Family Remedies

In order to live a long and healthy life, natural home remedies are the only way to go.With home remedies you have no side effects, no expensive doctor visits and no expensive medications. All are natural herbs either bought at the store or grow in your yard. I do recommend if one is interested in home remedies to read articles and do research. Below are some home remedies to get you started.......

Chest Rubs For Chest Colds

Basil and Anise Chest Rubs

1/2 cup basil

1/4 cup anise or hyssop

2 cups oil

Mint and Thyme Chest Rub

1/2 cup mint

1/2 cup thyme

2 cups oil

Make a hot infusion using the herbs and oil. Massage into the chest area.

Warning: Do not use Basil and Anise Chest Rub during pregnancy. Potent applications of basil can have a stimulating effect on the uterus.

Garden 2011

We have harvested our potatoes, tomatoes and some onions. But the heat is really affecting out garden. We increased our watering time to 30mins in the morning and evening. posted are some pictures of the garden!

Garden 2011

Our Garden is doing wonderful this year! It has been all green and hardly any bugs(so far :)). We harvested some of our potatoes last week. I cannot wait to get them roasted with some carrots and onion! Yummy! The only sad thing was I got only 3 potatoes per plant. I will be digging in my gardening books and seeing what I can do to get more per plant next time.
 The tomatoes are starting to product. Which means I better have my jars for canning them ready and soon! They have about 10 tomatoes per plant at the moment(we planted 12 tomatoes plants) They will make good paste, pasta sauce and soups this winter.
My peas and green beans,water melon,pumpkin, horse reddish, rhubarb, spinach, lettuce, grapes and figs are all green and hanging in there. Hppefully they will product later this summer! Yummy Yummy!

Sticky Notes Dealing With Dementia

Well the Dementia as gotten worse.She still has some good days! We have had to cut back on her driving.We actually have hired a Home Health Service to come in and help with my In laws. They now get care 4 days a week, while we are at work.
So far we are happy with the service. It is better than the nursing home in my opinion! I hope we never have to go the nursing home route.

October/November 2010

Greetings Friends and Family,

It is October already! This month we celebrated our 2nd Anniversary. Of course we celebrated by going to the Texas State Fair in Dallas, TX. The rides, food, music  it was all worth it!

The food this year was fried pizza, fried chocolate, fried  margarita, fried Frito pie and many other foods. Some of these were good, while others really left things to be desired! It will be interesting to see what they will have next year!

We have been busy studying up on electrical code, home inspection, and homesteading. The employees at Barnes and Noble are going to know us by our names by the first of the year because we frequent the bookstore on almost a daily basis. Where else can you sit, read, and get your caffeine fix all in one place! lol 

We are hoping that with this a door will open for us to share, teach and live out what we are learning. Sandra is looking into starting a homesteading group that meets once a month. To teach people the basics of homesteading. We will see only the good Lord knows what come next in our lives.

The garden is doing very well. It has produced more fruit since the fall weather has set in than any other time this year. We have peppers, tomatoes, coming out our ears. I know someone will be doing some canning again and soon! She has already made several jars of fig jam and boy it was good but it did not last long.

Bo and Luke and grown in leaps and bounds. They have turned into 2 sweet Golden's! Here are current pictures of our 4 legged children.

We wish everyone a safe and Happy Howl-o-ween!

Sandra & Steffon

Home beer Brewing

We are currently looking into brewing our own beer. The kits/supply's are pretty basic. It looks like fun. It takes about 9 weeks before it is ready. We found a supply store here in Austin and will check it out this week!


Below are some sites if you are interested in brewing your own.
http://www.homebrewers.com
http://www.austinhomebrew.com

Sticky Notes Dealing With Dementia

Mom seems to be back on schedule so far. I think we have her back on a regular schedule. Memory seems to be better. Today she remembered just about everything in her daily routine. I hope she continues to improve!!
When taking care of someone with Dementia it is important to keep a routine. Keep the routine simple and repeat daily tasks at the same time everyday. It will help when a bad day comes along .