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Hi Joel, thanks for checking in :) we're fine, not really affected as we are on high ground, although my husband wasn't allowed to go in to work downtown since Thursday until today, and today's commute took forever. Many people along the two rivers that flow through our city were evacuated from...

(:hide she did say "just halve this if you are doing pints") That said, I always soak overnight--no gas issues that way :)

I make 2 or 3 pints of yogurt at a time, starting around 9am. I place two frozen yogurt cubes (I use purchased Greek yogurt and whole homogenized milk) made in an ice cube tray in each pint jar to thaw. I measure and heat the milk to just below boiling, then cool till I can comfortably stick...

Sounds like you are keeping busy! Hope you had a great time at the Pow Wow and that you managed to find a piece of jewelry that you like :)

I do have a foamer for hand soap in the "powder room" (aka useless bathroom that doesn't have a tub/shower) but we use bar soap everywhere else. Don't tell anyone, but I just put dish soap in the foamer--takes very little and (I hope) no one knows I don't actually buy liquid hand soap.

Been wondering myself, hope they are just keeping busy with things and will be back again soon!

I just use a cheese grater, the finer side :) I've never seen Zote soap, so don't know if it will grate the same way that Sunlight does though :hu

I do this too, but don't use the foamer :)

Get yourself a rain barrel with a tap on the bottom (or a rubbermaid garbage can and separate "rain barrel tap") and hook your black hose/s up to that. Then connect a nozzle on the end that has a shut off--we have a watering wand that came with this, and the wand disconnects from the shut-off...

This, totally. (Hi Gina :frow ) I only wash kitchen towels and occasionally whites hot--everything else gets washed cold :) (Although sometimes in the winter when it's -20C and the cold water is VERY cold I will run loads on warm.)

:welcome A black rubber hose left out in the sun full of water gets very hot, as does a "camping solar shower" which is a 5 gallon thick black plastic bag with a shower nozzle that you can get from any camping department (e.g. at Wal-Mart) or store (e.g. Bass Pro, Cabela's), so I'm sure just...

Lettuce doesn't really keep, you can make it last a week or so by vacuum sealing it in mason jars, but that's about it. Succession planting and eating a lot of salad is how we manage the ongoing lettuce harvest :) When we have a glut of anything from the garden (as always happens at some...

Yeah, I use the larger pots because my south facing deck gets quite hot and the heat/light bounce around from two sides of the house plus the large deck surface all day. When we first moved into this house we found that some plants in smaller pots didn't fare too well and assumed it was too...

I've grown several types of peppers in pots as well, on our deck. Totally agree on not watering too often. Our containers are more like 5 gallon bucket size, we use larger planting containers for our container plants so the roots don't get too hot, but no idea if that's a big deal or not. I...

If you are looking for a "magic bullet", it's going to be tough to find one--gardening takes work and constant care. :) That said, I don't do much extra to my gardens and most veggies do well each year. My soil is heavy alkaline clay, so my raised beds are filled with compost that I buy by...

:hugs so glad you were there for your friend.

My parents were part of that 70s movement, and both grew up on farms/orchards in the 40s and 50s, so a lot of that knowledge passed down to me. I've always had a garden, even when I was first married and living in apartments or basement suites we always had a container garden on the patio for...

I live at altitude (3500') and in an area of the Rocky Mountain Foothills that regularly gets Chinooks, warm winds that race down the east side of the Rockies every few weeks throughout the colder months. The pressure changes brought on by these wild temperature swings affect many people in my...

I've been busy lately with my Girl Guides unit (like Girl Scouts) and we have been doing a lot of hiking and getting ready for camp. Something we have to think about whenever we head out is a list of "survival" necessities known as the "10 essentials". The essentials of life are pretty basic...

"Couldn't dream of" is probably the key--so many things we have access to today are not necessary for living a full and happy life. I think this all the time. When you google anything prepper-related such as food storage you find all sorts of people who have basements and other storage rooms...