This creek is way over grown, I just got the property so I’ll have to wait til summer and go in with and axe.

Any tips what tools to use to get rid out the bushes and grass sticking out through the ice and hire to smooth out those spots? I have a bog but have some small bushes sticking out. Thanks

Geezus, goulash is Hungarian.

2 adults and children. Our home is 2100 sqft. We have forced hot air. Most months it's like 90-130. In the summer maybe a bit more because we're a bit stupid with our ACs and have them all over the house.

Depending on the situation it could be "E Klis", broken French for Christ...I've heard it a million times

Is that the Litchfield Cookery?!

Oh My God

I never thought of using tomato soup. I usually use two cans of tomatoes

Oh, also, sweet and spicy Italian sausage. Not required but an excellent addition

Still can't believe gravy mix isn't standard. Frozen corn for me though.

Mine is a bit different than what folks here have but it's common from most people I've encountered.

1lb ground beef Beef broth (optional) maybe half a cup 2ish cloves garlic 1 green pepper 1 red pepper (optional) 1 medium yellow onion 1 tbs each dried oregano and basil 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 small can tomato paste 1 San marzano tomatoes (crushed or diced or whatever works too) 1 box elbow Mac

You'll start by dicing the peppers and onions. This will be like a sofrito for the sauce. Let this cook over a medium heat with oil for a 2 to 5 minutes until tender. Add garlic and cook for a few more minutes stirring occasionally.

Add your spices here. If you're feeling frisky add crushed red peppers. Add in your tomato paste and a splash of water so it's not thick anymore.

Here comes the tomatoes. Cook these down until it reduces just a bit. Taste for seasoning.

While this is going brown your beef. Salt and pepper to flavor. Drain any excess grease. Add the broth here and let it simmer for like a minute or two. Make sure you deglazed the pan here.

You'll add your worcestershire and beef to the sauce.

Salt the ever loving fuck out of your water and cook your noodles to the box.

Before draining reserve a mug of water. Add sauce to noodles. Stir these boys in and add some pasta water in as needed.

For optimal results, refrigerate immediately and serve as leftovers

I just glanced through the comments, but remember that both CMP and Versant now have special rates for the heating season for people that use heat pumps. You can save on your supply cost.

You wouldn't catch me on a lake right now, the ice is shit,

I’m near Beaumont, down in the SE corner by Louisiana. What part of Maine are you from?

This is it right here.

It means chalice, or the chalice that the wine for church is in, its slang and when used is considered a curse term, like god dammit, or Jesus Christ!

Might be a stretch, but could be "deguedine"? That means "hurry up".

3200 square foot colonial, my bill this month is $347. We do have a hot tub, so thats a fair amount of electricity. No heat pumps here.

Filled up the tank for the 2nd time in the last 12 months, we dont use a ton of heating oil, 2x6 construction with spray foam insulation and smart thermostats in the entire home. Makes a huge difference.

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Entire home is all LED lights, inside and outside. Our biggest consumers of power are (not really in order):

1. Oven
2. Dryer
3. Hot Tub

After those, everything else is minimal draw. (in the winter)

In the summer it climbs to as high as $500 for a month with the stand up A/C units we use in the home, my plan is to install a couple of heat pumps to dehumidify the house and "cool it" so that I am not using the ridiculously inefficient A/C units all the time.

Sounds about right honestly I mean a heat pump uses electricity, so does a dehumidifier, so does an electric washer and dryer and so do two chest freezers. Seems like some of your electric cost is also heating to run the heat pump, probably should think of it that way.

Just said this same thing further up. Hated it growing up. So I make it my own way now, and my kids lick the plate clean. No thanks to creamed corn.

Fuuuuck, I hated the creamed corn. I make it with mixed veggies now, or peas and carrots. Might not be original, but it’s good! And 2 packets of brown gravy mix.

Ca suffit ? : "That's enough !"

Probably "câlice"

Checking in here to say my family also called it pate-chinois, but there was never really any understanding of it translating to “Chinese Pie” or whatever, that’s just what it was always called and passed down as such

1450 sq ft, $250-280 power bills. One "Mr Cool" 23k BTU heat pump on its first winter. Oil heat runs a minute every hour below freezing to keep the pipes from freezing. Also run a wood stove when it's below 15'F out, which is hardly ever this winter.

I've used about 50 gallons of #2 oil since Dec 19, my last fill up. It heats my hot water, too.

LED lights, one fridge, one full size freezer we found on the side of the road.

I think your dehumidifer is the culprit. Get a Kill-A-Watt meter, either $20 new or from your local library to see what it draws.

There’s no rural life in New York City. The turning is the entire possibility of self sustainability into an advertisement / commercial. People make a life here and they don’t deserve their unique, organic ways put on blast by Condé Nast interns or junior editors searching for clicks to validate their existence.

He’s also considered to be the last soldier of the civil war to die of his wounds. He was 85, but I guess those old wounds got him in the end. He was shot through the hip which was considered fatal at the time, but not for that tough ol’ bird.

Ok, my buddy’s dad, old County trapper, he fed us on this stuff our whole lives. He died a few years back, but sent me this in messenger and I’ve saved it for years. Here you go - one to guide ya, one to let you know we’re not far behind, Snuffy. “sorry for slow reply i just got new puter ant internet back......2 lbs hamburge 2 pounfs elbows....half orange size oion a green pepper ,,,,can black olivas... 2 cans tomato soup,,,, and preago of ur teaste ,,, i have leave out toad stools becuz mattt allerget to em,,,,get big pot and fry pan ... chopup oions and green peppers and black olives to teaste,,,fry tilll golden then put buger in fry that ,,, start elbows ,,, after drain addd soup and preago,,,, drain oil off buger add to elbows and soup ,,,, next step is to teaste ... affter all mixed good add 2 big table spoons of mircle whip more ore lesss to teaste ....if posable let set over nite reheat and serve ,,, i addd more marcle whip if needed,,,, small dish of cottage chesse and freash rolls or bread is nice too”