It’s springtime in Virginia. Spring here means that the daytime temperatures vary from 65 degrees to 90 degrees. It might be 70 for a few days and then you will have a couple days where the temperature climbs to 90 and then it will drop back to 65. You never quite know what to wear [...]
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Carnival of Homesteading – April 6, 2009 Welcome to the April 6, 2009 edition of carnival of homesteading. This was a difficult edition to put together as we had so many articles that had absolutely no relation to Homesteading and some of the ones that did were just sales pitches for something. In order to [...]
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My morning routine is usually pretty simple. I get up, start a pot of coffee, slip on a pair of shoes and a jacket and then run out to stoke the wood furnace. The snow complicated things just a bit this morning. As you can see from the picture, we had about 4 inches of [...]
We live well on under $1000 in income per month. We live fairly well although rather simply. As I write this, I know there are going to be people who don’t believe it’s possible. There will be others whose mortgage payments will be more than we make. Still there will also be those who will [...]
I know that I haven’t been posting a lot over the last few weeks but the Homestead here has been growing and as it grows my outside hours get longer and longer. Our living expenses here are not very high but we pay the difference in hard work and time. Our wood furnace is merrily [...]
by eam31 It’s January and in most places it’s cold and snowy. It hardly seems the time to be thinking about gardening, however, this is the time to start planning your garden. Good planning now means that you might have vegetables earlier in the year. Now is the time to order seed catalogs, plan what [...]
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by S.C. Axman I don’t have health insurance. It is a constant worry that one of us will get hurt or ill and we will not be able to get treatment. I have looked into different individual plans but haven’t been able to find one that we can afford yet. I am not advocating being [...]
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It’s Christmas time and I wanted to give my readers a special gift. I know that it’s a bit cold and wintery to be thinking about a garden but it’s my favorite way to beat the winter blues. I start thinking about what I want to grow in the garden and searching seed catalogs in [...]
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No matter how much we love Christmas and the holiday season, there is always some amount of stress involved. When you are struggling financially this stress can grow to enormous proportions. Worrying about buying everyone a gift or giving everyone a happy holiday season can lead to busted budgets and credit card debt. I don’t [...]
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by Phil Romans With the most recent quarterly statements from Exxon, I am feeling raped. With almost every American heavily dependent on oil, Exxon’s 58% increase in profit in the last quarter seems obscene and Exxon isn’t alone. Oil companies across the board have been booming while the rest of the country suffers in the [...]
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