Makes me wonder how people used to go without eggs for about the entire winter, broodiness/raising chicks, + the times of molting/stress thru the other times of the year.
If you could just go with the flow, how would you change your eating habits for the times without eggs?
I plan on getting...
My youngest son (now 17 yrs old) started earlier this year to get me what I truely want.
Easter - Pellet Gun
Mother's Day - Small Hatchet Axe
Christmas - He's asked me about this - he's looking into getting me a inexpensive set of bow/arrows. I'ma gonna try and get him to go with me to Bass Pro...
Same for myself - every holiday, and whenever any stores near me put candles on sale or clearance!
I also go to thrift stores regularly, and I let family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers know that I will take any candles they don't want any longer.
I remelt the candles, and remake them...
I am the exact same way!!
I haven't learned yet how to make any recipe I read "by the book" work, so I have to eyeball my ingredients, and I get asked the same thing! My reply is "I DON'T know - just tweek the recipe for yourself, until you get it the way you like it." HAHAHA
My recipes...
I'd be one to say that you are living more of a good life than they are, If I was your neighbor, I'd be living my life the same way you are - keeping to myself, raising my own food - NOT trying to keep up with the Jones's.
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You can't go wrong here.
Everyone here is at different levels of being self sufficient.
It's hard when you are the only one trying and others around you (family), don't want to give up on anything "convenient". << This is where I am at. :rolleyes:
Look around the Sisters Forums - we...
I wouldn't go anywhere just yet.
12 and 14 are both still too young to leave alone overnight.
16 - only if the child(ren) have proven themselves competent with chores, without being reminded about doing them, knowing how to cook at least one dish
(a simple dish), and both know how to handle/what...
If anyone raises budgies, oatmeal canisters can be used for inexpensive hollowed out trees.
Keeping the lid on, about one fourth way down from top of canister, make a hole just slightly larger than mama budgie (daddy budgie will help feed babies when babies have grown a bit), they do not need a...