Almost Perfect Rum Cake

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/12/christmas-rum-cake/

Homemade OxyClean Ingredients

Homemade OxyClean Ingredients

• 2 parts water
• 1 part hydrogen peroxide
• 1 part baking soda

I use 2 cups water, 1 cup hydrogen peroxide and 1 part baking soda. This is a liquid recipe and also reminds me somewhat of Shout spray.
How To Make:

1. Combine all ingredients and put in an opaque dark bottle. I just stuck a sprayer from the dollar store on top of the hydrogen peroxide bottle.
2. Use as a pre-treat spray on stains or add 1/4 of the mixture above (about 1 cup total) to a load of laundry, add water and let soak for 30 minutes before washing.

Amish lifestyles compared to "English"

I am not sure if I have some of this on my blog or not but here you go.  The Amish kids, boys especially, are allowed to try the "English" ways including a drivers license for a year to a year and a half at the most.  They feel that once they get it out of their system they will return the Amish ways.  Some do and some don't but the parents kind of like it because they have a chauffeur that can drive them around for a year or so.  If a kid jumps the fence and turns English they are not permitted to eat at the same table as the rest of the family and are shunned but once again that depends of the level of Amish order they belong to.

The Amish kids see how much money their parents make by being "Amish".  They have a thriving business whether it is building homes or making furniture because the general public believes Amish made is better quality and there REALLY IS NO DIFFERENCE.  They use generator so they can use power tools to build homes to furniture.  The Amish name increases the price no matter if it is butter or furniture.  Don't get me wrong some of the stuff is REALLY incredible craftsmanship but that is because they can charge more and people pay it because of the AMISH name.  The general public is not willing to pay an English man more for the exact same thing an Amish person made.  The English man has higher overhead.  Why, because the English person can not get his children to work and hand over all their paycheck.  The Amish parents give the kids 10% of their check back and they use the rest for household expenses or put it in a savings for the kids for when they get married.  The kids are out of school at the age of 14 with an 8th grade education.  So that is a lot
of earned money for the parents.  By the way the kids are more educated than most of the English kids that graduate from high school.  That is those without a learning disability.  The Amish have a special education school for the learning disabled.

If you can follow my blog and ask questions and   I will answer them on my blog if I know the answer and if I don't I will ask Uriah he is my Amish buddy

Floating a Goats Teeth

Since we don't have much on the dentition of a goat I thought I would give some basic information. The information is coming from "The Illustrated Standard of the Dairy Goat: A Guide for Evaluating and Judging Conformation" by; Nancy Lee Owen Copyright 1972, 1973, 1977. p. 4-5,Dairy Goat Publishing Corporation, P.O. Box 1908, Scottsdale, Arizona 85252 U. S. A..
Any one with information pertinent to this topic such as diseases of the mouth, teeth decay, abcesses, and such please add your input (if information is from a source please cite your source).

"The dairy goat does not have upper front teeth; instead it has a hadr skin-covered gristle pad. When its mouth is closed this dental pad fits snugly behind the lower incisors. The incisors hold hay or grass against the dental pad while a forward and upward motion or the head causes a shearing action of the hay against the incisors.
Goats have two sets of teeth during their lifetime-twenty decidious teeth or "baby" teeth, and thirty-two permanent or adult teeth. The decidious teeth fall out as the permanent teeth erupt. The chart pictures the lower jaw and lists the approximate age when teeth appear. The molars in the upper jaw correspond to those in the lower jaw. There is considerable variation in the time of eruption of the teeth of individual animals. The teeth can only be a rough guide of actual age. After the sixth year, as the goat ages, the permanent teeth may begin to grow excessively long and gradually spread apart, finally loosening and dropping out. In some goats the incisors have a tendancy to wear down as they age, especially those browsing in sandy or rocky pastures."



I think we all seem to, at times, not take in to mind the most simplistic yet important part of a goat. Without a proper working jaw, good delineation, and a great set of chompers how can we expect them to thrive? Part of herd management should be a quick check over their teeth...since you gotta get the drencher/syringe in there anyway during de-worming.

Amish old order corn and hybrid English corn same age & same county

This is so hard to believe but seeing is believing.  The corn on the right is from an old order of Amish and I doubt that it is genically modified.  They save seeds year after year and by the way this is hand planted and hand picked with NO  roundup.  Even the kernals are different.  We got 50 pounds of corn from the Amish lady and this what they ALL look like.  By the way we are considered English.

My BUR HEAD

So much for my bucklings curly locks

GOAT BUTTER ???  YES goat butter!!  Check this out
http://www.chow.com/videos/show/chow-tips/94871/how-to-use-goat-butter