Recent content by mkirkpatrick6411

Our first house was abandoned and I we fixed it up and moved in. About a year in the house. the septic backed up and started to leak into basement. Yuck. I was digging up the tank lid when my neighbor came over and said "I bet the lift tank pump went out" I said "there is no lift tank on the...

75% Tile kitchen living room hallways baths all tile office & library wood. Tile with very thin grout lines looks like it did when it went in 23 yrs ago. Wood looks very good to with some minor wear in office. Bedrooms have carpet and it looks overdue for replacement ... that will be wood or...

I managed to talk the Tasaki recipe out of my favorite gyro place in college ( about 30 years ago ) but that only goes so far... I settled on sweet relish canned and smoothie ice cubes to burn up the non pickle overflow ....

I have made 4 DIY lifepo4 battery packs of eve LF280K cells for about 1500 each all parts included 15K x 4 = 60K 2 original custom boxes ( before cases were available and cheap ) two after erector set style with very small additions FWIW I have two more steel cases to retrofit everything to the...

Any other ways anyone might have for saving cucumbers, we have our pickle limit but they are growing like crazy !! ??

Funny, this made me feel good --- or that I may be paranoid --- :) or just not too attached to "modern life" in some ways. I have solar inverters (2) with 18K watt ( say 14k really collectable ) sending the watts to a 3rd "master hybrid inverter" in my cool basement with 60,000 watts / 1120AH...

Ohh Great Idea. I make this all the time and fill my freezer with the left overs - I can save all that space ... Thank you for sharing that...

I'll give it a start for you. My parents and Grandparents allways had wonderfull Gardens so I have kept that going usually peppers/tomatoes/onion/fennel/asparagus/potatoes/garlic/shallots/green breans/peas/green onions/chives/carrots/raddish/raspberries/apple trees/pear trees/peach trees more ...

Recently lots of easy to make Hummus pressure canning 1 cup dry garbonzo, 1/2 cup lemon, 1/2 cup toasted sesame. Can it set it on the shelf - when we want some we dump it in the blender i add, 1/3 cup toasted almonds, 1/3 cup good olive oil, sea salt, 4-5 nice fresh garlic clove, 1 tbls cumin...

Just looking for some canning jar box dimentions or pictures to make. Tired of pathetic cardboard... Found some I like and landed here. Seems like a good fit as we live pretty self-sufficient for 30+ years... Lots of DIY/Garden/heating/electric/canning etc So hi and I'll be poking around a bit...