8 Ways to Lower Your Grocery Bill

Most of what TL and I do, we just do cause we’re strange.  But in tough economic times, our eccentricities may be of interest to others. Why? Because our weird Little House lifestyle is naturally low cost!  So, here are eight ways that being eccentric like us...

Super-Mouse

We don’t use the R-word.  It’s a super-mouse.  Or now super-mice.  And it’s all my fault.  Three guesses what’s in those well-sealed buckets and coolers. Something that was in a paper bag that I wondered how all the grains were...

Aerogarden

After my first aerogarden herb crop–I’ve had trouble growing anything else in there.  But, since we’re past lettuce season, I decided to give it another try.  So far, the five middle cells work, but the two outer ones are still duds. And that nifty...

Name that Chicken

Are my chickens free range? I know they’re ‘cage-free’. They aren’t confined to the coop. In fact, they only go in to lay eggs. But, they’re penned. Would you say that the thousands of chicken generations before them that grew up in pens...

5 Ways Goats Do Yardwork

I had no idea that if you didn’t give goats grain ‘feed’ every day–they’d mow!  (BTW, I’ve already gone back and changed the goat feeding post to reflect my corrected understanding…I’ve been wrong a lot lately, huh?) ...