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 Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:27 pm
havenne17 Today I started a discussion group for a particularly fractious group! [wish me luck or a flame-proof skin, lol!] Good luck! Be a calm voice of reason----and be successful! They can kill you, but they won'e eat you!
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 5:54 pm
Today my husband and I took a class on composting, native planting and lawn care. And it's ran by our county, so it's real specific to our area which is better than say going to Home Depot and them telling you what products to buy.
Next year I want to do the Master Composters program, a 40 hour/12 week program where you learn more about composting, different composting, take field trips, learn about native and habitat planting then in turn volunteer at schools, event and such.
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Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 6:29 pm
I made borscht!
That's very interesting about composting *and* native plants. Is it a one day course or a many day course?
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:54 am
I made lip balm for the first time. Natural lip-balm, made of organic beeswax, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil and honey. It smells so sweet, and seems to work pretty well.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:05 pm
You could just make that outside here today, Moonlight! It's good stuff.
Today I spent most of the day enrolling my youngest daughter in college, trudging all over the campus in 110+ heat indices. Whew! Then came home and potted up some mint, untangled, fed, and watered our two baby pygmy goats (they are on tethers because they can still squeeze through the fence), and took care of the birthday goodies for my husband's birthday. Plus all the normal stuff.
I need to pick blackberries. The birds have eaten all the wild plums, and that's fine with me! biggrin
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:03 pm
I made a birthday present for my cousin whee
And went to the doctor, but that was sooo not green stressed
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:54 am
I learned how to clean and re-season cast iron skillets! I have one here, but I have been looking for smaller skillets at garage sales, unfortunately many of them had rust on them, I thought they were useless. Well, I found out that those that I found are salvageable and if I find another one, I will take it and clean it up. I actually have the instructions on how to do it! On top of that the site where I found the info on is AWESOME! Backwoods Home Magazine is a great magazine site on how to be self-sustainable. Also their sister site Backwoods Cooking is a cool recipe site. They are great resources, check them out! Oh, BTW, the recipe site is worth it if only for this one article alone, Eating Well on a Lean Budget it is very helpful!
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:15 pm
wolfen26 I learned how to clean and re-season cast iron skillets! I have one here, but I have been looking for smaller skillets at garage sales, unfortunately many of them had rust on them, I thought they were useless. Well, I found out that those that I found are salvageable and if I find another one, I will take it and clean it up. I actually have the instructions on how to do it! On top of that the site where I found the info on is AWESOME! Backwoods Home Magazine is a great magazine site on how to be self-sustainable. Also their sister site Backwoods Cooking is a cool recipe site. They are great resources, check them out! Oh, BTW, the recipe site is worth it if only for this one article alone, Eating Well on a Lean Budget it is very helpful! The best place I have ever found to season or re-season cast iron is in the barbecue grill! Just put the pots on the grill when you're finished cooking (the coals are probably still screaming hot), close it up and get them out the next day. Perfect.
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:55 pm
I cooked a pot of beans whee In a tiny slow-cooker using mostly organic stuff heart Om nom nom...
And I cleaned and started a new box of stuff to donate 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:48 am
I pulled goatheads, and there's no end to them in sight. sad
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:16 pm
I planted orange seeds? they might grow or not... I did see "The Knowing" I am kinda scared of it just cause of the reality of it. Not the alien part just the sun exploding and nothing for us to do about it T.T
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:33 pm
I "made"/built a shoe shelf out of cardboard play-bricks that I've had since I was a little kid whee
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:05 pm
Picked up garbage on the street by my house.
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:30 pm
Yesterday, I made fresh lemonade with cane sugar. YUM!
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:26 pm
I helped my sister on her Ho-oh(Pokemon) costume. It's made out of old t-shirts we got from a thriftstore.
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