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There's a lot of good advice here- I'm chiming in to add that I'm a believer in salt water soaks for cleaning and healing. You mentioned that you took the earring out- are you giving up the piercing all together or are you wanting to heal up the infection and re-insert some jewelry? I'm...

It's beautiful! I bet it was satisfying to make! I can see how it would be handy, I usually end up using my fingers to pull out some of the weeds in the delicate bed- this would save some joint pain& finger funk for sure! It also looks a lot like the tool I've been fantasizing about a lot...

I did the same thing! I was convinced I had to be a microbiologist before I could compost correctly. Not the case, things want to rot.;) Are you dealing w/ just kitchen waste or do you have animal bedding too? I ask because I choked out my solo pile by dumping too much of one thing at a time...

My husband works at the post office and tonight he sent me a picture of a pair of pantyhose absolutely STUFFED w/ styrofoam packing peanuts. I'm not sure what somebody was up to, but after I finished laughing at the pic, I realized it's a pretty clever way to store the buggers (Packing peanuts...

Thanks for the link! We ordered one and set it up, now we're waiting for a full charge to put the beasties in.

I swear, sometimes my girls pull stunts like that just to get noticed and doted on a little more :rolleyes: Glad she's okay!

I hope you and Doc_Gonzo continue to mend, Dawn! I really appreciate the focus on community in this thread. It seems like anyone can cobble together a self-sufficient guide to life through the 'net and books, but nothing takes the place of real live people.

My husband and I got hit by a drunk driver a few years ago and it really messed our backs up- we're in our 30s. It was a pretty brutal reminder that you're not promised forever and you've got no guarantees that you'll have the body/ability that you planned on having either. Sometimes physical...

I got an ipad for Christmas.. I think I am happy? Ha ha ha! My sister heard of an app that will help you plan your garden plot (and track crop rotation etc.) and schedule seed starting/ plant out for specific zones. I am woefully inept at finding such an app in my search- so I thought I'd ask...

I have to tell you- guineas can't be as dumb as they can act sometimes. Our guineas were really making quite a racket just before coop up time for the last few nites, today they did it in the middle of the day and were running up in the woods in a single file line. I followed them and they were...

I added myself! I also changed my flag- I hope that's okay...

I hadn't read this particular piece and it's great- thank you for sharing! (I almost didn't click on it because I thought "Oh, I don't want to come out of this feeling bad"- just the opposite)

Hubby offered to buy an electronet fence for our sheep! This is awesome because the old fence is down and the sheep are going stir crazy in their pen. It will be used primarily for rotational grazing. Any good deals on complete packages that you've seen? Any personal experience? Thanks!

Great idea!

Pinkfox- OMG, the octopus yarn bowl sounds like a dream come true! You *have* to post pics if you make it!! I love this thread, so creative!

I have a reeeeallly potentially stupid question, but here goes: I am a woman (that's not my question, peanut gallery :lol:) and a few years back I sought out a welding "teacher" through a trade school... he dismissed me immediately and told me that a woman of child bearing age had no business...

Long term chronic pain definitely chips away at our emotional state- some days things are just so damn ugly to me. Ha ha ha, I'm not trying to bring ya down more though! LOVE to you- it IS hard and it IS a struggle. My gram is a farm woman who has worked all her life, now she's blind and has...

What a beautiful thread! One random act of kindness I received that I think of so often was this: I had my little girl, about 2 at the time, and my grandmother (who is blind and has had several strokes, so impulse control is really an issue for her) at a busy store on a Saturday (something I...

Yes indeed- THANK YOU ALL!

This is our first year w/ guineas. They were to be a Father's day gift to my papa, sadly he did not get to see them, but we've had a lot of laughs and imagine he would have too- my sister and daughter held the keets a lot from day one and that seems to have made them quite social little birds...