I haven’t posted much about this even though we’ve been struggling with it since january. I was walking past the farmstay guest house and noticed water leaking out the walls. I ran inside and there was just inches of water covering the entire first floor. Disaster! I was so upset. The hot water heater’s […]
I have been making caramels like crazy here in preparation of heading out to the Farmer’s Market and once again I have run out of vanilla extract. The local market here sells little dinky bottles of vanilla extract for nearly 8 bucks and I’d have to drive an hour to Costco to get a decent […]
No more scouring pots and pans! Just mix together 2 parts baking soda with 1 part peroxide (it will make a paste) and rub the area with a dish rag until clean. Found at www.funhomethings.com
So why pay a gazillion dollars for beauty products? Like just about everything else the industrial machine charges an arm and a leg for, when you make it yourself it’s not only way cheaper, but generally healthier and more effective. Here’s the first home made beauty product I ever made. More of a health product, […]
I hate ants. If there is one thing that we aren’t always exactly organic about, it’s dealing with ants. Mostly we break our organic rules with fire ants, but those little suckers can cause just as many problems. I searched the net to find some ways to deal with ants and here’s a few methods. […]
I found some awesome plans online for homemade fly traps. These come from a book published in 1915 back when people still did things for themselves. The book is Shop Projects based on community problems. What a concept! It does make sense though considering the time period. This was the age of American Functionalism, an early […]
Making homemade ice cream is so easy and so much fun. Well, it does take a little bit of exercise if you make it how we do with an authentic 1920s antique hand crank machine. However, you can cheat and use an electric machine. We don’t think it tastes nearly as good, but it’s still way better […]
Well, I spent yesterday dragging wooden pallets and setting up a fence only to have the wind blow it down today. The hay pallet fence was a great idea. The pallets were free and just laying around providing a home for lizards. I wired them together and drove wood stakes into the ground for support. I […]
