R is home and doing well with his new hip. We have been teasing him about being the bionic man. Seriously, he is doing very well considering and other than an intermittent fever, recovery has been smooth. I am very glad not to be running back and forth to the city which is an hour [...]
There have been a ton of sales on chicken lately. I have bought 4 or 5 for 59 cents per pound. A whole chicken will last R and I at least two days. I have been searching for easy chicken recipes that will add some variety to our meals instead of plain old baked chicken. [...]
The following ad on Craig’s list caught my attention this morning because it had a word that I had never heard before. gleaning for 8mth unemployed family (central VA) Have any fruit trees that you no longer collect the fruit or perhaps don’t have the time or health to do the picking? I am a [...]
Summer is here and our garden is grown. Most of the vegetables are ripening and we are starting to enjoy the fruits of our labor. It has taken a little work and we have had some disappointments. We have had a war with the bunnies and they have pretty much won on the bean front. [...]
This is a guest post by Cindy of Journey to Simplicity. Cindy writes about her homesteading experience. I especially enjoyed her post on Soap Making. I had made soap years ago with limited success. I may have to give her recipe a try. Thank you, Cindy for filling in for me a bit while I [...]
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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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This is not something that I thought I would ever write about from a personal perspective. My parents have prepared well for their retirement. They have the financial resources and investments to keep up their standard of living during their retirement. This is not to say that they are rich or that they don’t have [...]
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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Turkey and turkey breasts were on sale at our local grocery store so I picked up one. I have never cooked a turkey breast before and really wanted to do something different than just roasting it. I came across this recipe that sounds like something we will all like. I like easy dinner recipes that [...]
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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 [...]
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