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Friday, February 10, 2006

Make your own...

I am looking for a good site that has make your own cleaners and soaps. I don't have any money right now in the budget for a book. *sniff* But if you know a good book, please leave the name of that so I can put it on my wishlist. :-)

Other than that I am making out my order for our seeds. There seem to be quite a bit of pumpkins on the list. hmmm... lol. It's really hot here all day and nearly freezing all night. Weird weather. If it wasn't for the freeways I'd think I'd moved back to Montana and that it was summer.

I gave up on gluten-free bread making for now. Our meals just don't include sandwiches any more. I figure if people lived for thousands of years without them, we can make it through fine too. lol

We were sick a week ago for the whole week. Now I am playing catch up. I feel so far behind and I guess I have to make my priority my home and family. That is the mantra I'll be chanting while I'm cleaning instead of blogging and reading blogs. haha

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

carrots

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The last time we planted carrot seeds it was a disaster. It turns out that they are something ants particularly love and they took each and every last one. So, no carrots. I was hoping to start them indoors this year but I just read that they do not transplant well.

Anyone grow carrots without ant problems?

Thanks.

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Pointsettia

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This pointsettia is from my mil's garden. I've never had any luck with the one's I've planted but as you can see, hers is tremendous.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Memory Garden

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I'm posting this on all my blogs. Thought someone else might be interested in this idea that I got from thriftyfun.com.

Memory Garden Bed

My Husband Lost both his Parents this year and We are not able to
go visit their graves so we made a Memory Garden for them.

I made cement stepping stones with their names and dates on them.
We planted flowers and bulbs his parents loved. We put a small
bench and Angel statues in it.

Now we can visit them daily and I put flowers out for the
Holidays and their birthdays for them.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Need ideas/help

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OK, still attempting that bread. I did get all the ingredients in this time. I think I'll have to cook it on a higher setting tonight. It sank and is kind of moist.

But that's not my need...What am I supposed to do with all these egg yolks? Each night I will have three left over. Any ideas?

Also, does anyone know of a good book that shows the usage of poultry from bought (I can't have them here so the raising and slaughtering are not necessary) to finish? I do not know how to use the bird completely and would like to be able to buy a turkey and cook it up and do all the soup stuff and left over stuff. My family loves turkey so they would be thrilled to get one in the non-turkey time of year.

Thanks.

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