The Backwoods Remedies Post

I was chatting with a city gal the other day who a had a dog and it randomly came up about her dog killing a chicken once. And then I was like "Oh you just do the neck trick and then it won't kill again". And she had no idea what I was talking about, and then I realized that lots of the "Backwoods remedies" that are normal to us and work great, have never been heard of by most people!

Well you are in for a treat! Let me tell ya some! xoxoxo :)

1. How to stop you dog from killing chickens

(especially if your neighbor has a liking for using his shotgun on dogs... as mine did where I grew up)

- Simply get the dead chicken and ties it to the back of the dogs neck for about 3 days. The smell and weight will become a nuisance to the dog and then it will associate a chicken with being a nuisance and never touch them again! It totally works!!! :)

2. How to stop keep spiders out of your room

(spiders are great and help out manage our insect ecosystem, but it did suck when i was a kid and wolf spiders would always bite me on the face when I was sleeping. And then you have a huge welt on your face for a week too)

- Get a Chestnut (ya, like they roast at Christmas) and drill a little hole in it with a nail and place one in each corner of your room. The spiders with stay away. I have no idea why this works. Some say the smell of the inside of the nut repels them, but can spiders smell? And some say the vibrations from the inside of the nut repels them. Chestnuts vibrate? But anyways, I used this remedy my whole life and was never bit again!!! :)

3. Honeysuckle - a nice summer snack for bush folk.

- Honey suckle is a chocker vine that grows around bushes and trees in the woods. It blooms in the summer and has pretty little orange flowers. You can drink the honey from them by picking a flower carefully from the vine then biting the bottom tip off and suck out the honey juice. Now only take a few flowers off the vine or it won't regenerate as well them next year without the pollen from the flowers. There are a lot of city folk turned fake hippies where I grew up that have started wildcrafting businesses and take way too many wildflowers from the woods now to make a profit and just think there is plenty and they will grow back, but they haven't lived there as long and haven't seen all the flowers slowing go away like the trees have from logging too. We have to appreciate natural gifts and not take them for granted. xo.

4. Camp fire smoke.

- This is an old old camp trick and I have no idea where it comes from (but if you do please tell me!) and why is works. Its mythical, but yes it works. So if you are ever sitting around a campfire (fun! xo. roast apples! yum), and smoke is in your face, just say "White rabbits" over and over and it will go away. Yup! xo.

The End!

Love Hick Femme!