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I unschooled my high school aged son (when he was high school aged) but still had to provide a curriculum for the school board, which of course I just made up. Our regulations were that we had to provide a curriculum, and at the end of the school year, he had to take a standardized test (which...

oh cool Joel Salatin!

Thanks! and :)

Thanks - I'll check that out! and we don't even HAVE a farm and there's always a project! I cannot imagine having more property than we do!

There's a whole movement called "no-poo" - people who are not using regular shampoo anymore. May be able to find some good recipes by googling that. And now there's those info-mercials about that WEN product, too. Here's a start...

Rhode Island Red

Two of my toes just cramped up.

Cukes wyr: visit a beach or a lake?

Chicken This or that?

Hark

Paris

depends! ;) in town bike, out of town drive Vanilla or chocolate?

Thanks Tutter! We never thought it would be as time-consuming as it is! :rolleyes:

I will - thanks!

We also have one joint account and our own separate accounts - we found out what it costs for basics (mortgage, utilities, basic groceries, etc) and split it half-way. We transfer that amount into our joint accounts from our separate accounts. Anything left is in our own separate accounts for...

Thanks for the notice about the TEG rain barrel system - I'll have to search for it. Oh darn, I was gonna take a photo yesterday - now it's overcast (not raining though)...I'll try to get one taken soon!

This isn't a huge project by some standards, but it has been for us! We both work full-time and with all the rain we have been getting, it's been slow going (AND we started it LAST summer) eeep! We got a bunch of board feet from a friend (left over from one or more of his projects); since it...

wow, thanks SOO much to everyone for your helpful posts and guidance. And I didn't realise that food keeps well for 24 hours in a freezer. You all are terrific; I really appreciate it!

same amount!

Being on TEG and here, I haven't come across any posts (though I'm sure I miss more than my share of posts) about generators. I don't have an extra freezer because we don't have a generator, and since we live in Ohio, there are power outages. I would like to try my hand at freezing veggies and...