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Sometimes we would glue the cut out 'tags onto a paper doily to dress it up a bit. An advent calendar counts down the days to Christmas. It usually has some kind of picture or scene or just a shape(tree,snowman, manger,etc). You open little doors to see a picture, pick out a chocolate, hang up...

Guns, ammo, alcohol, food, we like to eat well, DH says internet, I say no. We have no t.v or radio or newspaper so the only way I get news is the internet, it is the only way I communicate with some of my family and friends. We used to buy good wine, now we buy the boxed wine. It actually has...

Since there is no access to akitchen, how about making mixes. There is a good thread on here about that. Then the girls can take them home and use them. That would be a good Christmas present for their mothers, seasoning packets,pudding mixes etc. I agree about using tools. I made sure my son...

I use any leftover bread, crumbs from sandwiches, etc. to make my own breadcrumbs. I also make croutons now and then. Monica

My neighbor uses their tractor to hold up their horse stall when it gets blown. The latest ones were transplants from my stepmom, they hadn't took hold completley yet. My other ones that I lost last year wasn't from the snow, DH backed into one with the car trailer and bent it, then when I...

It got to be quite a kick while they were guessing. At first it was,'a snowman', a christmas tree', ' present'. Then it ended up ,'a christmas tree, with presents, outside, with animals and bird all around'! They wanted sooo much to guess right , that they would go on and on so they could guess...

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. While I am heating the oven I set the pan of buns on top of the stove with a towel over them and usually they are risen fine by the time the oven is ready. I live in high alt. and we keep our house cool(heater is set at 61*) so sometimes I have problems...

My Mom also put all my school clothes and Christmas presents on lay away. When she got her Christmas club money, she would go pick them up. I have used it a couple of times when my kids were little. We really should now, but I don't think DH would. He is the shopper in the family. I can have...

When my kids were little, I couldn't afford to get any advent calendars, so I came up with my own idea. I took old Christmas cards and cut the fronts off, trimmed around the picture. Cut large 'cards' out of paper bags, folded them and stapled the pictures inside. I drew numbers on the fronts...

We don't drink soda, we allow DGD one now and then. I have used the large ones before for terrariums. DGD and I made a boat for barbies a couple of years ago. I have seen directions for making rockets out of them. Monica

When I want to do an extra clean, I use a mixture of 1/4C. baking soda, 1C. household ammonia, 1/2C.vinegar, 1 gal. warm water. I don't use this much as I don't like using ammonia. When I do use it I also wash the floor a second time with just hot water. I usually just use the hottest water...

I use the same recipe for both types of buns. I usually make the dough in my machine and do the first rise, shape and rise while the oven is heating. When mine turn out harder than I like them , I add a little more water next time. We live in high elevation so I always have to adjust...

Hi Okie! Welcome! Monica

Yes DH did! He made our new tractor pay for itself in about 2 months. If we hadn't had the tractor this would have taken him at least 1-2 yrs, as he has a bad back. I can't wait until he finishes the other side. We were also going to put in a cactus garden but I just lost several cacti to an...

We just got several more telephone poles given to us and it looked as though we had an ongoing supplier. We were just told that CA. just passed a new law saying that Edison Co. MUST cut up all their used poles, put them in the dumster and take them to the LANDFILL!!! Can you imagin all the...

I was told by the friend that gave us the barrel not to use it for anything we would be ingesting, we also live in central CA., unfortunately we get little rain, we get a decent amount of snow. So a rain barrel wouldn't get much use. When we moved here we looked into setting up rain barrels, but...

I have always wanted to grow potatoes in tires but didn't ever have the opportunity. Now that I do, I had been on a thread on the easygarden forum and we were talking about all the toxins leaching out into the soil. I am unsure enough about it to have decided to plant mine in the ground unless I...

DH nixed the camper idea without a thought, he asked what I'd been smoking. He is dead set on scraping the aluminum, oh well. Last year we bought a bunch of telephone poles. DH used tem to build a retaining wall behind our house. The previous property owners made a very small flat surface right...

I am in the process of turning an old castiron pedastal sink into a bird bath. Neighbors gave us lots of chainlink fencing for a dog run but DH measured it and it is only 3' tall! So now I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. I'm thinking for a compost area, DH was thinking a burn area...

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