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  1. Good Day..............

    I am not sure but I think we were in your neck of the woods on Sinday?

    Went to the Holiday Inn right by exit 37 in Liverpool?

    Dollhouse show we got to go to at the last minute- 6 hours of shopping and visiting dealer friends.

    Michael (and Lori)

  2. I just learned a lot from your post, Amber!
  3. I haven't tried that particular seed package before but I am kinda skeptical. If there really was an emergency where you needed to use your emergency seed bank, chances are you wouldn't be able to track the company down in the event that the seeds didn't germinate. So in that sense, the warranty on the seeds doesn't really mean much. I already had a lot of seeds, but I didn't let that keep me from buying more this year. I ordered from this company: http://www.america-t...seeds/index.php I spent about $30 and got hundreds of packets of seeds from various companies. While you cannot specify the exact types that you get, you can specify what percentage you want in flower seeds or herbs or veggies. I got 300 seed packs for that price. Lots of different varieties of tomatoes, beans, peas, eggplant, peppers, etc...Since setting up my greenhouse a couple of weeks ago, I can vouch for the fact that the seeds seem to be viable and almost every variety that I've planted has sprouted. For veggies that we don't eat, I just donate those to our summer youth gardening program. I also donate some of the flower seeds to our neighborhood association. Last weekend, I took my big tote bin of seeds to my parents' house and let them choose a few varieties for their garden. I will definitely do this again next year.
  4. What kind of green worms were you dealing with? Sometimes there are natural ways of dealing with them. In my case, we get a lot of BIG, GIANT, slugs. They are so nasty and about 3 inches long...some are even longer. For them, I have found that leaving dishes of beer out in the garden keep them under control. The drink the beer, become drunk and drown in the beer because they can't find their way out. There may be a natural solution to your problem, too.
  5. Whoo-hoo!! Thank you, Mother, for the directions!! I will definitely try your method, but I really should use the bread machine to save my hands. It can handle enough dough to make three loaves, though you can only bake two sizes of bread loaves in the pan... It takes about an hour and a half to make the dough, so it allows me to do other things. I have a couple of issues with my hands...chillblains and a touch of carpal tunnel. I spend a lot of time typing and (from time to time) I play the piano, so my hands have been taking abuse since the age of 5. My job requires a lot of typing for grantwriting, business plan writing, research, etc... and I tend to baby my hands to ensure that I am able to earn a living. Of course, we won't mention the amount of time that I spend typing comments on internet forums, right? If the world were to go completely awry and there was no power, I'd probably be making no-knead bread recipes or would train one of the kids to knead bread.
  6. That was pretty much my thought process, Christy! I figure that I could have several loaves, rolls, biscuits, etc...in the freezer and then be able to pop them into the oven for the evening meal. I rarely have the time to bake bread on a regular basis. I usually only bake one loaf at a time, because it doesn't stay as fresh without all of those nasty preservatives. This way, I could use the breadmaker one day per month and make all of the dough that I need. I'd just keep loading the bread machine with more ingredients to make each batch. I'd still make all of the angel biscuits by hand. I could make hamburger buns, dinner rolls, etc... with the machine made bread dough and just freeze them. I think that I will try this tomorrow. I have the day off and we might get a snow storm so I won't be able to do much outside, anyway.
  7. After making a loaf of white bread from the Mormon cookbook (that I received for Spring Fling- thanks Pauline!) and the cinnamon rolls (from the Angel Biscuit recipe) , I started thinking about convenience foods. I would love to be able to freeze bread dough, biscuit dough, etc and have them ready to just thaw and pop in the oven. Without using all of the chemical preservatives that companies like Pillsbury use, is it possible to do this? Can any recipe be adapted to do this or would it have to be for only "certain" recipes. I think I remember freezing pizza dough as a kid... If I can do this, then I would use my bread machine to make a lot of dough on my day off and then fresh bread on a busy day would be do-able. ( I could just use the timer on my bread machine tomake fresh bread, but it comes out in such funny shapes! The loaf is EXTRA tall and is weird for making sandwiches.
  8. Do you have anything started in your greenhouse, Michael? I have some time off coming up in a week and I am planning to put up my greenhouse then. I do have a couple of peas planted in pots on the front porch. They haven't sprouted yet. Probably a good thing since we have had snow for the past couple of days.
  9. Bitter Melon, a Chinese vegetable can also regulate blood sugar. I grew some last year. It does taste bad, as the name implies. It was pretty easy to grow, though.
  10. I consider myself to be quite picky... There are certain foods that I just won't eat. However, I have never been truly hungry either. My favorite item that people turn their noses up at are eggs. We have farm-fresh, organic eggs and some people think that there is something wrong with us for eating them when you can get eggs at the store. Where do they think those store bought eggs come from??!! They all fall out of a chickens butt!!! Ours just happen to be healthier because we know what kind of food our hens eat.
  11. We used to have a bread outlet years ago, but it shut down. I didn't utilize it as much as I should have back then.
  12. That is a good one. I have heard that UPS takes that to another level by mapping out the routes that the drivers take to eliminate (or severely reduce) left turns. The reason is that you have to wait so long to make a left turn that they've determined that it requires less gas to make a couple of rights and end up at the destination anyway.
  13. Right now, I am getting one egg per day from an Ameracauna. At least a fish flavored egg would be an enhancement! LOL!
  14. Selling male tilapia is sort of the industry standard. The thought process is that the females don't gain weight as quickly as the males. However, there are ways to offset that issue. At the time when I was first looking at this, most sellers wouldn't sell only a few fish to someone. Thay all wanted you to buy hundreds at a time. I just accepted the fact that we wouldn't be breeding them...just raising and eating. Since that time,several sellers have popped up on Ebay and other places who will sell and ship small quantities. One seller in particular carries the blue tilapia which are particularly cold hardy. I would want to have females under those circumstances and would have a self-sustaining school of fish. It makes sense from a self-sufficiency standpoint but also from a shipping point of view. The shipping fish is expensive! Back then, I just didn't know enough about it to understand the various options.
  15. For the past couple of years, our family has wanted to raise tilapia in barrels in the backyard. We haven't done it yet because we would need to extend the season and provide additional warmth for the fish. Heating the tank might just be cost-prohibitive...or maybe not. I wanted to use some food grade barrels that we get for free from a local food company and add a pump and some fish. While I have no intention of adding a geodesic dome, I do think that we might be able to pull this off by putting the barrels in the greenhouse. The greenhouse that we ordered has a removable plastic cover which we'd only use in the Spring and Fall. That might help the barrels to retain heat. The other option might be to paint the barrels black, but that might make the water too hot during the summer. We'd also have to make sure that the barrels are secure enough to keep raccoons from "fishing" in them. Each year we've tried to set a monetary goal as to how much we spend on self-sufficiency infrastructure. We try to spend only $1000 per year but that doesn't include the pantry. Aquaculture kind of straddles the line between pantry and infrastructure, so I think that this is something that we will do this summer...or at least try to do. As the article states, we might end up having a bunch of fish that are only large enough to feed to the chickens, but I doubt if the chickens would mind. This is the company that I contacted a couple of years ago to see about getting some tilapia fingerlings. There website is much improved and I would guess that it is because more and more people are getting into this. http://rdaquafarms.com/index.html
  16. But wait...There's more! We'll also send you a second EZ Cracker for no additional cost...cuz 2 cracked eggs are better than one!
  17. That is quite a haul you got, MidnightMom!!! Congratulations!!
  18. Hi MC,

    I've not posted on my scenario thread in a while.. been out of ideas.... Hope all is well..

    Tom

  19. Wow... Adding him to the prayers, too. I hope that he heals quickly so that he is able to support her in the treatments.
  20. My prayers will continue for her... It is so difficult to know that someone is suffering and not be able to offer more.
  21. We just did a little Christmas shopping today... Yep, on New Years Eve. Hubby's grandkids were out of town for Christmas so we postponed buying a few of their gifts to take advantage of some of the sales. One of the places we checked is called Ollie's Bargain Outlet. They are sort of a junk/closeout/ you-never-know-what-you're-gonna-find type of store. We purchased some organic relish, organic oatmeal, pomegranate juice, Juicy Juice, crackers, and a whole lot more. We also got a few more gifts for the grandkids. They also sell a lot of books, cleaning supplies and just about anything that you might think of, except clothes... I don't recall seeing clothes, anyway. I got this from their website: http://www.olliesbargainoutlet.com/default.aspx Ollie’s Bargain Outlet is currently located in 10 states: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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