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Daily Photo - Ballard Fest
2008-02-19 20:56:00 Ingelina, with Seattle Tilth, just emailed me this photo from last fall. This was Lucy and I at the Sustainable Ballard Fest on the day that we met Jim McDermott. Not the best photo ever, but one of the few of me actually with the girls (usually I’m taking the photos). More About: Photo , Daily
Seven Things
2008-02-18 06:41:00 I took a tag from Maggie on Friday for the seven random things meme. Mostly because I didn’t want to come up with a blog topic for today. Only when I started writing this did I realize that it was just as much work as a regular post… 1. After 20 years of being a glasses ... More About: Things
Grandma?s Lambs
2008-02-17 00:29:00 This is video that my uncle Kenny took earlier this month of my grandmother’s lambs. They were all born after her passing in December. While she’s no longer with us, these little guys are reminders of everything that my grandparents valued and believed in. In them, they live on. Download Video More About: Grandma
E is for Excellent
2008-02-16 03:50:00 Farm Mom won the Excellent award! And she was nice enough to include me in her list of blogs that deserved to receive it as well. You like me, you really like me! Thanks so much! I saw her post this morning when I logged into my Google account. And now I’m sitting here with ...
Happiness is a journey, not a destination
2008-02-15 17:36:00 For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This ... More About: Journey , Happiness , Destination
Who?s really paying for your factory chicken?
2008-02-15 07:18:00 Okay, so this is a bit of a downer for a light hearted holiday. But hey, we’re home from dinner and the night is pretty much over anyway. If you’re not convinced that you should re-consider your meat sources for the welfare of the animals you’re eating perhaps you’ll do it for the people whose health ... More About: Factory , Chicken
A Valentine?s Treat
2008-02-14 05:40:00 Mike and I don’t really “do” Valentine ’s Day. Never have. The most “into it” we ever get is going out to dinner. Usually Mike gets me a grocery store bouquet and I make dinner at home. This year we were going to do nothing, but then it turned out that Thursday night is the best night ... More About: Treat , Dark Days
Puppy pile
2008-02-13 04:54:00 Lest you’re someone that doesn’t have more than one dog and you think puppy piles end with puppyhood, let this serve as your enlightenment. Around here both dogs have their own beds. And Jake is pretty much allowed to sleep on the leather couch because he can get up there (Sam can’t make the ... More About: Puppy
Dark Days 2008: Recap #3
2008-02-12 06:42:00 A day late and a dollar short and again no photos of food here. Oh well. After weeks of feeling like we’re technically eating local but not fully participating in this challenge we really pulled it out this weekend. Well if you ignore the fact that yesterday’s dinner consisted of chili dogs and box cake ... More About: Dark , Recap , Days , Dark Days , 2008
Snow everywhere we look
2008-02-10 18:24:00 but no way to ski on it. The past few years have brought less than stellar skiing to the Seattle area. So this year we were all excited by forecasts that it would be a banner year for snow fall. And it has been. Unfortunately mother nature seems to only have off and high volume ... More About: Snow
Growing Challenge: Garden Planning
2008-02-09 06:18:00 Now that all the seeds are here, I’ve got to start actually planning the garden. The biggest question is raised beds versus in-ground. There are advantages to both and I’m really not sure which I plan to do. It seems that all the local gurus in the PNW recommend raised beds as the soil warms ... More About: Garden , Planning , Challenge , Growing
Dark Days: Eating Local in Early February
2008-02-08 06:10:00 I’ve been trying to catch up on everyone’s Dark Days posts so that I can do the recap this weekend (great posts so far!). And I was starting to feel guilty because it seems like the only local things we eat anymore are eggs and herbs. But that’s not really true when I think about ... More About: Local , Early , Eating
Bittersweet Excitement
2008-02-07 05:38:00 It’s done. We’re agreed all around on pricing and all the other contingencies are signed off. In the end we sold our house for $5k under asking. We’re very happy with that price and as far as we can tell so are the buyers. Nice to know that we got the price right - our ... More About: Excitement , Bittersweet
Feathering her nest
2008-02-06 06:34:00 Maisie has gone decidedly broody. I’m always surprised when the young girls do it. They’re like teenagers anywhere, they just throw themselves into it whole heartedly. Actually, there’s almost always someone either broody or thinking about it around here. Which is good news, I think. Once we’re moved later this month we can finally expand the ... More About: Nest
Warm feet
2008-02-05 05:22:00 My mom (hi mom!) made me these most excellent slippers for Christmas. I just got them a couple weeks ago (my family is casual that way) and they are SO WARM. It’s like wearing your warmest wool sweater on your feet. I own a very fancy pair of boiled wool slippers as well, not ... More About: Feet
Who greets you at night?
2008-02-02 05:36:00 Every night when I get home I’m greeting not only by Mike, but by my menagerie. The first to say hello is always Jake. He’s there with a smile and a wagging tail at the door. Then he follows me around until I sit down with a glass of wine to talk to Mike. And ... More About: Night
Growing Challenge: Seed Order #1
2008-02-01 06:35:00 My first set of seeds arrived today. Upon the advice I got from some of you, and my own personal bias, I decided to go ahead and order at least two varieties of most things. I also decided to only grow things that we love to eat and that we eat a lot of. ... More About: Challenge , Growing , Order , Seed
Hopefully all done but signing the papers
2008-01-30 07:09:00 Well, told you on Friday that I’d get a post up about the house situation on Saturday. Then I flew to Orlando for a work conference that goes through tomorrow and things got interesting. We’ve had a signed contingent contract on the new property for more than a week, but we were still negotiating the ... More About: Papers , Signing
Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #2 Middle
2008-01-28 05:20:00 Hello! I’m Anne from Green Leanings and I’m recapping for the Middle this week. Farm Mom is my new personal hero. It took some effort to pull myself away from her extensive list of fruits and vegetables grown last year (and new plants planned for the 2008 Growing Challenge ) and her delicious-looking homemade whole wheat ... More About: Dark , Recap , Days
Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #2 West
2008-01-28 03:11:00 This guest post is coming to you from Melinda, at Elements In Time in Geyserville, California… who has never used WordPress before, and hopes that she can create a post even half as good as Laura’s wonderful recaps! Well, it’s raining out here in the West , so it has been a pleasure to stay inside ... More About: Dark , Recap , Challenge , Days
Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #2 East
2008-01-27 22:21:00 My first time recapping for the East ern region and I’m already green with jealousy of the other participants! Kim has a source for local shrimp, which makes want to make her adopt me so I could have a local shrimp source, too! In the two weeks since the last Dark Days update, Kim has made ... More About: Local , Recap , Challenge
Recipes from the past - mostly dessert
2008-01-26 06:21:00 My mom and I were talking a few weeks ago and she mentioned that she had my great aunt Audrey’s recipe box. That she’d gotten it when she passed away a few years ago but hadn’t done anything with it. Then she offered it to me since I’m the “cook” in the family. Scary ... More About: Recipes , Dessert , Past
Dark Days Goes Simple
2008-01-26 05:42:00 It’s been a roller coaster couple of weeks. We found a house, listed our house, lost a house, found another house and now are putting the final touches on the second house (details tomorrow). Cooking is hard to do when you’re trying to keep your house perfectly clean at all times. I’m not a clean ... More About: Dark , Simple , Days , Dark Days
Growing Challenge: Getting Educated
2008-01-24 04:51:00 Since I’ve committed to this challenge I’m going to go all the way! I called the local P-Patch group to find out about getting a spot. We’re still trying to buy the fugly house and sell ours, but just in case I wanted to have a back-up plan… I’m anal that way. The woman who runs ... More About: Challenge , Growing
Midwest Airlines = Mid Century Service
2008-01-23 05:35:00 I’m not a road warrior by any means. But I do fly 10-12 trips a year for business and pleasure. That translates to roughly 30-40 flights when you count multi-leg journeys. And I’m increasingly annoyed with air travel, to the extent that if I can drive I will. We’re taking the train for my birthday ... More About: Airlines , Service , Midwest , Century
Free Range vs. Cooped Up
2008-01-22 04:49:00 I’ve been told a couple of times that free range eggs aren’t that much richer colored. And that it has as much to do with the chicken as her diet. While this my folks is proof that that is bulls*%^. These are all eggs from Danny. Same hen, ten eggs. The two dark ones were ... More About: Free , Range
Odds and Ends
2008-01-20 03:47:00 The world’s best down muff.Lucy gave me an evil look when I used the flash on her tonight, but it was worth it. The girls have been taking turns sitting in the nest box all day and now apparently at night (I turned off the light). None of them seem to be serious about being ... More About: Odds , Ends
Inside the Chicken Mind
2008-01-18 07:10:00 Chickens are strange birds. On the one hand they seem smart. My hens know to come when called, they know I am the bringer of treats, they know Mike is not. On the other hand they’re pretty dumb. Everything shiny must be pecked and shadows are scary. We’re two girls down here at the hennery. Yesterday ... More About: Mind , Chicken , Inside
A new challenge
2008-01-16 05:07:00 I signed up for The Growing Challenge through Melinda’s blog. Essentially I’ve committed to growing one more thing from seed than I did last year and writing a weekly post about it. Since I didn’t start anything from seed in 2007 this should be a snap! I’m hoping to plant a nice garden this year if ...
The Other Shoe
More articles from this author:2008-01-14 16:30:00 Remember when I mentioned that it was all going too smoothly? Well I was right. Saturday was the inspection on our new house. Or the house we were hoping would be our new house. We already knew that there was work needed on the well, roof, barn and a ton of cosmetic issues. What we ... More About: Shoe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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