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Canning Dry Beans
My parents in law got me a pressure canner for Christmas and yesterday I canned beans. I have to say I am now hopelessly hooked and in love!
I’ve never seen anyone use a pressure canner before and never used one myself either, but I’ve been studying …
Bottled Butter: My First Try
And it was successful! 
Some people call it canning butter but I call it bottling because I’m putting it up in canning jars — glass bottles — to be kept in the pantry.
Butter hasn’t ben on sale lately so I finally broke down and bought …
Our New House
Just a brief pic to show our new little “house” — aka camper 
The cargo trailer made a good bed but didn’t provide for much else and long term it became problematic. Way too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
This camper is …
Beginner Emergency Food Storage
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own grocery stockpile, you probably wonder where to start. The answer varies based on you, your family, and your goals. Many survivalists, preppers and mormons feel the best approach to building up a solid supply of …
Eggs In The Pantry
When you live without refrigeration, you start looking for alternate ways to keep certain types of food. I’ve always been a little confused when people talk about eggs, butter and various fruits or veggies as perishable foods because in my experience that’s not …
Stockpiling, Prepping & the Art of Coupons
Food is a security blanket for me. I don’t eat for comfort, I just need to know there’s plenty of food available whenever it’s wanted.
When I was growing up, stockpiling food was common sense and good money management. We lived on food stamps much of the time and I have …
Challenges Growing Food in the Desert
We’ve been living on the land now for five and a half months, and I quickly discovered growing food was going to be one of my biggest challenges in this adventure. The soil is viable and things grow just fine, but there are a number of critters that want the …
Kitchen and Toilet Composting
Composting: An easy way to dispose of all organic waste We are composting kitchen, yard and garden, as well as toilet waste. I decided to separate the toilet composting from the kitchen and garden compost piles because I want to let the toilet compost age one to two …
Corn Sprouts & New Plantings
I got my very first corn sprout Wednesday. I found three actually, one was almost an inch up while two others had just peaked their tips through the soil surface.
I haven’t done a great job tracking my planting dates and …
Our Very First Tree
W’s dad brought us our very first tree today! It’s an orange tree–Citrus sinensis ‘Trovita’–about two feet tall and a couple of beginning blossoms are already on it. The flower blooms are small and white, and they have a rich, heady scent …
First Vegetable Patches Planted
Even though it’s only our second full day on the land, I couldn’t resist going ahead and getting some of my vegetable patches started
This picture may not be the greatest because I took it with my cell phone and it’s …
Sustainable Living Musings & Ideas
So the first step in our sustainable living plan is almost complete. We’re scheduled to sign the contract on the land Saturday! Our first steps started already of course. We had to do the research on the land and offer, and this week we’ve been working on gathering up …
I May Have It Working
Fingers Crossed, the picture will show up right the first time!
Ok so I have to munge it 
Pocket sharp adds the image path to the file name when it uploads, but it gets inserted as a proper URL path in the post.
So …
Pocket Sharp Try
So this one had the option for posts to be published by default instead of put into draft mode. Let’s see how it does with images.
Mobile Blogging Thoughts
So far I’m not getting anywhere with my attempts to blog from Windows Mobile. I’ve tried the default Opera mobile browser but it chokes when I try to insert images into posts. The wp phone mobile plugin doesn’t offer images as an option anywhere in it, and the TBlogger mobile …