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Preserving Tomatoes
Homegrown tomatoes taste almost as good canned, frozen, or dried, as they do fresh from the garden, and they certainly have far more flavor than the tennis balls supermarkets try to pass off as tomatoes. If you don’t grow enough of your own tomatoes
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Homemade Cabinets
Radios dating to the 1920s are unusual today. Occasionally, one with a beautifully crafted cabinet is found, and such pieces are prized by collectors. That fine craftsmanship came at a cost few could afford back in the day. Those on a tight budget ma
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Threshing Day
IT was July 1938. Dad and I hitched Maud and Pearl, our team of matched Belgian mares, to the grain binder, and pulled it out of the storage shed. The humped-back machine needed some repairs. The canvas conveyor belts needed slats riveted, both on th

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