I love to tinker, especially with house-hold mechanisms that get daily use. I am always on the lookout to reduce daily costs, and now that the temperatures are warming up, I started thinking about the swamp-cooler and how I could improve upon it. In high-summer here in Central California, our swamp-cooler is on 24/7. The [...]
September 18, 2011
It is the time of year when acorns start dropping from the oaks. Last year I fulfilled a long-time goal of mine and picked acorns, leached the tannic acid out and baked bread. The bread was so good that the two loaves I baked were gone that night. Although I was able to pick enough [...]
August 11, 2011
Last year I had an idea to integrate a compost bin into our chicken yard. Originally, when we first started keeping chickens, we would throw our food scraps into the chicken yard, which worked fine but much of the scraps did not disentegrate straigh-away (like melon rinds or carrot tops. I wondered if it would [...]
January 31, 2011
A while back I had made a short video to show a friend how to post videos on youtube. The video covered a chicken coop I had been working on. That stupid video that I posted randomly gets more responses than videos I made for content! So I made a new updated chicken coop video, [...]
March 12, 2012
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