Well my "freaky" friend - I like you just the way you are - which is weird like me 🙂 We are a whole group of weird and wonderful canners and preserv...

I made soap yesterday - ALL BY MYSELF 🙂 well - with my mom and daughter but they had never made soap before. My mom was quite proud that at 74 she ...

I made cold process soap (with lye) and taught my mom and daughter. Farmgal taught me a few weeks ago but teaching someone else is the true test of kn...

Great score Dolly 🙂

Strawberries - when planted in the ground - just need to be covered. straw is a good idea. I would put them somewhere in a shady spot outside instea...

A little bit of everything that YOU CAN MAKE MEALS OUT OF! I find it much easier to think in terms of meals. Start with a weeks or months supply of b...

Denise - I'd never even held one in my hands and never had been around anyone shooting one. To be honest there was a time when just talking about hav...

Hi MissMarple! Welcome to the board 🙂 You've done a great job! I'd love to hear more about your favorite combinations of freeze dried foods for me...

Ha ha - Girlcancan - I felt the exact same way. My kids teased me - MOM is going to get her PAL? The world really must be coming to an end 🙂 good ...

I too feel I have one foot in each world but I know which one is running us into the ground being unsustainable and I know the one is giving me arthri...

I feel like we live with one foot in either camp. We don't live so far out in the bush that we don't have the amenities of every day life but we are ...

Welcome kiwikraut 🙂 Looking forward to getting to know you!

mammabearof5 - I wonder if your kids have gone camping before? Might it have been wise to take them to a provincial park or something similar and acc...

Hi Lysa - welcome aboard. Unfortunately I am no where near Sudbury but I'm looking forward to getting to know you online!

How did the move go oldschool?? thinking of you...