The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2010
The Damsel has added a community widget to the Old School. What? Talking in class?
heh.
This is the place to go if you have questions about any of the Old School lessons. You’re free to comment, ask questions, or answer them. Of course, you can always leave comments on individual posts as usual. The community sounds [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, home repairs on Feb 7th, 2010
The Damsel had hoped to create an Old School post about how to fix a leaky faucet. But once the Knight got into the guts of the faucet in question, it was clear this faucet was beyond saving. Corrosion had dealt a death blow, and even the Knight’s magic wouldn’t be enough.
Removal became necessary.
How does [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, cleaning, thrifty on Feb 4th, 2010
Back here, the Old School discussed what happens when you use liquid dish soap in your dishwasher, and what to do to temporarily tide you over until your next trip to the market.
But is it possible to make your OWN dishwasher detergent? To use on a regular basis, not as an emergency substitute? Can you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, cooking, thrifty on Jan 5th, 2010
Oh, beans! Such an old school food. Funny, though, when you look at dry beans, they don’t even look like food. (See this) They’re hard, they don’t really smell good, (or bad) and well, let’s face it. People fear them, even though they are cheap and nutritious. They fear that cooking beans is too tricky [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2010
This post is a bit of blog housekeeping. Just FYI.
The Damsel has been reading up on Wordpress, which is the platform the Old School sits on. Apparently comments don’t work quite the way she thought.
The Damsel keeps her personal blog on LiveJournal. When someone comments, she is sent an email. When she comments back to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2010
Some folks believe the tradition of making a new year’s resolution goes back to Roman times. The Roman god Janus has a face on both sides of his head, Professor Quirrell style, thus able to look forward and back at the same time.
In a similar way, resolutions are a chance to look back at how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, thrifty on Dec 7th, 2009
Does anyone remember the olden days, when people used to pop corn WITHOUT a microwave?
Why would you want to do such a thing?
You mean besides avoiding the unnamed chemicals and nasty whatnots that are in microwave popcorn? “Homemade” popcorn actually does taste better, plus, it’s something that would be nice to know in case of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, cooking, thrifty on Nov 28th, 2009
One of the most old-school things you can do after Thanksgiving is make soup out of the turkey carcass.
Please forgive the lack of photos to begin with. The Damsel hates, hates, HATES what she must do to start this, and she couldn’t bring herself to photograph it, either. She sternly reminded herself how delicious the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2009
The Damsel is ever so kind to invite me here! I’m Mariel, co-author of the “Or so she says…” blog. It’s a fun blog that offers a new and random idea every single day! One day we might be talking about parenting, the next day we are sharing a recipe, and the next…trying to figure [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, preserving on Oct 21st, 2009
The Damsel doesn’t understand why, but the people at her cottage are pickled-beet crazy. Big, little, young, old, they all love them. What can this mean?
The only thing the Damsel likes about beets is that they are sort of purple. Even so, she pickles the little devils for the rest of the weirdos in the [...]
