changed for cities and highway users.
3)A good working vehicle as described and the facilities to produce it.
4)Facilities to process the hemp.
5)Most importantly- the political will to do it.

It is no longer a matter of can we do it, but, will we do it.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

Busy!!!

I have been so busy this year, I think I am going crazy. We just finished tearing out the walls of my girlfriend's front room, put new insulation in, put up new drywall , painted it , wired in new plugs and a lighted fan and moved some furniture in whille the carpet was still a little damp from the steam cleaner. I have had all kinds of contractors over to my place and I am going to be tearing my house apart to put it back together better. A federal ellection is going to be called soon here in Canada and I am a delegate for one of the political parties. I have had to travel all over the place to get that work started. When do I have time for finishing up the book and getting it out to the waiting public? I have to run into a slow time soon or it may not be ready till my birthday(Dec.31). With all the other stuff and 4 blogs to feed, I still find time to do a little research.

On my way over to this blog, I ran into a site that has all kinds of equipment that any person looking to prepare for the future would drool over. I will not give out the name of the site till I have had a chance to look it over and email them to see if it is ok to use their name. I don't see why they would not, it's free publicity for them, but still I have to ask.

Here is a small list of things that keep me going when I am busy.

1)Kisses- the holloween type with black strap molasses.
2)kisses- the chocolate type.
3)KISSES- the kind I get from my girlfriend.
4) K.I.S.S.'s from my friends (Keep It Simple Stupid), when I make things complicated.

My girlfriend and my family feed me often because I forget to eat when I am busy.
My spiritual books and groups I belong to keep me sane and productive. I feed myself sweets because I need to treat myself well.
As long as I keep balance in all I do I will be O.K. That should be my motto when I am in a crisis situation. Hope that helps someone.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com)and www.mikesworms.com

Change for Survival!

That could sound like a plea from a street-bum and in a sense, that is what a person begging on the streets is actually saying. I am not a bum and I am not living on the streets, but I am asking for a donation from you to me. The donation would be of your time it takes to learn all this "survival-stuff" and the money to set aside to buy some basics right now. If you really want to donate to me, you can. I am looking for equipment and MRE's to test as well as freeze-dried foods. The equipment can be new, like one of those LED lights that I can test for you, and the MRE's and freeze-dried food could be old (like all the stuff you bought for the year 2000). Money is also good. You can send it to my paypal email address at b4kaerbear@hotmail.com .

Here is a list of things I think needs to be changed.

1) Government micro-managing every aspect of our lives.
2) Laws around the growing of industial hemp.
3) Our dependance on big (non-renewable) oil to renewable oil like hemp oil.
4) Our minds from a competitive frame of mind to a co-operative one.

A simple yet powerful list Eh!

Michael J. Kaer ,President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

New Blog!
http://myhemp.blogspot.com
While doing research for my new book "What Money Can't Buy" I came across a book that said hemp has over 25,000 uses! Well , I have to tell you I got more excited the more I read on the subject. Here we have a weed that could drag us kicking and screaming from a total dependance on "Big OIL" to the real possibility of growing our own gasoline type fuel from hemp. The fact that the fuel when burned gives off CO2 and very little else immediately makes it superior to gasoline we now use that has toxic emmissions. Did you know that Henry Ford created a car body that was made from hemp and ran on hemp fuel? He demonstrated how durable the car body was by hitting it hard with a large tool and instead of denting or breaking, it bounced back. How would you like a car body that did not immediately get crushed in a fender bender? How would you like air quality to go up because we are not pumping toxins in it anymore? So-for this survival-list -list I am going to give you the broad catagories Hemp can fill and insure our suvival as a society, an economy and environmentally.

Hemp can be used as :
1)Food - flour and oil and dietary fibre can be made from hemp and hemp seeds.
2)Fuel - the oil can be made in to a form of bio-diesel and could even be refined to a form of gasoline. The stalks and leaves can be used to make alcohol.
3) Paper- Hemp is used in the finest of papers and is used to print dollar bills and other currency. In the US, the Constitution was written on hemp paper. 1 acre of hemp makes more paper than 4 acres of trees and it only take one season to grow it rather than 20+ for a tree. You do the math!
4) Cloth - Betsy Ross sewed the first US flag using hemp. Other flags have used hemp before and after Betsy's since it is so durable. Most of the world's great masters painted on hemp and the word for canvas is derived fromthe word canabis. Sails, rope and clothes and now shoes can be made from hemp.
5) Medicines- It has great healing powers and good at relieving pain .

Those are the main five catagories I can think of off the top of my head. Other interesting facts about growing hemp is it improves the soil, it can grow in the worst land (it is a weed you know!) and it can grow almost anywhere Man can. I does not need any fertilizer or pesticides as opposed to cotton which uses the vast majority of petrol-chemically derived herbicides and pesticides. BIG OIL and BIG CHEMICAL companies do not want hemp around because they would lose a ton of money. BIG DRUG companies do not want it around for the same reason. POlICE do not want it around because their budgets would be cut. The "WAR ON DRUGS" would not exist for the most part and the BIG CRIME syndicates don't want it around because they would lose money too. Some Governments do not want it around because they want to be able to control their citizens. If you are self-sufficient, what do you need them for? They would have to downsize and all our taxes would come down. Are you getting the broad picture yet?
Thats my list for today.

Michael J. Kaer , President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

Liquids

Doing research for my book "What Money Can't Buy" has been a lesson and a mind warping experience. Let me explain.
Now that I look at almost everything through Survivalist Eyes, I see simple things in a new light. Everyone in North America has seen Tetra-Pak juice boxes, especially if you have kids. I never thought about them as a possible source of nutrients and liquids. You now should know the "recommended" amount of water to store in an emergency is about 1 gallon (4litres)per person per day. If you had to evacuate for 4 days and you were walking, you may be able to carry 2x10 litre jugs as well as a large back pack with all your clothes, food and entertainment/tools with you. The jugs alone will weigh 10 kilos each, about 26 pounds. The pack could weigh up to another 20 kilos or so. That is a little over 100 pounds! How far can you carry 100 pounds? If you are in shape MAYBE 15 kilometres (about 10 miles.) Most of us would not get more than a few blocks. I would load up my Trike and cycle it to where ever I needed to be. In a day I could go (maybe,if I had to) 50 kilometres with a load like that.
Lets get back to the walking bit. I would assume if a disaster broke out, most people would find shelter in the same city. It would have to be very big to force a move further away.
What does that have to do with juice boxes? If you still want to carry some liquids you could get by with smaller jugs and carry the boxes in pockets and in cloth bags wrapped around the handles of the jugs. I need to do more research, but the juices last a long time and do not need to be refrigerated.

Here's your list for this post,

What you need to buy first. A large knapsack! Good outer clothes, good shoes or boots, water jugs and juice boxes, extra vitamins and meds,hard candy and trail mix,granola,extra glasses if you wear glasses, extra underwear and socks. Photocopy all your important documents and seal it in a large zip-lock bag. After that I suggest a good tarp about 3 metres x 3 metres (about 10ftx10ft), a small pillow or blow up pillow, a good camping blanket and extra clothes. stuff extra toilet paper and a towel in a bag with soap and shaving kit. I would pack several flashlights, a radio and a good book or two, along with a deck of cards, a swiss army knife and a stainless steel cup. A small first aid kit is a must. A couple of cheap lighters and some matches or some other means of lighting a fire would not be out of order. That's it for the basic "bug-out" kit.

Michael J. Kaer, President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and www.mikesworms.com

Back-breaking labour

Having recovered from the overhanging tree and the noise the next day to cut it down I thought I was finished with trees for the moment. Wrong! During the same storm a fast growing maple right next to my back fence decided to topple on to the fence. I have been hacking away at it for a few days and my back is hurting from all the physical labour. I have had to jump out of the way several times when the tree limbs did not fall the way I intended. A bunch of thick vines was connecting it to it's sister tree that is still standing. That has slowed up progress on it's removal.
Here is the list of items I am using and I suggest you have handy in an emergancy situation.
1)a bow saw
2) a small saw for cutting small branches
3)some rope
4)(not using but handy)an ax or hatchet.

With these items you can chop down the biggest tree,all you need is patience and some common sense.

the 5th item on this list is my massage unit for my back when everthing is done!
Michael.

Why do I do This?

The fundimental Question was asked of me today -Why?- ... Why do I do anything?
My answer was "There is maddness in my method and method in my maddness. There is also maddness in my maddness, but there is method too" This was in response to my girlfriend asking me why I had a bunch of plastic containers of water behind my trailer, in my backyard. I explained I was testing them and I gathered some data I found interesting. The semi-clear or as I call them frosted plastic jugs break down faster than the same size jugs that are solid. The totally clear containers also faired very well.
I read hundreds of books and websites on survival and related material and I try out some of the stuff I read. I would like to know by trying out something, which method works or works better instead of waiting till an actual emergency happens.


Here is my short list of the types of plastic containers I would prefer to use to store water in if I had to store it outside.


First choice- solid plastic

Second choice- clear plastic

Third choice- frosted plastic


There are ceramic and glass jars and if I wanted to stretch my imagination, metal jars(tin cans)I could use but I prefer plastic for that application.

I need to stop this blog for tonight. In the middle of it my neighbour pounded on my door to tell me I was in danger from the big horse-chestnut tree next door, which has cracked and a large limb has already hit my garage. I am making preparations for evac and I need to sleep as well. The storm is dieing down and it is almost 2:30 am. my time.

Night all.
Michael.

Over A Barrel!

Ever heard that expression? We are living it as I type this. I don't know how bad it is in the U.S., but up here in Canada we are getting hit with huge increases in gas prices. The irony was brought home to me last night when some people were late for a Green Party meeting I attended because they had to wait in line to buy gas. Rationing has not started yet but it will and soon.
I do not drive a car or truck,yet this affects me almost as much as everyone else. My girlfriend just upgraded(downsized) her car since the old beast she was driving finally bit the dust. It was a boat! We hauled alot of stuff in that car since it had a big-ass trunk and a larger engine to take the loads. Her new car is smaller with a smaller engine and still a fair size amount of space to haul stuff. She got it just as the gas prices spiked to $1.25+ Canadian/litre.
Here is my short list of things to have for your vehicle.
A locking gascap!
An extra portable tank to fill up in between the spike prices.
CAA or AAA card.
Extra passengers helpping to pay your gas.
A trunkload of patience and humour!

That is it as far as this list is going to go for this post.

We cannot blame Katrina for all our troubles. We need to share the blame on getting ourselves in a mess by being totally dependant on one source of fuel to drive our economy. That is foolish and shortsighted ( a short form definition of most governmental and corporate policies). WeMUST develop hydrogen and other alternative fuels. From the way I see it we must do it NOW! That is the end of my rant for today, thank you for listening. If you have any comments, feel free to vent them here.

Michael J. Kaer , President of Kaer Enterprises (.com) and
www.mikesworms.com
one of my other blogs are at http://kaerpackage.blogspot.com
Contact me at michaelkaer@yahoo.ca

Hurricane Katrina

In the richest country in the world it took days to get to the people in New Orleans. I think that proves the point that most of these survival sites have been advocating for decades. In my research for my latest book I searched thousands of pages with people giving their knowledge or questions to be answered going back to the days of BBS posts.

Bug-out kit

This is the name used the most for the knapsack or gym bag filled with the most needed items to get through 3 days to a week. In it the suggestions list water, food and clothing as well as a good book and a deck of cards as the most needed items. Other suggestions are photocopies of all your important papers, credit cards and ID placed in a waterproof bag. If you lose everything, at least you have valid back up numbers to phone and get new ID and credit cards to where ever you get settled.

Water - 4 litres (about a gallon) a day per person

Food - 2000 calories per day per person, ready to eat (MRE's would be perfect for this)

Clothes- a change of clothes plus extra socks and underwear and extra shoes.

I would add a camping blanket and a small pillow as well as a piece of plastic or an emergency blanket ot 2. I would also add a swiss army knife, a can opener and a note pad (and pen) to write things down.

I am working on getting my kit together, but in the end it is going to weigh a ton. How much does 12 or more litres of water(3 gallons) weigh?(12 kilograms or 26.5 pounds!) Most people have it ready to toss in the car, but I would make it so it is easy to carry on foot. Cars break down or can't be used for several reasons.

I have a flashlight that has a radio built in and it can run on a built in solar panel, or a built in generator or regular "AA" batteries. That would be my choice as far as lights and radio equipment go. I have seen ones that has a shortwave radio as well as AM and FM that have the other features (minus the solar panel). That maybe the better choice in the long run. For now I will stick with what I have and upgrade if and when I can.

Single mothers or fathers with kids will have to make extra allowances and carry more since little ones can't carry 25+ pounds for long periods of time. I am modifying a golf cart to be able to carry extra and in a pinch could be used as a pole to drape the plastic over to make an emergency shelter. I am thinking way ahead!

I have more details in my book which will be ready for sale soon. The writing part is done, now it has to be proofed and the format converted to .pdf and images inserted.

Till next time...

Michael J. Kaer

President of Kaer Enterprises (.com)

and

www.mikesworms.com

michaelkaer@yahoo.ca

What $75 can buy!

I just spent under $75.00 Canadian on mostly emergency groceries along with some milk, munchies and cheese. Here are the supplies I got.

1- 8kilo bag of long grain rice, 1-8kilo bag calrose rice (short grain-so I can make sushi!)

4 cans carrots, 4 cans peas, 4 cans corn, 4 cans mushrooms, 4 cans chicken noodle soup, 4 cans creme of mushroom soup, 2 tins flakes of ham, 2 tins flakes of chicken, 2 cans flakes of turkey, 5 bags of soup mix(pot barley,yellow and green split,yellow and green whole,green lentils and bean mix)( each bag makes about 12 cups of stew), 2- 400 gram bags of instant noodles, a 2 kilo bag of kidney beans, a 2 kilo bag of chick peas, 6-1.5 litre bottles of water, 2 cans of apple juice and a kilo tin of coffee.

All that (except the bottles of water) fit a 2 foot x 16inch x 16inch or metric 61 x 40 x 40 cm rubbermaid container with a lid. That takes up the tiniest corner of my computer room, under a table which was wasted space. I can make alot of meals with that small outlay of cash. Since I finished the book "What Money Can't Buy" (still not ready for sale- soon I promise) I have been setting aside a few dollars and buying emergency supplies. I have lots of batteries and re-chargers and a couple of working solar panels. I am going to buy many more as soon as possible.

I am going to get 2 back up batteries for the lap top and I already have an inverter to plug the laptop into when power goes down. I would like one of those foot pumped generators, but every time I have gone to the website , they are not in stock. I could make my own. A treadle sewing machine could be used to generate some small amount , as could a stationary bicycle. Wind generators will not work on my property since I am surrounded by tall trees.

It is that time of the year to put my order in for about 100 pounds of bee's wax. I just finished a small order of tea lights and I am using up all the left over wax I have, including parafin. I made 10 hobo stove fuel cells while I was working on the other order. If you do not know what hobo stoves are and the fuel cells I am talking about, Email me at my private email address michaelkaer@yahoo.ca . It is all in the book but you can't get it yet, so I will send you an email explaining it.

Thanks. Michael J. Kaer

www.mikesworms.com

www.kaerenterprises.com

www.kaerenterprises.com/3Q4U.htm

Survive and Thrive

I am finishing up a book about the time of chaos in our economy while we switch from a petro- chemical economy over to a hydrogen based one. Why do you care what I am doing? First off, if you are reading this, my guess is you have some interest in survival or you just happened in here by chance. My book has lots of good information that I feel every person should know. The book's title by the way is "What money can't buy". The good thing about this book is it will get you thinking. You may disagree with my conclusions (that is fine, that just proves you can use your noggin!) but you can not disagree with the logical way I have come to those conclusions. I am not writing a fantasy; I am writing about what I see going on now and what I think may happen.

I am not a hardcore survivalist nor am I a person who lives only for the day. I am somewhere in between those two extremes. The knowledge I have gained by doing the research for the book is invaluable. The main advice I give is START NOW!

From what I can see, I would say we are standing at the crest of a wave of prosperity in the world. I see the cycle turning and I suggest a few things to help get us all through intact. Even if the worse scenario does not happen, it is still wise to be prepared for emergencies. Floods, Storms and Tornados still happen, not to mention human errors and toxic spills.

I am a mild survivalist and the list part goes like this.
Air
Water
Shelter &
Food

That is everyone's priorities. I will be talking more about that list in detail and I will announce when the book is finally polished and ready for sale.

In the meantime visit www.mikesworms.com , www.kaerenterprises.com , www.kaerenterprises.com/3Q4U.htm , http://kaerpackage.blogspot.com to get to know more about me.
Yours; Michael J. Kaer