InkSpot

InkSpot

InkSpot last signed in Feb 02 2010 and has been on Bukisa since Sep 25, 2009.


About Me:

I live on a 20-acre farm in the country and strive towards a very self-sustainable lifestyle while working part-time as a freelance writer. We are small business owners and have 3 teenage children.

Bucket.jpg View a categorized list of my articles by clicking on my bucket. I promise you won't find no rotten eggs here.

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Things I Love to Do:

  •  Farming & Bucking Hay
  • Going to Tractor Pulls & Rooting the Boys/Girls On
  • Organic Gardening
  • Canning and Making Homemade Jam
  • Raise beef, pigs and laying hens
  • Mushroom and Other Wild Food Foraging
  • Seed Saving and Self-Sustainable Living
  • Writing
  • Fishing, Camping, Photography, Watercolor Painting, Snorkeling & Travel

I hope you enjoy reading my articles. Be sure to give them a rating if you like them and share them with friends or twitter them up!

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More of Mine

  • Hot Buttered Rum Batter Recipe & Other Hot Drinks

    by InkSpot | in Food & Drinks > Wine & Drinks

    Mix up a batch of hot buttered rum batter, pop it in the freezer and easily serve up hot buttered rum drinks when friends stop by for a winter visit. Learn how to make a Hot Apple Toddy, Hot Irish Punch, Hot Creole, Hot Locomotive and Hot Zombie drinks. Serve on chilly winter days!

  • Mrs. Duncan's Missouri Sorghum Cookies

    by InkSpot | in Food & Drinks > Recipes

    The best recipes always have a name attached to them. Mrs. Duncan made some awesome Sorghum Cookies and my Mum saved this recipe. We've passed it down to family and friends for years. A very delicious recipe for Missouri Sorghum Cookies. Long after Mrs. Duncan has passed, her famous cookies will continue to please.

  • How to Make Homemade Jam

    by InkSpot | in Food & Drinks > Recipes

    Making homemade jam is a simple process once you've learned how to do it properly and given it a whirl once or twice. The instructions provided were passed down in my family from generation to generation. While still living at home I made jam and wrote down what my Mum and Granny taught me--I am sharing it with you.

  • Pumpkin Butter Jam Recipe

    by InkSpot | in Food & Drinks > Recipes

    If you love apple butter, you will love the fresh, pumpkiny flavor of this Pumpkin Butter Jam recipe. Making homemade jam and jelly is a favorite pasttime and jams and jellies make wonderful gifts for any occassion. Pumpkin Butter is a delicious, unique jam to add to your pantry. Give it a try.

  • Movie Reviews: Avatar, Sherlock Holmes & Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel

    by InkSpot | in Family > General

    Get the most current movie reviews before heading for the movie theatre. Avatar and Sherlock Holmes are battling for top movie with Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel a favorite among the younger and family movie goers. Check out the latest movie reviews and get movie viewers opinions about all the top movies. Which one will you choose?

  • White Deer ~ Wisconsin's Natural Treasure

    by InkSpot | in Culture & Society > Nature

    Early settler reports and Native American legends speak of a White Deer with pink ears, noses, hooves and goat-like eyes. White Deer are not mythical creatures or tall tales--they are real and Wisconsin considers them one of their natural treasures. See video footage of White Deer and discover one photographers journey to capture their beauty.

  • How to Grow Sweet Potatoes & Slips

    by InkSpot | in Home & Garden > Gardening & Landscaping

    There are a couple ways you can grow your own sweet potato slips (starts). Sweet potato slips can be grown in moist soil or in a container of water. Buying slips each year can be expensive—why spend the money when growing your own slips is so simple and inexpensive? Discover how to grow your own sweet potato slips.

  • Writing Articles: Writers Can Earn Money WITHOUT Writing a Thing

    by InkSpot | in Internet > General

    Writers struggle to make money writing articles online. Here's a great way to increase traffic, free links to your articles AND make extra money (sometimes even more than your articles earn) by using a very simple, legitimate website. You can earn ad revenue by simply linking your articles and other scoops. No scam. No click fraud. Read.

  • Heirloom and Open Pollinated Seed: List of Top Seed Catalog Sources

    by InkSpot | in Home & Garden > Gardening & Landscaping

    Organic vegetable gardening is more than a hobby for people who save seed. To save true seed you must start with true seed--heirloom and open pollinated vegetable seeds are key to seed saving success. A link to a list of top sources used by seed saving groups and gardeners is provided when visiting Garden, Tools & Seed Shack's blog.

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Internet Marketing: Identify your Target by InkSpot

Before you build your first website and get caught up in the jungle of information about websites and how best to drive traffic to them, you FIRST need to know WHO you are trying to attract--looky-lou's or potential customers? Potential customers are your target. Learn how to identify your target and increase your chances of success with Internet Marketing.


Ripen Green Tomatoes by InkSpot

At the end of every growing season, most gardeners have at least a few stubborn tomatoes that have yet to ripen. Don't let Jack Frost take them. You can easily ripen green tomatoes using three items; a cardboard box, newspapers and for the super-stubborn green tomatoes get out your secret weapon--a banana.



Violet4me on Pumpkin Butter Jam Recipe on 1264624177

Great recipe for pumpkin lovers!


msopinion on Banana Boat HOT Smore Sundaes on 1264226926

Wow! That's a new one on me, and I can't wait to try it.


yellowstar2000 on How to Remove eHow.com Articles from Google Search Engines & eHow.com on 1264172630

hi, just stopped by to read your article....great one! I've added you as a friend and rated this one 5*****


nobertbermosa on Hot Buttered Rum Batter Recipe & Other Hot Drinks on 1263811514

nice recipe,i'd like to try this..thanks


Goodselfme on How to Remove eHow.com Articles from Google Search Engines & eHow.com on 1263699068

TX for your great help. Come see my posts here too. 5*


ldsdates on Writing Articles: Writers Can Earn Money WITHOUT Writing a Thing on 1262458258

Nice article, thanks for being so descriptive - I'm checking it out to use with my bukisa and earnwrite.com articles


RolyB on Writing Articles: Writers Can Earn Money WITHOUT Writing a Thing on 1260550149

it was really informative 5*


prism on Crab Apple Butter Recipe on 1259996510

I did apple butter this year also but not with cider. Sounds interesting. I think I will have to give it a try next year. Thanks!


prism on Heirloom and Open Pollinated Seed: List of Top Seed Catalog Sources on 1259995484

Love the message in your article. We all need to start saving more seeds. And I LOVE the list of companies in the link. Thanks!!


gcthomawriter on How to Grow, Harvest & Save Onion Seed on 1259709100

Interesting article and good advice. There's a lot I need to learn about onions. Thanks. 5*



for How to Make Cheese With Kids on 1264224349

Great article. I will try this with my son for homeschooling project. I love articles that get back to the basics and show you how to be more self-sufficient. Thanks again....5 stars!


for What the heck did the pioneers do? on 1264224115

From the stories told by my great-grandparents, grandparents and even my own Mother....I think I can answer this question. They actually held real conversations with each other. Played games together. Worked together...there was always socks or britches to mend by the light of oil lamps. They went to church, held socials, played cards, took care of livestock and worked in the fields. Gardens were tended and bread was baked weekly. Suppers were all cooked from scratch with fresh stuff out of the garden. These were REAL families...the ones who talked to each other, worked and played together and developed close bonds. My Mum rode a horse to a little one-room school house. The children lit and stoked the fire, lunch was cooked by the girls for everyone or they brought their own in little metal buckets. Water was hauled in by buckets and the outhouse was "out"side! I think we all have become so accustomed to having something to constantly entertain us, that we forget about what really matters. All these gadgets are but distractions and time-wasters when you really stop and think about it. They keep us from sharing with our loved ones and spending good quality time with them. When I grew up, the power sometimes went out for days or a week. This was always my favorite time in winter because we played monopoly or in the snow. We kept warm by the fire, got out candles and oil lamps, which made the room feel warm and cozy. We cooked all our meals in a big, black pot on the wood stove. Hot cocoa was even more delicious cooked on the wood stove. So, what do you do if the power goes out? Enjoy it and create great memories with your family..thanks for sharing and bringing back a wave of wonderful memories to me........


for World's Most Colorful and Unique Jellies on 1263758759

Most interesting article and absolutely beautiful jellies...I had no idea there were so many wonderfully colored jelly fish. My husband dives and will surely be interested in seeing this. He mostly dives in Washington's Puget Sound---burrrrr.....too cold for me. Thank you for sharing.


for When to use "and I" and when to use "and me" on 1263758352

Good job explaining this common grammar issue. I have always been taught to use "and I" in most cases, but at times it doesn't sound natural and I just change it thinking I was tossing out the grammar rule. Love how you explain how to know which one to use...great job! Thanks


for Is eHow a Scam? on 1263369193

I've questioned the very "vague" language in eHow.com's terms for quite some time. Asked numerous questions, and never got straight answers. So, I switched to Bukisa and other sites to publish my work. I left the original 30 or so articles at eHow.com to sit and earn some income. Then came 2 sweeps and I was down to 24 articles. BUT here's the real kicker. Another writer recently discovered eHow.com had started a new UK eHow.com website. They used all the US articles at the UK website without the writers' knowledge. They now admit they used them and when asked why we weren't being compensated for the views at the UK website, eHow.com said they would remove the articles--though it will take several weeks to do so. They have also stated they will NOT be compensating writers for those views in the future either. They are in breach of their own terms and agreements by not paying the writers for ALL qualified views. It is still up in the air whether they are in breach of the agreement for posting the articles at the UK website. I didn't even bother to go back and re-read the terms because I am done with eHow.com. I believe they have cheated me on views since the beginning anyhow. I never understood how some articles with 100+ qualified views earned ZERO (this happens a lot) and then I have articles with the same amount of views earning different amounts, etc. etc. eHow.com got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. They used for free all those articles since the start of the UK website and are refusing to pay writers a penny. Think of all the advertisement revenue they earned and how they used those articles to kick off and promote the UK website. Writers at the US website also mention a drop in views--they believe the UK website was optimized to rank higher with Google, thus dropping the US website views as well. The whole thing stinks and eHow treats their writers (bread and butter) like total dirt. Writers are very PO'd to say the least. They are repeatedly demanding compensation at the eHow.com writer's forum, but getting no positive action from eHow.com to right their major blunder (scam?)....So...YES, in my humble opinion EHOW IS A SCAM!


for How to Get Money for Your Light and Gas Bill on 1260655862

Thank you for posting this. While we have been fortunate, we know many friends and local families struggling to make ends meet. With winter here, it is too darn cold outside to not be able to afford to heat your home. We've donated firewood to several families just for this reason. I hope this info. helps others find some needed heating resources for winter.


for Wine Tour Safety on 1259043426

Great article...nice slant on wine tours and great safety tips. Five stars and thanks for the read.


for Get Your Kids Heart Healthy Early On on 1259043320

Great! Glad to see an author approach this subject. Most kids don't get the daily exercise and proper diet needs fulfilled. We don't have a lot of video games in our house, but I recently was talking to a friend and she (this is the MOM!) said she got her exercise playing the kids boxing game on wii. Apparently it is a video game that you play games by using your entire body, moving, etc. So...if they must play video games...suggest wii. Mine are farm kids....seldom inside at all, always going and they work hard too.


for Hottest New Fishing Gear and Gadgets For Serious Fishermen. on 1258260124

Sweet gift ideas...we all fish and are always looking for neat stuff for the stockings. Thanks, 5 stars! http://www.bukisa.com/people/InkSpot


for How To Buy A Live Lobster on 1258253004

I've always wondered how to pick out a good lobster. I know with crab you don't want soft shell either. Is this true of lobster as well? Do you have to feel or squeeze the shell? Should it be firm or soft? Where to feel? Thanks...great article and I look forward to reading more of your work. http://www.bukisa.com/people/InkSpot



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