I made six batches of soap at the Dickenson Days in Manotick at a demonstration booth ( Read more... )

**Recipe for tanning hides submitted by a gentleman in Indiana…. Did you know that Fels-Naptha makes a great leather tanning solution??? It's much safer than almost any other (chromium or solvent) method for tanning. In 1980, a friend and I tanned 30 deer hides....some for leather, and some with the hair on for rugs, with great success! The hides ( Read more... )

I collected the two signs, HIDE and DEPOT and tied them against the side of the tipi. I thought I would be nailing them in place, but such is life ( Read more... )

I wanted to do it yesterday, but today I did it! I took the bike down to the road and rode it back and forth. Nancy Today camera came along with me ( Read more... )

I'm in the tipi. It rained hard last night and evening, so the tipi is quite wet inside. I have some more work to do to protect it from the likes of rain ( Read more... )

I lost my journaling ( Read more... )

I had to get my ladders all set up and set up the sawhorses with the boards across them ( Read more... )

I was late getting started on Abey's eggs, I guess. I wasn't ready with them when he had to leave for the bus, so he left and I finished them, then rushed down the hill with them in the car ( Read more... )

I woke up around five and got up. It's amazing the great ideas I get when I'm in bed! I love it ( Read more... )

My visiting teachers came. It was quite nice. I'd made a campfire in the tipi and we relaxed in there, just watching the fire and visiting. They asked me what I was doing to help improve the world ( Read more... )