Recent content by detali

I made a solar oven last year that looks a lot like the sun oven from earlier posts. This spring I re-made the reflector panels, covering them with reflective mylar instead of the aluminum foil I had last year. I roasted myself a chicken in it today and them baked myself a cake. It was a good...

I had terrible pains in my right side stomach and chest area. I thought I was having a heart attack. When it was determined that it was not my heart, I checked myself out of the hospital against the doctors wishes and went on the internet for a search for natural gall stones removal. I...

Get yourself some oil of Arnica to rub into the sore muscles. It works like a charm for me. I ordered mine off the internet.

I have read that many of you recommend Borax to get rid of ants. It's not Borax you need but Boric Acid.

According to my dehydrating recipie book in a freezer----keeping 500 lbs of food a year freezer amortized over 20 years cost of electricity at .05 per KWH costs 81.17 canned ---jars and lids and pressure canner, amortized...

I homeschooled our youngest for several years, from fifth to eleventh grade. By then he was smarter than me. For first timers it feels safer to buy a curriculum program for your child. Later you might want to free-lance it. We did. There are curriculums out there. A Becca is a good one. We...

I have been dehydrating pumpkins for the past two days. My vines gave up before the skins on the pumpkins were cured enough for long term storage. So they got shredded and dehydrated. Now, that is going to make pumpkin pie making easy. I also have some dehydrated corn. I plan to run that...

I'm not freezing. But I added two quarts of dehydrated pumpkin to my store today. There are 5 more pumpkins waiting to be processed. Dehydrating is cheaper than freezing.

When we kept goats a number of years back I made mozzerella cheese by accident when I attempted cheesemaking. All I used was rennet. The mozzerella happened because I kept the mass on heat that was too high. In other words, the curds were overcooked. After draining it out in a cheese cloth I...

I just put to use and old skill I saw used in eastern Europe when I was a child. I harvested about a half pillow case full of ripe navy beans. That would have been a lot to shuck out by hand. So I took my meat cleaver, laid the bag of beans on my living room floor, and started hammering...

I just got an e-mail from my sister. She has been suffering from arthritis in her hands for some time. Then she heard about using the pectin Certo. she puts a tablespoonful in a glass of grape juice every morning, no more swelling, no more pain. Any body else heard of this? What else is it...

The burn is healed with no scarring!:)

It's good to read everyone's thoughts. I'm also really getting into self-reliant living. I'm pushing 70 and do have health problems but I also have a thriving garden with home canned and dehydrated food on the shelves and chickens in the coop. It feels good to go out and pick my food fresh. I...

Supposedly brown rice does not store well. But I like brown rice for my every day cooking. I also have heard that if you put a couple of bay leaves into your rice container that that will discourage any weavils that may want at it. So every time I buy some rice I open the bag into my storage...

update on the burn l the honey treatment is working beauifully. the blister on my thumb, which was from the thumbnail to the last knuckle is almost completely gone. the discoleration on the back of my hand is fading. the huge blister on the back of my hand is still there, but there is no...