Frugality was a way of life on the farm in our grandparents’ day. Farmers did not have an unlimited source of income. They struggled to make ends meet. They lived by the old New England maxim: “Use it ...

Find your spot on the limb, at least three feet from the trunk, but not so far that it sags under your weight. Prepare your rope with an eye splice* to make a loop in one end. Toss the eye splice over ...