If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed that the cell companies have us country dwellers by the throats. We don’t have good enough signal coverage to ever use up the minutes on even the lowest package. But we work in town, and travel country roads with our families in tow, so we do feel that […]
Read More Our Experience With Straight Talk WirelessWhen I first heard of folks home canning meat I was a little suspicious. Besides just sounding gross, it had to be unsafe, right? That was a long time before I got interested in producing my own food, and a long, long time before I did any research on the subject. There are several reasons one might […]
Read More Canning Stew MeatMy hands have gotten seriously rough-side-of-the-velcro dry from all the yard work we’ve been doing, and we got a lull in the good weather, (snowing big fat nasty flakes) so I figured it was a good day to take a deep breath and do my dishes, catch up on some laundry, and make lotion bars. […]
Read More Lotion Bars, And Another New Use For An Old Altoids TinI must apologize for the lack of quality content this week, but I’ve decided it’s against my principles to blog when the weather is perfect for outdoor work. I have also been a bit rebellious in regards to house work in favor of getting outside. Last week we were sitting under seven inches of new […]
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