http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/ Country Life and Homesteading Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:41:06 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57492 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57492 Reminder from: CountryLifeandHomesteading Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/cal Announce your Group, Website, Blog, or Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:21:38 GMT JanC61756@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57491 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57491 In a message dated 11/8/2009 8:42:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, yoteskinner@... writes: Re:Jan's post on the coyotes yipping around her farm.This is Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:36:22 GMT teringie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57490 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57490 Janie Thank you so much for your description of your life and home in Scotland. I was born there but came to Canada as a baby. But I remember many of the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:36:09 GMT Mark Knudtsen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57489 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57489 Re:Jan's post on the coyotes yipping around her farm.This is what is called a "group yip howl," it is a territorial thing.The coyotes do this yipping-howling Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:50:43 GMT BFMcConnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57488 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57488 yeah...that's the thing I kinda had in mind that it did...but some SWEAR that it has natural antibiotics in it and helps a person get better if they're sick. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:48:36 GMT jnjmagub http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57487 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57487 Bill, Jack Frost paid us a visit last night and all is covered in wht frost and so pretty though starting to melt away now. I live up on a very high hill in Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:48:37 GMT Tom Gibson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57486 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57486 For an old bird try a recipe called "coq au vin". It requires and an old bird is desired or it won't have the flavor to stand up to the prolonged cooking. May Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00:06 GMT HEATHER http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57485 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57485 the feet make the stock or stew thicker. its the natrual gelitan. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:57:29 GMT ANNA GARTIN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57484 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57484 Jody From what I understand you do need to use the liquid lye called KOH. I have a soap recipe book from our soapers gathering last year somewhere here in the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:35:53 GMT Jodi http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57483 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57483 Hi all, I am looking for a tried and true shower gel recipe I can make from my own homemade soap. I have made bar soap from olive oil, lye and lanolin. Would Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:35:03 GMT bill roberts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57482 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57482 Thanks, Janie. What do you do in Scotland to cope with winter? We get so used to our own areas we forget that other places in the world contend with the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:21:59 GMT Chris Z http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57481 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57481 ... since Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:31:14 GMT jnjmagub http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57480 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57480 Bill, Again you have made it come alive for us. Makes me think of the times I have traveled down a back road in NH in the fall through what seemed to be a Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:29:13 GMT Mary Kaestner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57479 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57479 Thanks! Does help immensely.   Mary Kaestner, GRI, NP DRE: 01304038 Southwest Realtors 5120 Robinwood Rd. Ste. B-21 Bonita, CA 91902 (619) 646-9407 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:28:23 GMT BFMcConnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57478 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CountryLifeandHomesteading/message/57478 Mary, After getting the head off you'll want to hang the chickens up (by the legs) so that they can bleed out good. You can start at the legs if you want to