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Well I can't afford a old fashioned washer with ringer or the one listed above and I certainly am not handy at building. But was just wondering couldn't you just use a mop bucket with an attached ringer to wash clothes? Was looking at them today, not that expensive. I mean would probably take rollers off bottom, but you have a tank to work clothes around and a ringer. What do you guys think??

This recipe sounds great and east (which is good for me). My problem is I don't have a pizza peel or a stone. If I get one I would like to try it, wonder if you could use anything to substitute for those two items??

What are freezer pickles????

Look around her site when you have time....she has great ideas and tips. Like I said I subscribed to her blog and get an e-mail from everyday with different ideas....very good and interesting things she has redone. Glad you all liked it!

I follow this lady's blog all the time and she has wonderful information on her site. Anyway this came in my e-mail this morning, thought I'd share the recipe. I'm going to get the ingredients and try it, I have arthritis all over my body and my hands hurt so bad (like my mom). Anyway its not a cure, but it might give a little relief: She bought everything online at Amazon, I think. Anyway check out some of her things, great ideas for everything. http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/# Homemade Pain Relieving Cream Ingredients: 1/2 cup Coconut Oil<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2 teaspoons Beeswax pellets<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2 teaspoons Camphor crystals or 5 drops Camphor oil<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2 teaspoons Menthol crystals or 5 drops Peppermint oil<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">5 drops Eucalyptus oil Melt the coconut oil and beeswax together. You can do this in the microwave, in a double boiler, or what I did was set a small saucepan on the stove for a minute or two and then turned the burner off and added the coconut oil and beeswax. Stir until melted. Allow the mixture to cool for a few minutes, then add the camphor crystals or oil, the menthol crystals or oil, and the eucalyptus oil. Put in a container and allow to cool completely. When it is completely cooled it will be a solid rather than liquid…but the minute it hits your warm skin…it will liquify again. That’s what coconut oil does, which makes it perfect for massaging onto sore muscles and joints. This amount of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus seems to be working for Kell…but you can increase the amount of each until you achieve the desired level of effectiveness for you without causing irritation. or And finally, if you don’t want to mess with making your own “base” cream….here is a A Super Simple Version of Homemade Pain Relieving Cream. Just purchase a jar of Vitamin E Cream at just about any grocery, dollar or drug store and add the oils to that, and mix. Voila! Done. And finally, if you don’t want to mess with making your own “base” cream….here is a A Super Simple Version of Homemade Pain Re

http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/factbox-new-virus-can-cause-fever-cough-breathing-problems Factbox: New virus can cause fever, cough, breathing problems LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a global alert about the emergence of a new virus that was previously unknown in humans and can cause a potentially fatal acute respiratory infection. Here is an at-a-glance guide to the virus: The virus belongs to a family called coronaviruses and has so far been confirmed in only two cases globally. Both occurred between July and September 2012. The first case was in a 60-year-old man in Saudi Arabia and proved fatal. The second is in a 49-year-old Qatari man who recently visited Saudi Arabia. He had the infection diagnosed after travelling to London in early September. The WHO has not yet given the virus a name, but scientists at Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA) refer to it as "London1_novel CoV 2012". Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s and are named for the crown-like projections on the surface of the virus. The family includes viruses that cause the common cold and SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which emerged in China in 2002 and killed about 10 percent of approximately 8,000 people infected worldwide. Symptoms in the two confirmed cases include fever, cough and breathing difficulties. It is not yet clear whether these are typical or whether the virus could be circulating more widely but causing milder illness. Coronaviruses are typically spread like other respiratory infections, such as flu, travelling in airborne droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. At this stage it is not clear where the virus came from. New infections can emerge from mutations to existing viruses, or be caught from infections circulating in the animal population. Human diseases that come from animal are called zoonoses. SOURCES: World Health Organisation, Health Portection Agency (Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by David Goodman)

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/18/deadly-uperbugs-on-rise-what-need-to-know/ Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/18/deadly-uperbugs-on-rise-what-need-to-know/#ixzz26rLpt3A4 Deadly 'superbugs' on the rise: What you need to know Concern has been raised once again over the threat of deadly ‘superbugs,’ after a seventh individual at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., died Friday after contracting an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria. According to the Washington Post, the boy from Minnesota contracted the bug while being treated at the hospital for complications from a bone marrow transplant. So far, he is the 19th patient at the NIH center to have contracted the bacteria – Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC). The bug’s outbreak was traced back to a single patient who was carrying the bacteria when he was admitted to the hospital in the summer of 2011. While the NIH declined to be interviewed on the matter, the agency released a statement about the incident. “We are deeply saddened by the deaths at the NIH Clinical Center related to [KPC],” the NIH said in a statement. “The health and welfare of patients is NIH's top priority, and NIH has – and will continue to – take every measure possible to protect patients at the Clinical Center and quell transmission.” The NIH went on to add that “the Clinical Center is taking strong action to keep KPC from spreading further, redoubling its efforts to ensure that all the infection control and isolation strategies recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are followed stringently.” They agency is also continuing to test for KPC and amp up their de-contamination procedures. This latest death raises serious questions about the rise of bugs no longer treatable with antibiotics. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria has become a recent dilemma in the past few years. A notable example has been the rise of the “staph” germ known as MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – which caused unease after the CDC reported 18,650 American deaths from MRSA in 2005. According to infectious disease experts, both MRSA and KPC are results of the same problem – the overuse of antibiotics. Utilized in livestock feed, by medical professionals and by consumers just to treat the common cold, the abundance of antibiotics in our society has prompted evolution to select for the antibiotic-resistant trait. “Bacteria are becoming more and more resistant as more and more antibiotics are being used – and they’re becoming smarter,” Dr. Joseph Rahimian, an infectious disease specialist at Village Park Medical in New York City, told FoxNews.com. “….There are limited choices for treatment. Only a few antibiotics work in that scenario, and they’re typically antibiotics we don’t frequently use – some affect the kidney, some aren’t readily available, and some don’t lead to [good] blood levels.” What is KPC? K. pneumonia is an organism that lives in the large bowel, which can cause the disease Klebsiella pneumonia – a condition marked by high fever, chills and the expulsion of a thick, viscous fluid called sputum from the lungs. To combat K. pneumonia, a class of antibiotics called Carbapenems is used; however, when the organism becomes resistant to Carbpaenems, it becomes known as Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase. Rahimian noted KPC is one of the more dangerous strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Unlike MRSA – which has some other treatment options apart from antibiotics – KPC has very few options, making it much more difficult to combat. The people most susceptible to contracting KPC are those who are critically ill or who have a weakened immune system, which is why outbreaks easily occur in hospitals. Although most of the cases have occurred at the NIH Clinical Center, all hospitals in the Northeast and beyond should be on the lookout for outbreaks of this kind. “Since the 1990s, some drug resistant isolates of KPC have emerged,” Dr. Amy Ray, an infectious disease expert with UH Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, told FoxNews.com. “And certainly the Northeast has been a focus of concern, but no hospital in the United States is immune to KPC. In fact, the organism and KPC producing organism have been described worldwide – in Europe, Asia and South America.” KPC spreads through direct contact of the skin, which can eventually lead to infection. According to Rahimian, a person can also be a carrier of the bacteria and not show any symptoms. What you can do “Unfortunately there’s not a lot you can do as a patient,” Rahimian said. “If other people are using unnecessary antibiotics, they are promoting the development of resistance, [which] might affect you even though you didn’t do anything.” Because of its difficulty to identify and treat, both Rahimian and Ray say that prevention is key to combating KPC and other antibiotic-resistant bugs. “The single biggest effort the hospitals can undertake is to ensure that their infection control and prevention departments are up to date,” Ray said. “Also that they are tracking and trending organisms such as these to understand their local epidemiology. And at the single health care worker level, the most important thing is hand hygiene and the use of standard precautions to prevent the transmission from person to person.” For the average individual, taking proper precautions – such as thoroughly washing their hands and making sure their doctors are doing the same – is crucial. Going beyond these anti-infection measures, many health care professionals and others are calling for more judicious use of antibiotics, in hopes to stop the emergence of antibiotic resistance. Numerous ‘antibiotic stewardship’ campaigns are in effect to stop people from taking or prescribing antibiotics when they are not truly necessary. As far as research goes to develop smarter drugs to combat KPC, experts agree that funding and focus are lacking – meaning proper treatments may not be available for some time. “We are facing a critical shortage of anti-microbial agents,” Ray said. “The field is desperate for drug discovery.” For more information on how to combat KPC and similar bacteria strains, the CDC has provided a toolkit for both patients and health care professionals Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/18/deadly-uperbugs-on-rise-what-need-to-know/#ixzz26rM5JCvL

I was on my way to work, running late and had not turned the TV on to listen to news for the first time in years. As I was driving my local radio station came on with the news America had been attacked. It took me a minute to realize what he said. When it did, the words took my breath away and I had to pull to the side of the road, I felt sick. I knew it was coming, I knew it would happen someday, but today, I wasn't ready. I hurried to work only wanting to find out more and talk to family to know everyone was okay. I work at a Senior Center and my boss had turned the TV on in one of the game rooms, as I walked in to see the horrible pictures coming from the set I saw the faces of all the seniors, esp. the men. I could see it bringing back memories of WWII and Korea for them and they knew what was happening in their own unique way. I remember all I wanted was to be with my family and take care of them. I'll never forget that day or that feeling. That was a day like everything stopped, in some ways innocence was lost, my eyes were opened more, and I have never missed the news again since that morning. And I've never felt truly safe again.

Well last winter I had pneumonia and just a few weeks ago stomach virus (flu), so I'm fixing two flu boxes now. I was not prepared for that stomach flu. My dad has Alzheimers and its only the two of us, he was unable to do things anymore. I needed so many things, so I'm fixing a box now to sit beside my flu box. My flu box is sparce so I'm having to add everything. Need to add some more cough syrup for sure from Vitacost.com, I think that's it, found it from on here. Only thing I've found I can take with all the meds I take and it works. So I've got to start getting that together. BTW, does anyone know anything good to help build your immune system up so not to catch everything that comes along. I so don't want to get sick again this winter, esp. pneumonia, and I feel like my lungs are still weak. Still cough a lot a night. Just wondering.

This was on a lady's blog I ran across today and I thought her words were so true. So thought I'd share them here, sorry I couldn't find her name to give her credit. Made me stop in my day and think and appreciate what I do have.....Denise Count your Blessings while they are still there to count. Show your children you love them every day. Don't solve the world's problems, turn them over to God. Don't believe everything you read or hear! The media has become a 'god.' Simple stuff is the best. Don't be afraid to tell the truth and speak up. Be assertive and not confrontative. Try to put yourself in someone else's place before you talk about them! Send out myriad prayers constantly. Be kind to you. Fill your glass so you can then help fill others. All those little sayings in the old songs are true: "walk a mile in my shoes," "Jesus loves the little children," "How many times can a man look up, before he can see the sky," "drink to me only with thine eyes," "Precious Memories", etc. The source - "Emma Lemmon47" http://emmalemmon47.blogspot.com/2010/02/triangle-wheelchair-prayer-shawl.html

Your Welcome - she does have a great site with lots of good ideas!

I just got an update from this site that I really love. I posted a few months ago about meals in a jar...well now she's posted some meals in mylar bags. I haven't had time to really look at it this week, but I thought I would share the site. She has great ideas on everything: Here's the link: http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-make-homemade-mylar-packed-52.html Hope this helps. Denise

I am finally up and going, but slow. I've never been so sick with this stuff like this time. Thank you all for your suggestions and help. I had high fever with it and man I've been sick. I had to go back to work Wed. because of a meeting & just barely made it thru the day. Still having dizzy spells and just get really sick stomach, my stomach just hurts. I think being very stressed in my personal life and tired made my resistance lower and this one just hit me hard. I know one thing I'm ready to feel better again. I've pretty much been living on crackers, 7-up/gingerale, potato soup. Thanks everybody for your help.

I'm barely able to type this, so if it makes no sense forgive me. My dad got a touch of the stoomach bug and I got it really good...the whole thing, stopped yesterday after two days, but my stomach feels likes it is spasming and I feel so bad. Is there something I can take or cook that will help me get better? I always remember my mom giving the potato soup and think I read where the broth off of potatoes boiled is good to settle your stomach. Any suggestions. I've got to go back to work tomorrow and I can hardly stand up and feel awful..Thank you...Denise

Do you mind if I ask where you found it $18 month. I had to give up my membership because it was to expensive also?

So what kind of things are you talking about "set in place" and being harder???

I haven't tried to many dehydrated or freeze dried foods, but some and they have all been pretty good. I agree just having everything together in one jar is a comfort and convenience sometimes. I just thought it was a very neat idea she had come up with. We use these packaged foods that only need water and they're pretty good, so I think if we fixed our own with our own seasonings and flavors we live it would be better. Just my thoughts. I have a long way to go. I'm also making a list and starting the frozen meals in a bag, like that idea, just what if no electricity, it would ruin. This seemed more long term. I also liked her idea to put an old tube sock over them in storing to help protect the jars.

Yeah me too!! I love the way everything is together and not searching for things. I'm going to make some of these up, she has many pages and I think coming out with a book. Anyway her posts are informative and great recipes!

I don't know if this has already posted before, but this lady has some great recipes using freeze dried and dehydrated ingredients for a complete meal. I am going to make some of these jars and put in storage. Make sure and read all the comments she gives more information and with the oxygen absorb. said they should last 5-7 yrs. Here's the links to her page: http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2011/04/emergency-preparedness-and-everyday.html http://cheftessbakeresse.blogspot.com/2011/07/4-new-convenience-meals-in-jar-recipes.html Sorry if someone has already posted these. Denise

Look on youtube, they have lots of homemade chicken coops that roll and how to do it. Some pretty good ideas!

That's so funny...look at all your battling and I'm worried about cats!! LOL!!!!!! I will find a way to get them, that's my plan, just need a place. Actually I have a place that use to have chickens in there, but needs lots of work..shoot I better get busy! Your my here MtRider-- you've kicked my butt into gear!!

I have a friend that built one with wheels and he just rolls it when he gets ready to change the place he wants to put it. He found the idea on youtube. I would love to have one. I would love to have chickens, but live in the country and have lots of wild cats and afraid they would eat them and I don't have a good place for them. I love chickens, good eggs and fun to watch and raise.

Well I'm finishing mine now but i put: Oscillococcinum Cold Calm Flu Care AM & PM Cough Syrup (homeopathic) Tylenol Ibuprofen peroxide Alcohol Vicks Rub Hand Sanitizer Antibiotic Ointment Anti Bacterial Wipes AntiBacterial hand wash Honey/Lemon cough drops Citrus Cough Drops Baby Wipes Kleenex Gatorade Anti Bacterial Soap Disinfectant Spray Trash Bags And I make sure I have lots of soup or things like that so if I'm sick I don't have to worry. I'm sure there's other things, but right now that's all i can think of.

Okay I'm certainly not a great cook, but when I cook beans sometimes the regular way beans, ham, garlic. BUT I love to cook them all night in slow cooker and I put beans, can green chilies (sp), can tomatoes, taco seasoning, sausage (cheese, polsa, smoked), salt, pepper, and garlic in a.m. Man its good, add cornbread and I'm eating "high on the hog" as my grandmother use to say.

Thanks for the welcome everyone. Great site!! Well I went yesterday to 2 Dollar Stores and grocery store and bought some things to store. Went to the online site and ordered the products Nana talked about, I definately would rather try natural vs. meds. Got just about everything she had listed, still have a few things to get. Bought some water, food, just basic things. Anyway got it all dated and put up, so I feel good.