hey I know its been awhile but I found the answers to the freezer bag wrapped cuts of meat mystery, found it in a butchers manual. its called wet aging. its a commercial form of aging the meat, they hang

really love the effort you are putting forward!! we strongly believe in simple common sense solutions to making our world better, starting with the world around us!! following now and looking forward to

hey thanks a ton that's awesome to read your reply!! yeah I had heard that it broke down over time and was actually useable but with cats, dogs, kids, bunnies, just didn't want to take any chances of

this was just a random pick from our freezer. we buy the calfs in spring and are lucky enough to have a friend with property to tend to them, butchered in October so its 8 months in the freezer now. fed

definitely a fan of stainless over plastic from the fridges !! plastic is more of a disposable and that's a huge part of the problem. a good made in usa stainless steel lined fridge would last forever

that's 100% true we will always need some plastics. my family we always just avoided using single use that ends up in landfill. I still use recyclable bottles for storing grains/rice/sugar/salt or for

I live in a northern town with unreliable power grid, but if freezer is full it can last a good 2 weeks as long as it isn't opened more than once/twice per day... also as the freezer empties I will fill

absolutely and yeah I was thinking of trying out my take on roman concrete...

yes maybe a little digging around and try to find any local cutters and ask them directly? Any butchers who process wild game might also order beef and pork for sausage/jerky.... you could always phone

the orange tree looking great! that's been aa great struggle for us, we have tried for years growing lemon and lime. seems we will get a tree to around 3 years old then for one reason or the other it dies.

hey that's fantastic! really good that you had a couple ripe ones already!! A couple potted strawberry plants on the patio is exactly how we got started on our gardening 16 years or so ago... then started

as for the meats I'm guessing it is vacuum sealed? you could ask your cutter to wrap in butchers paper, we use several butchers here since we raise our own meat, all of of our cuts are paper wrapped, even

definitely go great together!! the bulk of our canning though is with raspberries, mostly because they grow like weeds and we have a massive jungle of raspberry bushes, plus the kids really like the

the skin is fibrous which is why we separate the ripest parts for the jam and cut them in thin chunks so that it isn't noticed in the finished product, otherwise it really isn't bad though and still great

that's a really cool ingot! I've been a silver stacker for quite awhile and I've noticed the past few years have been producing some very awesome bars. nice to have something a little different than the

man, im just now trying to learn the system and now its about to change? lol !

what an awesome idea and its really pretty. Very impressed!! WE are big gardeners and always looking for new ideas to spruce up our little yard. This gives me a lot of ideas. We have a lot of river bed

ok thanks for the info. yeah been a silver/gold bug since the mid 70's and a pretty large collection spanning those 40+ years. other than one theft back in the 90's I never lost a single coin just a noobie

hello lordneroo !! im still trying to figure this platform out with the little time that I have, just figured out how to check out other peoples' blogs! yay me !! cheers!

hey im not very familiar with the lower mainland as I'm from the north, but I do know that good coin shops are hard to find!! me and the kids visit a little coin shop in maple ridge every summer when I