My boys help with cooking alot. We all love to eat so we all have to help out! Tonight we are having hamburgers on the grill, baked beans, and chips and dip.
Wow, that banana butter sounds great. I don't know if I will get to try it though because my kids love bananas and they don't seem to go bad around here. Sometimes I will put a few away just to make bread!!
We pay about 18 dollars per month. This pays for 1 garbage container pick up per week. We do not have recycling but take our about 4 miles to the recycle center.
Learning form the Amish would be a cool experience. They live an amazing life and have such dedication to their beliefs. We do not have an amish community anywhere near us. We do have a menonite (spelling) community about 10 miles away. They are similar I believe.
Well, I would like to be more self sufficient. I am do what I can, I garden and can, I raise chickens for meat and eggs, I buy other meat from small farm owning friends, we hunt, we fish, we pick wild berries all of those kinds of things. I too wish I could go off grid. I just don't think its...
Well, we have power again!! Thanks for all your kind words. I do think most things will actually be OK. I have gone out and staked up the tomatoes and the green peppers. I cut the dill, it is a tad early but I still think it will be fine. I am just taking a wait and see approach to...
We had a very bad storm here this morning with 76+ mile per hour straight lined winds. It was horrible! We lost two nice big trees as well as many branches, but worst thing of all is my garden! Everything in it is laying on its side! I don't know if anything will continue to produce or not...
What a great idea. I am going to check my local stores. I am want to purchase some bulk flour and sugar and that kind of thing. If I could find something to store it in that would be free it would make me very happy. Thanks for the information!!