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Thank you, Twilight, yes, they are quite uniform.

Sure could use some help, but nobody near me to do it.

8 doelings needing fed 3 times a day and 8 does needing milked twice a day on top of an already full day.

It's hard. I'm sorry you have so much to deal with.

I just can the fruit in light syrup or water then add thickening when I make the pies. Easy enough to do it then.

Thank you, Ann, for working so hard for us!

I've been using dolomite, works but not very convenient as a powder that I have to mix with juice. Needing it more often these days too. (I am on a low phosphorus diet too.) Wondering if anybody has any experience with OTC binders that don't have aluminum. I really hate TUMS so don't particularly want to use those.

Yes, BIG sigh of relief.

I was about ready to chuck a computer out the window!

Arby some are better than others My top producers give about 1 1/4 gal/day at peak. If one gives less than 1/2 gal/day at peak I don't keep her around. I have 2 does that are about to move next door. One did not hold to service and the other doesnt' produce enough to keep on.

No sell yet.

7 of the 8 does have kidded and I have been really busy with all that. I got 6 doelings! Sent the 5 bucklings to live with my neighbor. 6 girls are enough to feed and work with, don't need a bunch of boys too.

Thanks!

More like panic than withdrawal!

I've found that something bright white will reflect the light better than al foil. The white reflects one kind of heat better than foil and the foil reflects another kind better, but I can't remember which is which. I just know that white cloth or paper on the inside of my windows doesn't get hot like foil does, but when i put foil behind the wood stove the wall didn't get hot like it did with white. I just call it dark heat and light heat and the white reflects light and light heat while the foil reflects some light and most dark heat. (Does that make sense? )

Haven't been able to get Mrs S to load for several weeks, but I'm BACK!!

Thanks to Twilight and Annarchy for your assistance!

Daughter cannot eat anything with gluten, corn, soy or fat as she is unable to digest those things. She cannot have meat, dairy or eggs from animals fed gluten, corn, or soy. I raise all our meat, dairy and eggs and bake/cook everything from scratch. I do buy fruits and veggies, but only in single ingredient cans or packages. Amazing what they will slip into a can or package and you have to be so diligent. I also have to use a cream separator on the goat milk to remove the fat for her.

I have to cook her food separate from mine since some of the things in her diet, I cannot have because of kidney problems and some of the things I must have, make her ill.

I know people who do that, Jeepers. I've never bothered myself since rice really doesn't take a long time to cook and if I ever bug out, I won't be messing with rice one way or another. The ladies I know who do it are happy with it.

Yes, Jeepers, crap is how I feel about it. I just GOT these new dishes and now I'm afraid to keep them.

Parboiled and converted are the same. The rice is steamed in the husk before the husk is removed and more of the natural vitamins stay in the grain. It cooks up a bit faster than long grain but stays as separate grains unless you way overcook it. I use it mostly because I hate gooey, sticky rice.

Minute is a brand name for an instant rice. You don't have to cook instant rice. You can add hot liquid to it and let it set a short time and eat or you can add cool liquid and let it set for a longer period and then eat it. Haven't used it in a long time. Use it when you really will not be able to cook because you don't have the fuel.

There are many, many kinds of rice.

I'd like to get some bisque ware and paint it myself too.

Friend of mine had a dish explode in her face today. She didn't bump it, drop it or thermally shock it. She was holding it in her hand. I'm getting rid of my new corelle dishes. I do not want to take a chance on this happening. It has happened to others.

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You 'can' hull them, but it is a lot of tedious work without the right equipment.

If you sprout them and then can wash the hulls off you can then dry and grind or wet grind, but again, removing the hulls will be tedious.

You can store all of those, but frankly, unless the grains are hulled it is really better to buy them at a higher price and get them hulled except perhaps the wheat which is reasonably easy to hull. Still a lot more work than I want to do. Usually wheat is combined and that removes the hulls.

Happy anniversary! Hope you have many, many more!

Thanks. I was getting ready to buy a new one. I'll know not to get one like that.

You can save seeds from grocery store produce. Peach pits, apricot, apple seeds, squash seeds, etc can all be used to start something growing in unused ground. Just be sure it IS unused and not somebody's field laying fallow.

You can't force responsibility and maturity on your husband.You might be better off without him.

We've been breaking high temp records. Not at all normal to be in the 80s in january! I have a lot of outside work to do and it is too uncomfortable to really work in.

One of my neighbors said his wife sets votive candles on the floor so they can see where they are walking. I was thinking maybe some of those solar lights could be set on the floor. Neighbor doesn't have children or indoor pets but if you have either, candles on the floor wouldn't be safe.