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A botched batch? Noooooooooooo! It happens to all of us eventually. You swear you measured every ingredient perfectly and followed procedure precisely, but…….that soap batch is not setting up right. While a castille soap can easily take over 48 hours to properly set, you can usually tell if it will do so within the first …
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Collecting art can be intimidating. It can also be fun. Some collectors will be strategic and only ever acquire a particular type of art creating a very cohesive collection. Others might just collect anything that catches their eye, thereby creating a collection that spirals out in several directions and seems more eclectic. Neither way is …
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Crunchy Coconut cookies with Chocolate I had a yearning for Almond Joys, but we seem to be in an Almond Joy shortage in the Midwest lately. I blame Covid. I love coconut. Not love it in that paleo-love-it-because-I-gave-up-everything-delicious way. More like in a sugar and chocolate added way. The exception is the full fat coconut …
Greetings fowl lovers of all kinds. You probably started off with a few chickens of a hardy, generic variety, then fell victim to chicken math and expanded your flock to include all kinds of fun breeds. You might have even entertained the thought of raising guineas, hearing they were the watchdog of the barnyard. Then, …
I love a good stir fry. LOVE IT. The problem is they can be rather time consuming if you don’t have the meat pre-cooked or veggies pre-chopped or what have you. And then spend an hour making rice just right. It is one of those meals that is supposed to be quick, but never …
For far too long we have had a stereotype in this country of a “dumb jock” and it needs to end. We are in desperate need of a paradigm shift when it comes to how we frame extracurricular activities and evaluate what they teach us. Most of us can readily recognize the value of learning …
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