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Sounds like I'm not the only one in a muddle today and there's good advice just pouring out of people here...so here goes: I am married to dh and live on a property he bought and does not have my name on (even though he only bought it 2 years ago). Our relationship is...difficult, to say the...

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Thanks everyone for your suggestions and all. I think the recommendations about learning basic processes and things is where I need to start. Dace - I'm at work but I'll likely pm you when I can get more thoughts together. I love to "cook." But I realized that my "cooking" is a lot of recipe...

-32...sheesh....I guess I'm gonna have to regret being such a namby-pamby about it being 16 here in the Mid-Atlantic. You and Lupin hang in....sending warm thoughts....

So, I've decided I really don't know how to cook. I'm gonna make my focus this year to learn to cook "peasant food" or staples like polentas, beans, potatoes, etc. I've had all sorts of cooking classes (just call me Becky Home-Ecky) and gourmet cooking - but my goal would be to feel as though...

When I was a wee lass my best friend's dad worked for IBM - when they could only wear white shirts. Her mom sat us down with white shirts that he couldn't wear to work any longer and we cut out hankies and put a small tuckered hem in on their treadle sewing machine. Next, we did placemats with...

Nothing gets you closer to your kitchen scraps than watching them rot. My method is oh-so-scientific: We have a cinder block wall down by the woodlot....just a wall is there - maybe 2 courses high, 3 in spots. I pile my piles up against that. I have the new pile, the older pile and the...

Thanks! I never had much luck freezing them - but I had been taking the skins off and wrapping them.

I LOVE you - thank you. One of my tasks today was to find a recipe to use the 6 bananas left from the bag bananas on sale. Question for you: I don't have any nuts and we're getting an ice storm today so I'm NOT going to the store on my home - is it any good without them?

You've got rain coming - we've got ICE on the way (an' lemme tell you - I prefer my ice in my margaritas). You were so productive today! What're we having for dinner tomorrow? :)

*sniff* Thank you. :) :hugs

I was teasing....

January 5. Back to the Evil Empire today and feeling really depressed - and then really mad at myself for being so small about something petty. For one thing - they supposedly celebrate the birthdays in the month at that month's staff meeting. Well, the only other person besides me with a...

January 4. Tick-tick-tick...the clock is winding down to I have to return to the Evil Empire tomorrow, bright and early. With all I've been through there, it's only the promise of giving notice in 6 weeks that keeps me going. :) Today I got the chicken wire and stuff that my brother bought...

Sweetie, I don't know if you're close enough to Berkeley Springs but my friend out there goes to a place...it's either there or in Hancock. All dents but the owner is careful to get only "good" ones (no bulging tops or anything like that). My friend says it's GREAT.

OH HECK YEAH. Mine was a beater by the time I got it (1974, 6 months before I had a license) but I LURVED that car. It had all sorts of handy features - like those little wing windows. My door handle broke and so I had to reach in that wing window to get the thing open. The OTHER great...

I saw this in a Countryside Magazine freebie I got. I'm planning raised beds this spring out here at Chez Edgemont because digging ANYTHING is a guaranteed trip to boulder-land. So you really just lay this stuff down and cut through it to plant then? How deep?

I was just thinking of "Ron" of Ronco. That guy was on speed or something. ;) If you want a copy of the booklet I'll make you one. Great tip on freezer paper! Thanks, everyone!

Hey - this is great, Beekissed! I do ear-candling and there's all the foul earwax you could WANT in those things when I'm done. :lol: I could go commercial!

My father REQUIRED us kids to be able to change a tire, change an air filter, inspect the oil and tranny fluids, air the tires, and change the oil before he'd sign off to let us get our licenses. That was back when I parked my Model T under the shade tree to do that stuff, by the way. :lau...