This is an easy tutorial on how to make a fish hook from a soda can top, specifically from the tab. This is a good skill to have for many reasons; one, it saves you money on hooks, two, in an emergency situation you could use this to feed yourself as cans are everywhere since [...]
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This is a great little project that you can do in about a minute and is great at removing wasps and annoying flies. Basically, you just cut the top off a bottle and invert it. Then put a sugary liquid at the bottom. Bugs will fly in, attracted by the sweet smelling liquid. However, they [...]
This is a real quick Do It Yourself (DIY) post on how to make a stove out of a soda can. I purposely picked this design to do today because it is so easy and soda cans are everywhere. So, in an emergency you could put one of these together with trash [...] About a week ago I made my soil cubes to start the first seeds of the season. Below you can see my “soil cube building station”. By the way, I use the Soil Cube by Clayton Jacobs and if you haven’t heard of them they are awesome! It is a little machine that uses hand [...] Pectin is a naturally occurring extract made by boiling apples. It is also the thing you add to jelly or jam to make it gel, otherwise you are just left with a fruity liquid. If you make your own jelly and jam then you probably go through a lot of pectin. If you are buying [...] Here is my recipe for Easy Egg Salad. It is one of my favorites; good on lettuce, on a sandwich, with crackers or just by itself. Sometimes I like to double up this recipe at the beginning of the week and then make sandwiches from it for lunch as needed. You will need: Medium sized [...] If you are like me, you find yourself climbing the walls in the winter for lack of things to do. It can be frustrating. The ground is too cold to dig, but you want to do something constructive on the homestead. So, I decided to just sit down real quick and make a list of [...] This is one of my favorite recipes and is super easy to make. I serve it a lot at parties with toothpicks as an appetizer, but it is also delicious as a entree served over rice. Every time I make this for people someone always asks for the recipe. Swedish Meatballs cooking in the [...] |
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