Around The House

Krystal on November 17th, 2011

The other day I wanted to make a craft involving acorn tops which has evolved into a whole project, you gotta love life for that, why don’t I home-school again? Anyway first I had to find an ‘acorn’ tree which the kids learned is actually an Oak tree and several of them grow near the [...]

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Krystal on October 25th, 2011

Tis the season to be butchered…la la…wait sorry. It’s slaughtering season which means fresh meat. Yum. For someone who was a vegetarian for most of their life I sure do love fresh meat and there is nothing quite like a roasted chicken, except maybe a roasted duck….anyway… It’s easy. Even I can do it.

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Krystal on September 14th, 2011

It seems to me that if you are going to all the trouble of canning food on the premise of being self sufficient, preserving the local harvest and such that buying pectin for your jams is a little bit counter productive. I mean it’s not like your great grandmother bought her pectin from the grocery [...]

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Krystal on April 8th, 2011

One of the things I love about my house is that there is no cell service inside it. You have to go into the driveway to get service. We discovered it when the house was inspected. When I went to pay their little wireless terminal didn’t work in the house we had to go out [...]

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Krystal on March 12th, 2011

Tonight we all lose an hour of sleep, the groundhog saw his shadow and I got a notice in my mailbox yesterday that said it was time to clean up my yard all of which point to one very exciting fact: spring is in the air. And as I go through my notebook and review [...]

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Krystal on February 7th, 2011

In the interest of saving time I once again am relocating my musical tidbits to Twitter. I’ll post the feed in one of the sidebars here so that those of you who are slightly lazier or apprehensive about the whole twitter thing can still enjoy these jewels. You can read it here: http://twitter.com/#!/KaitsMusic It’s quicker [...]

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