It’s a partly cloudy 34.5 degrees on this beautiful snow-covered morning. One day after a nice 5-6 inch blanket of fresh snow the melt has begun (again). Even though March is just around the corner I haven’t been super-motivated to get the garden seeds started. Besides the lengthening days, spring just doesn’t feel that near. This all changes today! A few weeks…
Well, this post is a little late but… another 2010 goal (5000 puzzle pieces) was achieved! I started the vintage puzzle but couldn’t finish it due to my allergies kicking up. I’m allergic to some cats and apparently the previous owner of that puzzle had such a cat. The final 1000 pieces were completed using a couple…
NOTE- this post was originally published on my other blog, EnjoyTimeOutdoors.com, on 14November2010. —- The third jigsaw puzzle for 2010 is complete! This brings the progress towards the 2010 goal to 3000 pieces. This puzzle was started back in March and sat idle for most of the summer and early fall. Thanks to Lisa’s continued…
With Christmas and the new year quickly approaching we finally finished the fourth puzzle of 2010. Though I’ll count this puzzle as 1000 of the 2010- 5000 piece goal, the completed puzzle consisted of only 999 pieces. This was likely the result of kitty’s help. The puzzle was Thomas Kinkade’s Nature’s Paradise. A wonderful depiction of a rustic log cabin…
Here’s a link to a new post about our disposable battery recharger. This was posted on my other blog, enjoytimeoutdoors.com Save Money on Disposable Batteries.
Last night when I was checking out some of my old posts I was surprised at what I found. Advertising! There are Google AdSense ads on many of them. These ads are not placed, nor endorsed, by me. I realize that this is a small price to pay for the two years of free hosting here at WordPress.com, and I am…
With summer drifting into autumn the days are shorter, the nights cooler, and the pace of life seems a little more relaxed. This IS my favorite season! After taking a break from puzzling for the summer, autumn reinvigorated my interest to complete the 5000 piece goal I set for this year. Puzzle three, which was…
Here’s another addition to the water-powered mill series. This is the Mingus Mill, an 1886 cast iron water turbine mill located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near Cherokee, NC. If you are interested in other water powered mills, covered bridges, historical timber frame buildings, barns, structures, or the like, please susbcribe to my…
This is the first in a series of “How To” videos covering an assortment of food preservation techniques. In this video I walk through preparing and dehydrating beef steak strip jerky using a prepared cure/spice mix. Please leave a comment with any questions, comments or suggestions. Here’s the dehydrator I use- I’ve been using it…
I just posted a three-part video I shot while visiting Mackinac State Historic Parks’ “Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park”, in Mackinaw City, MI, this past weekend. I can write a book about it, but a video (or three) is worth a thousand words, or more. Enjoy! Episode 1- Visual Overview of the Mill (inside and out) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcbeAFpt6bU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Episode…