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Wow... peppers here in Red or Orange are often $3.99 EACH. Green are cheap usually around $1 but often half that in season. My crop was and still is good, I feel blessed.

:thumbsup I know right? I guess too my daughter reminded me that ALWAYS when we come in from an itchy session outside from picking produce or whatever, we go straight to the sink, wet with cold water wash clothes and wipe down our exposed skin, she insists this most always stops any itching...

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Welcome to TN. I cook Army size meals Cuban style, I could share a couple of recipes that I'm including in my cookbook right now I'm trying to publish in a month or so. The fridge... 2 steps. Buy a HUGE bag of baking soda and just dump it out everywhere, and fill trays full,cookie sheets...

what a great measuring tool!

I am very sorry. I must have misread your statement, but I thought you said that there were a variety of valid reasons people "don't/can't send their kids to magnet or private schools, home school, or supplement outside of the school system... " I disagreed with that and do. I can't imagine a...

for sure! :)

I hope I didn't come across as saying that as my daughter is in her 11th year of public school and will graduate at the end of this year. :) We sent her, I posted earlier, for exactly the reasons you mention... a great Band/Music Program and a 5th in the region ROTC program. Because of my...

Really? I feel very strongly that time or money is no reason to push parenting down the to do list. Logistics, money, time, work, familial obligations... these are excuses. These things USED to be the things you did WHILE teaching your kids. If you have a kid, parenting comes first. Even...

These are my costs: $2.50-$3 per pound for chicken (weight with bones) I'd be happy to sell it at that price, but oddly people prefer to buy chicken for dinner only AFTER it's butchered & cleaned... a process that tacks on HUGE expense in supplies & labor. So I charge $4/lb DIY butchering or...

I COMPLETELY understand! We use the public school system as a teaching tool; just not for reading, writing or arithmetic. The lessons learned there are helpful if you want to live in mainstream America, they are mostly social & civic lessons and help you learn adaptability. For instance...

Chores. aren't' chores FUN? DH would think so sometimes I think we haven't done anything fun since we started this homesteading. not cuz we don't want to but because at the end of the day when your not yet done with chores but you have to surrender, there hardly seems like there is anything...

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If the price of petrol goes through the roof, everything will be through the roof as has already been said. To me that means find storage for Sugar Salt Generic Advil, Tylenol & Aspirin Antibiotic Ointments Cookware suitable for flames staples that we should have a couple of years stock...

I think I will look at my choices from now on as an investment. Because, in many ways, I'm sure that is their concern, with my chosen way of life. What will I do, when I get old, how will we live? Where will our retirement money come from? I often worried about these things before too... But...

SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE BLACK SHEEP!!! BaaaaaaBaaaaaa!!! :weee

WBf, my family does not understand my choices either. I've always been just a little off, but since buying this place, they think we've gone off the deep end. Raising our own food, eating our own farmed meat, not allowing our daughter to have everything digital and electronic at her disposal...

OH! DUH!!! Of course!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I managed to get 1 pint of tomato basil sauce made and a 1/2 pint of yellow pear tomato jam.... but what can I bathe them with? I hate to run my canner for just two little jars.... or is this normal?

It looks as though I'll have to remake my apple jelly. I read that using a juicer breaks down the natural pectin, and so even though I'm sure I followed all the OTHER directions perfectly, my juice did not come from the recommended source. I hope it can jell! Here we are Apples for Baking...