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Peanut Butter Jars
I have an excess of old peanut butter jars that I washed, dried, matched lids to, and put up. I put popcorn, dried lentils, dried black beans, dried mung beans, noodles, and dried spices in them. All of these previous dried goods were in bags. It will protect them better than the bags and be…
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Work in Progress
My life is a work in progress. The past year has proven that some things need to leave and some things need to be revived. This spring has been the season of finally taking care of my health by doing the little things. I have gone to the dentist and eye doctor for the first…
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Doings Around The Homestead
This week saw the Snowpocalypse moved into North Central Arkansas. The weather was frightfully cold, down to 7 degrees Fahrenheit. As I write this it is only 11 degrees outside. I am so thankful for my wood stove. Although it took several loads of wood to keep us warm, it has done a fabulous job…
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Farming Plans
The United States is facing unprecedented financial and geopolitical pressures due to fiscal failures and political hacks trampling all over the good faith and credit of the United States and using our name and money as a weapon. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my opinion, and I am sticking to it. This is not a…
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Happy Thanksgiving
It’s Thanksgiving Eve and all through the house, not a pie is baking. No cookies, no cranberries, and no candied yams, wait for Thanksgiving to land. Instead a quiet fire is roaring to life in the wood stove to keep us warm tonight. It’s not poverty or a lack of food. It’s a lack of…
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Just Starting Over
After twenty years of homesteading, homeschooling, and running a home business on 10 acres in the Ozarks with my husband and six children, life had a monumental shift. Not only did most of the children move out, but my youngest got diagnosed with autism, and my husband and I are now divorcing. While many would…
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