Christian Polygamy

Natural Household Remedies

Clean home, clean planet
Three eco-friendly cleaner recipes to try out at your next “green party”:Furniture polish: Combine 1/4 cup olive oil, 1/4 cup white distilled vinegar and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice for fragrance (optional). Shake well. Dip a clean, dry cloth into the polish and rub wood in the direction of the grain. Refrigerate if you add [...]
This green party’s agenda: safe scrubbing
Via: St. Petersburg Times The party favors are boxes of baking soda, recipe cards and spray bottles. The theme is green. Green cleaning parties have sprouted nationwide as a fun, easy way to rid homes of toxic chemicals found in common household cleaners. Women’s Voices for the Earth, an environmental group in Montana, started the parties in March [...]
Appliance Cleaner “Lemon Wonder”
Works great for stove tops and refrigerators if s[prayed generously on the appliance and wiped off with a damp sponge or cloth, and then wiped dry with another cloth. Ingredients: 1 tsp liquid castile soap 1/8 cup white vinegar 1/4 cup lemon juice 2 cups water 6 drops citrus seed extract 4 drops lemon, lime, orange or eucalyptus essential oil 1 tsp borax Combine [...]
Sink Rust Remover
Ingredients: 1/4 cup baking soda 5 drops essential oil of your choice juice of half a lemon Sprinkle baking soda on the stain, then add drops of essential oil and sprinkle with lemon juice. Let sit over night or several hours. Wipe baking soda away and then rinse well. If the stain is on the side of the [...]
Cleaning Faucets
Ingredients: water vinegar 3-4 drops citrus essential oil A simple mixture of equal parts of vinegar and water is the best thing for cleaning faucets. Buildup of grime around the base can be treated with a 3-4 drops of a citrus essential oil dropped directly on the grime, then scrubbed away with an old toothbrush.
laundry detergent
Via: Trying Traditional I thought I would be posting once more to warn of my absence, but alas I didn’t meet the deadline. I am, however, back and ready to go now. Sorry about that readers! Do you make any household cleaners yourself? We make our own laundry detergent and are quite happy with it. [...]
Some Not-So-Green Products
Via: Greenopolis There’s some ‘green’ products out there that just aren’t quite as green as they claim to be. Whether you call it greenwashing or just plain dishonesty, here’s a few products that don’t live up to their green hype. “Green” Cleaning Products: To meet the growing demand for environmentally-friendly products, a number of companies have created [...]
Competition Bureau sees red over false green claims
Competition Bureau sees red over false green claims Competition Bureau sees red over false green claimsSarah Schmidt , Canwest News ServicePublished: Thursday, June 19, 2008 OTTAWA - Consumers weary of environmental claims about products can soon expect more straight talk from manufacturers when the Competition Bureau releases tougher standards for green marketing pitches. As early as next [...]
Two basic cleaner recipes
Via: Faith Acre Farm Tara writes: Homemade Cleaning Six or so years ago I started making homemade household cleaners out of the neccessity to save money. It didn’t take long for me to realize the enormous benefits of making and using homemade cleaners. Yes it is a great way to cut costs, but even better than that [...]
Porcelain Sink Saver
Stubborn sports are difficult to clean in a porcelain sink without leaving scruff marks. But this herbal remedy will be hard on even the stubborn stains, yet soft on your beautiful porcelain sink. Ingredients: 1 part sage, rosemary, lemon balm, thyme or mint, either fresh or dried 1 part water 4-6 drops of your favorite essential oil baking soda Steep the [...]

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Praying mantis spotted again
We saw one of the male praying mantises again today, and it has grown quite a bit ! We think it grew so fat on our Japanese beetles for they have disappeared completely out of our garden already. Well, have a look at the pictures if you like… I rotated two of [...]
Hot Peppers in Oil
The canning season has begun, quite obviously… We started this year with hot peppers in oil, about 6 pints of them. We used green chili peppers, Hungarian Wax peppers, and a few Romance and Bell Peppers too. Here is the recipe: HOT PEPPERS IN OIL Mix and boil together: 1/2 water and 1/2 vinegar 1/4 cup [...]
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING (10th Ed)
We are using this book a lot… Maybe you will find it useful too if you are new to the whole homesteading business or are just looking for something that sums up everything you need to know in times such as these…
Summer’s Cornucopia
We just wanted to share a picture from our garden
Gardening Reminders
Via: iStockAnalyst .com Water thoroughly and deeply Watering can be the biggest task in August particularly if the weather gets hot. Vegetable gardens, most flowering plants and the lawn all need about 1 inch of water every week to keep them green and looking nice. Be sure to water thoroughly and deeply each time. When possible, [...]
Vegetables can be pretty, too
Via: JS Online Mix them in with flowers to save space, add texture When you think of a dramatically colorful garden, vegetables might not enter your mind. Waves of flowering perennials and annuals create visual excitement in the landscape, but the thought of a tomato plant mixed in with the flowers just doesn’t work. While, indeed, a [...]
Powdery Mildew VI
After all the leaves had been pruned away from our infected zucchini, new leaves grew quickly, but the fruit that was already growing seemed to disappear… So we pruned away all the whithered and moldy fruit too, and continued spraying leaves and stems with baking soda / soap mix, and this morning we harvested the [...]
Cooking over the campfire - Without any fancy utensils!
It might behoove us to learn how to cook without pots and skillets, not necessarily because we find doing the dishes a pesky chore, but because there might be no skillets and pots to cook with soon. Be prepared, people ! This article has originally been published in Countryside Magazine. By Tom C. Tabor Montana Food [...]
Powdery Mildew V
Well, the baking soda/ soap mix has a drawback after all: It covers the plant leaves with seasoning for the deer who hitherto were uninterested in our vegetables and rather ate the young maple leaves. Especially the cucumbers must have been a delicious addition to family deer’s diet for when we inspected our garden this [...]
Powdery Mildew IV
After a pause yesterday I sprayed again today and am pleased with the result… I know you should not count your chickens before they are hatched, but it looks as if the zucchini and all the other infected plants are doing really good now ! No new mildew, but plenty of new foliage growth, and the [...]

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Right and Wrong - A Matter of Guessing ?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The bible is very clear about right and wrong. God is explicit about what He likes and what He hates (see for example Exo 20:5-6, Deu 12:28-31, or Pro 6:16-19), about what we are supposed to do (Exo 20 and following chapters, for example), and about the rewards or punishments for our actions (for [...]

The Biblical Concept of Love

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

When it comes to the biblical concept of love, here too, like always, we need to let God define His terms and not Noah Webster or any other dictionary author. To love God means to keep his commandments (Joh 14:15), to love the brethren means to follow God’s commandments concerning the community, and to put [...]

If Polygamy Was Sin…

Monday, March 24th, 2008

In the bible you find plural marriage not only to be a common and accepted form of marriage, but also a protected one. The biblical definition of “marriage” is not “one man one women”, but “becoming one flesh” (Gen 2:24), and since according to Paul you can become one flesh with a whore (1 Co [...]

Marriage References in Scripture

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Let’s continue where we left off last time we talked about marriage, and elaborate a little on what Scripture has to say about marriage.
Like we said, to read romantic notions of marriage, i.e. exclusivity between one man and one women into biblical marriage is to insert a secular, romanticized concept into the bible that is [...]

About Marriage

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A lot of verses in the bible talk about marriage (Heb 13:4, Psa 128:3, Pro 5:15-23, 1 Co 7:2-3), and they are very wonderful verses, stressing the beauty and responsibility of a lifelong commitment made before God and the beauty of people caring for each other in a godly fashion. God protects marriage indeed, it [...]

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