Recent content by staythirsty

I rented up to a good portion of my life until I bought my first house at age 43 in 2003. One of the things I really wanted to do was to hang my clothes out on a line. So I bought the house that I'm currently in now and the first thing I did was to string some clothesline from the house to...

I used to save meat drippings and make soap. Meat drippings are solid at room temperature. Drippings from beef is usually classed as tallow which offers a harder soap. Other meat drippings, such as that from pork is lard and will make a softer soap. I remember saving a summers worth of bacon...

I just finished building a basement root cellar . I live in a very rocky glacial till area. I have no hillside, nor did I want to spend the money for backhoe work, or trudge through 2 feet of snow. I wanted this less than $200. I have both onions and potatoes in it and they are doing well...