Compared to even a large paintbrush, using a roller is such an easy way to paint a large area! Especially if you paint your walls flat on the ground before nailing them up.
But rolling comes with its own set of drawbacks. The biggest is that your rollers can dry out and become practically unusable if stored improperly. Painting with a crusty roller is like trying to brush your teeth the wrong end of a toothbrush – frustrating and pointless.
It’s easy to overlook coffee when it costs just pennies a mug. But consider: for each cup, a coffee bean and 99 of its cousins must journey halfway around the world to be hulled, roasted and ground. The water must be purified to historic levels, heated, then dripped through. So it’s a damn shame when even part of that effort gets washed down the drain.
Old coffee might seem to worthless to save, but just as with many money saving ideas, a little bit each day snowballs into a lot over time. But pennies saved are not the only reason to start saving those swigs in a container in the fridge… Continue reading
I’ve had the opportunity recently to test out the new Five Gallon Pack around the farm. The owner of the company was kind enough to send us one to use for testing, promising we would find use for it.
The pack is popular with outdoor enthusiasts of all sorts – anglers, hunters, spelunkers and prospectors.
My hands were made more for typing so I found a more domestic use for it – harvesting this year’s sizable tomato crop. Continue reading
A well made chicken broth serves as the base for delicious soups, gravies and many other savory meals.
True bone broth is a deep rich gold, very different from the watery yellow liquid from the grocery store which tastes more like salt than chicken. After you start making your own, you’ll agree that the most delicious part of the chicken are its bones!
You can make broth with the bones of any animal – but chicken is the easiest. Pig or cow bones can take 3 days to cook down, but a chicken broth can be done in just 4 hours.
Once you start cleaning with laundry detergent crafted by your own hands, you’ll never buy overpriced detergents from the store again.
This detergent mix works well in high-efficiency machines and the older, less efficient ones. We have been using it for years at the apartment laundromat without any problems.
