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our oil based stain was applied to thick, and as it seemed ok to walk on.... we had an event and well, someone's shoes dissagreed with the stain it was a hot day and a week after the stain was applied we now have some sole tread marks on several boards even though we were trying to stay...

so we have two bat houses attached to our house, the painter want to remove to see if there is wood damage behind the bat houses, I am not sure that is safe, I don't want anyone getting rabies from bats waking up what should I do, leave the bat house and paint around them? is it safe to...

so we got the chicken pox and are trying to stay comfy and clean but one blister is almost as big as a dime, and is puss filled and the area around the blister is all red, I am looking on line and all they tell you these days is how to get shots to prevent and the dangers of infected wound I...

but the tile is sound is there a way to really clean it up and have it look nice I might need to regrout can I just do that in spots if I regrout will mold come in from the back wall if if if there is mold back there and the caulk looks moldy deep down, is there a way to take out the caulk...

on is a free standing A frame ladder that stands about 4 feet tall and the other extends to must be 20 feet or so they keep leaning in different areas of my house inside and out, I get tired of them, I google ideas for them but just can't seem to pass them along just yet I don't think they...

we are over run in an area with weeds, and moss I think I read that a natural weed control is better ph I don't want to apply some chemical thing for weeds because last time I did that I lost tons of little natural native spring bulbs so is lime or ash the best way to go to sweeten I could...

I have a young self suffient type in my life who likes to make things with his hands I was thinking that for Christmas it would be cool to get him making his own jigs as that fosters along his interest in fishing and would be better than time wasted on video games...(not quite sure if he could...

hi there I have been experimenting with bone broths, wanting to make really long simmering broth, as I understand that you can simmer as long as 72 hours now usually I make my broth in crockpot and over night I just keep it on warm so that no bad guys have a chance to grow in there but...

it has been warm and my apples were going over ripe to soon in the house so I put them on the porch, and now I have squash, a nice amount and it is finally getting cooler out, will apples and squash be ok on covered porch of house when temps hit frost? how about freezing? in the past I have...

so yesterday I rendered tallow, got several jars now of white self sealed tallow on my counter, I am understanding that tallow should be stable and safe to keep at room temp once rendered, some of my jars have some brownish specks on the bottom like meat residue or what ever, so the whole jar...

oops! in the past we used a tarp to cover wood, I am looking for something bit nicer not sure though if it is worth the effort, we are going to take an old tin cheapo shed down to make shed out of scrap windows and wood, I have been toying with using the tin one for wood shed but...

my dog is always sniffing around the steps that lead up to our deck that is attached to a porch, I get the feeling something wants or does live there, there is plenty of room too so I am concerned, I know in the past cats have lived there in the winter, (could smell em) and maybe some mice or...

http://overruledmovie.com/ self sufficient parenting 101, keeping (protecting) the right to raise our children as we choose, not how big brother chooses for us at the whim of whomever may happen to be in charge that day... if they can tell us how to raise our kids, what can't they tell us to...

I ask because I have had diarrhea for a week now, I thought I had the flu but now that I still have this yucky symptom I am starting wonder if I should go to doc I am very tired of this thanks

so I finally tried mine yesterday, and well some of my bags aren't as tightly pushed down (sucked in) as I had hoped, does that mean I need to do those over? I am guessing yes, I have seen videos of mylar bags that are all sucked in tight like I am guessing I didn't do my initial pushing...

well, I didn't realize it had to be stored in the refrigerator before it was even opened, this organic tart cherry juice was found in my cabinet, plastic looking jug was bulging, is it just changing into wine or vinegar, or should I toss because it may be some sort of poison? thanks for the...

oh I get milk from several sources, this one I have been going to for a while now, and have been happy with, he loves his cows, he feeds them well, does everything very natural (no hormones and such) well, this last batch when I was ladeling from my big 5 gallon bucket into my glass jars had...

we just got our beef back from being processed, and well it turns out they tried to cover a mistake by just giving us "other ground beef in place of our grass fed ground beef, they claim the cooler broke and all the ground beef thawed, but everything else was still hard frozen even though we...

I've got homemade buttermilk from raw milk that must be two maybe three weeks old, it has seperated, now when I make more I use a little of the old to make a new batch and it seems like any buttermilk over 2 weeks old doesn't produce buttermilk for me again anyhow Ive got almost a half gallon...

certainly all of mankind did not power wash the deck then seal it? or did they,lol I have a treated lumber deck that I think I ought to seal just to help the wood last longer, (I am thinking that if the water doesn't soak in that would help the wood?) anyhow I am bout to do my every few years...