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Love this Victorian style tiny house.
This woman built her tiny home herself and takes it to Civil War re-enactment events. Here's a YouYube tour of her house:
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Groundhog At My Door
So I was in the kitchen fixing lunch a bit after noon, when sudden chaos broke out in the living room--three kittens growling, screaming in a rage, banging on the glass storm door (front door was open--and I guess they aren't exactly kittens any more at 16 months, more like rowdy teenagers....) Anyway, I rushed in to see…
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The joy of garage sales
This pretty much sums it up. What was your best garage sale find? What was one of your funny garage sale stories or road side pick up? (I slam my breaks on for those too)
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The Do-It-Yourself Homestead book (PDF version)
Just got this email from Tessa's blog. She is having a "pay what you can" sale on the PDF version of the book. Putting it out here if you want to add it to your "electronic" library.
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Interesting question about "preppers"
This is an opinion article. I agree that "preppers" for the most part do not want the world to end. Civilizations have broken down over the many centuries. Most want to have the opportunity to be prepared for situations. What do you think?
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The joys of haying (story)
If you live on a farm or country road you have probably hayed. Its just part of farm life. When I lived on the dirt road, with the whopping five houses - all of which were people who farmed, haying was the summer community activity. Who ever had their hay ready to cut before the reat would invite us all to help with huge…
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It's all about marketing
Just like Crisco did with lard, same thing happened with hankerchiefs. It was all a marketing strategy to make you believe that lard was bad and handkerchiefs were unsanitary. Not terribly difficult to make. Identical to making napkins. You can even stitch a hand rolled hem, like they do on very pricey designer scarves.…
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What to do when you're bored. Buy a truck!
First of all I am never bored but I bought a truck is just a dull title. I have needed a truck forever but did not want the extra cost or a gas guzzler and around here it's impossible to find any one to haul for you or they are a no show and you're left in a lurch. It's also hard to have a farm or homestead with out a…
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Prepping as a diabetic
Doing my usual "browse through anything interesting"; I found this. How do you prep if you're a diabetic? Never have seen any articles written about it. Well, here's one written by a diabetic.
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Gardening is my quiet time or is it? Story
Gardening is my quiet time. A time to reflect, enjoy nature and have peace. Most of the time. My one garden was behind the barn, away from the road and anyone disturbing me. My garden was huge one year and took a lot of my time. To enjoy my breaks I had a comfortable lawn chair recliner, an umbrella and an ice chest with…
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Australian Native Birds and Mammals
I’m not a zoo lover, not fussed on animals and birds being caged. I realise that there is the need to protect some species, breeding programs etc. BUT yesterday I had the privilege of visiting a local family owned zoo, where the animals were kept in amazing enclosures, well thought out and they appeared happy and healthy.…
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Hyperinflation
As @Marjory Wildcraft has warned us, here is a very detailed explanation of hyperinflation. With the stock shortages and the video about "Brace for Impact", here's another warning. Not a very promising look ahead.
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He's struck again
My father and his need for a photo worthy yard. I came home from work and he was so pleased that he got almost all the way around the yard with the weed whacker. That includes the ditch area. Stinging nettle.....gone. Joe Pye weed....gone. Milkweed.....gone. So much stuff down to 4 inches high. After a long day at work, I…
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Worthwhile things to look for at garage sales
With the world starting to peek outside the front door; garage sales are popping back up. Here's a nice list of things that would be useful to most of us homestead leaning people.
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Fuel shortage - is there anything a politician cannot make worse?
Things have been crazy around here. You probably heard that some hackers did a ransomware attack on the biggest gas pipeline in the American southeast. Well, that was bad enough, but it only shut down the pipeline for less than a week. Our idiot governor declared a state of emergency in NC... no other state did. That sent…
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Eye opening video on Shortages
Saw this mentioned on a blog and thought it might be interesting here. Very matter of fact. No politics.
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Cicadas “Brood X”
I’ve just been reading about the very soon appearance of millions and millions of cicadas about to emerge in North America.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/11/trillions-brood-x-cicadas-soil-temperatures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other I had trouble with the category to put this thread into, Alternative livestock or…
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Buying vegetable seeds
I really wanted to plant some carrot and onion seeds this last weekend. I thought I had some but alas, none in my seed box. Town is only 25mins away but didn’t want to drive in just for that + I’m not that fussed on buying seeds from large garden/hardware centres. So I went to my tried and true online seed suppliers, Seed…
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Dirt road traffic jams and parades. (Story)
The adventures on a dirt road never end. You never know exactly what you will see and I have a feeling my family added to that unknown aspect. One day my neighbor called and wanted to know where the greyhound bus went. My mom replied, "its sitting in our yard. Wayne will be welding on it later." Not long after that the…
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Skoolies - I am so jealous
What a treasure trove of ideas to steal. Some absolutely gorgeous units.
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Sheds for Inspiration
Even if it's just a dream set up, these sheds are awesome. There are a couple that they could drop off in my backyard.
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My Project
Hello All, I had a project for my Biopsychology course in college so I made it about herbalism's affects on cognition. I got sources from this discussion: https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/846236/herbs-that-affect-the-brain-cognition#latest. There is a lot of great information in that thread for anyone…
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My morning tea turned into a tea party. Story
I just brewed my morning tea and was prepared to relax and enjoy silence. I stretched my arms, and watched the fog start to lift. As I looked around the yard I saw a white rabbit racing through the yard. I sat my tea down An escapee! So on go the shoes and its time to catch a rabbit. The rabbit was somewhat easy to catch…
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Rototilling
I learned how to use a rototiller today! I am making a new bed for my strawberries.
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My Dad stold my dog (story)
When I was 17 I raised a puppy for a seeing eye dog program. It was a program run through our 4-H. People would often ask me how I could raise a puppy them give it away. I told them I knew it was for a good cause and it was a mind set. I knew the dog was not mine so even if I loved it it had another purpose. My first dog…
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Its Party time (humor)
I had a dog that was given to me shortly after my father passed. It reminded me of the dog dad and I shared, , so it was special. I had a job where I moved a lot and of course the dog went with. He also went to work with me most of the time so my boss knew him well. So when it was time for the dogs first birthday he looked…
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Fixing stuff at home yourself
One good way to save money is to fix everything you possibly can without hiring an electrician or plumber. We had a light switch fail a couple of days ago. The plastic piece you flip back and forth to turn the light on an off broke loose from the actual switching mechanism, and just flopped around uselessly. We bought a…
