These days I mostly try not to write. My life is so full of work and family and weeding. But every now and then, my brain starts to itch and the only way to scratch that itch is writing. This is where you will find my most recent scratchings.
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On Kiddlets
***While I am packing up our house like a woman possessed, getting our family ready to move across the continent, several generous readers have volunteered to keep you musing. This first guest post is written by Jasmine Johnson-Kennedy. Jasmine in an Alaskan off-grid homesteader (ironically, I do not know her from Alaska but solely from this virtual space). She also writes at her own blog, Bunchberry Farms.*** :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: You may think I’m crazy when I say this, but its true. I have been actively talking myself out of having children for a decade. How old am I, you ask? I’m…
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So Long For Now
Okay, friends. The time has come. This will most likely be my last post for awhile, maybe into June. But! I have a line-up of folks who have volunteered to write guest posts. There should be at least one/week to keep y’all chewing on some good stuff. Please remember to support our gracious guests with lots of comments! [Speaking of which, I sent out an email to everyone who volunteered but never heard back from a couple of you and I suspect that the email given with your original comment was not the one you normally use…? If you want…
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What Were You Doing Last Night at 9:24?
We move across the continent in 21 days, My Man is completely immersed in finals, and I am suffering from some kind of severe back problem. Considering the circumstances, what do you think I was doing last night? Packing boxes? Resting the shooting pains in my back after a 14 hour day of full time parenting? Watching stupid movies with My Man in attempt to escape our workload? Sleeping? No. I was canning strawberry jam. Is this a symptom of something more serious? Inability to travel without carefully packed jars of preserved local bounty? When we moved here from Alaska…
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Mesh Produce Bags to DIY Dish Scrubbie in 4 Easy Steps
Do you ever buy onions or citrus in plastic mesh bags like these? Do you hoard them under the sink like I do? More than a year ago now I figured out how to turn a pile of these into a scrubbie and I have been washing dishes with one ever since. I finally gave up the nasty *dish sponge* and I have not missed it. In fact, I still have to keep sponges around for the occasions when My Man washes up, and I am not even tempted to use them anymore. What a gross and unnecessary invention, that…
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Book Review: Feeding the Whole Family
I started packing yesterday. I’m hoping to get a few boxes packed every day for mailing to Alaska, since we aren’t planning to send too much home, I think two weeks ought to get that job done. Then we are going to have a giant garage sale to purge everything else, then it will just be a matter of cleaning the house top to bottom. Which will be a daunting task. Over our few years here I have accumulated a lot of books. I never used to buy books, I would just get them from the library. But while here,…
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