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What about keeping livestock seasonally? Build up a flock in the spring, process them in late fall, vacation until spring. Keep calves for a year, then take a year off. That's one of my ideas for after we retire, since we want to travel and what not, but we also want to keep some livestock (need...

What the other posters said ... We had a small forested lot behind our house, we thought about buying it but didn't. Now we can look right into our new neighbor's house from our living room. No privacy, unless we keep the blinds drawn.

Funny thing, whenever I look for fish-in-a-barrel success stories--with pictures--by people who've actually done it and harvested fish from their barrel, I can't find any. I did find a blog by a guy who almost did it, but lost all his fish when the electricity went off. If any of you can find a...

We will be entertaining a vegetarian guest, who eats fish but no meat. We can do that. We will be on the Oregon coast so we will have lots of salmon and crab, and maybe we'll be able to forage for mussels. Homegrown foods will include our potatoes and garlic, local foods (besides the fish) will...

Got one of those princesses at my workplace right now who is making a play for a coworker ... her husband is clueless. None of us wants to witness it (we all have work to do), but she is too self-centered and oblivious to think of the distraction she creates. Nice. Divorce is expensive, and a...

I think some men--not all, mind you--are arrested in development at about age 12. When they marry, their wife takes the place of their mother. So wives spend their married lives cleaning up after their husbands, scolding to no effect, and building up tremendous rage because their men will not or...

Scott Nearing was in his 50s when he and his wife Helen moved to their self sufficient farm. Amongst other projects, he hand-built several stone buildings, using stone he quarried himself. So most of us are not too old to begin with self sufficiency. I hark back to my grandad, born in 1900. In...

Yeah, with the last kid fixin' to leave home this spring, I've taken the opportunity to really clean house. I've dredged out two upstairs rooms that are currently vacant, and after getting them all nice and tidy, I will turn around and fill them with sacks and buckets. Maybe I'll use spring...

Even the expensive cartridge-style razor heads will last much longer if you thoroughly rinse them and dry them after use. I hate them, because they are so expensive and they turn into plastic garbage after a week or so. I can't get my hub to use anything else, and it -is- his face, to he gets to...

I expect people everywhere are unprepared. It is human nature to avoid thinking about worst case scenarios. Where I live, we haven't had a bona fide wide spread disaster since about 1962 (or was it '63). That's when a wayward typhoon made landfall in Oregon and made a royal mess of things for...

Hey, our farm is in Harrisburg, just a hop and a skip from Junction City. We don't live there right now (we live in Springfield), but we have a large garden there and some chickens. Our tenant looks after everything (she is an angel). I find that part of the valley very lovely. We have a problem...

This topic occurred to me as I was cleaning out our shoe closet the other day. I ended up with a laundry basket of worn out shoes, and another with lightly worn shoes that had been outgrown or were unsuitable for other reasons. One bag went to the dump, the other to the Goodwill. I assessed my...

You can make focaccia with that AP flour. Here's a link to a basic recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-focaccia-bread/detail.aspx. You can top it with anything or eat it plain. I like to put sea salt, rosemary and chopped garlic on mine. It can be split for sandwiches or topped like a...

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Crumbly bread can also result from using "soft" wheat flour (like all purpose flour) with low gluten. Hard red wheat makes a loaf with a good crumb. The soft wheats have their place, but they are not the best for bread baking. I make 1 loaf a week now. There are only three of us at home, and...

My grandparents in Iowa had an extensive cellar under their 100+ year old farm house. The largest part had a concrete floor, and was used to store all sorts of junk, including furniture. It was fairly dry. Grandma had her wringer washer down there and that's where she did the laundry. It's also...

I wonder what he was looking for ... bullets? Found one.

I do "grow" my own honey. I filter it, but the ultra-filtration described in the article is a different process. The honey is the best I've ever tasted. Store honey just does not compare. Buy local honey--it's not very expensive and it is often excellent.

We are having Shepard's pie, which is the same as turkey hash topped with mashed potatoes. Tomorrow, turkey enchiladas. Sunday, Turkey noodle soup. I cooked a 14 lb turkey for the three of us, and I put enough turkey, dressing and yams in the freezer for four more turkey dinners.

Those little stale marshmallow shapes in Lucky Charms are my personal favorite--the rest of the cereal is bland. Crunchberries smell like plastic to me, but I love regular Cap'n Crunch. Does anyone remember Krispy Kritters? That was our most favorite cereal of all. We got a record of all the KK...