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My first grade grandson loves Algebra.

I got my grandson a dry erase board for Christmas. He was running out of chalkboard space for his equations. My Daughter asked him about his dog Lincoln whining...

Sunday the homeless meal went very well!

The last Sunday of every month we feed the homeless here in Tulsa. This time we fed 102 meals, and it ran smoothly! The volunteers are experienced, and can run ...

An unexpected foot falls today in NYC, investors begin leaving; to avoid similar fines in real estate transactions!

I didn't see this one coming! It makes sense that real estate investors would be concerned, because everything they do is now subject to the same possible fines...

Truck drivers boycott (effectively mooning) NY state; as is their Constitutional right!

You can only push so far, and the other shoe will fall! Now we get see if the man sitting in the oval office (or his handlers), will try to be as big a Tyrant a...

The worst vegetable to stack in your prepping supplies.

When prepping, the first step most people is to buy canned food for storage. Nothing wrong with starting here, I did myself. There is one commercially canned ve...

Some common mistakes preppers make, and how we fix it!

I have noticed several mistakes that seem to keep recurring in the prepper community. So I decided to post on these problems; and offer an explanation of why th...

Sometimes things just fall into place....

Some things just need to happen to get moved out to the homestead permanently. I need to be able to mill some trees into lumber, so I can use them in some of th...

How will you open your can stored food after SHTF?

A question that begins simply, and move to complex areas quickly. Most preppers begin with a kitchen can opener, usually in pairs; with a P-38 on their keychain...

So it begins, converting a building to a net zero house!

Most people start at the Solar panels, batteries, and wind generators; to move fully off grid. I started that way myself, until I realized that it is backwards....

Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán 📷 Malaga - Spain

One of the churches that has caught my attention, especially at first sight, is the Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, a temple from the 15th century. Its exter...

Weekend-Engagement topics: WEEK 184

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see ...

There was a limb down on my Son's house...so we removed it!

My Son bought a house to rent, about 90 miles away from here; because he could pay cash for it! He intends to rent it, but with all of low cost properties, it n...

Rising To The Occasions, a Weekend for the Books

I’m a little old lady. Lemme tell ya, the older you get, the less there is to do on weekends. Now that I am no longer working, I wouldn’t mind an event or two, ...

How to use herbals for bandages, after you have them in hand.

I recently gave a bottle of comfrey tincture to a Lady to help her heal. I called days later, and she hadn't used it because she didn't know how. It seems to be...

Maintaining the perishable

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do...

A few secrets for working on cars, that a lot of people don't know!

I've done heavy car work since I was 8 years old (clutch), and I've picked up a few tricks since then. Some people will know some of these, but some may get som...

Sometimes it becomes necessary to kill a tree, here's how to do it!

This tree was growing between two houses, and we hired it removed. But they left a 14 foot tall stump, trying to get extra cash for removing that too! It is sti...

Truth about EV cars...or the good, the bad, and the ugly!

There is a Lot of 'information' circulating these days about electric vehicles. Some are accurate, while some are lies, and some are pie in the sky! Here is a c...

THIS MAKES YOU A POWERLESS CHRISTIAN: BUT WHY?

THIS MAKES YOU A POWERLESS CHRISTIAN I've often wondered why people can spend hours in front of their TV screens, absorbed in shows and movies, yet struggle to ...

Stain and polyurethane can breathe new life into a floor!

When his renter moved out, my Son decided to make the hardwood floors in his rental an asset. His house is an older home, that has two living areas. He rents ou...