February 2010

What a Good Idea!

Barnyard

You may have seen this bit of news from Belgium about a township giving out free chickens to its residents in a bid to reduce household waste: Belgium Town Residents Offered Chickens A refreshing change from cities which apparently think chickens (and goats) are the root of all evil. Do you think anything like this [...]

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My Daddy’s Oatmeal

Breakfast

My Daddy’s Oatmeal mason jar of water 1/2 mason jar of old fashioned oats handful of raisins 1T cinnamon sugar or brown sugar 1T salty butter or margarine shredded coconut milk optional crushed walnuts 1.  Toss raisins in pan of water and heat to boiling. 2.  Stir in oats, return to boiling for a few [...]

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Protecting Chicks-n-Goats on Winter Nights

Barnyard

What do you do with them in the winter?  Do they come inside? NO! Here is the great thing about having farm animal pets.  They’re hardy! The chickens, you need to do nothing.  NOTHING!  They roost in my window sill or up in the bushes and puff themselves out and do just fine. The goats [...]

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Salmon Patty Puffs (Gluten-free)

Main Dishes

My hubby says that these are like salmon hush puppies, fish hush puppies…FUSH-puppies. That’s what he settled on.  Fush-puppies.  So here you go!  And since I can’t have flour, they’re gluten free.  I suppose any coarse flour would work.  Whole wheat, cornmeal, what-have-you, but mine are from rice flour that I grind myself. Ivory’s Gluten-Free [...]

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Shelly Dishcloth

Crafts

Shelly Dishcloth ch 31 Row 1: dc in 4th ch from hook, *skip next ch (4 dc, ch 2, dc) in next ch, skip next 3 ch, dc in each of next 5 ch; rep from * across, ending with dc in each of last 2 ch, turn. Row2 : ch3 (counts as dc), skip [...]

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