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I've only ever cooked duck once. The processor I get my dogs' duck from (yes they eat better than us! LOL) gave me one. Told me to treat it like a chicken. So I threw it in a roast pan, stuffed it with a rosemary sage stuffing, buttered the skin and cooked it. The one thing I did like about...

Nightshade, you go a head and vent. As you've already read, many have been and are going through similar. I have no memories when I was young of my mother "healthy". Just after I was born, she was diagnosed with scleraderma - there are two types: tightening of the skin (external) and drying...

DrakeMaiden wrote: breconbcs -- Sounds like you are having a relaxed and productive day . . . I love it when it works out like that! Are you just getting going with soap? Sounds like a good hobby and potential business. I soooo hate it when I run out of potting soil! I have been...

FarmerDenise I'm with you! When I was young and single I worked on horse farms and I loved it. I worked with horses all day and went and was at the barn with my own horse during all free time. Once we got married and started to have kids, I switched to office work. I hate it. My dh calls me...

It's been raining all day here so I can't go out and work on the yard so the dogs and I have been spending today relaxing. I normally try to do that on Fridays anyway. During the summer it is my gardening day so I'm trying to get back into the swing. I always aim to have all housework done...

DrakeMaiden wrote: I agree that the way parents act very much washes off on the kids, though not completely . . . once the kids become old enough they learn more through their friends than their parents, and some can and do change their attitudes and ways. I hear that one! I have a 17 yr old...

DrakeMaiden you are right. I am the first to admit that I picked up some of those "survival skills" when we moved and I still raise my kids with many of them because of the way the world is these days. When growing up it was not "normal" to lock the house, at 6 or 7 I could come and go as I...

I pretty much grew up in the "community" we live in now, we moved in my grade 6 yr to a really large town (which is now a city). My dad was a supervisor at the main plant in town so everyone knew us. And back then, even if you didn't work at that plant, you still new everyone or knew someone...

I keep the juice from the veggies in the freezer and I reheat it. I just bag it up and then throw the bag in hot water to melt, then pour it into a bowl and add the "chips", cover and let it sit. Sometimes it can take a few hours to rehydrate completely. What I like to do is break it up when...

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Pretty easy, I just mix a ground meat, kelp (sometimes dulse instead) and add some veggies. For every pound of meat I use 4 ounces of veggies. These are not the main staple of any of the diets I make them for, this is for ease away from home especially for my camping/backpacking clients. Mix...

Thanks! I really like playing with the soaps, especially playing with the colours - I can't wait to start making my own cold process. I got the molds and soap from http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.ca/ they are in Brampton. I will be buying most of my oils from them for the cp soap. Also...

With the nice weather we've had I've been outside raking and cleaning up the yard and at night helping dh move his workroom over so we can set up a recroom. The weather today hasn't been that great. It's been threating rain but the sun did come out for an hour or two so I decided today I...

We have yet to see our PITA neighbours but we know they will eventually be up. Thankfully they weren't up much last year, and they didn't come up this March break like they usually do. So today with the weather going to be a beautiful 10C and sunny, I think I will spend most of the day outside...

Yup it does Bee. I use my machine that way all the time, I don't like the way my bread turns out when I use it to "bake" it as it always comes out with a really hard crust. Maybe the lady is like my sister's MIL. She can bake like nobody but she masacres a ham or turkey..she can't even do...

I started to collect oil lamps a few years ago and have about 5 or 6 of them now and I'm always going to auctions to add more. DH use to make fun of me cause of it, I've never understood why I started collecting them, but they did come in handy when we were without power for 6 days. I keep...

It really depends on how dirty and rough your kid are on clothes. When my kids were that little I had them outside alot, playing in mud, dirt, etc. so we always had extras in the dressers, I'd say 10 to 14 days worth of clothes that could be mixed and matched. When things get busy or we go...

Right now due to circumstances (mainly by-laws and horrid neighbours) I have to buy mostly from the stores. I do get lamb and mutton from my farmers, I get eggs from the CSA farm I joined for this year. This year, we have found a good spot to put in a smallish veggie garden (we have alot of...

We did participate but only cause dd insisted, she has to do a report on what they did during the hour for class (teacher is gonna love her report :) ). We played Scrabble. We also made sure that she understood our opposition to it - simply that we have strived for the last 6 months (that's when...

Two years ago we lost power for 6 days due to a really bad winter storm. We had a rectifier that connected to the vehicle battery that we used to charge tools when at worksites, the tv and satellite were the first things hubby plugged in. We now have a generator and when we wired the house for...