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    Nacho - The road to sufficiency!

    Can you freeze celery? We mostly use it for soups and such. I personally don't like eating it raw, but every once in a while the kids and the hubs will eat some.
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    Nacho - The road to sufficiency!

    bahaha!! CORN! My fingers were going faster than my eyes! :P I can't remember why we decided to try the celery in pots... gimme a minute... it'll come back to me.. :lol: AH!!! YES! Because it needs shade... there's no shade to be found in our garden. :-/
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    Nacho - The road to sufficiency!

    Well... the garden didn't do well last year. It was just toooooo hot! :barnie We've already got EVERYTHING written down for our 2012 garden. This year we're attempting broccoli, onions, chives, eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, lettuce/mesculan, beans, vorn, cikes, watermelon, pumpkins, celery (in a...
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    garden plans for 2012

    ME TOO!!! Apparently I'm able to sow my carrots, onions, mesculan, and lettuce 01Feb!! In just over a month I get to start my tomatoes, eggplants, and celery indoors! :weee
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    garden plans for 2012

    1) How big is your garden area? Traditional garden rows / raised beds / pots or containers / combo? Is your garden on your property or do you have a community garden plot (or a combo of both)? Well, we have 5 raised beds, 3 more this spring. 1 bed dedicated to strawberries, and a section...
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    hair care?

    mandieg- how do you do that? Can you make up a bunch and just leave it in the shower or do you need to do make it each time you take a shower? Do you just use a little bit or do you use a lot? UI've thought about going "no 'poo" but I really have no idea how to actually do it! I'm a little on...
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    Who among you has defended the United States in Uniform?

    My husband medically retires from the Marine Corps this month. He was a Radio Tech (MOS2844)
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    hair care?

    So, I have been cruising Pintrest lately (Oh pintrest how you waste my time so well!) and I found a couple of home care recipes for hair. I told a friend of mine that I wanted to try one and she said it sounded really scary to her and she wouldn't try it. This is a hair repair recipe (at...
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    Sometimes I will add whole garlic cloves in with the last mix to have "garlic bread." Other times I will throw in some cinnamon and raisins! Good good stuff! :D
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    Kids or No Kids? How did you know?

    To be honest... I always said that I never wanted kids... ever. I was going to go to college for Equestrian Studies and from there go on to be a horse trainer, and from there I was going to fall in love with a nice guy and we would live out the rest of our lives as trainers/owners/breeders of...
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    I'm glad you like it! I keep trying new recipes and hubs is always saying "Why do you have to always change things???" :lol: Like I said, that recipe is a great base OR stand alone. I made some sandwiches and sent them to work with DH... lets see what the thinks of the bread :D
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    The 2nd time the bread was WONDERFUL! I'm not sure that I like it more than my other bread tho. It does make 2 loaves tho... so I do like that.
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    Oh.. it's okay... my lil man likes it.. LOL I'll go ahead and make another batch with yeast this time! :P
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    Okay... I'm trying to make this... and it's not looking like it's rising at all... it's been in there for about 45 minutes. Did I miss something??
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    Afternoon Tea anybody?Today's surprise!

    Mmmmm!! Those look delish! I wish I could get my husband to enjoy afternoon tea! He says I'm too British as it is by putting milk and sugar in my tea! :gig
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    Nacho - The road to sufficiency!

    For those of you that aren't on TEG.... I thought I would post these pics for you all to see. It's not much, but it's what we have for now. I initially never thought of "naming" our garden, but, I posted a facebook msg to a dear friend back home in Ohio to tell her that we were "farmers"...
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    Mmmm! This sounds good!! I'm going to have to try this!
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    SIMPLE White Sandwich Bread

    Here is my favorite bread machine recipe! :D 2 3/4 cup flour 1/4 cup oil 1 tspn yeast 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tspn salt 1 1/8 cup water (or 1 cup + 2 Tbsp) I mix it in the bread machine and then toss it in a pan let it rise and bake at 350 for 25 minutes It's REALLY good!! I sometimes add things to...
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