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We usually grow a paste tomato (plain old Roma), a large short season tomato (Scotia usually, but it works great for our area... eastern Canada), and cherry tomatoes (Sweet Million) for eating in salads. Scotia produces really well for us, they are a determinate variety and we use tomato cages...

I've got two pit bulls... and I consider them my security system. They can make a lot of scary sounding noise and definitely don't look welcoming for strangers. I think the note on the door is a great idea! :)

I've been feeling run down, dizzy, and generally blah... but it's explained by the fact that my blood pressure has dropped to 80/40, I'm anemic, 29 weeks pregnant and looking after a toddler :) All I want to do is sleep all day, and I just don't have that option... then bedtime comes and I'm...

My guess is that we hit $4/gallon in 2006 :) I wish I could find gas for that now... we're at $1.41/liter or about $5.32?/gallon now, which is actually the same price we were paying in 2008 so it doesn't seem quite that bad...

Our house is 792 square feet... we have one toddler, 2 adults, another baby on the way, two large dogs, and one cat living here. I would like a well organized house at least twice the size of what we have... I'd like: a large walk-in pantry, a cold room, closets (there are only two closets in...

My dad had his first heart attack in 1994, he was given 6 months to live because he refused open heart surgery... he went to another doctor for a second opinion and that doctor basically told him the same things in that article. To avoid processed foods, eat REAL food but also to eat a low fat...

I was watching the news earlier this week and they interviewed a guy who opened up his hobby farm to tours... they interviewed a woman there visiting, she was SHOCKED that chickens only have two legs because they come in packs of four at the grocery store so she just assumed chickens had four legs!

I joined a Superpoints website (my referral link is in my signature ;) ) about a month and a half ago, and today I got my first $25 deposited into my paypal account! I'm so excited that it actually worked. I don't do any of the offers, I just do my Superbutton clicks each day and have a few...

Spring will be when all our snow melts... and the garlic comes up in the yard, it's usually the first thing up :) I've got another month or so before it's really spring here, but we've been having such beautiful weather it feels like it's already here!

Welcome... I'm in Canada, and have one daughter a month older than your little boy, and another little girl due in June :) Gardening took me a few years to get the hang of, don't start too big the first year and just build on it every year. Last year we didn't have to buy veggies from the end...

How about building a greenhouse out of them?

I LOVE Spirit! He totally looks like Little Black from Walter Farley. Little Black, A Pony was my favourite book as a kid too, I have it for my daughter :) Once she's big enough I'd love to get her a pony like Spirit.

It's supposed to be 12 degrees above zero for us tomorrow! I can't wait, if the snow all melts off the top of the garden I'm putting out the black plastic to start heating everything up so I can plant as early as possible. I heard we're supposed to have an early spring too so I think it will...

I had a rescue horse too... LOVED him, and miss him dearly. I would love to have a sanctuary like that if we ever get around to having enough land. Here's Casper two weeks after the auction where I bought him... he was almost 400 pounds underweight (he was a 17.2 hand thoroughbred) And...

My mom's favourite quote was 'Cleaning the house while the kids are still growing is like shoveling the driveway while it's still snowing' :) Now that I have a 15 month old I realize that's very true :)

Here's my pallet chicken coop... I put insulation inside and then sheathed the walls in a thin plywood... the floors, walls and doors are all pallets, plus the supports for the outside run are pallet boards. It's only 8x4 feet, but we only keep 4 laying hens and they free-range all day so they...

Lol... I thought she was another Canadian too! :welcome Northed Hubby and I dream of visiting Australia someday...

It's $1.38/liter here today, and supposed to be over $1.50 by summer... That's $5.21/gallon approximately right now.

30 days - no sugar ....... See chocolate comment below :) 30 days - no caffeine....... I couldn't do this... I LOVE chocolate and tea way too much. 30 days - walk 10,000 steps a day - this will have to start after pregnancy, I'm on a semi-bed rest for a while. 30 days - read the Bible, Koran...

Are there issues getting fire insurance on the house with a RMH built in it? (I can't actually watch videos, we're rural so there's no high speed internet available here so I haven't seen the videos) Using less wood would be fantastic, at $240/cord (for 5 cord a year) it's expensive and...