Archive for December, 2007

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Do you know where your seeds come from?

You might be surprised:
It all started last August when I used a coupon from Gurney’s to order asparagus roots. By the third week of September my order hadn’t arrived. I decided something was amiss and called the company.
The customer service representative I spoke with assured me my order would arrive at the proper planting time […]

Quik-N-Ez?

This was fairly disturbing: The future of the Quik ‘N’ Easy meal
I suspect to many people it seems a small thing to talk about cooking, self-evident that when different things are in the stores or our gardens, we will eat differently. But I think further consideration will show that it doesn’t work that way. Consider […]

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a good day!

Baking bread

For the longest time my only bread-making adventures consisted of heating those heat-and-serve rolls for Thanksgiving. Then I found The Tightwad Gazette, which had a recipe for Cuban bread (quite yummy and only takes an hour or so to make). But I got a bunch of wheat berries and whole wheat flour, and I […]

Picture day

Ice storms came through here on Sunday and Monday (click on a picture to enlarge).
This is our neighbor’s tree:

The crape myrtle bush in our front yard:

Our persimmon tree:

Each blade of grass and each twig was encased in ice. My son is showing off a blade of grass and a twig here:

Everything was encased in ice, […]

Link day

The year’s almost over!
Today I spent a little time getting ready for an ice storm that’s on its way. Hopefully it won’t be too bad. The last two meant a couple days stuck inside but we didn’t lose power or anything like some here did.
Here’s some links for the weekend:
“A crime against humanity”
It doesn’t get […]

This is cool

Take a look at this video of an engineer who made a solar tractor, solar-powered chainsaw, and a solar-powered car (suitable for driving here in America). Simple, easy, and not bad looking, either!