Had ball practice for my girls last night and I haven’t been feeling too good lately, so after dropping them off I went to the store and bought some bread and a frozen pizza. This almost never happens. My 5 year old is done with practice first and she gets in the car and sees […]
Archives for May 2010
Food Grade Buckets on the Cheap
Time to give you one of my super frugal food storage secrets. Getting food grade buckets cheap or free. Lots of times you can get bulk foods like oats or wheat or beans in a sack LOTS cheaper than buying it in a can or bucket. But keeping your food in a sack is not […]
Will it Live?
After snow and cold on Monday, I planted about half my bedding plants outside in the garden on a sunny 67 degree Tuesday. Crazy, I know, but it really happened. Gotta love spring. I didn’t have time to finish, so I took the rest inside. Once a week or so I babysit a little 15 […]
Random Updates
The weather is almost getting warm here finally. It actually froze again about 10 days ago, hard enough to kill off most of the baby raspberry leaves, grape leaves, sage leaves, and most of the fruit tree blossoms. Thankfully, everything but the fruit blossoms appear to be coming back well. The plants I grew from […]
Dinner Pack Giveaway from Augason Farms Plus Super Sale
The sweet folks over at Augason Farms have a couple of fun things going on. First, for the next couple of weeks they are having an online sale. Some of their products are marked down quite a bit, including the new breakfast and dinner packs, so get on over and see if you can’t pick […]
Liberty Bell Knitted Dish Cloth
Here’s another fancy dish rag I’ve knitted up in all my spare time. (Okay, it wasn’t recently–there hasn’t been any spare time recently.) The Liberty Bell Knitted Dish Cloth. This one hasn’t made it to the table yet–Maybe I’m just weird, but it seems a bit disrespectful to be wiping the table with this symbol […]
High Mortality Rate Among the Fruit Trees This Spring
We’ve got some baby fruit trees we’ve had in the mini orchard for three years now. Last year we did a good pruning and staked some of the branches to get the trees to grow a little more balanced. The apricot tree that had always looked a little sickly really thrived last year after the […]
New Car, New Car Kit
We recently added a second vehicle to our family. This is a good thing. I’m seeing some substantial fuel savings over driving the suburban everywhere we go. This car has been in the plans for a few weeks, so I started gathering gear for a vehicle emergency kit before we even bought it. Who wants […]
Making Banana Chips by Dehydrating Bananas
Yeah, I’ve got the dehydrator going again. I came into a bunch of bananas that I knew my kids wouldn’t eat before they went all over-ripe and brown, so I thought I’d get ahead of the game and dehydrate some into banana chips. To dehydrate bananas, you want ripe bananas. They’re not as good if […]
Dehydrating Frozen Broccoli
Frozen vegetables are perfect for dehydrating. They’ve already been blanched prior to being frozen and you can usually just dump them out on your dehydrator tray frozen and start drying. Super easy. This weekend I dried some broccoli. Broccoli is kind of large and thick straight out of the bag, so I let it sit […]