DH and I don’t buy each other gifts. We took the The Five Love Languages quiz, and gifts are at the very bottom. That’s why we share experiences (like the wine dinners).
So for my birthday, I bought myself the Mother Earth News archive DVD. It has all40 years on it. When I first started getting into eating locally, and home cooking, I remember telling my dad about this great website I found called Mother Earth News. As you can imagine, my dad had a great chuckle as he told me that it was an old hippie magazine that he used to get back in the day!
Just for fun, I’m posting some of the article topics that were in Mother Earth News when I was born – March 1977.
Um sure, Peggy. It’s 1977. Hee Hee.
Worm Your Livestock … With Snuff!
Worm Your Livestock … With Snuff! March/April 1977 by C.F. ECKHARDT Judging from the discussion that’s appeared in MOTHER’s letters column over the past couple years, it seems that a good many folks have settled on the feeding of diatomaceous earth as a satisfactory method
Hmmm, snuff? Guess those NASCAR drivers don’t have worms, then.
Mother’s Down-Home Country Lore
By Nancy BubelUsing broken potter as poultry grit by Gary and Ruth Magee, growing parsley by Mrs. Earl Crist, use cast off planters from the cemetery to start seedlings by June Fey, using a hooked stick to hold down chicken fencing by Doc and Leah Hunter, cleaning pots with spinach by Bob and Terri Ladd, hay bales by Steve Payne,
Is that legal?
I Fought The System And Won
Kolczynski fights the laws regarding selling raw milk.
Actually, that’s kind of depressing. We’re still fighting for raw milk, 40 years later. Sigh.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this little trip down 1977. Party on.
This post linked to Works For Me Wednesday
Hi! Stoppin’ by from SITS. Hope you have a very happy birthday!
Wow… what a great gift! (Let’s face it, the best ones are sometimes the ones we buy ourselves)
Still giggling about Peggy and her grass 😉
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What a hilarious look back!
Happy birthday almost birthday twin! DH and I don’t buy each other gifts either…the money comes from the same account so it never made sense to us!
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Well, first — a Very Happy Birthday to you! We don’t do much with gifts at our house either — though sometimes we take the opportunity around birthdays to go shopping together and “treat one another”. Somehow gifts are so much better when we can choose them together.
Enjoy those articles… I didn’t even know you could get all the back issues electronically. Shows how much I know!
Stopping by from the Lady Bloggers. I am going to the tea party a little late. hehe 🙂 Great recipe. I can’t wait to make it. Thanks for sharing.