Gas prices are going up again, and it looks like that small spike in crude oil production back in 2008 is still holding as the peak of global oil production. (the little star on the black line of reality is what I’m referring to in all that speculation) Are we at the top of the [...]
Crunchy Chicken is doing a Cloth Wipe Challenge:
I did this on my own for a while, when I experimented with peeing in a bucket during the 90% reduction thing. Using cloth for toilet paper is really not all that bad (I’ve only used cloth for #1 and will continue to limit it to that), and [...]
Been keeping up with the spinning challenge … I’m doing a little every night, and it’s really good for me. I feel like I’m starting to get good at this!
Thought I’d do an Independence days update while I’m here–
Planted: potatoes, garlic, tomatoes
Harvested: tomatoes, carrots, strawberries (just a few, but very good!), chard
Preserved: more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sharon Astyk’s post reminded me about Independence Days, which I had thought about in the “oh yeah I need to be doing this” but not in the sense of “oh yeah I need to do this NOW”. Thanks for the nudge!
So we’re back on. She has altered the rules a bit … every day you [...]
Handspun recycled newspaper yarn
This is really pretty wild!
I haven’t posted for a while on what I’m doing, so I thought I would
Planted snow peas today … been repotting some of the many tomato seedlings on my kitchen windowsill … spun some handpainted salmon-colored roving (no, I didn’t paint it, I got it from the farmers’ market last year) … did [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been gone a while, haven’t I? Didya miss me?
This week I went to a wedding, went back to playing World of Warcraft (my whole family got copies of The Lich King), and have been having fun on chess.com
And it’s supposed to snow today! Yippee!
But Sharon posted her Independence Days update the other [...]
I’ve brought Shadow out, collected some weeds for the rabbits, composted a bunny bin, brushed a lot of fur off of Shadow (who sits patiently on my lap while I tug the brush through her hair), and now I’m waiting for the guy to come and service our heating system in preparation for the winter. [...]
Dinner was fried local ham, local apples and local butternut squash (I cheated and cooked them in the microwave), and homemade cornbread (with cornmeal from Kansas, so that’s regional). Simply delicious.
Planted: more garlic. I just got in a dwarf Orinoco Banana plant, which is supposed to be hardy to zone 7. So I potted it [...]
Because that’s what I’m usually involved with.
I have tooooo many links over there on the right side; I have more there than I have writing in the middle. So I’ll be making a page for all my linkies, in case you wonder where they’ve gone to.
Also, I’m on twitter (redstategreen). Yeah. Might not be too [...]
Just thinking about how things have been going in the news lately, I’m beginning to think that these Independence Days are more important that ever. Anything that makes us more self-reliant, less tied into the global economy and more tied into our local communities, makes us more able to take care of our own and [...]
It’s a beautiful day here today, and cool enough to get some actual work done. I’ve started my fall cleaning (which I do instead of spring cleaning since I like fall better).
Planted: garlic
Harvested: a particularly large sunflower head, some green beans.
Managed: composted some bunny litter and shucked a couple of sunflower heads that had been [...]
I realized that I haven’t posted my doings for a while. Here goes:
Planted: Parsley. I also have these carrot plants that sent up lovely white flowers, which are now brown and curled up into a cup-like structure at the top of their stalks. I know that’s where they keep the seeds, so today I rubbed [...]
AKA using what God gave you.
We throw away wayyyy too much stuff here in America, and the time will come when that isn’t an option anymore, whether through financial tightening, lack of supply, or lack of landfill space. Part of being self-reliant/independent is managing the things you have so you aren’t being wasteful.
I [...]
Here’s an Independence Days update …
This has been an uninspired past few weeks: hot, so dry the ground has cracks in it. The only things that seem to like my yard right now are sweet potatoes and sunflowers.
Can you live on those??
Planted: potatoes
Harvested: some greens
Managed: have been making up uses for the last of the [...]
It rained really hard overnight! I was thrilled to see the barrels full as well as the buckets I use for the overflow. I really need more barrels.
Harvested some lovely greens, which I’m not sure what kind they are or how they got there. I think they’re really large versions of something in my mesclun [...]
Let’s see …
Today I picked a few green beans and froze them. That’s it.
Although I did water and compost some bunny litter yesterday, when I was coming down with whatever this is. I might water some later on when it cools off a bit.
We’re going to visit family this weekend, so I’ve been trying to [...]
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