• Recipe Program

    This project started from what seemed to be a large problem. We have in our midst perhaps five different three-ring notebooks to contain all of our recipes. To better understand how we got here, you must first understand my wife. She reads various magazines such as sunset, which feature cooking ideas. They sound so good, …

  • Update on rain barrel

    So oh do I feel silly. After my parents visited, they pointed out what should have been obivous. So the lid to the rain barrel has two holes. I used one for the intake and then drilled a hole for the other. Well, it was suggestd to measure the hole and see if a spigot …

  • Rain Barrel

    Well, the Rain Barrel is done, and working to a point. I was really hoping to report that it was perfect, but alas, it isn’t. So I bought a steel drum, drilled a hole, got the spout in there, used silocone to seal it, and it caught the rain! In as little as one night …

  • Garden Planted! Plus Rain Barrels

    So I finally got my garden planted. My wife decide to join me on this venture and do a container garden. As such, we now have many different kinds of food growing, and who knows what will survive and what will not. I planted my versions out a little early, and I think my lettuce …