Never rely just on freezers for your meat storage. I’ve never liked the idea of canning meat, but I think we’ll be giving it a try soon. If we can manage to dry, freeze and can a little bit of everything we’ll have our bases covered when stuff like this happens… Also lost were a [...]
I didn’t want to do it, really. I have spent a year mulling over this situation trying to figure out if there was any other way, but I came to the conclusion that it needed to be done. Last weekend I cut down two very large Pine trees that were blocking the sunlight to a Passive Solar Cabin [...]
I grabbed a few quick shots of my studio space today. It’s cluttered and messy, but that’s the way I work. I am very lucky to have the space to go and be creative. It’s nice to get out of the house, push Waylon in his stroller up the driveway then back out to the [...]
When you have just a little bit of a spice seed that needs to be ground, it is important to make sure you clean out the grinder first. Here we ended up with coffee-flavored fennel. It might sound good (licorice flavored coffee?) but wasn’t what the Indian dish called for.
I finished setting up my studio last month and have been busy putting it to good use. It’s amazing how much you can accomplish in-between feeding, changing and playing, or during nap times. I recently posted on my blog www.salvagedthreads.com about how I had been out in my studio being a busy bee crafting away lately. I even put [...]
I realize we haven’t posted much lately so I wanted to give a quick update on a few things. Company, Travel and Friends We have had a lot of company over the last couple of months, and I was out of town for work an entire week. We have really enjoyed our time spent with [...]
On Friday I made an all-grain batch of beer – Rye Pale Ale. As some of you may know when you brew an all-grain batch you can use upwards of 25 lbs. of grain before it’s all said and done. Even though the barley and rye are doing a great job to produce 10 gallons [...]
I promised a post about making chestnut flour when I wrote about our two prolific chestnut trees last month. I managed to get all the way up to the point of picking, scoring, roasting, peeling and freezing the chestnuts, but just couldn’t find time for the last step: Grinding them into flour. Today for lunch [...]
Today brought us clear blue skies and temps in the mid-seventies. It is one of the nicest days we’ve had in awhile, which is why I spent it cleaning the chimneys and wood stoves. Some of the trees have already shed all of their leaves, although others are still ablaze in color. A warm breeze [...]
For years I felt as though I never got to do what I “enjoyed” because I was working too much. Even at home on weekends I was always “working” on some project because I didn’t have time to do it during the week while working for someone else. I thought “If I could just have [...]
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