Almanac for Homemakers

Your County Agents Offer a Lot of Good Help "How much use have you made of the free services offered by your county agent? Today is the anniversary of the Cooperative Extension Service, established May 8, 1914." The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture.  Our Almanac says that your County Agricultural Agent offers many free publications about lawn care, gardening, shrubs, trees, flowers, food and cooking, clothing, home furnishing, and house hold money management. Here is my take... I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE! Seriously! I got on the Google to see if my county has a County Agricultural Agent and we really have one! You can find your agent by following this site. Pick Your Own My county agent even has a Facebook Page! Most of these agencies do. Except you may not know them by their title above. You may recognize the title 4H . ...

Today's SERVants Are SERVices "Your ancestors may have had a valet, butler, cook, gardener, and several aids amount their servants. Today, however, only the wealthy can afford servants - when they are available,  which they often are not." Yeah so, I'm not sure about this writer's ancestors, but mine were not as fortunate to have the wealth to afford the "luxury" of servants. In fact, many in my generation were called upon for their services to serve those who could pay. As I have written about previously , I hold a degree in Culinary Arts. One of my jobs from that experience was managing catering for an event center. After I took that job I had a call from someone who saw my profile on a job search site wondering if I would be willing to move to the Caribbean to be a private cook. Y'all. Sometimes I wonder where I would be if I took that offer! UGH! I really should have done it too because that catering gig was the p...