Category Archives: Skills

Skills and ideas for the homesteader

Makin’ Moolah!

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Yay! I’m going to be setting up at several craft fairs this Holiday Season with my jams and jellies. I’m so excited to be able to not only make some money for my family, but to be able to share with people my canning skills and the produce of our labors. I love it. You can find new info on my facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/TheCarpentersKitchen

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Oy, but now I need to get my ducks in a row and get some more jams and jellies made! Oooh, maybe I can turn this into a teaching opportunity and invite some friends over as slave labor…uh, I mean to learn how to can. 🙂

Oh, and this reminds me of a post I want to write about all the different ways you can earn money from your homestead. Is anyone out there interested in that type of information? Leave a comment and let me know. Thanks!

A “new” way to wind a garden hose

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Yesterday, I experienced one of those moments that make you say No Way! I was winding the garden hose back into its spot on the ground. It kinda sorta did its own thing and wound into a figure 8 rather than a circle. But here’s the thing,  as it was being put down, I didn’t have to twist or wind the hose to get it to lay flat. In fact, the whole thing laid down with nary a twist in the entirey. Which means, that in theory, when I pull the hose out next time, it shouldn’t twist and coil and kink.

Did I really just discover the secret to un-kinked hoses? Will it unwind with the same ease? Will my gardening life hereafter be blessed with free flowing water?

Have any of you experienced this? Am I really just now discovering this? Is this the “right” way to wind hoses and I’m just now learning about it??? Or was it a total fluke and it won’t make a difference?