Well, we fixed our dryer yet again! This time it was the heating coil that busted and it was considerably more expensive to fix than the $4 part we purchased and put in two years ago ($75 with shipping), but it was more than worth it! Let me back up…
It is officially the Time of Bounty again. You’ve sown your seeds, cared for their sprouts, transplanted and top dressed the healthiest growers and are now harvesting a bounty of tomatoes and squash and corn and maybe even peppers from your garden several times a week if not every day.…
Teeny, tiny flies…tons of them…in our chicken scratch. We’ve been keeping chickens for a few years now and I have never seen this before! I first saw them on Saturday when I went out to feed the Ladies. I opened up the Scratch Bin and noticed a few tiny flies,…
Today I will talk about Every Day Carry Bags, but first, I just want to talk a bit about the process of preparing for SHTF/emergency situations…When I first started looking at our preparations for potential SHTF situations, I felt quite comfortable with the process, thinking we were pretty prepared, but…
Somewhere online (maybe on Pinterest), I read that you can preserve herbs in oil. It was one of those “Aha/Duh” moments because it was so simple! So, last year we attempted this trick for the first time and it worked perfectly! This year, with an abundance of basil on hand,…
As mentioned in my original How to Prep for the Unexpected post, I am determined to tighten up our emergency plans and supplies. So, in the interest of starting at the beginning and after being inspired by sites like everyday-carry and everydaycarryblog, as well as a couple of old posts by Kelly…
The first weekend of every August for the past 41 years, the non-profit I work for has hosted an Arts & Crafts Show on the Plaza as a major fundraiser to support the programs we implement with girls ages 5-18. It is a very busy, extremely exhausting weekend, and it…
Prepper – Someone who focuses on preparedness, generally for various worst-case scenarios like peak oil or armageddon. Sometimes used to avoid the more loaded term survivalist. Some preppers focus on guns, others on sustainable agriculture. Honestly, I am not sure whether or not we might be considered Preppers. We have emergency food…