The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in giveaways, Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2012
Here’s something rare at the Old School–a contest. That doesn’t happen too often around these parts. Since you’ve been such good students, the Damsel has been authorized to offer one lucky person an awesome gift–a copy of the scrapbooking program “My Memories Suite.” , a $39.97 value. This program is pretty sweet. The Damsel was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2011
The Damsel wishes you and your family the very best at this time of year. Here’s an “infographic” about what we’ve been up to:
Posted in cooking, handmade, Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2011
Maybe you’re like the Damsel was before she saw the light. Maybe you think there is something magical that makes peanuts into peanut butter–some special process taking elaborate equipment and people in white overalls. And that “natural” peanut butter, costing approximately $123456789, is something even more complicated to make. Gather close, dear students, and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2011
This post is for those seven people left in the world who still make their own lasagna. You know in a traditional lasagna recipe how it tells you to boil the noodles first and then layer them? Have you done this? Have you tried to get the slippery, slimy noodles from the pan only to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2011
The Damsel worked hard to think of how this idea could be called Old School. She came up with: 1. it’s cheap, and in the olden days, people loved making something cool without spending a lot of cash 2. it uses up something that might otherwise be thrown away 3. it took only a speck [...]
Posted in cleaning, guest post, Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2011
Today, the Damsel would like to introduce her old friend, Nathan Wright, as today’s substitute teacher/guest poster. Take it away, Nathan! One Saturday the chore of washing dishes fell to me. It seemed to this nine-year-old the dirty dishes were especially piled up whenever my turn came around, and I was certain my older siblings [...]
Posted in thrifty, Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2011
Today’s Old School lesson is a hands-on project: how to install a pour spout on a canning jar–great for dry cooking ingredients like sugar. This is the sort of DIY project Grandma could have really gotten into. It’s free It uses up things that would otherwise be thrown away It’s useful It’s easy and only [...]
Posted in chickens, gardening, Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2011
When is a free-range chicken a bad, naughty chicken? Come closer, dear students, and the Damsel will tell you. The Damsel lets her chickens run loose in her large fenced yard, eating mosquitoes and possibly earwigs. For this hope alone, it’s worth the risk they pose to the garden plants. They do like to peck [...]
Posted in preserving, thrifty, Uncategorized on Jun 21st, 2011
Did you hear about the food poisoning outbreak in Europe? Awful! Lots of people got sick, some even died. They eventually traced the source of the e. coli bacteria to sprouts grown on an organic farm. Does this mean we should avoid organic food? Absolutely not. The fact that the sprouts were grown organically didn’t [...]
Posted in gardening, Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2011
Curious who the manufacturer is for the Damsel’s garden fertilizer? That’s right. Near the Cottage by the Mountains, there is a friendly horse riding arena/stables, and the “output” is prodigious. Thanks to the law of supply and demand, a person can get an entire pickup truckload of high-quality compost from this place for only $5. [...]
