Bonnie Haralson

These recipes look delicious! My personal favorite is apple bars, made with a butter pie crust. I use a cookie sheet for this. Roll out crust to 1/4 inch or so, and press into cookie sheet. I peel my apples, but depending on variety, the peels could  be left on. Slice thinly and mix with sweetener and cinnamon, or other spices and some vanilla and perhaps a little lemon juice (all to taste). Roll out top crust thinly and lay over apples. Bake in moderate oven until top crust is golden. Mix up a batch of glaze and drizzle over top. Lovely served with heavy cream poured over, or alongside ice cream.

What timing! Thank you, Ernie and Erica! Visiting family in Alaska, and had a conversation just last night about this cold spell, and remarked how much colder parts of the lower 48 are right now! I brought up the topic of RMH's, and my plan to check on the possibility of using Portland's guidelines in our county (we're just across the Columbia River in Clark County, WA). Hope everyone, with or without a RMH stays warm and safe! My sis in Kila, MT, just reported 40-below temps this morning.

On my bucket list for the day my kitchen remodel becomes reality is cabinets with pull-out shelving! No more taking out everything in the front to get to the items buried at the back of the cabinet. I have a small island with a silverware drawer and 2 pull-out shelves underneath. I treasure those shelves, and hope to replace my existing shelves in the cabinets soon. Also, a full-height pull-out spice cabinet is high on my list, also!

A product we've been using, with good results, is Chlorine Dioxide, also known as MMS. Never specifically for parasites, but any type of infection we've thrown it at immediately begins subsiding. There's scare literature on the internet about it, but doesn't seem to amount to much, when you strip away the husks...basically, high potency can cause issues (is there anything that really falls outside of this?). I'm getting info from the "The Universal Antidote" webpage. Best of luck to you, with all that you're trying! Disheartening to lose animals, and especially when the reason is elusive!

Followed the link and set reminder. I wasn't able to see a way to set a reminder time though. A message appeared saying that I'll be reminded when it goes live. Oh, and it gives the date and time as Mar 10, 6:00am. Is that the right time?

I'm wondering if it would work to sprout the grains, grind them with liquid (they'd be a batter), and then add them into a sourdough starter that's ready for more food! Hmmm..sounds like a fun experiment! Anyone tried this?

Welcome, Ginny! Your mill is beautiful, and definitely a change from how I'm currently grinding my rye berries for making sourdough bread -- a Vitamix! I know the high temps generated by the machine are less beneficial, so will enjoy learning about yours.

Excellent information! Many thanks...
My neighbor has a yardful of maple trees, and I've been able to help myself to as much as I want the past several years. Getting into leaf mold is the best...she stacks fresh leaves on top of the pile, so I take those first, and use them to put around plants that need mulch. The older stuff...yum, the smell is absolutely phenomenal...I use in my raised beds and outdoor potted plants.

I've been noticing stiffness in my feet. They were becoming more painful to walk on, and especially near the joints, were tender to the touch. I do not have a diagnosis of arthritis, so this certainly may be due to something else. My diet consists mainly of fruit, vegs, and meat, with some rice and garbanzo bean products (hummus, noodles). Doing more to change my diet was not on the top of my list, so I tried a therapy that seemed to really make an immediate difference, called TRT, or Tissue Regenerative Therapy.  Here's a quote about it:  "During a TRT treatment high energy sound waves are delivered to painful, injured, or degenerated areas of the body. This stimulates healing and tissue regeneration. During this process blood circulation is improved and stem cell activity is initiated to enhance the body’s ability to heal and regenerate damaged tissue."
I'm enthused to try it again! The practitioner had me walk around between getting the left and right foot done. The one that had been treated felt almost like rubber, it was so flexible!
That said, I do feel that there would be a variety of herbs, etc. that would also be of help. I will look into ideas posted here if needed!

My favorite winter driving experience was while my hubby was driving our 2wd Civic on a mountain road. Just puttin' along, enjoying the beauty. Came upon a guy in a jacked-up Chevy truck with big wide (no tread) street tires stuck in the soft snow. He was sorta upset, what with his babe on the seat next to him and all. Stopped to ask if they needed a hand. He kept sizzling the tires, not going anywhere. I suggested he use his atv loading racks to get traction, which worked at the expense of the racks. He said, "I'm no city boy...I know how to drive in the snow!" That was the last we saw of them...we quietly eased away in our tiny 2wd car, chuckling at the situation!