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We opened a jar of apple butter from last fall today, and I have one of those tiny half cup jars of dandelion jelly left. I'm saving it for Christmas. I found three quarts and three pints of concord grape juice from last summer I need to do something with this winter too. We also used half a...

Dehydrating is a great way to preserve a small batch of something that doesn't freeze well. Just a couple of something? A few mushrooms left in the box and you are too sick of mushrooms to eat them? Only takes a few minutes to slap on the dehydrator! Slowly over the course of the summer I...

I dry everything I don't feel like eating right away or canning. The massive squash overload we get every summer? gets grated and dehydrated. Every kind of slow cooked soup or sauce I make gets a good handful of dried squash in it. If it cooks long enough, it just melts down, and even the...

I do all of my summer baking in a toaster oven out on the porch, and I had an air fryer for a few months, but happily chucked it in the trash. (No fault of the air fryer....it just almost gave me a concussion falling off a shelf one day). Decided I wasn't going to replace it, because counter...

Update on the training...clicker training seems to be Boone's thing. He took to it very fast and is way more willing to work with us without overthinking everything. In about five minutes yesterday he learned to shake, although we were actually supposed to still be conditioning him to think of...

You are going to have a great supply of tomatoes, if they keep that rate of growth...and the peas are awesome! Question though, how are you going to pollinate everything in a season where all of the bugs are gone or dormant. By hand?

The coop farm & home has that looks like that is about $800...online they go for about a thousand. I have looked at it many many times and dreamed. I did check out the link to the plastic block! Those things look like they are dead useful...we could use some at work to keep people from...

I miss having a garage...the old barn on the property here was juuust big enough to wiggle two cars in, end to end, with about three inches of clearance off the side mirrors. It makes me happy to see the dust cover on your tractor....and good idea with the boards! I'm sorry you didn't get much...

It has been pretty pleasant here...but the rain moves in tonight qnd tomorrow's low is 25 degrees colder than tonight's low. Looking at the extended forecast if the weather drops a few more degrees we could have a white christmas. We should be busy at work today with the weather change...

I bought the book and am about a third of the way through it. I pulled the dog's kibble last night and when he came in good and hungry this morning, started teaching him that the clicker = treat. I used the bowl topper I sprinkle on his food to encourage him to eat more, and got more of a...

I love your concrete pathways, Trish! I have a fairly decent stash of brick from the old farmhouse stashed out in the barn...I might have to lay paths between my beds when I build new ones next year. Just depends on if they are as crumbly as I suspect they are or not. The year I had bees, I...

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That sounds about right on the treats, bay. I am the only one in the house he will take a treat from by hand, everybody else has to set it down and walk away. Before I accepted his differences as a dog, I tried a lot, lol. Sometimes I think he must be bored just sleeping all day long, but if...

We call them green onions here too. I used to have a patch of them that had naturalized in the berry patch until the vines shaded them too much. I use them for everything when I have them!

The most immediate effect was the binding of the nitrogen, but I am building my raised veg beds on top of that area without any problem. Grass has always done okay in that spot, but most of my veg just withered and died up until a couple years ago. Around here there are very few...

Your garden plan sounds wonderful, Bee! I love flowers interplanted with all my vegetables, and have been debating planting strawberries around my asparagus for years. I tried the back to eden gardening in my front yard vegetable garden and managed to poison my soil when I brought in a load of...

oooo, thank you amKuska. I will definitely look into that one; half the reason our training progress is so slow is because he has to sit and think about every command. A commercially bought dog treat is not enough of a reward for him to want to please me that badly. He will take them, but he...

It is slow and I am working on it, but we will get there!

We have a fairly good come, sit, and a decent stay already. My old akita loved to do tricks and was very obedient, but her one quirk as a dog was that if she got outside off leash, that was it. It would take days to catch her again. Confused the heck out of the couple of dog trainers we paid...