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Where did everybody go? can't answer for anyone else, but my computer turns ON after I come in from outdoor work. At least today. Before earth oven comes yard cleanup, chicken coop repairs, bulk trash to curb, digging for fall wildflower planting (to bloom next spring), second firewood stand...

I had a $300 electric bill last winter with my electric heat, and I barely got the house above 66 that month - that is with fresh caulk, fresh wood around the windows, covered attic vents, curtains, quilts over windows, draft blockers, the works. We had a cold front that set 100 year records and...

They are both beautiful! I have stone. I have cinderblock. I don't have brick but could get, I do know how to mix concrete. I don't know how to regulate and test temperature in an earth oven, but after it is built I will figure that out. Unless a used propane or gas built in turns up before I...

Milk and cheese, especially cheese, cause my migraines, because I am allergic to dairy. And a non-dairy diet is almost certainly natural because the stuff is in everything processed. I tested allergic to milk when I was a teen, but it didn't get to be a problem with the headaches until my late...

This is my policy. Only I very rarely get around to telling them at all. I lived over 10 years in my old neighborhood, and a couple of hundred people were fine with it - and back then I wore a pentagram, but when I moved here, with the business and the mortgage, it just didn't seem so important...

Well, the day I have to have my septic pumped is probably the day I will HAVE to hook up to city sewer. But my corner lot is my drain field, and it is almost pure sand on the back half of it, where the field is. Unless we get a foot of rain a couple of times a week, it doesn't even slow down. I...

I was just about to ask what to do with the ashes. I've had to clean the stove out twice so far, and the ash went in the trash. I have a gravel drive that could do with less grass... :D

My kitchen is too small. The oven heats the house up too much most of the year, most years. I have shopped camping ovens today via the internet, and they run $150 and up. Outdoor ovens, $2000 and up. What if I took an old gas oven that didn't work, and retrofitted it with grill burners the...

I'm hoping I can get them to help with the bee-keeping, at least I've got the bee-spraying slowed down. We lost all of the neighborhood bees in June 2010 when a rent house owner discovered they were "squatting" in her house. Bad removal, lots of poison used, couldn't get anything pollinated...

Good for her. And now, I must go to work! Business is too slow, have to put a mailer out.

I don't know if I blend in precisely, but I get along. People know me. I've taken care of the feral cat population, the ones the coyotes didn't wipe out, for years. I feed em, trap em, get em fixed, and keep feeding them. Purina dog chow. We no longer have 100's of cats raiding trash. Used to...

I've been in Texas since 1976. pagan since 1987. People were more tolerant in the late 1980's, early 1990's, although a pentagram could get you fired back then. Now you can wear one to work, but people are more afraid of differences I think. and the difficult economy makes it a very competitive...

I am very deep in the broom closet by the way. I own and run a small business. Have beautiful pagan bumper stickers, in file folders in the office. Thanks for the firesafe tip. If I really need to light one they usually end up in my stainless steel kitchen sink. Or the bathtub. LOL

Kinda glad to see a circle around here. I've read the Bible, appreciate it, but it's not for me. I converted back in about 1987. Don't do much for Samhain anymore, no time, in the middle of switching between fall and winter. I watch the Moon, watched Jupiter conjunct it a few weeks ago...

Is this what happens when someone DOESN'T start a journal around here? :gig:gig

Mine was freezing in less than 15 minutes in their coop last winter. I couldn't keep them halfway watered. My coop and run were built to shed heat, not hold it in. If we get another freeze like that, the hens are moving to the greenhouse I just built/ had built (my crew framed it out and set...

Well, the Dallas Craigslist had no food, but free firewood in 3 different places. A friend of mine has oak - I'm going to see how much she has first - they have fallen trees every year but no fireplace. So, I am thinking it is not possible to eat for free off Dallas Craigslist in winter anyhow...

I guess I should investigate Craigslist, so far I've confined my internet "time-wasting" (which is not a waste) to BYC, SS and Beesource. I do like that list of questions at the beginning. I had something useful to say but my brain says it's past my bed time and it is rebooting. So I guess I'll...

I don't know how anyone has time to read all of the journals. Between work, home improvement, trucks, dogs, cats and garden, I do not have time. But I would never take that quiz you took at the beginning. I know what you mean about identity theft options. I give out more info than I ought to...

You ARE up north. I find it helps me to know what area a person is talking from, as far as gardening, or heat, etc. I learned to really do that on BYC . com, as the problems in the north, with chicken's feet freezing to their perch, were a lot different than I faced down here. Although when we...