The Christmas season is upon us! One of my favorite activities during the holidays is decorating: hauling in my Christmas totes from the garage, constructing awesome decorations, and driving around to admire the décor of others’—I love the joy and light these activities bring into my life. Decorating doesn’t have to be expensive and cumbersome!You ...
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Food storage has been a popular topic since Covid-19 creeped into our lives in 2020. It seems everyone encountered empty shelves and panic at the store. My local stores were chaotic as frantic shoppers lined up cart to cart, ramming each other and fighting for that last bag of dried kidney beans (beans they likely ...
Before arriving at the homestead, I had no inkling of the learning curves I would face here. My first challenge involved the heating system.Several days after moving in, a cold front slapped the region, blanketing the mountains and hills with snow. Visions of my previous heating system crowded my thoughts as I searched in vain ...
Do you like Sloppy Joes?They never appealed to me and I didn’t like them with meat. The word “sloppy” also seems unappealing, so I avoided them altogether—until I made the perfect vegetarian sloppy joes. They are far more delicious than meat sloppy joes!This is one of my favorite dinner recipes; it’s simple and tasty. Lentils ...
If you follow my social media, you know I just moved from a big city to a beautiful little homestead—one I’ve always dreamt of, and now I'm working hard to make it more “Gubba.”One of my top tier TO-DOs is to build and maintain a large garden. Self-sufficiency in the garden is a wonderful way ...
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