by Daisy | Jan 13, 2012 | Crafts, Soap Making
The luffa soap is done. Here’s how I did it. First, I grew some luffa gourds. And prepared them sponge-style. You can buy luffas already prepared. I’ve never done it so I don’t have a recommended seller, but you can do an online search and...
by Daisy | Jan 10, 2012 | Crafts, Woodworking
After I built a sawbuck I was watching a movie. In front of a remote woodland cabin in the Russian wilderness was a sawbuck. I never would have noticed it before I had my own. I’ll probably start seeing them everywhere now. It was the same when I built a...
by Daisy | Jan 3, 2012 | Fencepost, Reviews
This is the book I’ve been waiting for and didn’t even know it. And the timing is perfect. I’ve been so excited about permaculture, and perennial vegetables are a big reason why. BUT, after asparagus and rhubarb, I’ve been sort of clueless...
by Daisy | Dec 12, 2011 | Crafts, Soap Making
This year was a first for many things in the garden. Probably the most dramatic new addition was the luffa gourds. They got off to a bad start. Soon after sprouting, they disappeared entirely one night. Chipmunks? Alien abduction? So I planted more. They soon...
by Daisy | Dec 7, 2011 | Fencepost, Reviews
I’m ashamed to admit this, but sometimes it takes someone else, someone else who is cool, to say something is cool before I start thinking of it that way. Take mustard greens. Lowly, southern USA comfort food. Plain ol’ mustard greens, not the...
