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Sways to securea. DIY Chicken Feed Sack Tote ‹ Community Chickens. We Got a Lot of Wind. In Nebraska they are shooting windmills.

We Got a Lot of Wind

Picture this…a bright red Ford f-350, 10mpg, cruising at a brisk 60 miles per hour. A long, very long, straight highway stretching to the horizon. A stiff breeze at 20 knots out of the southwest. Something unusual in the distance – a hill, a mere 4 foot high rise in the road, and up over it comes the truck barreling down the asphalt with two homegrown locals, pigeon-eyed in the front seat. The passenger side window slowly rolls down, the long barrel of a .308 caliber deer rifle pokes out into the air, the gas pedal is pushed to the floor. On the horizon looms the lightly silhouetted shape of an enormous 410 foot tall, white gentle giant, easily turning in the current of wind. Fifty Free Farmstead eBooks. 71 Of The World's Best Homemade Soap Recipes. Rosemary Mint Shaving Cream: Homemade Gift Ideas.

How to make homemade shaving cream with coconut oil and shea butter that smells of a delicious rosemary-mint pairing.

Rosemary Mint Shaving Cream: Homemade Gift Ideas

Great for personalized Christmas gifts or just to pamper yourself. 44K+Around the same time that I started washing my face daily with the Ginger Coconut Oil Body Scrub I had concocted in the kitchen, I also had the revelation that post body scrubbing, you could shave your legs without using shaving cream. Shaving cream and I are lifelong enemies. I have to buy some pretty expensive slathering lotion for it to do its job without leaving me looking like I had a run-in with a barbed wire fence, and I, frankly, am complaining about it. <--me complaining.Shortly thereafter, my husband, who sports a perpetual 5 o’clock shadow (you don’t believe me, just click, click, and click), was distraught when said expensive shave cream ran out, leaving him standing in the shower, the water streaming down with nothing but bar soap and a dull razor to do the job.

Notes: How to Build A Rocket Stove For Cooking Project. Print this Post Log Cabin Cooking website shares a step by step process with great pictures and detailed instructions how to build a highly useful rocket stove.

How to Build A Rocket Stove For Cooking Project

A rocket stove is an efficient cooking stove using small diameter wood fuel which is burned in a simple high-temperature combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney which ensures complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface…as quoted by Wikipedia. logcabincooking. Click here to create this project yourself: StoveTec Deluxe 1 Door Stove (Wood & Biomass Fuel Options) Emberlit Camping Stove – Stainless Steel with Cross Bars G-3300 Envirofit Rocket Stove Permanent link to this article: How to Build an Earth Oven. Do you remember your teachers asking you on the first week of school what you did for your summer vacation?

How to Build an Earth Oven

Well, if I were still in school, this would have been a story to amaze my teacher and classmates. My friend, TH, is an amazing baker and cook. She is also very wise in the ways of crafts and organizing activities that bring diverse people together. Her great ambition has been to build and use a wood-fired oven in her own backyard. TH is not someone who merely dreams big -- she builds! Bow making Basics. I remember making my first bow as a kid.

Bow making Basics

I found a branch on the ground under the black oak trees that grew in our yard. There was a windstorm the prior evening and branches were everywhere. I found one with a bend and tied on a string. Then I grabbed a smaller, straighter branch. I placed this small branch on the string and shot it. Homemade Antiseptic Ointment. MIY Remedy: Homemade Antiseptic Ointment Yes, I have made yet another home supply.

Homemade Antiseptic Ointment

This is the first time I’ve gone toward the physical aspect and made something useful for our bodies, though. It won’t be the last time, because I can only imagine what else is out there that I can make. The idea of having this type of knowledge and the resources to make my own whatever, is so empowering to me. Don’t be surprised if more and more of these home remedy posts pop up in the future. Homemade Lip Balm. 10 Skills Every Survivalist Should Learn. Making Soap Without Lye (Sort of) Possibly the most often expressed sentiment I hear, when it comes to soap making, goes something like:

Making Soap Without Lye (Sort of)

Homemade Soap. Grandpappy's Homemade Soap Recipe Copyright © 2007,2008 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All rights reserved and all rights protected under international copyright law. Click Here for a Microsoft WORD printer friendly copy of this article. Introduction During hard times sooner or later everyone runs out of soap. Homemade Camp Stoves, Homemade Backpacking Stoves, And More… (It can be as good as any camp stove you'll purchase…) Wanna add something?

Homemade Camp Stoves, Homemade Backpacking Stoves, And More…

Take a moment and submit it using the form below. I really like homemade camp stoves. They cost nothing, and you can always built another one if it breaks… The stoves you can build are really no big deal. If you got minimal handy man abilities it's really a piece of cake.