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  1. Medicine Woman

    Help me figure out what this injury is

    History: over the past six or seven years trouble has been bitten by no less than seven snakes. I don’t know what these injuries are, but she is limping badly although she is getting around. Also, a few days ago, we lost a small dog who was known to dash away if given a chance. She was found...
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    Help me identify this plant

    Is this Taro Plant? Also…while we at it maybe give me similar ideas for a permanent survival garden.
  3. Medicine Woman

    Heatwave 2022

    So I live in the Deep South. It’s currently 91F outside and rising. Expected to get up to 97 and that’s not even the hottest it’s been lately. Fortunately we are in a small house so less place to cool. Looking for ideas and inspiration from others on cheap or free ways to beat the heat. So...
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    Dog acceptance

    Okay so DH already had a dog before we got married 4 years ago….Trouble is an 8 year old Pit Bull. I had a few dogs but Trouble seriously hurt one so she literally had her own house until Ida ripped my house apart. My oldest daughter wants me to take my dogs back. A Boxer that belongs to my...
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    Brink of war

    I am an Army Mom. I am in contact with other Army Moms and their children are not all doing well. Can I just ask everyone reading this to keep your military families under y’all wings? Check on them often. I might start tackling everything soon just to cope. I don’t yet have a deployment in...
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    Let’s start an identification thread.

    Me first. DH threw this at me. It looks very similar to parsley but the smell is off. What do y’all think it is?
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    Making beanies

    As some of y’all know my community has been hit very hard by Hurricane Ida and many of us are now living in alternative houses, FEMA trailers and some have even left the bayou entirely. So I am currently living on a street that has a long history of farming and it so happens that the director...
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    Married to the king of Dumpster Dive

    I knew before I ever married DH that he can’t resist a peek in the dumpster. I have brought him to the recycle bin to get rid of my recycle items and he leaves with 8 rod and reels and teaches DD to help herself so she leaves with a set of encyclopedias. So ever since Hurricane Ida went on her...
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    Teaching others how to survive

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/249415/filipino-catholic-priest-breeds-rabbits-to-feed-poor-parishioners I am not sharing this because of my religious beliefs even though I am not ashamed of them. In truth a Protestant minister or Jewish rabbi could have done the same. Great job feeding...
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    Hello

    hello
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    Goldenrod Tincture

    It’s time for me to make goldenrod tincture to treat allergies. I will use ACV as my menstruume. Well...it’s a start.
  12. Medicine Woman

    Hurricane Ida

    I am 55 years old and I have seen some bad storms all my life. I never left except for George. I have now lost most of my house but the floor stayed put. So let me just rant about a few things: My plan is to close in the downstairs of my house and pile mud around it, essentially creating a...
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    Are we living our dream?

    Continued from once upon a time. So my dream became a nightmare for a while and eventually I got back on track. Married a farmer who doesn’t exactly do everything exactly like me but still manages to make it work and is king of the dumpster dive. I did have to go to work full time because of...
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    Chicken and dumplings recipe

    Guys.... I am Cajun and we simply don’t fix this dish. I had a lot of cookbooks but y’all know....Ida. Help a girl out. I know one of y’all got to have an award winning chicken and dumpling recipe. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🐔 I started just tenderizing two roosters about 5 months old in a crockpot with two onions...
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    Returning member

    Hello everyone. It’s been a really long time. I was previously using my actual name but I don’t have my password. Hurricane Ida took care of the folder I had that written on but my name is Rhoda. So some of y’all are aware that I remarried a farmer/artist/disabled oilfield worker from my home...
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