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It turns into extra pounds on people's thighs?? :D

I didn't read all the posts so my apologies if someone has already said this but I do have a system for getting the bags back into the truck. I simply empty it in the kitchen and hang it on the door knob of the door heading out to the garage. Then the next time I go out through the garage (my...

If you want a good meat goat, get a boer cross. My favorite goat is 3/4 boer and 1/4 nubian. She's big, a good mother, is fun and easy to handle. There are a lot of partbreds out there that will probably be more disease resistant and produce bigger babies than full bloods or purebreds at a...

Pasturization is not a whim of the milk industry. People used to die fairly often because of bacteria in milk. I can remember stories about deaths from toxins in stuff the cows ate when I was a kid. Listeria passes quite easily through into milk and can kill unborn babies. Just because...

ORChick- see- I'm sll shook up. :D Earthquakes are funny. The Richter scale is based on power released I think. Anyway- we went through something that was closer to 7 than this one but it was in slow motion- lasted almost 2 full minutes, enought time to get curious and walk outside to watch...

Thanks for your concern. I was definately not calm. In all my years of earth quakes, this is the first on that actually got my heart beating faster. I think it was because it started with a jolt and kept getting bigger. But then there was a large jolt at the end and it stopped. But for a...

I might be cautious about planting more- you will probably be unable to get rid of them as it is- I planted them and was pulling them out for years. Some people have a bad reaction to eating them so getting yourself accustomed to them by starting slowly is good. They have something that causes...

Thank goodness for my backup generator. Hi from earthquake central for today. It was a scary one. Chandeliers swinging and drawers open by themselves. It was a 6.5 which is not horrible large but it was close to the surface and could be strongly felt- About 11 aftershocks so far. I'm about 7...

You should write these things down- they will be much harder to come by when she's 13-22. It will help to be able to remember that that loving child is in there somewhere and will show up again. :)

At one point long ago, I went on a binge of saving glass jars for various uses (not canning.) I soon found out that most of the various lids could only be used on that particular glass jar as the threads and lid sizes rarely matched. And I really couldn't get the lids as clean as I wanted...

How did you not have anything to do with it? Congratulations on one of the biggies.

They said they removed them from the site and apologised for offended people???!!!!!

This is going to be a stretch for me but I finally worked up enough nerve to clip two of my old dog's nails. She had such arthritis that her feet look like a bag of marbles and she has always hated to have her nails clipped. The screams- the running away if she saw the clippers in my hand. the...

Well- bragging a bit I suppose but...... I have ridden horses for years. Almost all my horses have been commended for their even dispositions and cooperative behavior. This has always irked me a bit even though I love to have my animals admired, it was because more than one of them were...

From what is the settlement? If it is from insurance or a lawsuit, it might be tax free. If it is, I would use some of it to start a Roth IRA. You can do a bank account or CD, but what a chance to get that started. My thing with "found" money is to get one fun thing, pay off outstanding bill...

OK- queen of humidity here. I live in a place that has constant fog and rain for a good part of the year. 1) You need a stove vent to the outside- that is imperative. One that simple filters the steam and puts it back into the room will not work. 2) Put your bathroom ceiling vent on a timer-...

I have a few bigger things I want to do this year- 1)re-do one goatshed so it is larger, more functional and does't look like a reject from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. 2) Build covered shed-ish thing along fence to cover wood from rain. 3) Build ramp from hayshed porch to ground so as to not have...

It occurs to me that I simply spend money as it becomes available without much of a plan. I like to think that I buy usefull and neccessary things but I don't think that I am as directed as I should be. Do you have a "five year plan" so to speak? How to decide what to do and how?

I think a more useful question would be what can I do to assure that my community was as prepared as possible and how do I get enough training to be useful to anyone in a bad situation. Not a good way to phrase a question- do I let the fat, old or criminal die first. Sheesh..............

Born to ride horses- never had a goal- just start out and turn around when I'm tired. In fact I had "round- the-next-bend-itis." Or a "I-think-we-can-get-through-here" reputation. Well- my horse did it- I can't help it if your horse won't. Can't think of one ride that I did not enjoy some...