Britesea
Sustainability Master
I don't bother to use a dedicated pot or spoon- it's just soap, same stuff I wash dishes with lol. Nice pic of your DH-- better than the 'soaps' on tv! 
Rathbone: Eggs for Hatching, Eggs for Eating, Eggs, Eggs, Eggs
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Farmwife
I use Zote, too. And use a regular pan, not a dedicated one. I figure it comes out cleaner than if I was washing something else out of it. I have used the liquid for about six years and am going to try the dry for awhile now. I like the photo of your husband grating!
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rathbone
Lovin' The Homestead
^ soaps on t.v...too funny
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rathbone
Lovin' The Homestead
I have been working on Hallowe'en costumes. Somehow, the thought of my husband and I dressed as "American" as can be appealed to me. Something I could make myself. Square dancers? I pictured my hubby in a western cut shirt and wearing an anglo looking wig over his own dark hair.
Really fun was trying on the clothes with my littlest son.
Really fun was trying on the clothes with my littlest son.
Britesea
Sustainability Master
aww *kisses*
framing fowl
On a mission
Do you do any community theater? I can see you having a lot of fun with that!
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rathbone
Lovin' The Homestead
community theatre does sound fun, but no. We don't have anything like that here.
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rathbone
Lovin' The Homestead
Rathbone - Applesauce for Kinder
We got to go into the classroom yesterday, Tiffany and I and make applesauce for the kindergarten. The teacher does everything thematically so Johnny Appleseed's birthday coincides with fall which coincides with the ripening of the apples etc.
I got my two cents in by making a little speech before we started. I talked about using ALL of the apple and explained how I didn't want to waste any of it. So we would wash and peel the apples and eat the peels; we would core the apples and give the cores to my chickens at home; and we would chop the actual apples and cook them into yummy applesauce.
So fun watching the kids try to chop apples. You could tell whose parents allowed them to cook at home. Some children actually tried to refrain stating that their parents did not allow them to touch knives. (we were having them cut apples with butter knives). Such fun!
Notice my son is using the butter knife upside down? He insisted that it worked best that way.
Pictured is my own son (don't want to ruffle any feathers by posting pix of other people's children)
We got to go into the classroom yesterday, Tiffany and I and make applesauce for the kindergarten. The teacher does everything thematically so Johnny Appleseed's birthday coincides with fall which coincides with the ripening of the apples etc.
I got my two cents in by making a little speech before we started. I talked about using ALL of the apple and explained how I didn't want to waste any of it. So we would wash and peel the apples and eat the peels; we would core the apples and give the cores to my chickens at home; and we would chop the actual apples and cook them into yummy applesauce.
So fun watching the kids try to chop apples. You could tell whose parents allowed them to cook at home. Some children actually tried to refrain stating that their parents did not allow them to touch knives. (we were having them cut apples with butter knives). Such fun!
Notice my son is using the butter knife upside down? He insisted that it worked best that way.
Pictured is my own son (don't want to ruffle any feathers by posting pix of other people's children)
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rathbone
Lovin' The Homestead
Feeling Resourceless
I am feeling resourceless. Finances. I shall say no more about finances.
I feel that I am on a journey: a journey to self sufficiency. I have put myself in the mindset that I will apply myself to learning and by learning I will enrich myself.
But I feel that at every turn, I don't have enough money (time, land, smarts) to put anything into practice.
I would like to try a composting toilet, I would like to raise goats (milk, cheese, soap etc), I would like to pressure can: well my list could go on infinitely. But for almost everything I want to learn or try, I don't have the money to start. I don't even have the money to buy a gallon of paint to finish painting my house, nor a pair of new hole-less jeans for my son.
I really don't like the mental state I am in. I have never liked people who sit and cry. So what I need is something I can do. Something new that I can try, something that will make me feel as if I am continuing on my journey, taking steps forward and doing all that I can do.
I am very resourceful. When I could no longer afford fabric to quilt with I started buying old holey clothing at the thrift store and cutting that up (I also buy embroidery thread etc. there)
So if you have an idea for me - please throw it out there. The only limit is it has to cost a dollar or less.
I am feeling resourceless. Finances. I shall say no more about finances.
I feel that I am on a journey: a journey to self sufficiency. I have put myself in the mindset that I will apply myself to learning and by learning I will enrich myself.
But I feel that at every turn, I don't have enough money (time, land, smarts) to put anything into practice.
I would like to try a composting toilet, I would like to raise goats (milk, cheese, soap etc), I would like to pressure can: well my list could go on infinitely. But for almost everything I want to learn or try, I don't have the money to start. I don't even have the money to buy a gallon of paint to finish painting my house, nor a pair of new hole-less jeans for my son.
I really don't like the mental state I am in. I have never liked people who sit and cry. So what I need is something I can do. Something new that I can try, something that will make me feel as if I am continuing on my journey, taking steps forward and doing all that I can do.
I am very resourceful. When I could no longer afford fabric to quilt with I started buying old holey clothing at the thrift store and cutting that up (I also buy embroidery thread etc. there)
So if you have an idea for me - please throw it out there. The only limit is it has to cost a dollar or less.
miss_thenorth
Frugal Homesteader
A composting toilet can be as simple as a 5 gallon gbucket with some wood shavings in it. and put a toilet seat on it. Every time you go, add some more shavings, when full, dump in a dedicated spot to actually compost.
sorry, tha is all I have for now.
sorry, tha is all I have for now.
