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I'm trying to figure out how much it costs to make my soap, but I'm having a hard time figuring how to convert the 3 L bottle of olive oil to oz (weight, not volume). :barnie Can anyone help?

The USDA is having a series of webinars on some great subjects! Here's the link . 2011 Fall Webinar Series Wednesday, October 5 Webinar: The Basics of Home Canning with Elizabeth Andress, Ph.D., food safety specialist with Georgia Cooperative Extension and Professor in the Department of Foods...

DSS (8- 3rd grade) and DSD (6=1st grade) are new readers and I'd love some tips on how to help them. DSD has struggled with reading the whole time in school. He has worked with a reading specialist/teacher all through school so far, and he has really come a long way. Last year it started...

My MIL has had lichen planus for a year now. She has a rash all over her arms, legs, body, etc. (pretty much everywhere but her face). She's been to the dermatologist several times. She's tried prednisone, which helped relieve the awful itching but really didn't help the rash. I've read it...

I have 2 bushels of apples, one of Golden Delicious and one of Rome. The Rome's were a little disappointing...nice and crisp but pretty "dry" and not too sweet. I'm definitely doing applesauce/butter with the Golden Delicious. I'm also going to dry a good bit because I love snacking on...

Ok, I know there is another thread about Irene (and NYC) but I wanted to start one for those of us on the east coast so we could check in. Also, I'd love to hear about where people are located (not too much info, just state) and what you've done to prepare. It's also great if we could check in...

I just bought a 4 month old pair of Royal Palms....for $10 each!!! :weee I can't believe I got such a great deal! Now I hope to have them, plus a breeding pair of my Buffs for next spring. :clap

Has anyone ever heard of it or taken a class there? Each year I get the catalog and then spend weeks dreaming about all the classes I'd like to take. I can't quite afford it though, but eventually my sister and I would love to take a class there every year. They offer so many kinds of...

My friend would like to can some soup, but she's never used a pressure canner. I've offered to lend her mine, but she doesn't have a recipe for the beef and barley soup. Does she need to do anythign different to her normal soup to can it? I'm imagining it's just a beef stock with beef (ground...

:barnie Today is someone's birthday at work and the secretary just went around asking for money to buy a cake. We've got about 14ish people working here, and that's a LOT of birthdays! We decided over a year ago to stop doing birthdays because it just got too expensive, but now for some reason...

I just put all my jars (4 pints and 5 half pints) of tomato juice in the canner and checked my Ball book for processing time and realized I forgot the lemon juice. :/ Do you think it'll matter? Shouldn't the tomatoes be acidic enough by themselves? The juice is made of Sungolds and nothing...

To eat my neighbor's tomatoes!!! :he :he :ep Neighbor across the street came over today and talked to DH. He was pretty mad. Some type of our poultry (I suspect the guineas) pecked all his red tomatoes (his first ones I think! yikes!) and even his baby watermelon. :barnie I was downstairs...

Just curious how you knew you wanted kids or knew you didn't want kid. I've got 2 stepkids and I'm not sure if I want my own biological child one day or not. Some days I think yes, some days I think heck no. :P I'm 30 now, so I've got time to make a decision, but it doesn't seem like an easy...

I'm not a great onion grower. Apparently they need a weed-free zone, and I'm just not that diligent to weed around them. My typical garden plan is this: plant and then forget about it for weeks. :lol: So anyways, I just went and weeded the garden bed for the first time since they were...

:D Sounds like a fun topic, right? My turkeys have black poo, and it's pretty runny. Should I be concerned? They are otherwise healthy looking and active. Oh, and they are about 7 weeks old now. Buffs and a Slate, if that matters. :)

:rant I hate them!! I've had one for what feels like forever (probably about 5 days). They're viruses, right? Or am I thinking of coldsores? I've tried warm saltwater and Listerine and neither is helping. Is there anything I can do to shorten the time? If they're viruses probably not...

I'm rich! :lol: I won a weight-loss challenge competition at work. We had 1 month to see who lost the most body percentage, and I won....lost a whopping 3.75 lbs by doing not much different. Go me! :P So, I won $40! I'm not sure what I should do with the money though. I'd like to...

Forgive me if this has already been posted, but I saw on the news there were a few tornadoes in Mass. last night. Is everything ok your way? And anyone else in the area?

This is really weird, but I was wondering if anyone here has experienced the same thing. It seems when I eat very ripe bananas (when I can actually choke them down..not my favorite), I get pain in my jaw (the joints) and my chest (which might be my esophagus). Does anyone know what causes...

I weaned my Romney lambs yesterday, and for the heck of it I decided to milk Purl, their mother. I haltered her and tied her to the gate, then stooped down with the bucket under her. She did amazingly well! She hardly moved at all! Her teats are fairly big for a sheep, so I had a pretty easy...