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DIY Powder Laundry Detergent Recipe
Many store-bought detergents have fillers and can be quite pricey. This recipe puts together single ingredients that are sold in many grocery stores to make your own concentrated laundry detergent powder. I have found that it lasts so much longer that the store-bought detergents and you can control the scent. I do like the smell […]
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Croc Coating: epoxy garage floor
May 9, 2023 What is Croc Coatings, you ask? Well…let me tell you! It is an epoxy floor covering that I have always wanted in my garage. Since this is a new house build and my forever home, I wanted a finished garage. This flooring comes in loads of different colors and you can even […]
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Well pump house doubles as a turkey blind?
14 Apr, 2023 We had our well dug in October of 2021. It is capped off and just sticks out of the ground. I meant to build a small shack for it before and didn’t get to it until now because the ground was covered in snow…well, the time has come… I have a pile of […]
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about me…
April 2, 2023 Hello there! My name is Karl and I have been a nurse for over 20 years. As of this writing, I currently work as an inpatient hospital Float Nurse in the areas of IMN/NICU, Telemetry, and Medsurg. I have lots of experience working in other areas of nursing such as Oncology, MotherBaby/Maternity, […]
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Decked out in Front!
15 Nov, 2022 We had plans to build decking, but weren’t sure on how we were going to do this during the house build. The house has a crawl space and sits elevated off the ground. To get into the front door, I had made makeshift steps, but now, we were ready to polish the front entrance […]
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CONNECTED to Internet!
22 Oct, 2022 We are CONNECTED! When we first moved into the real house, we moved our WeBoost cell signal booster from the RV we had been living in, to the house, and had the cord running in through a window with foam all around to keep the bugs out. It worked OK, but of […]