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    Frugal tips for fall

    I have to be fery fery careful when going to feed store..maybe put on some blinders🤪..or I end up with extra containers, clothing and other "necessities".. Frugully speaking.(.is that even a word?) After leaves fall and others bag them..I drive around and snatch them up...maple leaves esp. make...
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    What did you do in your garden today?

    Eek! How do YOU treat? The bites? I just finished heavily watering the garden as this will be another 100 degree day... Harvested some mint and placed in nesting areas. Cut a few leaves of kale and will try to finish harvesting the oat patch later this evening...
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    What did you do in your garden today?

    Beautiful ...I can not seem to grow good onions...I've tried..I simply do shallots now
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    A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

    I often use green tomatoes to make "apple" pie..similar to a granny Smith taste
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    Whew! I'm wore out READING this🤪😅
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    What did you do in your garden today?

    I hand weeded..turned some soil with tater fork. Cut Kale, turnip greens, lettuce and some swiss chard. Picked Black Raspberries and mulberries. Transplanted 3 small spireas. Transplanted 4 raspberries from edge of oats to a new spots & cut back a few others. Pruned some broken branches out of...
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    A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

    I too had issues until I purchased the tubes of sand that go on sale AFTER winter..first year I opened them up Down the middle then made a trench filled with light soil mix and planted right in the tube..end to end..laid boards on top .I planted a short variety. Not the beautiful long roots you...
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    DIY Chick Electrolyte

    I prefer molasses, black strap, in it's purest form. I also add some calcium water? Simply soak oyster shell in water overnight, pour off.
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    Heatwave 2022

    I too old farmhouse and have had high 90s with high humidity. ..last July, in a storm we lost ALL the mature trees on the South..so a major shift and has been uncomfortable..but doing as most are above..swamp coolers, cooler filled with ice and a small fan clipped behind it...all ceilings have...
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    A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

    Gramma taught me this 50 years ago..she painted the boards with white oil Paint? she would touch up her metal cabinets with same paint..I kid you not..I use the SAME boards! I'll post I pic of one when I go out to do animals. Only thing is they are HEAVY! .not the wimpy boards we pay for nowadays*
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    WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

    I'm making jelly! Mulberry, red and black raspberry, and jalapeno.
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    What's for dinner?

    Picked first black raspberries today! So dessert will be yogurt topped with them. Salad greens from garden topped with "fresh" rooster, ahem chicken🤪
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    asparagus

    What an amazing journey! I've been lurking..:frowTook over my mom's care so really hard finding ME time..Didn't see what you used for the die back..I always have good luck with cardboard and newspaper..if it's recycled ink. Easy to get and free..I lay it thick! In fact I've used papers I have...
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    girl got her first deer

    👋Wonderful!
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    Out with the Old, In with the New

    Hurray for you! Grand adventures await! And who needs an excuse to purchase a jeep! (WEE!😃)
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    Glad to hear youll have a wood stove..we have been without power before, 3 weeks once..it woukd have been pretty dire without one..Prayin for you all
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    No worries with that! Even The lord Jesus Hisself, fed the multitudes! AND he provided wine!😄Us humans just happen to like our biscuits/ gravy more! 😂
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    Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

    When i was in Wyoming, we started a "cowboy church"..as most of us were doing chores while regular church was going..and as winter came, most of the chores move up in time as it gets darker earlier and earlier..so we all met on Saturday evenings around 8 through winter..it was fun. We would...
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    Cast Iron

    Mine Scream too😂 Im so used to cooking for 25 or more, now its just a few of us. Which is how my "collection" grew. I purchased some Smaller cast, that way when i "fill the pan" its still only about 6 serving
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