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I feel we would be just fine without electricity for a while. We have a woodstove that I can cook off of. Its funny we actually do cook off of it often in the winter. My boys favorite is Chicken Quesidallas (boy, did I spell that wrong or what) It seems we always have tortillas on hand and...

I collect old cookbooks, especially those from the early 1900's. I love to read and try the recipes. Most use real simple ingrediants and are really cheap to make. I really like a book if it has writing along the edges of the recipes or if one or two pages are all stained. Then I try those...

We found this one a a booth at a craft typw show. This guy had tons of stuff made out of antlers...lamps, knife handles, coat racks or boards with antlers attached to hang stuff on. It was really cool if you are into that kind of thing. It goes really well with our rustic decor (funny but...

A like minded friend and I split our magazine subscriptions and share them with one another. It works out great for us and I only store half of what I get to read!

I too have been interested in learning this process. I must do more research before I purchase any supplies, but I am glad to hear it is not a complicated process. I would like to make personal soap for my family. I already make my own powered laundry detergent.

We used to have major tree damage to our new fruit trees because of the deer. Somebody told us to hang bars of Irish Spring soap in each tree in some panty hose. It worked, totally! Zero damage this year. The best part is that instead of getting washed off in each rain storm like most...

We actually purchased this one. My husband is going to try to make another one. He said it does not appear that it would be that difficult and he has plenty of antlers around! Its just the time he needs now!!

Today I just canned seasoned tomato sauce. I like to use it as a soup base and in some other stuff. Yum Yum! I can't wait for apples around here. I keep hearing you all talk about apple sauce and apple butter and it is making me hungry for the stuff!!

We love our freezers. We have two fridges with freezers obviously and a larger chest freezer. It seems the fridge freezers stay full most of the time and our chest freezer is probably at its emptiest right now, but in two week we will have a whole hog to put in there ( it is at the market now...

It seems that no matter how much we do we all think it would be nice to be ableto do more! That is very true for me. I can't say we donate alot of money but we do donate alot of time in various ways. I work at our local elementary school but put in many extra hours doing fundraisers, and...

I looked and can't find any good pics of my three girls. Guess what I need to add to the list of things to do this afternoon! WE have three labs one year apart in age. The oldest is a yellow her name is Minnie, then there is the chocolate her name is Katie, and last but not least is the moose...

Here is something very similar that we do here in winter. Fill a five gallon bucket with water and leave outside overnight to freeze. It will not freeze solid so you dump out the inside and it makes a large cylinder of ice with a hollow center. Set a candle in the center and it makes the...

Great idea ticks! We used to use them in my water aerobics classes filled 1/2 with water. (Back when my body know what exercise was!!)

I came here looking for ideas. I am thinking now we will have some sort of pasta. I have lots of veggies from the garden to use so pasta and a salad sound great!

We had grilled ham and cheese sandwiches with chips and fresh salsa!! Yummy!

I love the foam soap dispensors. We have them in the bathroom and the kitchen. Seems to save a ton!! Beekissed- about how much bleach do you add to the dish water? Working at the school and with three boys in school it seems I am always fighting some type of bug in the house.

We have them growing wild around here. I love to mix them with raspberries for a great jam. We love to make a sauce out of them and serve it over ice cream or cheesecake. I also freeze them whole and use them as garnish around cakes and whatnot for office parties or holiday get togethers!

We love popcorn around here. I am going to try this. One question...Is brewers yeast available anywhere or do you get it somewhere special?

We have apple trees and use the apples for the usual things like applesauce, pie filling etc. One hint that I have read about and am thinking of trying next year is...when apples are small (not exactly sure how small is small but) you can take old panyhose and wrap the fruit in them. You...

Well, I just finished freezing corn. I did 12 dozen ears and out of that I got 34 quart freezer bags with 4 cups in each bag. Not too bad! It is alot of work but we love to eat it. This time I did my creamy corn recipe. Next week I will just freeze regular corn to use in hotdishes and soups...