I have cut out almost all gift giving except for grandchildren. Sometimes my son does get me something for my birthday anyway and sometimes I get a gift for someone on a birthday or Christmas just because it was at a wonderful price and something I know they'd just love. But no gifts for and...
I have made this bread and it's good. It does have an artisan bread texture, i.e. firm. I want a softer bread at times and can make it either way with a traditional kneaded dough and much faster simply by altering a couple ingredients a little. Recipe is in my head. When I say faster I mean that...
Yep. Mine think I'm just poor. Well, I don't have much to spare but I'm perfectly happy with my 15 year old truck, no smart phone (did have one - don't need it), no cable, etc. I did however spend $300 on a refurb Kitchenaide to help my carpal tunnel wrists knead bread, etc. Next big purchase...
Personally I'd rather have every migrant worker and housewife in Texas handle my food than have it wrapped in cellophane. Often that is the cause of premature rotting from lack of air flow. Stuff washes. And/or you cook it. All I know is, I almost never get sick. I supposed it's like using hand...
You can have just about any breed that way. Just don't look for them to get all that big or lay very many eggs. I've heard that the best at foraging for themselves are the game types. Not cornish crosses but Asil, LF real cornish, but mostly the Asian games. The tall rangy looking ones. They are...
Gosh yes. After finally deciding to try cooking dry pintos in my mom's old pressure cooker (not electric but still it's a pressure cooker, and still in great shape) I wondered why on earth I hadn't done that before. Not only a time saver but they really came out better than they do after soaking...
I've been told many times that my Security sign is what helps more than anything. I don't have anything worth stealing and that is why I purposefully leave the blinds open in the parts of the house I don't use. My truck is 12 years old and unlocked. Someone broke in it when it was new and pulled...
It's the same here. Yet I have no dogs, no goats, and I'm in the city in an area generally referred to has "high crime!" :lau
Being an old resident with a rep for being a nice lady, plus being known for having a gun close by and having a "Brinks security" sign by my door works wonders. Not sure...
Oh I have people referencing the newest "Survivor" and all that other stuff and they are so shocked that I have no idea what they're talking about. It's garbage! I don't watch it. I like documentaries. Not the OH WOW LOOK OH HELL ones but the real ones with quiet voices and real information and...
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From my generation: PAYING for TV reception???? DO WHAT???? I now don't even have a functioning TV set. I do have a little USB thingie that plugs into the computer that I can watch free, over the free air waves TV on if I want to, but I never do. Even when I was young, (mumble mumble)...
There's an old saying, Scott, "Useless as (breasts) on a boar hog (or boar shoat)." I doubt there truly is anything 100% useless on a hog too but that's just the old saying.
Haha I have exactly the same sort of thing for storing canned goods. It was on the curb with a back leg broken off. I put on a functional but not beautiful new leg, and the place it goes is in a corner where you can't even see it. Cut out some new shelves for it from material that was right...
Absolutely. You don't need the bells and whistles. My truck, I bought in 2001 brand spanking new. Doesn't have electric windows, which I adore, or power door locks. No tilt steering or fancy seats but it does have a radio and air conditioning. People get sticker shock looking at Chevrolet trucks...
Though I live in the city, I largely have the same attitude towards running out and buying things. I leave my property as little as I possibly can. And make do without whatever it is just because I don't want to go out and get it. I find that whatever that crushing great need was yesterday isn't...
We probably do have sister feet except mine have not flat, but rather low arches, in addition to having a scar on one arch from surgery. And so even if I try on a pair the right width, the arch in a pair of good running shoes is often much too high for me. I no longer need any office wear either...