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and how ! Plus-- how do you make vanilla extract? Is it important to use a quality vodka? and how much vodka for 3 beans?I bought Gordon's and thought maybe that is too cheap :rolleyes: and how ! Plus-- how do you make vanilla extract? Is it important to use a quality vodka? and how much...

Will it go rancid? It has been so long since I clarified the fat for making candles. That is as far as I have gotten and while I don't have much, it is being stored in the fridge and freezer. Some of it is clarified, some not and it is taking up space because I don't know where to go from...

The owner at Grain Mill told me to put them in a mason jar and put them in the freezer. :rolleyes: I am now a bit confused. :idunno

Me too... before I even loaded the page! :lau

me too. I feel as though I have suffered a great loss; my heart is heavy and I am so sad.

:pop I was told by an experienced hiker with a master's degree in chemistry? and who was working in the camping section of Gander Mountain, (it's the economy) that in order to freeze dry food, you would need some pretty sophisticated equipment. any comments ?:hu

THis is a cut and paste from THE KRAZY COUPON LADY: It will take me a month of Sundays to gather all the ingredients. But I want to stop buying as much as I can at the grocery and drug store. :hide Deodorant is the one toiletry most of us would never go without. I mean, there are occasions...

I just want to say, that worrying this very issue to death during the first 10 months of 2011, is where I lost some of my sanity. :hide I am just now recovering. :weee Make some goals, involve the people who are crucial to the plan, and leave out the rest. There will be naysayers, judges...

My husband AKA canning fool... canned peaches today. They were on special for .75 a pound at one of the grocery stores around here. :celebrate

My grandmother always called me "Laureli"....:hu

Swam in a YMCA pool. Relief. :ya Then, started applying antibacterial lotion due to the blistering, drying and continuous oozing and reinfection. My fingers looked like they had gone through a meat grinder :sick. It was quite torturous (sp? word even?), but lesson is :hide learned.

I picked weeds, bean, peas, tomatoes, and carrots... lots of picking! I am pretty certain the pea vines were a tangled mess and tangled with poison ivy. I have poison ivy on my hands... I was foolish, I know. I have been "washing" my hands a lot with my homemade laundry soap. I also found my...

i 'VE been putting cuttings from the rosemary plant in the dehydrator then shaking off the "needles" and putting them in a glass jar. Been thinking to self :/ this feels like a pine tree just a little... are they related? Oh and by the way, hoping that in many months from now, my rosemary is...

Praying this early morning...

Thanks. I really needed that. :hugs

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Ok so to be clear, they are wood roaches? :hu we have tons of dead leaves and wood on that side of the house. Even left several pieces of wood by the woodstove in the cellar. I will bring those out and toss away from the house and pull the leaves out from the shady side of the house and see...

Ok. We got some disappointing news as it related to a house classified as a "HandyMan's special". At the end of an agreed term, we would have the lease with option to buy. We have been looking due to our landlady "evicting" us because we would not allow her to inspect the house "ANYTIME SHE...

I have read the most recent posts and it has me thinking. Last year was a really financially tough year . In December 2009, we got an over 300 electric bill. (note: The bill is in my mom's name and has been since May 2008)I could not put us the budget before that because we had to pay in...

I will be happy to call them SC waterbugs and not the CR that they could be. ....:fl