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I have trouble convincing people of this, but Nubian milk really does make better soap. I'm sure it's the higher butterfat content. I recently added a couple of Nubian crosses to my herd, just for the milk. Now, before I offend anyone, let me say any good, fresh goat's milk will make a...

Those new pots and pans got quite a workout today. I made a huge macaroni and ham salad with home grown peas, green beans and carrots and then tonight threw together a variation on rice crispie squares. Now, with any luck, the sores in my mouth will heal quickly and I'll actually be able to...

Haven't posted lately, since not too much is going on here, other than trying to deal with the maddening side effects of the chemotherapy. Feeling like I have been recently, I'm not as attentive as I should be and thanks to DH's forgetfulness, my favorite T-Fal pan got ruined. The big dutch...

QA, you are so lucky to have a rot resistent species of tree to make posts from. Around here, I have no choice but to buy pressure treated posts if I want something that will last more than 5 years.

:welcome I first fell in love with homemade soaps shortly after getting my first goats. Another goat enthusiast introduced me to goat milk soap and I was hooked, but I didn't try making my own for almost 10 years. Now, I can't get enough of the stuff. I, too, just started turning this into a...

Congrats on Gwen's chicks. Here's hoping several of them are hens, too, and can carry on the line.

Lori, I firmly believe that most things we face in life are meant as lessons or tests and if this whole thing was intended to get me over my fear of needles, I failed! :D I can, at least, tolerate them now. As a kid, they needed at least two nurses to hold me down. I feel great at the moment...

I'm so glad to hear the removal was easy. I'm a whimp, too. :D They were able to draw blood today with no problems whatsoever for the INR (test of how thin the blood is) but the Dr. wasn't happy with the test results so he has increased my warfarin dosage again.

Ann, before the DVT developed, I was going in once a week to the clinic to have the PICC line flushed and the dressing changed, but I had to go in anyway for blood work, so it worked out okay. Now, I give myself the shot of Noxoparin in the abdomen and the rest of the meds are oral. I haven't...

Of that, I am absolutely certain! Since this whole thing started, I have found an inner strength far beyond anything I would have expected.

I'm not on heparin, I'm on Enoxaparin, which is injected subcuatenously into the fatty tissue of the abdomen. Luckily, I've got lots of fatty tissue there! :D Orally, I'm on Warfarin...yes, rat poison! Did you administer the heparin yourself or did you have to go to a clinic? If the latter...

Well, I'll have to do them for a few more days anyway but eventually it will be just the oral stuff.

Yes, I'm in the middle of my second battle with breast cancer. The first was two years ago. The chemo then fried all the veins in my left arm, so I insisted on the PICC line this time. Despite the problems now with the DVT, I'm still glad I had it put in. The chemo and weekly blood work have...

What a roller coaster this week has been! It started on Monday when I went to see my family doctor about a sore spot under my left arm. I was really worried it might be a sign the cancer had spread, but that is also right where my PICC line is, so I also thought it could be something to do...

Thanks everybody for all the great suggestions. I'll try the roux the next time I make a cream soup. I've got a hankering for some hamburger soup, though, so that will be my next project.

Our new neighbors up the road stopped by this afternoon with a little friend...a black miniature horse that had shown up at their place. They first saw him about a week ago but couldn't catch him. Today, he was standing in their yard with a look that said, "okay, I give up. Help me." They...

You wanna talk huge? Some grain farmers out here farm 100 quarters. That's 16,000 acres!!! :ep Of course, they are also the same people who own or lease 5 or 6 brand new combines at several hundred thousand dollars a piece and have 2 or 3 semi trailer trucks sitting around their yard, etc...

I did make sort of a white sauce with margarine, corn starch and milk, and it was quite thick when I added it into the soup, but it just sort of disappeared. Maybe I didn't use enough?

Taking advantage of the fact I'm feeling pretty good right now, I decided to make a big pot of soup last night. I made potato-bacon, one of my favorites. It turned out okay, tastes great, but it's not nearly as thick or creamy as I'd like. How do other folks thicken their cream soups?

Here in Sask. the term "quarter" has a very specific meaning. It refers to a quarter section of land, or 160 acres. When land was being parcelled out to homesteaders way-back-when, it was divided up into "sections" that were one mile square, which worked out to 640 acres. Each section was...