Didn't he turn out "purty"?Friday, September 19, 2008
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The Boy
Me and Midnight, a.k.a Middie
Me and Samantha, a.k.a. Sam
Phoebe, a.k.a. Stripey
The Boy and Judd
In Memory...
Timothy
In Memory...
Jethro
Seeds (Future Steps)
- -chicken tractor and a few chickens
- -homemade cleaning products
- -vermicomposting
- -canning and drying foods
Trees (Current Steps)
- -using more homemade food
- -decluttering/organizing/cleaning
- -driving less
Fruit (Steps Taken)
- -homeschooling
- -working at home (self-employed)
- -generator (to keep working when there's a power outage)
- -gardening
- -sprouting
- -solar/handcranked radio
- -hand popcorn popper
- -replaced some bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs
- -no TV (except a little when we visit Mom and Dad)
- -composting kitchen and garden waste
- -no dishwasher
- -hand grain grinder
- -no hair dye (gray is beautiful, no?)
- -line drying clothes
- -made simple washing powder
- -chickens (had to relocate them)
Recommended Self-Reliant Nonfiction
- Back to Basics (Mack, Norman - Editor)
- Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (Brende, Eric)
- Camping and Wilderness Survival (Tawrell, Paul)
- Country Wisdom and Know-How (Editors of Storey Books)
- Crisis Preparedness Handbook (Spigarelli, Jack A.)
- Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants (Angier, Bradford)
- Four-Season Harvest (Coleman, Eliot)
- Hobby Farm (Ekarius, Carol)
- Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter (Kahn, LLoyd)
- Making the Best of Basics (Stevens, James Talmadge)
- Pearls of Country Wisdom (Tukua, Deborah S.)
- Recycle with Earthworms: The Red Wiggler Connection (Grossman, Shelley C. and Weitzel, Toby)
- The "Have-More" Plan (Robinson, Ed and Carolyn)
- The Complete Cheapskate (Hunt, Mary)
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Emery, Carla)
- The Self-Reliant Homestead (Sanders, Charles)
- The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It (Seymour, John)
- The Sustainable Vegetable Garden (Jeavons, John and Cox, Carol
- The Tightwad Gazette (Dacyzyn, Amy)
Homesteading/Self-Reliance Links
Agrarian Blogs
Single Parent Homeschooling Links
- Over 100 Resources for Christian Single Homeschooling Moms
- Homeschooling As a Single Parent: How You Can Make It Work
- Single and Homeschooling
- Single Parents Can Homeschool
- Janet's Journal
- Jehovah-Jireh Mission
- Single-Mom Homeschooling Testimonies
- Looking after Widows and Orphans: How You Can Help Single-Parent Families
Decorating Links
Recipes Links
Frugal Living Links
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