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    homemade soap recipe..sorry, I need it again ?

    I know it has been posted several x but I lost the amounts that go in the dry soap recipe. I have the ingredients...the Ivory soap, grated, the borax and the washing soda...but wanna get the correct amounts ...so anyone having this simple recipe...I would be grateful to get it again...this time...
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    Help ...with using pressure cooker for brown beans????

    I have used my new pressure cooker 2x ...one chicken and one roast....it was wonderful both times. But an old lady told me she never cooks brown beans in one cause they can blow up, due to all the gas from the beans??? Is this true?? I used to be scared of using one but I got one for christmas...
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    Poll on laundry soap

    OK...I heard you all talk about homemade laundry soap. I got the A&H baking soda, Ivory soap, and Borax. What is Fels Naptha and where can I find it? Do I have to have it to make my soap? Is Baking Soda the same as washing soda? Is Ivory ok? Thanks...cant wait to try making my own!!! :clap
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    For those of you who dont know what pickin poke is all about......

    OK...POKE is a green...a wild green that people around here pick....old timers mostly. I live in South MO, but poke grows all over I believe. They are the plants that poke berries come from?? Those purple berries the indians used to make dye thousands of years ago?? Well, POKE is actually...
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    Anyone pick POKE ??

    OK...POKE is a green...a wild green that people around here pick....old timers mostly. They are the plants that poke berries come from?? Those purple berries the indians used to make dye thousands of years ago?? Well, POKE is actually poisonous ? ...in a way...the berries are and the young...
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    Anyone pick POKE ??

    We forage here....every season has an edible for us to look forward to finding!! POKE season is NOW!! Anyone here wanna tell me your poke experience? How to find it , how to cook it and what to eat it with? We boil ours 2x then fry it with a tad of bacon grease for flavor with olive oil...
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    Fiddlehead ferns....anyone know how to prepare them???

    I found millions of them in the woods as I mushroom hunted and wondered...I read they are edible and always wanted to try them...anyone know how to fix them and are they any good? I just read the post about cooking dandelion flowers and I am so gonnna try that tomorrow !!! Will let you all...
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    Mushroom hunting! This is what it is all about! Pix!

    I love mushroom hunting ! I live for it 2 weeks out of the year....this year I found the largest most beautiful morel I have ever found!!! Gotta brag!! It was huge.. I about fainted when I found it !!!!! So, here are the pix!! I am in South Mo. and they are about...
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    Look what I made!

    Note : They make that new spray paint that is made just for plastics....but I just used what I had on hand that day. To insure your paint lasting longer on a plastic surface, you might use the kind meant for plastics. I may wake up one morning after the first big rain and find my whiskey...
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    Look what I made!

    Sure, I would be glad to share!! First I cleaned the tub outside to remove any oil , used rubbing alcohol. I then grabbed my spray paint box and finally found one can at was not dried up ! ;). I used walnut brown for the base color....but would have been able to use about any earthy brown or...
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    Uses for prescription containers?

    Hubby fills them with coins and then , when they are full he uses them to take with us for garage sales in the summer....:)
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    Look what I made!

    oppps...forgot to mention ....it is gonna be a planter this summer ..gonna fill it with blue morning glories. ( Does it look like a whiskey barrel?? ) Yhat is what it is supposed to look like......:idunno Oh and I guess I should mention that I am a newbie here and am lookin forward to...
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    Look what I made!

    Someone dumped this in our field :he or the lastest tornado dropped it :idunno , but I had no use for this hugh white tub , and was gonna just recycle it , when a lightbulb went off over my head...and this is what I came up with!!
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