Recent content by Armchairhomesteader

Will do. I will probably finish the rough draft of the next to last chapter by this coming Monday. I’ll spend about a week editing it. Then it should take another 2 weeks or so to write the last chapter.

I took German classes for grades 8 – 12. I think O Tannenbaum has as many lyrics as there are times that the song has been sung.

The Christmas pageant in my story isn’t the main theme of the story. My purpose is to complain about Christmas commercialism. I know it’s been done before, and I freely admit that Miracle on 34th Street (the real version with Maureen O’Hara) is my inspiration. Santa Claus is a pivotal...

Does anyone know of a Christmas song or a hymn that says something about light or lights? Part of a story I am writing is about a school Christmas pageant, and I need a song for a character to sing while the lights on a Christmas tree are turned on.

I’ve looked at a few videos on youtube, but I haven’t had time yet to do a thorough search. I’ve got some work to do in the garden, and I am finishing a novel that I have been writing for my own amusement. But after that putting a loom together will be my next project.

The websites I have used so far are heavily skewed towards Britain. A lot of the occupations on these sites have to do with British government officials-law enforcement, customs officials and the like. I’ve kept them in my compiled list of occupations, but I’ve marked them as being inapplicable...

I don’t know what would work best, and a lot will depend on what I can find locally. I will have to use pre-made. I don’t have ready access to raw fiber, and spinning isn’t something I want to tackle on top of weaving. @What kind of loom are you planning on making. I don’t know if I will ever...

Does anyone here know anything about weaving? I’ve been doing some research into historic occupations so I can get some idea of what jobs and skills would be needed for a community to survive with the technology available in a given time period. I’ve compiled several lists of occupations from...

Are you kidding? The city won’t maintain the storm drains so at least once each of the last 2 summers my garden at home has been under water. My other property is located in an older neighborhood that has no storm drains and is at the bottom of a slope that starts in the next block. If we get...

I planted a single 3’ x 15’ bed in my main garden starting in January. It took a while to get the whole bed planted because I ran out of seed potatoes several times and keep having to wait for decent weather to want to be outside. But later in February I planted some other potatoes in a trash...

It probably doesn’t do anything that couldn’t be done with good quality garden soil and regular applications of that Chinese fertilizer- the footsteps of the gardener.

My yard has a large concrete slab where an old house used to be. Rather than give up the space I bought 5 4’ wide pools from a nearby Kmart that went out at the end of 2011. I filled them with free compost from a landscape company, and set them on wooden pallets and some plastic crates to help...

I planted both seed potatoes (from Walmart and 2 local garden supply centers) and potatoes from the grocery store (they are usually sprouted better than seed potatoes when you buy them), but they all seem to be affected.

The picture looks the same as what I am seeing, but the suggested cause doesn’t really match. The garden is several years old now and was never really covered with grass. It stated out as a yard of fill dirt. I dug out the fill and replaced it with compost from a landscape company. This...

If I didn’t have a disabled mother to take care of, I would have moved ages ago. Since they won’t let me live in the public library the city is not my natural habitat. And my part of Florida has already had 2 weeks of temperatures in the mid-90s, and muggy like you wouldn’t believe.