By now, I hope that most stores have restocked their toilet paper and you have been able to purchase a reasonable amount of TP. You’ve probably also seen a number of funny meme with TP alternatives like leaves or 3 sea shells (share your favorite TP memes in the comments below). Before you stockpile a […]
The green household products we use in our home
Posted on February 14, 2020 Written by Leave a Comment
Find out the green household products we use in our home.
How bad is cooking with gas for your family?
Posted on January 29, 2020 Written by Leave a Comment
Gas is great to cook with, but can generate unhealthy air quality conditions for you and your family.
Cooking with Gas vs. Pressure – which uses more energy?
Posted on January 25, 2020 Written by Leave a Comment
How much energy does it take to cook 1 cup of white rice with an Instant Pot multi-cooker vs gas cooktop?
How efficient is your cooking?
Posted on January 20, 2020 Written by 2 Comments
Find out why an electric multi-cooker/instant pot is the most efficient method of cooking.
Cute Kids and Cats
Posted on February 22, 2018 Written by Leave a Comment
One of our sons is internet-obsessed. He was very excited to learn that we have a blog (it’s as old as he is!) and a YouTube Channel. He thinks it’s very important to have a post on cute kid and cats. He even posed with the cats so we’d have photos to use. This […]
Checking the Bee Hive
Posted on July 4, 2017 Written by 1 Comment
It’s an important practice to check your beehive periodically. We check ours to see if the bees are doing a good job filling out their frames and if they’re ready for a 2nd brood box. We also check for evidence that the queen is laying eggs, that there aren’t any queen bee cells (a sign […]
Camping in the Rain
Posted on July 2, 2017 Written by Leave a Comment
When you’ve got a trip planned with 40 of your favorite people to hang out with, you just don’t want to cancel because of a little rain! My babysitting exchange, which also includes the members of our bee co-op, likes to go camping every spring. This year the weather was not promising on the first […]
The Day the Bees Ran Away
Posted on September 24, 2016 Written by Leave a Comment
Saturday, three days after we installed our new bees, I went into the kitchen and heard a significant buzzing in our backyard. I looked out the back window and saw what looked like 10,000 bees flying around our backyard. I realized immediately, this was NOT GOOD. We had installed our bees on a Wednesday. When […]
Building Our Beehive
Posted on August 5, 2016 Written by Leave a Comment
We were very excited when our beehive finally arrived – about a year after we had decided to go in jointly on a beehive. We were very excited to build it and decided to work on it together as a group. Amazingly, it wasn’t long before we found a time that all three families could […]
