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Safety Not Guaranteed — the film inspired by Silveira’s BHM ad is coming out in June

May 12th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

This is pretty cool. The film inspired by John SIlveira’s classified ad in the pages of BHM is coming out in June. Here’s a link to the “featurette” about the film.

And here’s the link to John’s article explaining the stir that arose in the wake of the ad.

Eight BHM writers, editors, artists will be at the Colorado Springs Self-Reliance Show

April 18th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

The Colorado Springs Self-Reliance Show May 18-19 is starting to look like a Backwoods Home Magazine writers get-together. It was already shaping up to be one of the biggest gatherings of BHM writers and artists ever with the appearance of me, Don Childers, Jackie Clay, Patrice Lewis, and Amy Alton. A few days ago, Jeff Yago, who writes on energy and preparedness topics, said he plans to fly into the show from Virginia. Today Annie Tuttle, BHM’s managing editor, decided she would also attend, along with Sam Duffy, editor of BHM’s Kindle Edition.

Road over Cape Sebastian takes a tumble

April 1st, 2012 by Dave Duffy

The rain has stopped (for one day, the weather forecast says) but the roads keep falling away. My youngest son, Sam, sent me the above photo. It’s Hwy 101 going over Cape Sebastian between Pistol River and Gold Beach. I don’t know who took the photo.

Below is Hwy 101 just north of Gold Beach yesterday. It’s now open to one-lane of traffic. It came from the World newspaper’s online version.

Slides strand Jake and Robby in Gold Beach

April 1st, 2012 by Dave Duffy

We’ve been having a lot of rain here in the Gold Beach and Brookings, Oregon, area, with rivers at or near flood stage and many slides and avalanches occurring. My two oldest sons, Jake and Robby, tried to drive back to college today (Portland State and Oregon State University) by heading down our road, Carpenterville Road, and onto Hwy 101 to begin their 5-hour trip. They got about two miles before encountering an impassable slide, then tried the other direction and got blocked by another. So they’ll stay home another day. It’s just as well they encountered a road blockage quickly so they are stranded at home rather than out on the road.

Jake checks out the slide that blocked him and Robby about two miles below our house.

Another late night rush to deadline

March 13th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

Deadline for Issue No. 135 has just passed but we’re still not quite done with it. Another late night tonight and I think we can send it off in the morning. There’s always something that has to be tweaked. Silveira and I edited each other’s commentaries and found faults with both that had to be changed. After 23 years, deadline never really seems to change.

Annie

John

Lenie

Sam

Dave

 

Humless saves the BHM editorial!

March 12th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

Big windstorm tonight and we’ve had a power blackout in my part of southwest Oregon for the last few hours. I’ve been happily working away thanks to my Humless Sentinel portable power backup system so I can finish my editorial which is due tomorrow morning.

I’ve got my computer and a light plugged into it, and have just now plugged in my Droid and electric lantern to recharge them. Very handy! I’m glad Humless decided to advertise with the magazine. Everything is completed for the next  issue except my editorial and John Silveira’s Last Word column. Oh, oh! John doesn’t have a Humless. Let him explain that to Annie in the morning.

Getting desperate for a Ron Paul win

March 5th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

I’ve donated to Ron Paul four times during his presidential run. All small amounts, but I just felt I had to put my money where my heart was. I know he won’t win but I’m hoping he can persuade the winner, which I assume will be Mitt Romney, to embrace some Libertarian ideas when it comes to the economy.

Gingrich and Santorum aren’t interested in what Ron Paul has to say. That leaves Romney. As liberal a Republican as Romney is, I guess I have no choice but to try and influence him. Miracles can happen! Romney is a businessman, and he appears to be honest. I hope he is also courageous because it will take courage to do what has to be done, which is to allow capitalism to pick the winners and losers, not Government intervention.

If you’d like to donate and try and bring off this miracle, click here.

 

If you can’t make it to a real-life Self Reliance Expo, try the “Self Reliance Virtual Expo”

February 23rd, 2012 by Dave Duffy

If you’ve never been to one of the Self Reliance Expos we have been helping Red Shed Media put on, you can now at least go to a Virtual Self Reliance Expo and watch videos featuring the Expo’s vendors talking about their products. I’m the first video featured, so once you click on the link above, then click on my image to hear my offhand explanation of what BHM is all about. The recording was done at the recently completed Dallas Expo.

 Jason Akers on BHM Radio Show

Tomorrow night BHM writer Jason Akers will be the guest on the BHM Radio Show on the Preparedness Radio Network. Red Shed Media hosts for the show will be Ron Douglas and Scott Valencia. I think you’ll enjoy the interview. Jason is a recent addition to the BHM pool of writers, having published the article, “Jug lines, trim lines, trot lines,” in Issue No. 124 and we’ve bought five more of his articles and scheduled them for future issues.

Watching the sun rise at the Dallas Airport

February 12th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

We left for the airport at 5 am. Sam catches a nap as the sun rises.

Dallas Self Reliance Expo rocks

February 11th, 2012 by Dave Duffy

The Dallas Self Reliance Expo at the Mesquite Convention Center is in its final day today. Excellent show for us. We will likely sell out of all the books we shipped here. My son, Sam, is doing the lion’s share of the work, including doing some radio interviews and making new contacts with customers. I’m mainly relaxing and BSing with long-time customers.

Sam Duffy and Heather Douglas, daughter of the Expo’s organizer, get acquainted.

 

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