We were running out of our previous batch of window/surface cleaner last night so I whipped up some more. Last time I refilled this commercial Windex bottle was the first time I had ever made my own concoction, and it worked so well I don’t think anybody noticed (except the color was a little different). …

I like changing oil; it’s a good dirty job that needs to be done and doesn’t take long, and I can save a bundle doing it myself. Besides, it’s a good time to check other fluid levels in the vehicle, look at the air filter, and generally ensure I know what’s going on under the …

We actually pay our bills automatically online, but I did a double take when I saw this bill-payment notice. It’s a good thing it wouldn’t be boasting to say that’s a decent power bill for nine people during the entire month of August, because if it were I’d be boasting. We’re part of a rural …

I just can’t stand it. I withstood posting all day long, saying, No, I said I’ve already posted thrice this week and I have to be as good as my word. But I enjoy writing about our wacky lives, and since I’m the king of my own domain I can change my decrees on a …

(I said I’d only post thrice weekly, but I didn’t say which days those would be. Did I?) So we have this Stir Crazy popcorn machine that you dump the oil and popcorn into and it heats up and stirs the kernels with two wire thingies, only we’ve had it for several years and the …

Well, I just can’t quit blabbing about how great it is to make your own food. Here is supper from the other night. The bread is my homemade wheat bread, toasted and slathered with butter.* The water’s from our well, which at 705 feet deep had BETTER be producing clean water (the county has tested …

Thank goodness for neighbors. Actually, Diana lives an hour away, but she was getting rid of her chickens (I got the last two, actually) and while I was there she decided to get rid of her chicken stuff. So on Monday night when I came home with two Production Reds in a cardboard box in …

As denizens of the country, we have to haul our trash in to a county dump once a week or so. We don’t generate that much garbage; everything eatable goes either to the poultry or into the compost, and we recycle all newspapers, magazines, corrugated, pop cans, and unused items. We recycle not in order …

I walked into my credit union two months ago, just as they were starting a remodel on their building. The counter was busy, so the manager called me over and helped me at her desk. As I sat there looking out the large front windows, it occurred to me that the wall in which they …

Here are some things we do: – Tithing. This is the foundation of our financial survival because withoutit we cannot expect God’s help. We pay tithing religiously (pun intended)and that is how we can make it. It’s surprising to me how many people know this, from lots of different churches. It’s one of those things …