Just wanted to share the socks I made for my husband during Ravelry’s Ravelympics challenge (which, of course, was during the Olympics):
These are from a discontinued kit I got at KnitPicks.com, called the “sock cocktail”. It has a bunch of different patterns for the sock’s body, heels, toes, and cuffs that you can mix and [...]
A friend showed me this article about the relation between taxes and population movement in the US. Basically, people move when taxes get too high. Businesses move, families move.
The states they leave are usually blue states, those that receive them are more likely to be red states. Good for the states getting them, right?
Not necessarily. [...]
If you have the means, please send money to a legitimate relief organization, preferably one that has a presence in Haiti already with people who speak the language. If not, please pray. They have a long road ahead of them. This is 9/11 on a national scale in terms of the destruction the earthquake has [...]
Hope 2010 is good for you and your family.
We’ve had a run-in with the flu here (unusual for us), but everyone seems to be on the mend.
I’m still shaking my head at the hype about all this. So far this has got to be the mildest flu season as far as deaths in history (perhaps 4000 overall so far compared to the “normal” [...]
Take a look at this four-part (actually set up as six short videos) video series by Eric Toensmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles (which I just happen to have at home). Seeing what can be done in urban Massachusetts, [...]
Check out this Oklahoma City video “The Cost of Green”
There’s a lot of good stuff here about the costs and savings of “green” practices and technology in Oklahoma.
Between two kids in marching band and getting the garden (and rabbits) ready for winter, it’s been busy here.
This is our first year with the whole marching band thing, but it’s been a lot of fun, not to mention getting to know all the other parents and their children (or should I say, young men [...]
Slow Food OKC is hosting their 5th Annual Fall Picnic, Sunday October 11th at the Harn Homestead in OKC. Live music, local food prepared by Oklahoma City’s finest chefs, local beer and wine, and activities for the kids. $25/person before October 5th, which includes everything.
We ask you to please reserve early – we try to [...]
The Oklahoma Wildlife Expo 2009 is over at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie this weekend. I’ll be heading out there in a bit.
Presented by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and a coalition of conservation organizations, agencies and sponsors, Expo celebrates our great state’s natural diversity and opportunities for the sporting enthusiast. From [...]
Take a look at this article right here.
Generations of college freshmen, asked to read Walden, have sputtered with indignation when they learned that Henry David went back to Concord for dinner with his family every week or two. He’s cheating; his grand experiment is a fraud. This outrage is a useful tactic; it prevents them [...]
I just got done listening to Obama’s school speech.
What’s wrong with a President telling kids to do their best? I honestly don’t understand the furor over this.
Hi, everyone!
Doing well over here, busy like anything getting ready for my daughter’s wedding this Saturday, but I wanted to tell you about the local food fair tomorrow (Tuesday, July 14) at the Harn Homestead in OKC. (click the link for a pdf flyer all about it)
It’s sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Oklahoma [...]
Got too much produce? Are your neighbors hiding because they don’t want any more zucchini?
Don’t you hate it when you have so much produce from your garden that some ends up going to waste?
I just found a wonderful website called Veggie Trader, which lets you put your excess produce up for trade or sale, without [...]
Hi, everyone!
We’re having a bit of a cool spell — it’s only 90 instead of 102 here! — and our summer is going pretty well. I just read Sharon Astyk’s blog, which reminded me to do my Independence days update. It’s been quite dry here, the bit of rain we got a couple of days [...]
It’s been hot and humid here, with no rain for a couple of weeks. We could use some rain.
Planted: corn, more tomato plants, shallots.
Harvested: chard, onions, peas, blackberries, a strawberry here and there.
Froze the peas, also still drying weeds for the bunnies. Have a couple large bags full now.
Today I’m making broth out of chicken [...]
Dmitry Orlov does it again: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
I’m in the middle of reading this and it’s just a great article.
One quote I really like:
It is an unfortunate fact that the recent centuries of settled life, and especially the last century or so of easy living based on the industrial model, has made many people too [...]
This Saturday, as part of the five day long deadCENTER film festival here in OKC (which starts today!), a group of short films will be featured dealing with issues of sustainability and food.
Information below or visit deadCENTER’s website www.deadcenterfilm.org
Sustainability Focus Films
Saturday, June 13th at [...]
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth.
Just been a little busy.
We got the daughter graduated (whew!), the boys are doing their band thing every day, and we’ve been doing a lot of discussion about the wedding, which is in mid-July. Fortunately my daughter has found a place she really likes, [...]
Been fun the last couple of weeks, getting ready for my daughter’s graduation, my boys starting the high school band (they integrate the junior high kids into the high school band right about now), and of course doing all my usual.
Here’s the recap:
Planted two tomato plants, and put up a post and twine trellis for [...]
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