A year ago my husband’s family began the complicated and emotionally fraught task of finding appropriate care for their terminally ill father. After his death, they were faced with a host of decisions of how to arrange finances to ensure the best care for his mother. Fortunately, many of these decisions were made easier because…
Put a little sweet in your life Admit it. We all have a sweet tooth. We really can’t do without our sugar. Well, we can, but who really wants to? But storing sugar as part of your food storage can be problematic. Even the slightest amount of moisture can cause sugar to clump. Too much…
You have so much good food available to you this season, now is the time to learn (or improve) canning skills. First, get your equipment Canning doesn’t need to cost a lot. Just start with a water bath canner and a box of jars. Here’s my list of the important canning tools that I use.…
For good or bad, we are a society that depends heavily on our paper products. We love the ease and sanitation that comes from disposable paper products. During the summer months we will see a lot of sales for paper goods: paper plates, cups and napkins, as well as paper towels and toilet paper. You…
How will you and your family communicate if there is a local disaster or regional crisis? We’ve become so accustomed to phones, especially cell phones, that we almost never give a second thought to how we might communicate if phone service were disrupted. It’s more common now to bury phone landlines, which makes them less…
This is a really busy time of year. Right now I have garden produce filling the house every day. (That’s why I am a few days late getting this posted.) But I love it. This is when the summer garden is at its best. But it can also be a frantic time trying to get…