Amishway Homesteaders

cool site! I have a smalll book called . . .what else - "The Knot Book" lots of cool knots and it is small enough to pack in a BOB bag . Love making the 'monkeys fist' it looks like a rope ball and makes a nice neckless? BUT is good if you need to hold on to something like a tarp end - push the ball part under and then wrap over the top. NOW you are going to make me go find that book and reread it!

Well things change sometimes . . . ended up going on a 3 mile (fast walking) hike early this morning before it got hot. Things were going great until about 1 mile in the trail started have puddles here and there from all the rain. Then they started getting deeper and harder to walk around without getting feet wet. At mile 1 1/2 they got DEEP! OK so maybe 6 inches isn't deep but with no way around we just started walking through them. Came home with wet shoes, socks, and pant legs! Lori just pulled up her long dress and had fun. Good thing we are just Kids and had lots of fun do it!

......................... I didn't write it - I just reported it. BUT I knew you would like it!

Woman Stops Grizzly Attack With .25 Cal Pistol This is a story of self control and marksmanship with an itsy bitsy shooter by a woman against a fierce predator. While out hiking in Alberta Canada with my boyfriend we were surprised by a huge grizzly bear charging at us from out of no where. She must have been protecting her cubs because she was extremely aggressive. If I had not had my little Beretta Jetfire with me I would not be here today! Just one shot to my boyfriend's knee cap was all it took...the bear got him and I was able to escape by just walking away at a brisk pace. It's one of the best pistols in my collection.

off to find my Kindle so I can see what the heck you are talking about

So anybody else still doing this? It did seem to help me but then again it may all be in my head but I seem to be able to have less pain in fingers and knees? The taste is not that bad anymore as well and I have cut back now to once every day or two.

You do know you can send it right to kindle - even if it is off ! Just change where you want it sent to your kindle e-mail address it will be in your 'cloud' until you turn on the kindle (saves a step or two)

more ! we want to see more! What else can you do......................................

What can you do when the temperature gets close to 120 degrees outside? * Making breakfast: put a fry pan on roof of your car then break eggs into pan and fry for 2 minutes. Turn over eggs and cook for 2 minutes more. Add bacon to pan with eggs if you like. *Bake potatoes: Wrap in tinfoil and place on windowsill. After 2 hours they are done! You can turn them after 1 hour if you want but be careful as they will be hot. *Doing Laundry: after washing clothes take them outside and hang on clothes line. Start at one end and when you reach the other end of the clothesline go back to the start and take them down; they will be dry and ready for folding. * Washing Hair : After washing your hair “towel dry” and then just go for a walk around your house. When you get back inside your hair will be dry BUT you may have to take a shower again. *Drying Herbs: Go out into your Herb Garden and pick some stems of the plants you want to dry. Hold them in your hand like a bouquet and by the time your get back inside they will all be dry and ready to use.

Finally have the time to spread out some straw on Garden Paths and here and there under vegetables so off I went to feed store to see what they had (without seed). I could get all I want from Amish but it is full of seed and seeing I am using it to cut down on weeds - not the best deal this year. Anyhoo when I got there they said they were out of barley Straw and not planning on getting any soon. Then as I was leaving they asked if I wanted some NOT baled up but loose from in the trailer they store it in? YES but how much ($) ? Well the guy said IF you help clean it out (the trailer) you can take all you want for FREE! So I went home , got Lori, and back we went with hay folks and big black bags! Filled six 80 gallon bags full of half busted open bales and lots of loose straw and headed home. Took less than 1/2 hour to clean it out so now when they get more it will all fit in. Not a bad Bartering Deal seeing they are now getting $5.00 a bale and we got way over 6 bales worth! Now IF it stops raining we can get out to gardens and spread it around.

There are four wheels and eight men on a fire engine. Four and eight makes 12. There are 12 inches in a ruler. Queen Elizabeth is a ruler. The Queen Elizabeth was a ship. Ships sail in the sea. The sea has fish. Fish have fins. The Finns are always fighting the Russians. Russians are known as "red". Fire engines are always rushin', and that's why they're red. . . . 'nough said :-)

"When everyone on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise. God appeared and said. "I want the men to form two lines. One line is for the men who were true heads of their households and the other for the men who feel they were hen pecked and dominated by their women. All ladies are to report to St. Peter." When the women departed, there were two lines of men. The line for the men dominated by their wives was over 100 miles long. Only one man stood in the line of the men who were the heads of their households. God addressed them. "You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you to be the heads of your household. You have disobeyed me and not carried out your role of leadership. Out of all you, only one man obeyed. Learn from him!" Then God turned to the one man and asked, "How did you manage to be the only one who got it right and now stand in this line?" The man replied, "My wife told me to stand here!" . . . .Y E S D E A R !

OOOPS! forgot I was doing this? Been doing it every since I said I was going to start and the pain is gone so I forgot about it! LOL still doing it 1 time each day with breakfest (was 2 times for first part) and it's not that bad after first few times - just put into small water glass (water first) and down it goes. Then I drink something else or have a piece of fruit. Hands feel much better and I forgot all about the knee pain I was having before starting? Is it working or am I just getting better anyway? Don't know for sure but I am not stooping seeing this is a cheap, safe and simple way of dealing with pain. Plus with all this soap in my mouth I can swear up a storm! LOL

eatting early vegetables like lettuce, snow peas and radish for a bit now but had first vine ripe tomato the other day in our chicken 'on a stick' stir fry!

hint If you have a problem call them up on the phone. Better then e-mails or nasty letters. AND If you stay calm and tell them what you found and ask if it a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of thing that miss quilty control or something you will get beeter results then yelling into the phone at them. we have gotten muty coupons that way to keep us loyal custemes. Hint If you have a problem call them up on the phone. Better than e-mails or nasty letters. AND If you stay calm and tell them what you found and ask if it a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of thing that miss quality control or something you will get better results then yelling into the phone at them. Just like you would want if you were selling something and 1 in a 100 had a problem you didn't know about. We have gotten multi coupons that way to keep us loyal customers.

OK, so THAT is what it was ? I got that too and spend some time trying to clear it up - but things are fine. Thanks for the heads up.

guinea pig #2 here - started Sunday doing it and so far I am still here! on the good side.............................. I grew up in the days of washing out your month with soap when someone said bad things like swearing. So far I am able to say 4 swear works without having to do that! %$#&^%! - crap now I only have 3 freebies!

well I saw in the link where it said : earthclin . . . . dies so I had to go look? LOL so where on the list is the part we want to see? it just goes to the main page.

Here is a site with very good breakdown on why and how it works as well as how much to take: http://www.health-science-spirit.com/borax.htm My one main concern is that I have Diabetes 2 and it is basically a salt? So I am wondering how that plays out? I do maintain it without pills or shots - just good living and the right foods and snacks. (don't ask for the list - it is too long) LOL

............ I think I need to look into this as I too have aches and pains and hate taking "pills" for it so I just remind myself that I am 62 (bet you) and very busy so that is how it is. Yes, some mornings it is hard to get going so I may start doing this - so how do I tell my mind it is NOT soap? could I put it into caplets to take?

so...................... did you know or wait to be surprised?

.................... and the same goes for us (what everyone else said) born on the 13th but not a friday LOL

Teaching kids.................................. Did another Museum tour today (been doing them for over 35 years now I think?) and the stuff kids don't know anymore? Part of old tour talked about milk and cheese and I would ask what we divide milk into so we get cheese? Then I would start to say: "Little miss Muffit sat on her tuffet eating her.......................... and they would all finish it! NOW they just look at me like I am from another Planet? They also have no idea about things they Parents did as kids: like playing board games, marbles, jumping rope, etc. The best part is I used to say "If you are interested in something I said go home and look it up in a book or go to the Library and ask for help. NOW I just say "GOOGLE IT"! and they all know what I mean. I am getting to old for this...................................

YES but I was just helping her out. and cicle letters are even better!