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  Right now it is early spring, but come summer I am ALL about the Salsa. We now have 2 Salsa Houses, solely for growing our tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers of all sorts.      I made a short video of the Houses and canning some salsa:  Salsa Time!        We always said that when we found our dream place, we wanted to learn to grow and preserve food. And that's what we did. Neither of us had gardened at all before we moved here. We started small, and learned along the way. Lots of youtube and google. I'd say 90% of our efforts survived even though we know nothing. Ha! I mean, if we can do it anyone can!    Bride of Salsa House Last year's Veggie Zone expansion (we tripled our beds!) meant much more salsa canning, and also some tomato sauce and juice making. Stu (aka Hubs) even got into making his own fermented hot sauces. Pretty exciting! And the bloody mary's were divine.   Here's a quick video tour of our triple sized veg garden:  Mid Summer *Veggie Zone* Tour  

I Used BEER CANS to Make a Wooden Sign  Easy DIY Garden Project I made a thing! Last summer after we overhauled our BBQ Zone, I really wanted to make a sign out of beer cans. I had the vision, I knew how I would do it... I just had never tried before. But it worked great!  I made a whole video about it here:     I Used BEER CANS to Make a Wooden Sign - Easy DIY Garden Project Just to be clear, this is not a complete tutorial. Ha. If it was, it would be much more detailed and informative believe me. This was one of my first how-to video attempts, and has many imperfections. Learning!  BUT I will be showing you the basics of how I made my beer can sign. Call it whatever. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ok! So first thing is to prepare a backing board, I used a piece of plywood which I painted.  Next I figured out how big I wanted my letters to be, and brought up a font on my laptop. When I had them the right size, I traced them onto paper like a light table. Then I cut them out.    I placed them on

 ALL NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   Triple Tall Beer Can Top Hat! Crochet Tutorial Okay, I hope you are ready for this. I have decided to start making craft tutorials for youtube, starting with the coveted Beer Can Hat. The more I contemplated this project, the more design ideas I came up with. It just sounded fun! Nobody is making giant cool beer can hat patterns. But I am here for you.   I actually made a cute little Promo video here:     NEW *Creative* Beer Can Hat Tutorials 2022   To start, I'm making a 3 part tutorial for the basic Beer Can Party Hat (it is now posted!!), similar to how my original tutorial is laid out. Each part is a step in the process, but each part can also be a whole hat in itself! Hello. So if you are crocheting in a real life party situation, and you get a little too high or start making out or whatever, you can finish it up quickly.  Part 1 is the Crown, Part 2 is the Fez, Part 3 is the Cap. I have simplified the construction to b