We have all learned a lot this week about caring for our new calf. We bottle feed him two times each day. Right now he is drinking 10 pints each day, split up between the two feedings. We also give him some sweet feed, which is in a pellet form. We are using Calf Manna. [...]
Our dog thinks she has to run through the flowers that are next to the door every time she comes in the house. I planted some new flowers there this spring and I would like to keep her out of them. I had an old wire white fence that I put up, but it is [...]
Yesterday, we got a calf for our daughter’s 4H bucket calf project.
He is a week old Holstein calf. He was pretty tramatized by the trip to our house (about half a mile), but this morning he seems to be feeling much better and ate well from the bottle. She hasn’t figured out what to [...]
We are studying the country of Turkey this month in our co-op. Along with a few other Turkish recipes, I made Turkish Delight for the kids to try. In The Chronicles of Narnia, Edmund eats Turkish Delight that was prepared by the White Witch. It was unlike any candy recipe I’ve ever made. It has [...]
This is my gardening bucket. I keep all of the tools I might need when I am gardening inside it. It has a spade, rake, pruners, weed digger, kneeling pad and everyone’s garden gloves. I can just take this out with me when I garden and I don’t have to keep running back in for [...]
This morning we made waffles with our new waffle maker. We got it free using Swag Bucks we earned while doing regular web searching. If you aren’t familiar with Swag Bucks, you simply use it like you would any search engine. Occasionally, you win Swag Bucks. I usually win several each day. When you accumulate [...]
We have a small orchard in our yard. Two pear trees, a few peach trees and several apple trees. Oh, and the cherry tree we just planted. We aren’t wild about spraying the trees with pesticides, so last year we tried this homemade bug catcher. By the end of the season we had LOTS of [...]
I received a question from Amber recently. She wants to know what resources are available for teaching her children how to read. I thought I’d write about what I’ve used or heard about, then open it up to you.
With our first daughter, we started out using Learning Language Arts Through Literature (LLATL) from Common Sense [...]
I recently discovered the Find Function in my internet browser. Forgive me if you already know about this. Since I found it, I use it almost constantly so I thought I’d share it with you.
Let’s say you do a SwagBucks search for something, click on a page that looks promising, but then you can’t find [...]
We have weeds at our house… LOTS of WEEDS! Back in my less earth and cost conscious days, I bought Round-up and sprayed those weeds that I couldn’t pull up. Last summer, I discovered a cheaper, safer way to get rid of those stubborn weeds.
Soil Sterilizer
Dissolve 3 Tablespoons salt in 2 cups white vinegar. Add [...]
