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Re-Stocking The Food Pantry 25 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
We have several food pantries and once or twice a year, I re-organize and re-shelve foods to add our newly preserved foods. Our kitchen pantry holds some of our home-canned and dehydrated veggies and ...
Bottle-Feeding Baby Goats 23 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
Our goat kids are growing up! Last weekend, I weaned off the last couple of kids so my days of bottle feeding those little critters are over for 2013. I bottle-fed our goat kids from late April until ...
August Gardenwatch 16 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Signs of an early Autumn are scattered about our homestead now. We have had more than ample rain this year but the overall temperature is cool and during the past couple of days, we have worn overshir...
Homemade Ice Cream Recipes 14 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
My first taste of homemade ice cream was in the Winter at my paternal grandparents’ home. I was a young girl and as I watched my family pack the hand-cranked wooden bucket with snow, I just knew that ...
No Electricity: Preparing Your Home 12 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Just ten years ago, in August 2003, the largest Blackout in US history occurred. On August 14, 2003, the Northeast Blackout left about 50 million people without power. This far-reaching grid-down los...
No Electricity: When The Power Goes Out 3 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
When the power goes out, we almost always take immediate notice, especially if we are somewhere in a town or city, or inside our homes. We have all experienced it and can recall a time when we lost el...
Giving Denim A New Life 2 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
I’ve always hoarded my old jeans to reuse in one way or another. The denim in old jeans is very durable and being a lover of textiles, the more worn and nubby it appears to be, the more I like it. So ...
Refrigerator Pickles Like Klaussen’s Crispy Dills 31 Jul 2013 | 03:57 pm
The cucumber harvest is a good one for us this year and I’m in the middle of pickle season. After canning up several batches of my favorite Crispy Dill Pickles, Just Like Klaussen’s I grew soooo hungr...
July Gardenwatch 18 Jul 2013 | 08:34 pm
It’s mid-July and our 3 veggie gardens are full of lush food-producing plants. And with all of the rain, our veggie gardens are also a lush paradise of weeds, too. Until I found them growing under and...
Got Water? 17 Jul 2013 | 06:20 pm
Do you drink enough water? We have all been told that on an average day, an average adult should consume a minimum of 8 glasses of water. That seems easy enough….but is it an accurate assessment? Wh...
