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Herbal Remedies

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Congratulations! You have been to to Ship Full O’ Pirates over 100 times! Just thought you’d like to know. The Disclaimer This is an article about what worked for me.  This is not medical advice.  You are responsible for what you do [...]

Bread, must.bake.bread…

I know you missed it.  I know because I hid it.  While I was on my blog-cation I wrote a post on my recipe blog, Homemade and Wholesome, about my favorite store-boughten bread having the verboten, evil ingredient.  (I know, kind of a bus-man’s holiday, posting while on blog-cation.)  Anyroad, I have really applied myself [...]

Best of WFMW

  Updated for WFMW.  Originally posted on Sept. 9, 2008. Tell me if this ever happened to you.  You wash all the dishes and have dry, dry, dry hands.  So you reach for the Jergins or whatever and make it all better.  Only thing is, the next thing you do is eat a piece of [...]

Makin’ it Do

I really wanted a green smoothie today.  I didn’t buy any spinach this week and not much is happening in the garden.   Well, there are dandelions. When the dandelions are young and small they aren’t very bitter, and they’re just chock full of nutrients. Yes I did. I made a dandelion smoothie.  The kids [...]

Homemade Thursday- What was that?

  A whopping 25 of y’all guessed.  What a hoot!  That was fun!   The answer is  homemade deodorant! Readers who guessed correctly are:  Shelly Monica Pat * Shannon Heather * Denise Smiles and sunshine for the six of ya! *Pat and Heather made me laugh out loud, so extra smiles and sunshine for you [...]

What is it?

Let’s play a game! I’ll give you clues and show you a couple of pictures and you guess what it is. Ready?  Here we go. The Clues: I made it myself. It has three ingredients and one of  ’em is baking soda.  (I know, it could be anything.)   I never know when to quit [...]

No HFCS in my Condiments

Well, I cleaned out the fridge a few weeks ago and threw out all of the products that contained high fructose corn syrup.  (Hereafter referred to as HFCS because the other way is interfering with my laziness.)   I got  rid of all the offending condiments, and it was all of them except mustard-the plain [...]

Works for me Wednesday – Ants

No, ants do not work for me.  But it is a fun concept.  There are so many of them that if they did work for me…   Anyway… I had some ants, by the back door.  And you know me, I don’t wanna spray poison around my house.  So I googled it.  (Maybe I should [...]

Frugal Friday – No poo update

The whole family has gone no-poo and I am very pleased.  I am so happy to not be exposing my family to that nasty SLS. My scalp is 90% recovered.  I’m all the way sold out on the baking soda method, and the apple cider vinegar rinse is my best friend. My hubby and my [...]

Help for Growing Families – repeat after me

I should know better.  I do know better, I just got lazy. I know you have been reading all about my no-poo adventure, and eagerly await each new installment.  (tongue firmly in cheek) If you are curious about what I am referring to, click here and here and here, and that’ll get you up to [...]