Enjoy making these fresh donuts using Grands brand rolls and and our favorite home made blueberry jam
Why buy, when you can Do It Yourself?
Enjoy making these fresh donuts using Grands brand rolls and and our favorite home made blueberry jam
Tomato plants are in the ground, their roots have anchored themselves into your patch of carefully cultivated and composted earth, and now the topside growth is in abundance with no end in sight. As these plants get heavier, they will need a very sturdy and strong support system. But the question is, do you buy, re-use, or build?
Ahh, another springtime post. And, this time I’ve uncovered dark, moist, nutritious, black gold. Compost! With a pitchfork, I have taken a stab into our winter compost heap and the results are truly amazing to say the least. In case you’re not familiar with our composting practice, let me clue you in. You see, we don’t use...
Using the three simple products shown, you can make a wonderful fabric and carpet freshener for pennies on the dollar. There’s nothing better than “fresh out of the laundry” scented fabrics. I use this concoction throughout our house to freshen up all sorts of items. I have dubbed it as “Nadine’s Special Sauce.” This recipe...
 Some of you may be wondering where Drumsticks disappeared to for the past couple weeks. Well, Mom Nature has graced me with another job around the house. You see, a few weeks ago while falling to a deep sleep in our comfy king sized bed I heard some scratching coming from the ceiling. I awoke the next day and decided to have a look around the attic of the upstairs portion of our house. Whoa! There, I found a tree rat highway carved through our blown insulation along with multiple hideaways in the soffit (eaves) of our roof line. It’s like they had their own little community going on up there. I truly believe traffic intersections were being built at night while the others slept. So, for my safety I waited for little Kevin to get home from school so he could help me flush them out so we can get to work on finding how much damage was done by the crafty critters.
This year at the Scissors & Drumsticks garden we had to grow at a minimum for test purposes. We just didn’t want to waste anything that wouldn’t grow, and believe me, we had our ups and downs. We are not gardeners of sorts, we just wanted to grow and preserve our own food. As much as we could at least. This year has proven to us that it can be done. From the garden years ago in my parents’ backyard I formed my little bit of background in “backyardiculture.” It was the tips from two neighbors that kept me afloat. Scissors’ dad has always had a garden and her mother, the canner, preserves their bounty every year. They all passed on generations of information, but not too much mind you so as to make us learn on our own.
 
