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My dad served... I am a Canadian, and so is he. He has an eye problem and the Canadian Navy turned him down, so he went to the US and volunteered for two tours in Vietnam. He doesn't particularly like to talk about it, and I don't know the details of numbers or what the MOS? is. He worked...

I think I'm going to try this one :) Great idea!

I'd rather invest the money during the year... paycheck by paycheck... even if I'm just saving for something I want, that way I'm making the interest on my own money, not the government. I just set up automatic withdrawals for the savings. Of course now I'm unemployed so it isn't an issue...

I worked night shifts for 4 years, and during that time I would sleep 3-4 hours a day... I just couldn't seem to adjust to the shift. I walked around in a constant sleep deprived daze. Now that I'm a stay at home mom I generally sleep 6-7 hours, interrupted a few times a night by Aeryn waking...

Those little stoves would be perfect for our house... we have a chimney up the middle of the house that has outlets to the dining room and living rooms downstairs, and two of the bedrooms upstairs... maybe that`s what they used to use here.

Congrats! That's exciting :)

ugh... I've still got to wait for the first of April to start mine... I can't wait! I'm still shopping seed catalogues and dreaming about what to plant.

I totally agree... the only baby furniture we had at first was the bassinet, and a changing pad we put on top of our dresser (I had a c-section so for the first few weeks there was no way I could have changed a baby on the floor). I bought used baby clothes online and they stayed in a large...

That a neat idea... we have a toaster oven that need to retire... maybe I could look into making it into a smoker :thumbsup

Yep, the owner of the barn where I kept my horse has a team of belgians and a team of mules... the mules are incredibly smart, but they seem to use that smart to see how they can get out of having to work :) I always thought they looked a lot harder to work with than his horses... but that's...

First of all congratulations on your expanding family! We had our first in November of 2010... and I'm due again on June 29th, or thereabouts :) with our second baby. When we had Aeryn we were living in two rooms of our house due to renos, so we had approximately 300 square feet for two dogs...

That seems like there has to be something wrong with the unit... my parents just had a mini-split heat pump/AC unit installed and although they are using it to heat the house their cost to heat their house for the ENTIRE winter months was $440 last year (that's using heat from October to May, a...

Personally I don't really care what gender the person posting is... I tend to picture the person 'talking' in my brain, but I've been very wrong in some of my male/female assumptions so I try not to do that often :) I'm female... I re-plumbed my house, installed new windows, hung drywall, put...

Oh, I agree... although I'm at the beginning of my self sufficient journey, I love everything I have done for my family so far... my baby ate organic food we picked from the garden together for all her first solid foods. I've been laid off so being self sufficient has become more of a necessity...

Our dog does that too.. he'll get so close he'll singe his fur I love the kitty picture... she's gorgeous.

Hubby and his friends don't consider hunting 'work'... it's a fun day out in the woods with your friends. It usually doesn't take them more than 1 or 2 days to get a deer. Here it's $34 for a buck license, and that gets you ONE buck... there is a draw for the anterless deer licenses, but we...

My dad has a bumper sticker that says 'Grandchildren: the reward you get for not killing your teenagers' I'll admit to owning a $700 stray cat... I picked him up off the side of the road full of worms at 3 weeks old, nursed him to health and now 12 years later I have probably spent about $700...

We're on budget billing too... and I would love to see ours get lower. Right now we're at $305/month... but our winter has been a lot easier than normal so I'm hoping when our rollover time gets here we'll be paying a lower bill. Plus this year we're putting in new windows and a layer of...

I'd love to be able to work horses... there are a couple pairs of belgians at the barn where I kept my horse, they do pulling, plowing, and mostly used for hay and sleigh rides depending on the season. I'd look at smaller, but hardy, thicker breeds of horses/ponies.... like a Fjord or maybe a...

I can't wait... we've been saving FOREVER (or three years), and just ordered 9 new windows... it's like a dream come true now that the house is paid off we can start actually fixing up to livable standards :)