Household

Fall Cleaning: Kitchen Before & After

October 5, 2007 By Wardeh 5 Comments

My kitchen is a working kitchen. My problem is, how do I use my kitchen in ways that require varied ingredients and supplies — yet still keep it free of stuff (boxes of fruit, bags of seeds, trays of sprouts, mixers, etc.)? I suppose it is a balance between being able to work and being [...]

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The Boy Wants to Sew

October 4, 2007 By Wardeh Leave a Comment

Mikah is getting on the sewing bandwagon… and it is because he loves machines. He can just “see” how it works. Last Saturday, I gave him his first lesson using my machine, and he sewed a pillow. The only worry I have is that he likes to go fast. Too fast. Last night we got [...]

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Wednesday

October 3, 2007 By Wardeh 5 Comments

Busy day today. We’ll be going out for our usual Wednesday errands, but first I have to make a pinto bean spread for our packed lunch. Last thing to do on the way out is clean the carpets of all the main rooms. They can dry while we’re gone. I have so much to catch [...]

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Fall Cleaning

October 2, 2007 By Wardeh 1 Comment

I’m scarce because of doing Fall Cleaning through the T2CHK message board. Yesterday was the day to deep clean my bedroom. Before I could get to it though, we had a power outage from 3 am that lasted until mid-morning. Then we didn’t have water, because the water pressure got so low that the pressure [...]

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Dining Room Chairs: Before and After

September 24, 2007 By Wardeh 8 Comments

Today was the day to redo the dining room chairs. I did it over the course of the whole morning, in between helping the kids with their schoolwork. They thought it was fun to have the yucky chairs on which they were sitting replaced by new ones. This is one of the worst chairs. [...]

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Saturday’s To-Do List

September 15, 2007 By Wardeh 1 Comment

We got up fairly early, Jeff and I. It was about 7 am. I fixed his breakfast and we talked a bit about this and that. He headed outside for his weekend full of outdoor projects. The kids were out the door before him. They are up cleaning up their forest homes. It is a [...]

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Pear Sauce and Dehydrating Pears

September 10, 2007 By Wardeh 2 Comments

Pears are in abundance locally. We’ve received boxes of them from our doctor and from friends. Then I am also able to buy fun varieties of local, organic pears from a local farm for 50 cents per pound. We’re eating gobs of the fresh pears, because this is the best time to eat them — [...]

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Weekend Away

September 10, 2007 By Wardeh Leave a Comment

We were gone over the weekend. We traveled an hour away to have another work day exchange at a friend’s house. Jeff helped with weed wacking, wood pile moving, and finishing of an outdoor eating area. Both Jeff and the other dad got in the poison oak and broke out with the rash. Jeff doesn’t [...]

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Upcoming Project: Dining Room Chairs

September 5, 2007 By Wardeh 3 Comments

Jeff’s parents gave us their table and chairs several years back when they got a beautiful round oak table set. His mom and sister had just recovered the chairs they gave us with green gingham upholstery fabric and then plastic to protect it. Over the years, I am sorry to say that my younger two [...]

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Last Week’s Soap Making

September 5, 2007 By Wardeh 4 Comments

Stopped at our friends the other day (we were picking blackberries) and got to take a pic of the bars of soap we made. They were still drying… In some of the molds, we lined just the bottom with coarsely chopped rolled oats. Those bars ended up with a layer of oats on one side. [...]

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