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Thanks! I started researching bilge pumps with the link you gave me. **hugs**

OMG!! Sorry I didn't respond. Thanks for the suggestions. It was INDEED a snowy winter for us. We bought a Troybuilt medium sized--$600.00--snowblower in January and boy did we use it!! This is the 3rd year in a row that the Farmer's Almanac was right, and NOAA wasn't.

I'm growing garlic...under a row of 20 foot tall pine trees. I raised the crown on them about 5 years ago, and I've been fighting weeds. SO...I'm growing ANYTHING that wants to reseed or bulbs that want to multiply. I ran out of time last year, but this Spring I'll be removing a 2 x 5 ft...

DH calls the deeper one a "cistern", but I believe it is a well. We live on the original farm property in this town and this was THEIR well. Thanks for the suggestion. It gives me a good starting point. :D

I live on a 5-acre, used to be, farm. I keep horses and chickens and I garden. We live on the westmost street of a little 200 person (maybe) town and the town gets city water, which we use, too. I have both a shallower cistern, right next the house AND a well that I was told, 15 years ago, was...

beekissed, that is an excellent article on how to darn a sock. I never know to do it this way. Thanks for sharing!! DD's have bought and left so much yard (for projects) that I'll never run out, so now I know what I can do with it!

Agreed with everything above. Check our Dave Ramsey and learn to BUDGET. When you have more coming in than going out you are $'s ahead. If you can afford it, go to tankless water heating. WE have had one for 7 years now, and you never pay to heat hot water that you aren't already using. If you...

You don't have to recycle just one item to make a recycled something. a few years ago I bought 9 yards of fleece that resembled the old Hudson Bay wool blanket, the candy striped kind, except that the stripes went long instead of a few straight across. It just sat in a bag for a year until I...

We went tank less about 8 years ago. I love it. What people are surprised with is the "cold sandwich" when the cold water in the line needs to be emptied ahead of the hot water. I've been watching "This Old House" and they now make a hybrid tank less, which continually heats about 15 gallons...

They are. We usually hatch about 1/2 of what we put in the incubator. I suppose you could charge per LIVE chick. It's a lot like when somebody pays stud fees for a live foal, so that somebody can bring their mare back for another cover.

I have the best results doing the same thing. I also have canned cold filled jars in the cold water canner, then heated both up, BUT sometimes they have leaked even though I use those rubber grips and really turn them closed. When I go hot filling into hot jars into boiling water, and...

For anybody with this problem, check out your hardware store and look for drill bits that remove stripped screws. I live in a 100 yo house and we encounter stripped screws here and there and often. Glad you got your out. I'm gonna have to try vinegar bc I use it for a LOT of other things.

We're looking at a snowy winter, according to the Farmer's Almanac. My horses got their coats early, we just had snow last night--it's still stuck, even though it's noon now--and our old snowblower died two years ago. We've had 3 very mild winters, so I guess we're due. What are your thoughts...

Don't ever get them bc I buy whole beans in bags and grind my coffee. BUT, it's hard to imagine not finding a use for them. Sewing supplies, carrying out animal feed in small portions, gardening (seeds and small parts for tools). Just remember to label your plastic cans. Masking tape and...

emerald, we went tankless about 7 years ago. It has advantages and disadvantages. First, they last about 10 years. Second, you get that "cold sandwich", as plumbers refer to it, so you need to run the water a couple of minutes if no one else has run hot water for anything. On the other hand...

I discovered those blackout curtains last November. I bought them about 10 inches short of the bottom of my 2 west and north windows in my downstairs guest bedroom. WHAT a difference it is making in the temperature of the room! I can still have plants on tables next to the windows, too. I'm...

They aren't the cheapest but I really like those flat pots that expand after you plant and water them. You need to transplant but not when they are tiny and vulnerable. Also, put 3 seeds in every pot, except for really hardy seeds, like turnips. At some point you have to choose, if they all...

WOW! You guys really came through!! =D Great ideas. Right now, I remove my big tank around mid-December, and store IT under the canoe and it's rack, and fill my smaller, rubber waterers, the ones that hold ~20 gallons of water. If it's empty, my QH "Buster" will move it and then I have to...

One more thing--when you finish your "to do" lists, break your jobs down into much smaller ones, so that you don't dread and procrastinate getting them done. It took me FOREVER to figure THIS one out. =b

This means, don't let your frugality become your religion, and interfere with and become MORE IMPORTANT than your personal relationships. There is a balance. When I am not sure, I pray about it.