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The hanging buckets you see at the end there are my upside down peppers with herbs growing out of the tops and a drip system above. This man is some kinda handy to have around I'm here to tell ya.

Well, we're talking about 9 weeks of meaties in the late fall after harvest-they kinda clean up the joint. During the winter I have just a few girls who go in there just because it's warmer and there's no wind and they sort of graze during the day in there and then back to the coop at night...

Here's mine, we use it in the winter for raising meat chickens and in the summer it protects my precious tomatoes from the hurricane force winds I have here at 6800 feet in Colorado as well as being warm enough to start my seedlings earlier and keep things that have a longer grow time from...

I would LOVE a t-shirt that had Zilla's quote about the post apocalyptic skill set on it. With maybe a picture of a churn or goat or chicken on it.....just bouncin' around.

My daughter Dani has one. She chose that form of birth control because she has Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome and she needed the hormones to help regulate cycle. She too was cussing me when she first got it (because I'm the one who did all the research to show her which ones would be best for...

I'm just going to plant more in the garden this year.

The last time I went into Goodwill, they were so worried about someone coming in and buying stuff to sell on ebay that they'd priced themselves right out of getting my business. I'm sure there are still some great bargains to be had and I see the one close to us has a big sale day every now and...

When Fiona's tooth was abscessed she was also drooling a lot mostly when she was eating but sometimes when she wasn't eating (though it's hard to find Fiona NOT eating). She also seemed to chew a lot just for the sake of chewing. We did have a QH who had allergies and she had nasal drainage...

I'm liking the taco bar idea or I'd do a sandwich bar but since you had that last week the tacos sound better and hot as opposed to cold sandwiches. Someone could even do a taco salad if they wanted to. So that's cool. Individual pizzas might be fun but perhaps more preparation since you'd be...

I believe it's Leap Frog that makes a little refrigerator magnet set that has the alphabet letters that you stick in the machine and the machine tells you the letter and phonics sound. It's wondrous. I had three pretty delayed children who started using that before school and the teachers...

I think offering the class price as credit towards the price of a goat is sheer genius.

I'll have to let you know how long the class is after I get back from the class. That's the ONE question I didn't ask her and we were on the phone for a long time. Since it starts at noon I'm assuming that it's going to go for the better part of the afternoon.

I can tell you that she's already got six classes planned and has some students signed up for each one. She says if she only gets one or two students that's still okay because the cheese and the soap have to be made regardless, she'll just have less help if there aren't too many students. I'm...

Okay, y'all convinced me and then I called the lady and she was very nice, told me she'd show me how to milk the goat, trim the goat hooves, make the soap, make the cheese and tell me about all the stupid stuff she did so I can avoid those mistakes. She makes it sound like I can save quite a...

There's a lady down the road offering goat milk soap and goat cheese lessons-she's charging 75 bucks for each day of training and she gives you your own starter kit whatever that might entail AND of course she just HAPPENS to have milk goats for sale-talk about your win-win! But as cynical as I...

I use tomato in my vegetable stock even when I'm just using the vegetable stock to brine a turkey. Awesome. And of course if you're going to make any kind of vegetarian soup it must have tomatoes in it for me. I just like to drink the vegetable stock plain and OH, don't forget that after you...

Now I put tomatoes in my vegetable stock but then don't I put tomatoes in everything?

Here's a link to get a free sample of clear jel. Clear jel is the thickener to use when canning Cream of Something soups so you don't have to use flour. It's hard to find and you usually have to end up going through an online source to get it which is scary if you've never used it and don't...

LOL! I just wrote about that on the other thread about chicken fat. YES, chicken fat can and SHOULD be saved. I've only used it in pie crust and dumplings but I was pleased with both products. I did use the pie crust for a chicken pot pie BUT the crust had NO chicken type flavor to it at all...

I know a lady and I don't really know if she's a hoarder or not. She has a heart as big as Texas and a wallet just about that big so whenever she hears about a horse that needs a home she's right there. I don't even know how many horses she has now and I'm willing to bet she doesn't either but...