The Home I Tend

07/03/2024

05/31/2024

Me in the garden

05/20/2024

I found this book Barnes And Noble today. I’m excited to dig in and read all about Dr. Bronner's amazing soap uses.

Do you use Dr. Bonners? Which is your favorite?

05/16/2024

Have you wanted to make your own laundry soap?

This recipe is super simple. I use to make the liquid recipe, but the dry version is simpler and faster to make. This recipe lasts us a full month. It smells amazing and no soapy residue left behind. The Zote soap bar leaves a fresh clean scent.

All these ingredients are easily available on Amazon and at Walmart.

You will need to
1 box Arm and hammer washing soda
1 box Borax
1 stick Zote
Optional 1 stick Fels- Naptha
2 cups Baking soda

Instructions:
1. Find yourself a cute jar or container
2.Grate your soap sticks ( I use a food processor) you can use a cheese grater as well.
3. Add all your ingredients and mix well with your hand.

It’s that simple! I use 1 small scoop per load in my HE washer.

Fels -Naptha can also we used as a stain remover by wetting the bar and rubbing it onto the stain.

05/16/2024

05/14/2024

Providing your chickens with additional treats and growing nutritious salad ingredients is simple and enjoyable with wheatgrass and coconut coir.

05/07/2024

Teach your children to grow their own food. They will never go hungry. Teach them life skills and they wont have to depend on others to have their needs met. Let them fail and not be chosen first in every situation and watch them learn resilience. Show them love and kindness, but also show them discipline. Life skills and lessons learned are the best education a child can receive.

05/06/2024

Grow your chickens wheatgrass! They love it and it’s super nutritious.

It’s so Simple add some coconut coir to the biotin of the tray. Add water until moist. Sprinkle seeds and cover with a wet paper towel.

Keep the paper towel moist but not drenched. Set near light. And keep the coconut coir moist. This is day 6

05/05/2024

Accurate

05/04/2024

Check your local Costco! These are $149 at mine

05/04/2024

I just keeping starting projects lol

04/28/2024

Don’t waste money on chick feeders and wateres. They are little for only a short time. Spend the money on bigger capacity feeders and waterers for when they are bigger.

04/27/2024

DID YOU KNOW THIS?
Coffee filters .... Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones.
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers.
2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome... Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling.
3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
11.. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.
14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers."
15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.
16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.
21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
23. Use them to sprout seeds.. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.
24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..
25. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc.

What else do you use them for?

04/24/2024

Score!!! Last night my Dave saw this collection posted on Nextdoor. He was smart to snag it! Paid $50 for it all. I’m obsessed with Corning ware. I’m adding all of this to my collection.

What do you collect?

04/23/2024

I can’t wait!! I need to see progress 🌱

04/22/2024

Thinking about rebuilding the pond. I’d like something above ground and bigger.

Sitting next to my pond and listening to the water flow is so peaceful. It’s a happy place for me.

Let’s see your happy place and ponds

04/17/2024

😂😂😂

03/23/2024

Spread the word!

03/18/2024

The not so fun part of gardening 😒

03/17/2024

From the butter we made the other day, we made buttermilk biscuits today.

They turned out so crispy in the edges and butter and fluffy on the inside.

03/07/2024

Let’s make butter!

03/06/2024

I picked up this pretty jar yesterday for my laundry soap. 🧼 so I’m making laundry soap today!!

Blog post to come

03/04/2024

When was the last time you made jam?

03/03/2024

I love the beauty a garden can make. This morning we finished planting our spring seeds.