What is happening to our nation’s children? I know that times always change and we cannot hold on to the past. However, shouldn’t we take the things that worked and build on them? There are certain things that technology will ...
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How Self-Sufficiency Can Rescue America
While I continue to struggle with today’s society, sometimes even wanting to circle around my own family and shut the world out, I also realize that I have to BE the change that I want to see in this world. ...
Read More »Don’t Waste Your Greenhouse This Summer
Now that your plants are out of the greenhouse and planted in your garden, is it time to close the door and forget about your greenhouse until next spring? That’s how I used to think. Then something happened that changed ...
Read More »5 Transplanting Tips To Guarantee Your Garden Thrives
It’s almost June, and our greenhouse is exploding. Last fall we saved seeds from our heirloom flowers and veggies, started them in March, and now it’s time to transplant them from their home in the greenhouse to the raised beds ...
Read More »5 Greenhouse Space-Saving Secrets
Last week, I wrote about three things I have learned in just a few years of owning a greenhouse. Our greenhouse is 20 feet long and 14 feet wide, and 9 feet tall in the center. This is the perfect ...
Read More »3 Tricks To Greenhouse Growing I Learned From Experience
I will be the first to admit, I am not the quickest learner in the group, but some things come easier than others. This will be our third year with a greenhouse, and let me tell you, there was a ...
Read More »Home Inventions Just Like Red Green And Jethro
I don’t watch much television. Never could sit down long enough to watch a whole show. So, when I do watch, it has to be either informative or very entertaining to keep my attention. We don’t have cable or satellite, ...
Read More »Holding DC’s Spoiled Brats Responsible
Is it any wonder our nation’s government is falling apart? Our politicians — the ones we put in charge — are acting like children. More than that, our representatives are acting like spoiled children. My youngest son was born late ...
Read More »Opinion: Please Don’t Help Obama Kick-Start World War 3
Hello friends. I’m writing you today because our government has spent too much money. My president has spent all the money we already gave him, and even more money our children have yet to make, but it’s still not enough. ...
Read More »Taking Care Of Our Own
A few generations ago, families looked after each other. There were sometimes even four generations living in the same house back in the day. When mothers and fathers grew into grandmothers and grandfathers, offspring repaid the elders by caring for ...
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