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Pectin does usually bite. When I discovered I could make my own from the pith of my oranges I was surprised. I have attempted it but never to the extent that I felt I had succeeded. Maybe next time 🤷‍♀️. I mean I now have more time than money so it averages out. So I know I didn’t get the...

Well I can just power up the generator myself but how much stored gas do I have? In all honesty it’s going on by nightfall regardless and DH has a lot of vehicle batteries fully charged that can be hooked to an inverter to run the freezer and fridge when the generator is off. If I want to, I can...

Nature called so I got up and convinced myself to get busy. I wanted to get more done before anyone was up but DH was maybe only 40 minutes behind me. I hope I’m not sorry but I just ordered some 6X300 foot black fabric weed barrier and 100 stainless steel 6 inch staples to hold it down. It was...

9. A. You gotta do what you gotta do 🤷‍♀️ 10. A. and B. Depends on the time.

1. B. It might not be a big deal 🤷‍♀️. If it is just me, I should probably know about it. 2. A. Every pantry should be stocked 🤷‍♀️ 3. A. Solar lights. I don’t want to create heat. 4. A. Rainwater on the side of the house for emergencies. 5. A. Unless I’m forced to cook on the hibachi…...

I believe you. I only had one baby I bought baby food for and it was mainly out of ignorance. HG now works at our local grocery chain and she tells me a jar of baby food is $4. Unbelievable!! Only the rich can feed babies if they’re not knowledgeable about these common sense approaches. I will...

I’m on a mission. Baby food!! It costs too much to buy it premade but the baby gets $13 worth a month. Basically not enough. She also only gets 7 cans of formula a month but it doesn’t last the whole month so I have been doing the math to see how many bottles she can have per day and then how we...

I was much earlier getting woke than up but it’s time to get my coffee (I’m going to try a different sweetener as a little experiment). Then I’ll try to be a little productive before my normal scheduled Saturday disappearance with the grandkids.

The next thing I want to talk about is a purchase I made just yesterday that my godchild turned me onto. She had taken to buying dry whole milk in bulk and she claimed her kids liked it. I drank a glass from her fridge and it tasted like milk 🤷‍♀️. It wasn’t like non-fat dried at all. So I...

Okay, I’m in. But I have to confess I have only done some of these things. Others I haven’t done but now that I know, I’m determined to go for it. Corn….. I now buy it fresh and it might be $0.33 an ear. I justify it because I fill about 7 gallons of whole kernel corn with the 100 or so ears I...

So I guess I kicked butt for someone in my shape. I fed the chickens scraps. Hung a bunch of clothes and I noticed a hen was brooding on eggs that couldn’t possibly be fertile. I brought her inside and gave her to DH, robbed her pretty nest, lined it with DH’s worn out socks, took the fertile...

My great aunt was the baby of the family and she accepted shrimp from a sister and forgot it in her car and didn’t go anywhere for a few days. That story is rather famous in my family. Yesterday we buried my mom’s first cousin. Got to see lots of relatives. Hope next time it’s under different...

DD has been with me a few days. Always a joy. HG has been MIA here and there. I mostly just miss and worry about the baby when she vanishes. Well I have tried and hopefully she has been learning survival skills and life lessons. I’m sure she will continue to call this place home but she vanishes...

I gave a dozen BR eggs to the neighbors and I boiled all those pointy eggs. I will start peeling tomorrow. Really tired. The fricassee was good but I didn’t cook rice cuz we had some French bread that needed to disappear. I had some muddy eggs but they all washed now but I don’t know where the...

I have to admit I learned the basic bread recipe a long time ago when everyone was getting bread machines. My first machine eventually passed away but I recalled seeing an old Cajun woman turning and kneading dough on her kitchen table and I thought, I can replace the bread machine. So I still...