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Well we have come through the "almost flu" and snow on the first of March. I'm still recovering from whatever awful crud this is. My husband went to the doctor and he said it was not the flu but it seems worse than a regular cold. I have actually taken off 2 days of work. I never do that...

We got 4 eggs today and it is not even late in the afternoon. We have only had 2 laying for so long that I had about given up on the other three. I guess now with more light and all that they are starting to pay for their keep. Now we will have to start sharing with all our neighbors who have...

Looks like we have survived this bout of really cold weather. At least it is really cold for Georgia. For the next 10 days at least they are predicting that we will not go below freezing. I'll be glad for no more days below 20. That makes me worry about the chickens getting frostbit. I've...

My dh has been doing this for more than a month. We started with the article in Mother Earth News and then bought the book. He still is working on perfecting the first recipe. He's done it a bunch of different ways. They have all been good to me. I'm not eating so much bread now that I have...

Thanks to everyone for your kind welcome. We are suffering with the cold today. It was 18 this morning; it is supposed to be 16 in the morning and 18 again the next morning. We turned on the heat lamp for the chickens. Their coop is not real tight. It has lots of open spaces for...

I just got a new computer and have not moved my pictures over from the old computer to the new computer. So, I knew the picture I wanted was on the photobucket site, and thought that would be easy. Thanks for making it work,

Wow, Thanks Reinbeau!!! That's my coop.

Well, What I did was I went to my photobucket account. I resized the picture so that it would be right for the avatar. I saved it to my album. I clicked on the picture and chose the link that has IMG in front and back that is supposed to be used for forums and such. I copied it and pasted...

I'll make some and send them in the next few days. Ours is in the backyard, but I think it is really nice. A friend of mine designed and built it. It is not for horses just to keep dogs and maybe chickens in if they don't get too excited.

I am trying to upload from photobucket and nothing is happening. I copied the img code from photobucket and when I try to upload it as an avatar nothing happens. Maybe I should wait and see what happens another day. This is kind of frustrating.

I should have started this a long time ago, because this has been developing for a long time, but I guess now is as good as I can do. We bought our little Craftsman bungalow in December of 2000 and moved in, in January of 2001. It is a very small corner lot, about 250 by 60, with about half...

Thanks, I've been lurking for a while and I am really into using local goods as much as possible. I'm also on the chicken and gardening forums.

I second the Local Harvest website. You just click on the map to zoom into your area and it gives you a list of farms, markets, CSA's and even restaurants that serve local food. It works very well.

Hi, My husband recently decided he wanted to make his own roasted, flavored peanuts and so we first bought the regular raw peanuts at the grocery store that had skins on them. Taking the skins off was a real pain. He found skinned, raw peanuts from this company and ordered them. They are...