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I'll bet there is a funny story behind that law......

Wet dog hair yarn smells like, yup, you guessed it, wet dog. Even when it's mixed into other stuff. I used to work at a doggie daycare and had access to literally pounds of hair. I hired a lady to spin it mixed with wool. I knit a hat out of it, and every time it rained (which was every day in...

If I lived alone I wold totally choose a tiny house, that is... until canning season. I need a huge kitchen to can in. Our house is pretty small, less than 800 sq ft, and it's poorly laid out which makes it smaller, so I think if I were alone I could definitely go smaller. Plus, think of all...

BBH, that is so true. We should all give ourselves lots of pats on the back. Hmm, I wonder if there's a smiley for that somewhere.......

My most recent mistake was to have been too trusting. Someone on a forum I read offered to sell me a goat. A purebred triple registered Nigerian Dwarf...... it should have been a great deal. Except when I got there they rushed and pressured me, and I didn't get as good a look at it as I...

Often 'greek style' yogurt is strained anyway, which makes me think it may be runny to start out with, which (in my totally inexpert opinion) might result in a runny yogurt? Just a guess......

Oooh, and is that a bullseye in the yolk there! ? ! Congratulations! I took about a dozen pictures of my first egg and sent them to pretty much everyone I know. I think I even included the measurements like you would for a newborn. :lol:

Raised bed gardens can be VERY expensive, if you are in a hurry and want everything to look nice, or they can be cheap/free and look great/crappy depending on the time you have to scrounge materials. One thing I would recommend is to see if your waste disposal company sells compost. The...

Ironically, the ad popped up for me just as I was reading this thread. I did pm a mod about some other ads that were doing the same thing. I haven't seen them, but the Swarovsky ad is repeatedly popping up for me today.

I found it telling that they put pretty much all the responsibility for production methods on the consumer. On the one hand, I do believe we vote with our food dollars, but on the other hand, they seem to be abdicating responsibility for what they are putting the chickens through. The whole...

Welcome partyfowl! Your pots look so nice and .... hopeful! I had my first sprouts in my newspaper pots come up today, Marigolds! Hooray for spring! Actually, they are predicting more snow for the end of the week. Bummer.

All my BO's have gone broody, but it's more like a 9-5 job, with breaks and regular lunches. They sit in the nest box all day, unless I put treats in the coop, then they hop out. And at night they like to roost with all the other chickens. Meanwhile, they aren't laying any eggs, Grr! I'm...

Yeah, I ordered from Bountiful and was happy with their seeds, the shipping is pretty reasonable too. I do save a few varieties of seeds, I'd like to do more this year.

Ok, so my cake is in the oven, and I can't wait to try it. After the first blend, the batter was really thick, and sort of 'heavy-fluffy' ...... I wonder if it wold be possible to modify the recipe to make black bean chocolate mousse? Has anyone tried it?

The people we buy our milk from love raising turkeys, and last year they tried adding Blue Slates, and swear they will eat them all and never raise them again. I bought one for Thanksgiving, and I have to agree, they were scrawny and bony. The meat tasted good, but the family says BS's are the...

I did dog, sewing and leadership 4-H for about 5 years. Now all the training methods have been disproven, but my dogs and I did really well and had fun. I have seriously thought about getting involved as a 4-H leader, but I'm not sure I have the patience with a whole bunch of unsupervised...

Ugh, I would NOT! That movie would be longer than all the Lord of the Rings movies put together! I know MP has some good info in his books, but gee whiz, the guy needs to learn how to cut the verbal fat. Some movies we have watched and enjoyed: Fast Food Nation McLibel Wal Mart - The High...

At the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Burr Oak they have a jar of green tomatoes that was canned over a hundred years ago. The seal is still good, so I suppose technically so are the tomatoes. I wouldn't eat them though! Last summer I was helping clean out a house where the couple had died...

That looks really cool. Our property has an old smokehouse. Unfortunately, the family who owned this house took to storing gas and chemicals in it for the past 20 years, so I'm afraid it wold blow up if we tried to use it. I love the descriptions in "Little House in the Big Woods" where Laura...

I totally agree about the animal limit. Shadow loves being an only child, and I love the freedom of just one dog. So I foster, and it works out pretty well. There have been postings on craigslist here trying to find hoarders, or other people with too many animals to reasonably care for to...