Last weekend was an absolute whirlwind of activity! Do you ever feel like you need another weekend to recover from your weekend? Yeah…me too! Happy Monday!!! There was the work on the chicken coop first thing Friday morning in order to help make the Ladies a bit happier after all the rains and mud and chilly nights we’ve been having.…
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I recently received the following comment on my DIY Dryer Maintenance post that read: “Wow, a dryer ? It’s always interesting to see how other “cultures” do things, I have never even owned one, a dryer that is. The clothes hang out on the line, the sun does it’s thing. No carbon pollution from burning electricity, no money spent…
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Have you ever wanted to make a recipe with fresh cranberries only to find that cranberries aren’t in season or easily available? Yeah, not fun, right? Luckily, it’s super simple to re-hydrate dried cranberries and they are pretty much always available! Process: Measure out the amount of cranberries needed for your recipe and pour them into a bowl or a…
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MATERIALS: Growth chart (optional), blank paper (printer paper), scissors, a stapler, markers, crayons or colored pencils TIME FRAME: 15 – 60 minutes PROCEDURE: Take your blank paper, one page at a time, and fold it into eighths (fold it in half, then in half again, then in half again). Once you have several sheets of paper folded into eighths,…
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Some day soon I will catch everyone up on what’s been happening in my life…in our lives…but for now, we’ll stick with the literal fruits of our labors. Sometimes, when life gets challenging, it’s best to just keep doing what you’re doing, release the things that aren’t working or that you don’t have any control over and do your best…
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Over the years, I have found myself thinking about how much time I spend at work and how that relates to a variety of emergency scenarios. Fortunately for me, I work for an organization that provides after school and summer camp programs for kids, which means we have to be prepared for emergency situations. In the event of an emergency,…
