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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I just got this in my email:
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Passage of Omnibus Lands Bill a Great Step Forward for Conservation
March 25, 2009
Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), a national grassroots organization, applauded today’s House passage of a comprehensive lands bill that designates 2 million acres of wilderness, protects rivers and trails, and gives legal permanence to the National Landscape [...]
I like the idea of not wasting stuff.
People talk about how much restaurants and supermarkets throw away. I stood in Brahm’s yesterday and watched the people behind the counter throw away three orders of fries and an order of chicken strips that fell on the floor, then a whole waffle ice cream cone – just [...]
Freedom Gardens is doing a challenge to see if the combined totals of all the members’ harvests (and foraging) from January to December 2009 can pass a million pounds’ worth. Which sounds like fun!
It also gets me off my duff as far as actually weighing what I harvest, which I tend to forget [...]
Braving the Blue Norther
We do not lack for issues that divide us these days. Indeed, the polarization that grips our politics and economics is deadly for community, but countering that polarization is the growing realization among a diverse group of people that we are all in this together. There’s a name for that feeling, and [...]
Take a look at the Ideas for Change in America, then come back here.
When Barack Obama was elected President, he set up that website to elicit ideas for what people wanted to see happen in the next four years. The idea is great; the results, not so great.
I have the feeling by reading over it [...]
I want to tell you about a program that I’ve been with since its inception, and that I think is worth donating to.
Thousands of needy children who would otherwise not get a single gift at Christmas this year, will hopefully now get several!
Announcing The 8th Annual Internet Toy Drive, in affiliation with the official U.S. [...]
Boy, Crunchy Chicken is going gung-ho with the challenges! She’s got a local Thanksgiving one (which I probably should join, but right this second I don’t know where my free range turkey came from…), a fall book club going, and (this is the one I’m doing) the Freeze Yer Buns challenge, to turn down the [...]
Miranda Edel (of Riot for Austerity fame) got a wonderful video/article done about her in her local news. Go take a look.
Such an improvement over the dismal (and bordering on dangerous; she felt scared people might try and take her kids away from the way they wrote about her home!) article Sharon Astyk got in [...]
The last few days have been a lot of fun.
At the Okiefiber Retreat, I learned about types of wool and when to use what, the difference between woolen and worsted spinning, a bit about basket weaving, and how to do punch and “lockerhook” rugs. I got to see the results of various plant dyes (osage [...]
I honestly still don’t know who, if anyone, I’m going to vote for.
McCain’s speech (what I heard of it so far) didn’t really excite me. (in the interest of full disclosure, I had a headache, had taken allergy medicine, and fell asleep through part of it; I’m going to find it on YouTube and listen [...]
A speech given by Republicans for Environmental Protection President Martha Marks, given to the “Tuesday Group” of Mainstream Republicans at the RNC Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 1, 2008:
[...] Some of you may have laughed, or maybe rolled your eyes a bit, when you saw the title of my talk today: “It’s Easy Being Green—and [...]
One thing I forgot when I did my “learn to feed yourself” series was the abundance of food we have right outside our doors. (otherwise known as eating the “weeds” or “wild food”)
Many of our so-called “weeds” were either used by the indigenous peoples for centuries, or else were brought here by immigrants. Much [...]
A video interview with Robert Waldrop, president of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, showing off his home garden and talking a little about the co-op. There’s quite a bit of background noise in the video but it’s worth watching.
Bob’s a buddy of mine so I’m pretty excited that he got the interview.
Today I mainly just did what I always do.
Except I went to a coffeeshop with some friends and one of them (the lady I gave the tomato plants to) gave me one of her strawberry plants! So I’ll have three now. I’m putting each one in a different plot to see how they [...]
Long day.
Harvested more snowpea pods, froze them. Also harvested lettuces and carrots. (oh, and weeds for the bunnies )
Went to the food co-op to help sort items, as today was delivery day. Worked there four hours, then came home and took Leon out to run around, then went and picked up our food.
I [...]
… so far. They’re predicting storms the next few days.
Today I repotted a bunch of tomato and pepper seedlings, and stuck the largest ones on the back porch in preparation to putting them in the yard.
Harvested snow peas. Froze more peas.
Put more dishwater on the compost pile, and added the rabbit litter to a new [...]
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