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Yup... Pesticides only kill the pest you want to kill (they use nano-technology to perform sophisticated DNA queries prior to allowing the bug to ingest them). Chemotherapy only kills cancer cells, and herbicides only kill the weeds you want to kill. Antibiotics only kill the bacteria that is...

Lay down and drink some iced peppermint tea. Or eat peppermint ice cream. Anything peppermint, really, it is a smooth muscle relaxant. Also make sure you fuel up good. Get some protein in you, and some good fresh veggies. If you are low on energy, your body is more likely to react like it is in...

Hubby and I both work from home. We have a web development and software development business. Very low overhead, it is a good business to do from home. Part of it is for sale, with training, if anyone has the aptitude and is interested... :) Hard - hard to be here and homeschool and grow our...

Is her feed keeping up with her production? We find that greens (other than hay) and grains help with milk production a lot. Our goats got sick a few weeks ago. They did not have any classic symptoms of any disease I was able to find - the only symptom was lack of appetite. They did not have...

Broccoli dries well. It just needs dip blanched. So you can make up the whole mix from dried.

Just make sure you blanche the potatoes for the right length of time prior to drying. That is the key, and makes all the difference. If you get the time right, the potatoes will store well. Too short, and your potatoes will turn black and rot in storage. Too long, and they go a bit flaky - but...

Just add about 3 TBSP flour. Mix it with the cheese powder before mixing it with anything else, and it will be smoother. We do ours without the powdered stuff, because it is more costly and less healthy than the real stuff. We start with leftover baked potatoes. If the potatoes are already...

I like it best when we sing it ourselves. Nothing like having the family gather 'round, all of us, singing all four verses, in four part harmony. Just fills you up from toes to top.

We have Cardinals flying around here. They look kind of funny - the red is not brilliant, more of a dusty red. Sort of like a black bird got dipped in red Kool-aid. Still kinda cool though, I'd never seen a live one before we moved here. Some other kind of black and white bird (similar to a...

Don't worry about it. They'll store fine anyway. The seal on the bags is actually more important than the oxy-packs or amount of air in the bags. Sugar will need shaken up every few months to keep it from solidifying. Flour may also - and may only store for about six to nine months before it...

The ice cream is in the freezer, you'll have to get it yourself. I'm putting my feet up. :P Just remember, I was where you are. I had seven in 10 years. I know what it is like to be tired and to lay there on the couch half asleep, hoping that the kids playing on the floor won't sneak off and...

WZ, part of the reason why Uncle Sam's recommendations always end up being proven false, is due to the food production industry. They target saturated fats - and they test people on a low saturated fat diet. Naturally, since convenience food is being produced using a lot of saturated fats, and...

Some of the best onions we ever had were some that we overlooked. In the fall we pulled all the onions we had planted in the spring - they had not done well that year, we just got green onions out of them, due to a short growing season in Wyoming. The next spring, I happened to go behind the...

I used to tell my kids "Go take a nap, Mommy's tired now.". Not that it worked all that well, but it was fun. In fact, I just woke up. Nice thing about having ONLY teens in the house while pregnant, is that I CAN take a nap, and nobody gets into stuff while I'm snoozing. Well, as long as I...

I did an extensive search online, and discovered that there are specific breeds considered "dairy sheep" which give up to about half what a goat does. Then there are your average wool or meat sheep that give a cup or so at a time. Somewhere in the middle there are other breeds, more all-purpose...