thirtyfivebyninety

It's has been the worst of times. Woodsrunner & I have parted ways. I believed that we were on a break which I initiated but as of a few days ago he informed me he has plans to make it permane...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2015/03/these-times-are-changing.html

Making Sugar Free Zucchini Bread with our own home ground whole wheat flour & Coconut flour. As with most chronic (read long term) diseases progressing/severity is just about inevitable. So ...

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The first of many updates here on Thirtyfivebyninety Urban Homestead.  I'll start alphabetically ... with the Apples trees my daughters and I planted in 2008 .  We were/are trying for th...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-is-for-apples.html

 Ghetto Slip & Slide just add dish soap and a helmet.  The lovely view out of my up stairs bathroom window. On a bright & sunny day the tarp blue glow, smoothing and shall I dare say...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/08/tarp-blue.html

Checking out the Make  Magazine website for an outrageously awesome gardening idea for those of us who are spacial challenged. A design team from Paris, yeah as in France, came up with a tilt in...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/06/french-connection.html

I really need to put my faith in God much more than I do. Despite this Springs wild weather & late season wet snow fall we have Peaches on the trees. The first pic is the tree closest to the...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/06/ye-of-little-faith.html

Heads up this blog is still active, just a bit slow as of late. I've been working six days a week (cue the Beatles Classic) which has been a great blessing because the borrowed time we've been ...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/06/sabbatical-ends.html

and no it wasn't the Police blotter ... I had a phone interview with Tim Graham, a staff reporter for The Buffalo News both an online & hard copy newspaper. He wanted the low down from real life...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-made-buffalo-paper.html

Last week I got an email from Casey, whoever he or she may be, passing along a widget for a site that did a post on making a raised garden bed for $50.  Five Zero.  Fifty Washingtons.  ...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/05/cheaper-than-dirt.html

YNNBuffalo   On Friday I was pedaling around my part of the city in what else - pedal pushers & a tank top, wind in my hair, smile on my face. Life was good, very good I had one paycheck ...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gone-not-gone-winter.html

Frost Variety Peach Tree #1  For the most part it has been any where from a hard frost to mild frost conditions most nights here on the urban homestead. These trees, wedding gifts from me to...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/04/acting-squirrely.html

Every Nightingale needs a lamp & coffee grinder  If you have been a long time reader of my blog then you "heard" me mention how I try not to let the gods know I have dead presidents (federa...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/04/murphys-law.html

Free milk without buying the cow When I think of a traditional homestead my pop culture inspired imagination often pictures dairy cows on lush green pastures contained within a perfectly ...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/04/cow-in-cupboard.html

Free Strawberry bed started from 3 orginal plants bought 11 years ago 3 or 4 days ago our freakishly warm early Spring turned on us. First a very chilly night like a wing man who has forgotte...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-fruit-4-you.html

My 1st order from YaySave was over a year ago. I ordered dish washing liquid, Ivory Soap for laundry soap making, and hand sanitizer. Since then I've ordered a few more times - free shipping &...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-save-with-yaysave.html

Yeah, that's right when your a homesteader be it urban or rural it's gifts of cold frames and the like that tells you your man loves you.  Loves you Hot. This is the second cold frame Woodsru...

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Bit of elbow grease makes for a new opportunity for food preservation.  I scored 5 boxes of tall Ball Quilted Jelly Jars last week the day before my street was scheduled for trash pick up....

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/03/free-canning-jars-blessings-on-curb.html

Store with the bail off & bottle upside down.  If your a greenie or short on cash here's a packaging idea that works great & only costs a nickel. We buy these wire & bail bottles back from...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/03/fugal-package-for-homemade-gifts.html

Amazon recommended these free kindle books to me today ... oh how they know me so well.  I haven't had a chance yet to read any of them but in case there's only a 24 hour window of opportunity�...

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3rd in a series of the perfect storm (foreclosures) surrounding my urban homestead. Twin Foreclosure due to Illness/Poor decisions - I'd been expecting the foreclosure of my neighbor's home...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/03/foreclosure-next-door.html

I've been collecting stove parts for years before we actually installed our stove. The Jotul that we use now isn't even my first. I had a Vermont Castings on the porch for a few years that I ha...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/02/accessorizing-hearth.html

Someone on a forum this past month reminded me that when I say we have free firewood it really isn't free.  There's the cost of tools unless you inherited them.  Maintenance on tools like ...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-firewood-isnt-free.html

Another example of my New Years Resolution #2 - Eat more healthy as if $ was no object. My mother's B-day is tomorrow so I wanted to practice baking her as well as us a healthy cake. Mi Mam...

http://thirtyfivebyninety.blogspot.com/2012/02/filling-sweet-tooth-with-whole-grains.html

2nd in the series of the perfect storm (foreclosures) surrounding my urban homestead. Foreclosure due to death/fraud -  One of the memories my children have of when we first moved to our u...

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In my younger days I always expected the more traditional Valentine's Day gifts from a beau. Roses, candy, a good meal more if it was a serious relationship. I was a different senorita then ...

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