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5 Things To Do For Your Lawn This Fall
Everybody wants that lush, green lawn in the spring and summertime, but not everybody realizes that a big part of having that is maintaining your lawn during the fall and winter months, when sunshine is more scarce and growth is slower. Fortunately, it doesn’t take a ton of work to keep your lawn healthy all winter. Here are
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How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies
Fruit flies are a nuisance that can be fairly resilient if you don’t attack them aggressively. The good news is, there is more than one way to skin a cat expel a fruit fly. Here, we give you five. Apple Cider Vinegar Specifically, unfiltered apple cider vinegar (it’ll say on the bottle, but the ulfiltered stuff is cloudy). Remove
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9 Uses for Vinegar You Never Knew About
So, Reader’s Digest is still a thing. Can you believe that? Well, it’s true. Anyway, your favorite dentist-office magazine has converted to digital now, and while we’re not avid readers, we did find on it one of the most impressive listicles we’ve ever seen. 150 Uses for Household Vinegar. We’re sharing it because we found
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: How to Make Cheddar Cheese
We’ve gone over the concept, the science, some basic practices. And now, with no further delay, we are going to make cheese. So strap yourself in. It’s going to be a wild ride. We could show you how to make some easy cheeses, like kefir or cream cheese, but we’re not going to do that
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How to Have the Best Halloween House on the Block
It gets harder and harder each year, but you can still remember what it was like to be a kid, right? And Halloween? Man, only Christmas was more exciting. The best trick-or-treat houses were the ones that made you feel scared, then welcome. A little creeped out, then re-assured — and overloaded with candy. Here
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Your Winter Home Preparedness Checklist
Winter is coming. Well, sort of. This is south Texas, after all, but that doesn’t mean we’re off the hook when it comes to preparing our homes for winter. To get there, follow these tips, and enjoy a warm, stress-free winter in a cozy home. Inspect Windows and Doors Look at all the weatherstripping and
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: Sanitization in Cheese
Like any process that involves culturing or fermentation, sanitization is extremely important to the cheese-making process. All of your utensils, cookware and even your hands need to be as clean and bacteria-free as possible in order to render an appetizing final product. Having already covered the basics of cheese-making, milk selection, and the role of salt, we’re going
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Chesmar Homes Product Review: Expandable Garden Hoses
Occasionally in this space we’ll use and review a common household consumer product, so you don’t have to. Today, we’re talking about the oh-so-slick, as-seen-on-TV, magical auto-expanding garden hoses. You’ve seen the commercials. The Pitch That ad is for the Pocket Hose, which is the brand we purchased (though we went for the Pocket Hose Top
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: The Role of Salt in Cheese
So far in this series we’ve discussed the overall concept of cheese, and we’ve tackled milk selection, and so you’re fairly well on your way to making a cheese of your own. But before we move on to recipes, we have another concept to go over. And that concept how salt works to flavor and preserve your
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Cheese-mar Homes Tutorial: How to Pick the Right Milk for Your Cheese
Earlier this week, we began our series on cheese-making with a basic overview of the materials you’ll need and the steps you’ll need to take to make to make some cheese. Today we’re going to talk about milk. The first thing you need to know, here, is that any milk will work. Cheese is milk, so if what you’re