My Top 3 Favorite Travel Notes to Self
Study and look over a map and routes to planned destinations; it is an invaluable activity. Orienting to space is helpful to spend less time being mildly lost. Wear comfortable…
Urban Homestead
One of the many problems with living alone is that you don’t have anyone to bounce ideas off of. You can do whatever you want in an instant and the only flack you’ll get is from you. This can be good or it can be bad. Like when you decide to have 15 yards of gravel delivered maybe a second opinion is a good idea. Maybe 10 would be lots.
And those life choices that you make the plans for the future, the goals. They are more fun achieved with someone, or maybe it is just easier to stay on course when more than one of you is in it. You’ve had the discussion, you’ve made the decision. You’re doing it. (more…)
Dear Crayola…
Please stop making gimmicky felts that my children lose interest in almost immediately. It’s wasteful and makes me sad. Stick to what you are good at and cardboard containers only please. Thanks.
These include the felts that are ‘invisible’ except when you draw on special paper, the felts that you ‘twist’ up to color with instead of putting a cap on, the felts that you press to another felt inside that makes it a different color, the felts that change (more…)
Goats on the Mow
Next spring I hope to be able to tell you that instead of mowing your lawn with a gas powered lawn mower you have have it cut by some earth…
Grey Water Collection
The water from our washing machine is going to be drained into a garbage can that sits beside it. There is room there because we don't have a dryer. When…
Dry clothes forever for $40 and some time
I finally did it. I hung a clothesline. I now have a 40ft made mostly by nature clothes dryer and it cost me $40 whole dollars. It was surprisingly easy…
Calling BS on Recycling
Penn and Teller had this wonderful program called BullShit! Sorry if that offends but that's the name! They called Bullshit on recycling which was incredibly eye opening and SO true.…