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I retired about 6 years ago after a lifetime of processing Social Security claims. I have gardened, ridden and trained horses, grafted trees, and keep goats now with my two retired horses. Give me a cordless drill and I can make build almost anything. I'm scared of electricity but can fix...

When moving to a new place that already has an established house, don't make any big building or fencing projects until at least a year has gone by. Start small and movable. 1) A lot of nice plants may appear at different times of the year- you don't want to have paved them over. Or to the...

I can't believe I lost track of this thread- you can see how the recipe got lost in the first place. Punkinpeep- that is not it but that recipe gave me some new ingredients to tey. sylvie- it must have been in the late 1960's- yes I'm that old and that tells you how good this recipe was if I...

My boers' dress at about 38% with everything but the chops ground. With steaks not being ground it's about 47%

Depending on the variety- a resounding yes. Garlic overwinters with a little care in a cold climate. It probably could use a good mulch to keep it from frost heaving. If you're very cold, I would make it a thick layer. Overwintered garlic usually give the biggest crop in areas not too hot or...

Forgive my being nosey but isn't the sierras snow country?

I love my wood stove- lots of good heat and entertained by watching fire. Wood here is really pricey- you would not think so in the middle of the redwoods but a cord of madrone is $350 delivered and fir $250. I also got three cords of junky wood - whatever deadfalls the county has- from the...

That makes up the Karma balance in the animal kingdom because my goats think I'm evil. For years, I have gone through a gate to put their feed in the bunker- I don't latch the gate because I open another gate to let them out to eat then go back through the unlatched gate. I got away with this...

I have been pleasantly surprised at how popular the gift of my two varieties of garlic has been. One type has a bit of a bite and the other is milder. One is purple striped the other snow white. They make a pretty presentation even though I don't braid them (hard necks.) More people doing their...

I'm so happy about this- it's not even that the political things get so snipy- people have stopped posting useful things in addition.

50x400=20,000 per day is the definition I read of a level producing toxicity. The level Tallman mentioned was 30,000 per day. Still sounds like too much to be unsupervised. I think my info came from the Mayo clinic site which would seem pretty good.

There are few things that naturally have vitamin d. And vitamin D that is added to milk products is not enough for adults. I read in one medical article that an adult would have to drink about 17 glasses of milk each day to get the basic recommended amount. Excess vitamin D (defined in one...

Well-0 since you're eating bee spit anyway, what's a few bee's knees. :D But I can tell you that sue bee honey crystialized pretty darn fast. I wonder if there is a pasturization requirement for honey like for milk. I know I can buy raw honey in a can, but how do they can it without heating...

Well, not anything I wanted to hear anyway. :)

I am fairly paranoid about getting the flu as I have an immune system disease. So when I couldn't get the H1N1 vaccine, I decided to do the old fashioned thing that my Mom enforced on us as a child. I wear gloves while shopping or going to the doctor's, etc. As I had gloves left over from my...

:hit I'm so conflicted! Father was Air Force. Opps no I'm not. BIL's Navy. Along with cousins. Go Navy.:ya

Oh I so agree with this- there is an unsustainable expectation that the corporate leadship has. Every year they want more- how can they think well of themselves unless it is more. So each year they take more and more- fine as long as the pots expanding but they can't let go when it's not. BTW...

Why couldn't the jamaican farmers comptet with the imported milk? It seems they would have as low a cost of manufacture as anywhere without the shipping expenses? I can understand the US market being unable to compete with the increased costs of huge regulation of enviromental issues, wage and...

For me, I take 4000 IU of vitamin D as it helps so much with joint pain. The pain gets so bad without it that I can't even kneel on a cushion. But with it, I do pretty darn well. I take it even though I spend at least a couple of hours outside each day. Of course, outside donesn't...

How can I not put my 2 cents in here? I'm currently reading a book called (drum roll) Robespierre- Portrait of a Revoluntionary Democrat. How very appropriate to this discussion. Robespierre was one of the leading lights (for those not up on theire 18th century French history) of the French...