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How to Bottle Homebrew
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Top Free Genealogy Resources to Start your Family Tree
Genealogy can be an inexpensive hobby. New genealogists may feel that they have to pay for memberships, books, or subscriptions to find their ancestors. However, there are many free genealogy resources to help genealogists find and document their family tree. Family Start documenting your family tree by asking your family basic questions. As silly as…
Why Do You Do Genealogy? Here’s my Top 4 Reasons
When my now husband learned that I enjoy doing genealogy as a hobby, he asked, “Why?” At the time, I honestly didn’t have a good answer for him. I’ve always loved the history, finding out where my family came from, the research. The further I got into discovering my family tree, the more challenging the…
Favorite Wineries: Longshadow Ranch, Temecula
Raving review about the Longshadow Ranch Winery in Temecula, California
Top Five Hikes in San Diego
In the days of corona virus, people around the world are itching to simply get outside of their house. Daydreaming about what hike to take next, I compiled my top five favorite hikes in San Diego and the surrounding areas. Sunset Cliffs Sunset cliffs is a beautiful winding hike above the waves in west of…
Five Ways to Reduce Energy at Home
Whether you’re looking to be more sustainable or simply trying to lower your monthly utility bills, you might be wondering how to reduce energy at home. Depending on location, you might have one bill or multiple, but your main public utility bills are typically electricity, natural gas, and water/sewer. There are countless ways to reduce…
How to Make Homemade Pasta
I had tried my hand at making homemade pasta a few times in the past, always ending up with sticky, dense, inedible doughy grossness. I swear I can follow recipes, but inevitably I would end up with a r/ExpectationVsReality scenario. In my post Cooking Lessons I wrote about my experience taking a cooking lesson from…
Genealogy in Rural Communities
Tracing genealogy in rural communities is often convoluted. Having grown up in small towns and from a large Southern family, I often heard people say “Everyone is related to everyone somehow.” As complicated as these family trees can be, not every couple were blood first cousins, in fact, I would argue that very few were.…