If you want to lose weight ditch the “quick fix” diets! Removing food groups or certain nutrients is not the way to loose pounds! You only experience results with these diet schemes because your body is shocked by your new eating patterns. Over time your body will adjust to your plan and your “quick fix” […]
Author: Talina
A city girl turned farmer. Yes women do farm ;) Owner and operator of direct to consumer, Ryder Family Farm in Southern Illinois.
Wearing many hats I'm also a mother to 3, a wife, a yogi, a farmer, a 4-H & Girl Scout leader & hospitality manager.
Time is a ticking…
We are getting snow right now, got about 3 inches last night and it’s still coming! Saturday my students have their first competition of the season, that evening my family is coming to Flagstaff to help us move. On Sunday we get the keys to our new rental house and we begin moving in! The […]
Where is your family tree?
I spent most of today piecing bits and pieces of information together to form my own family tree. Recently an aunt of mine found me from my father’s side of the family. I haven’t heard from anyone on that side of the family in 17 years and I realized how little I actually know about […]
How close are you to your family?
The term “family” means something differnt to everyone. For me my family has always been basically just the immediate family. My real father was out of the picture when I was just about 8 years old. My mother raised us alone for a few years and then remarried. For us family has been who ever […]
I don't want to be free boobin' anymore…
I am spending much of my blogging time over at Gather right now. Please forgive me for being boring and neglecting my blog but I am only 50 points away from a $25.00 Macy’s gift card that I intend to use for my girls (yes the boobs). My bra has recently become even more of […]
I can't wait for spring! Need to garden, bad!
About this time every year I am overcome by the urge to begin gardening again. Unfortunately I cannot because there is still snow on the ground and the soil is still hardened by the frost. Like many other gardeners I fill this time with plans for my garden, I start thinking about what I need […]
Working on the Nissan Maxima…
As some of you already know, our car died last week and we had planned to work on removing the alternator this weekend. I have never worked on a car before but we didn’t let that stop us.We had our little manual for the job, it showed photos and directions for getting the tasks accomplished […]
Silly town commericals
This one is for Janelle! She posted about a silly commercial that aired in her town and encouraged her readers to share commercials from their town. Since my satellite dish can’t find a signal (it’s covered in snow and I am too darn cold to climb on to the roof to brush it off) I […]
Pretty, pretty Orchids!
Instead of getting cut flowers for valentines day I got a pretty potted orchid! I love plants so this just makes my day, although I am not confident that I’ll be able to keep it alive since the temperature and light levels in my home are so whacked… Anyway, wanted to take to opportunity to […]
Don't pour bleach on bunny pee! (or any pee for that matter)
Ugh, my nose is burning and it’s cause I had a temporary moment of stupidity. We are moving in 15 days and I have an ongoing list of crap to accomplish. Today it was sweeping/ cleaning the wood floors and cleaning bunny’s cage/ mess. Oh and I was supposed to find the Nissian repair book […]
A white valentines day.?.?
Yep, we are having a white valentines day! It’s cold, snowy and cozy. I’ll get to use up lots of our fire wood today so that is good! The more we burn the less we will have to move in a few weeks. Yesterday I tried to go out back and chip some ice off […]
Sometimes I would like to just be a hermit.
Today has been eventful for us. We had to head into town to do some minimal grocery shopping so we did that today between my teaching class this morning and N having to work this afternoon. We shop at the local Sam’s club, we buy food in bulk and make it last. Anyway when we […]
Our oven works?? Now what do I do?
It’s been a long and annoying 2 weeks since our stove caught fire and today I am here to report that it appears we can actually use the oven on our new for us/ used stove. Oh, joy. Guess that means I can stop eating large dishes of jello like it’s going out of style […]
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Old-Fashioned Know How- Do it yourself remedies part 2
Good lord! The people have spoken and apparently old-Fashioned Know How- Do it yourself remedies are a favorite among my readers and fellow stumblers. A few days ago I shared a microwave cleaner I discovered and I also shared a home made recipe for spackle or wall hole patch and the comments/ hits went through […]
wordpress.com stats on my self hosted (not hosed) blog?
I have a weird situation going on here. I have my own blog, Harvest of Daily Life and I help N with his blog, Green Preferred. Both blogs have the most recent wordpress version which is 2.3.3 as of today. The strange thing is that he has this nifty wordpress.com stats display in his dashboard […]
Make your own Alfredo Sauce
I discovered a really yummy alternative to buying ready made Alfredo sauce! All you need is cream cheese, milk and some other simple ingredients. I really like this recipe and was amazed at how easy it was.. Don’t think I’ll buy ready made Alfredo sauce ever again. I copied the recipe from all recipies.com for […]
Moving tips?
A few days of nothing have been nice but now I need to get my butt in gear and start getting ready to move. We get the keys to our new place on 2/25 and need to be out of this place my 2/29.. It’s nice to have a few days to make the transition […]
My interview by Janelle
I participated in the citizen of the month great interview experiment and totally forgot to post my own interview questions here. It was fun to interview someone and to be interviewed. Janelle over at junk food for the soul interviewed me and thankfully she asked about my interview and reminded me to post it! I […]
I love flowers- Most girls do expecially roses!
My boyfriend doesn’t understand why I like to get flowers… They can really brighten up a room and make you more cheerful just by looking at them. He says “They just die” but I love them anyway, besides at 1800flowers you can even buy some beautiful live plants for your loved one! Some of my […]
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Old-Fashioned Know How- Do it yourself remedies
I have always been interested in homemade remedies/ do it yourself remedies. Often times the remedies are cheaper, healthier and easier than conventional remedies plus they make you more self sufficient and they get you back to a simpler lifestyle. In earlier posts I talked about how to make simple yet helpful cleaning solutions with […]