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Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #1
2008-01-14 06:27:00 The past two weeks around here have been pretty crazy, but more on that tomorrow. Our dark days meals since January 1st have been pretty varied. I’ve got four worth reporting on, so bear with me. First was a pot roast made on the stove in the Dutch oven. The chuck roast was from the freezer, ... More About: Dark , Recap , Challenge , Days , Dark Days
Urban Hen Keeper or Terrorist?
2008-01-12 07:55:00 Tonight we were supposed to go snowboarding with friends at Alpental. While I’m an avid skier, tonight would have been my first time on a snowboard since very early 1997! But alas at 3:00 pm it was raining on the pass - rain is the biggest drawback of being a skier in Washington. Oh well. Instead ... More About: Urban , Terrorist , Keeper
House for Sale - Everett, WA
2008-01-12 07:20:00 I’m a bit gun shy about linking to the actual listing for our house for privacy reasons. But since I know I have readers in the Everett / Seattle area I am going to go ahead and share photos of the house we’re trying to sell. If you, or someone you know, are interested in ... More About: House , For Sale , Sale
Get Heard: Natural Raised label regulations
2008-01-10 20:04:00 One of my favorite farm bloggers, Walter Jeffries, has a guest post up today at Ethicurean about the USDA’s decision to change the “Natural ly Raised” lable, essentially diluting it’s meaning and once again hurting the little guy that we all depend on. He’s says it better than I do, so check it out and then be ... More About: Regulations , Label
No such thing as self cleaning
2008-01-10 19:39:00 Mike is convinced that I will someday burn the house down and the fire will start in the kitchen. And he’s probably right. Not because I’m a bad cook but because I’m a bit absent minded and don’t always think things through the way I should. Last night I realized that while the stove top looked ... More About: Cleaning , Thing
Dark Days Challenge Re-Launched
2008-01-10 07:03:00 With the poll results well in, we will be continuing on with the Dark Days Challenge at least until the end of March and maybe longer. These are the participants as reflected on the poll. If you’re in and I missed you, please add your name in the comments or drop me an email at ... More About: Launched , Dark Days
The counter offer
2008-01-08 07:15:00 Tonight we got the counter offer on the farm we want. It was a totally reasonable counter, nothing surprising, nothing out of line. We meet with our agent tomorrow afternoon to decide our next move. Do we counter their counter? Accept it? What? I guess we won’t know until tomorrow comes around. So far this process has ... More About: Counter , Offer
While we wait, I bake
2008-01-06 23:45:00 We did it. We made an actual offer this afternoon. Of course it’s likely to be countered and it’s contingent on a whole slew of things including well, septic and home inspections and the sale of our house. But hopefully we’ll be able to come to an agreement, the new home will pass muster and ... More About: Wait
On the bedside table
2008-01-05 04:15:00 I’ve been trying to rein in my book buying habit and making use of my library card instead. But then winter arrived with a vengeance and there were a couple of books I had to have as long as I was ordering Christmas books on Amazon. Then in her inaugural blog post Rebekah Denn ... More About: Table
Goldilocks Returns
2008-01-04 07:13:00 So obviously we thought we’d found the house. We canceled our holiday trip to Phoenix so we could stay here and get ready to list our house so that we could make a contingent offer on the new house. And we worked really, really hard last week. During our 11 days off of work we ...
Dark Days Challenge Poll
2008-01-02 21:17:00 Alright, based on the comments on this week’s wrap-up and the emails I’ve gotten, it seems that maybe we should keep this going. If we do, I need some help making that happen, hence my first try at adding a couple of poll questions. ***** Note: There is a poll within this post, please visit the site ... More About: Poll , Dark , Challenge , Days , Dark Days
Dark Days Challenge - Weeks 10 & 11 Recap and Review
2008-01-02 07:58:00 Has it really been more than a week since I posted? Sorry about that. It’s been a bit nutso around here what with packing and house shopping and everything else. But more on that tomorrow. It’s been almost 3 months since the launch of the Dark Days Eat Local Challenge and what a journey it’s been. ... More About: Review , Recap
A Christmas note
2007-12-25 02:45:00 Merry Christmas all! Years ago I used to write a Christmas letter and send copies out to everyone. I’m not sure when I stopped, but I haven’t done it for a few years now. This year we had photo cards made with the picture of our tree and we’re sending them out (hopefully) later this week. ... More About: Note
Tilth & Squash scores a hit
2007-12-24 08:31:00 Last night Mike and I had dinner at Tilth. We were supposed to go to Phoenix for Christmas - but didn’t so that we can spend the whole week getting our house in order - and dinner at Tilth was our special celebration for just the two of us. Even though we’ll now be spending ... More About: Squash , Scores , Dark Days
Going for it
2007-12-23 01:02:00 We’ve found the house we want and we’re working out that side of the deal. I don’t want to jinx it so I won’t be posting anything about it here until it’s a done deal. However, the flip side of finding the house we want is that we have to sell the house we have. Starting ... More About: Goin
Going skiing
2007-12-21 22:20:00 Random fact you might not know about me if you haven’t met me in real life. I am an avid skier and have been since I was about 8 years old. I learned to ski on the hills in southeastern Minnesota. Every year my parents took us on ski trips to places like Lutsen Mountain, ... More About: Skiing , Goin
Cider Braised Ham Roast
2007-12-21 07:08:00 Turns out that you can cook a fresh ham roast just like you can cook a pork shoulder. Once I found that out from a very helpful internet friend, then the world was my oyster. Or at least my pork roast. I looked around for a while and finally decided to try a recipe from ... More About: Roast , Dark Days
Playing Goldilocks
2007-12-19 06:10:00 We’ve lived in our house for going on 7 years. The first five of them were spent moving from one updating project to the next. We’ve gutted and remodeled the bathroom, painted every room, given the kitchen a facelift, refinished the hardwoods, added hardscaped patio and paths, built a shed and fence, replaced windows and ... More About: Goldi
Dark Days Challenge - Week #9 Recap
2007-12-18 06:46:00 Last week was tough for us, food wise, as I didn’t have time to go to the farmer’s market. I think the only really completely local dinner we had was eggs and bacon. The rest of the meals we cooked were between 50 and 75% local, but none were really the 90% I strive for. This ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
Did the NY Times just take a stand on CAFO?s?
2007-12-16 19:48:00 In today’s NY Times magazine there is an article about the rising rate of MRSA infections in the US and the fact that the infections now kill more people in the US each year than HIV/AIDs. The article includes these two paragraphs, among others. It’s too bad that the article appeared in the magazine instead ... More About: Stand
Kaboom
2007-12-15 19:20:00 It’s always when you’re finally ready to let something go that things go wrong. We’re seriously considering selling our house here in the city and moving a bit farther out. Serious enough that I’m leaving in a few minutes to go look at houses / property and we’re getting starting on the de-cluttering, cleaning and ...
An even half dozen
2007-12-15 01:46:00 My grandmother must be whispering to those chickens. For the first time ever, all six (6!) of our hens laid an egg on the same day. That’s a lot of eggs, especially if they keep that up on a regular basis. This was officially Maisie’s first egg. From left to right, eggs were laid by: Danny (bantam ... More About: Half
Remembering Grannyma
2007-12-14 03:32:00 My grandmother passed away last Sunday evening. She was 83 years old. She lasted two weeks after her stroke, a week of that at home. She was able to see most of her grandchildren and all 6 of her children. She will be missed. I am not traveling home for the service, instead I’m choosing to ... More About: Remembering , Erin
Pooh would be proud
2007-12-12 18:54:00 Ever since I paid an amount of $ I’m not willing to reveal for a pint of honey from the PSBA this summer I’ve been looking for a honey pot to store it in. Right now my precious jar of honey has a dipper in it and a piece of tinfoil for a lid - ... More About: Proud , Pooh
Just a collection of random thoughts
2007-12-12 04:15:00 What are we, or they, so afraid of? I stopped at our neighborhood QFC today, not really to grocery shop, but to grab a few things I knew they would have. Or at least thought I knew they would have since I didn’t have time to go to the co-op.. All I was after was ... More About: Random Thoughts , Random , Thoughts
Decking the halls
2007-12-11 05:12:00 Yesterday it snowed our first dusting of the year. Not enough to be impressive, just enough to put me in the Christmas mood. We’d hung the wreath earlier last week (need to remember to get a picture of it as it’s gorgeous) and we’d bought a 7′ live tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. So yesterday ... More About: Decking
A carolling we go
2007-12-10 22:06:00 Revver Direktvideo link This was just too funny not to share. Thanks to One a Day for the link.
Dark Days Challenge - Week #8 Recap
2007-12-10 02:37:00 This has been an out-of-sorts week around here. With my last minute trip home last weekend, I didn’t make it to the Saturday farmer’s market. Which left us with what was in the fridge and the few local ingredients I could pick up at the grocery store nearest our house. So our only all local ... More About: Dark , Recap , Week , Challenge , Days
New home, updated look, same small egg
2007-12-08 19:03:00 You might not have even noticed if I did the redirect right, but Urban Hennery has moved to a new home this weekend. I used to do website management for a living and it’s been bugging me for a while not to have total control over the look, feel and functionality of my blog. So I moved. ... More About: Home , Small
The smallest chicken egg I?ve ever seen
More articles from this author:2007-12-07 05:35:00 I don’t usually get that excited about eggs anymore. But today we got the first egg ever from Danny our tiny black banty hen. It’s the smallest chicken egg I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t find a ruler, but it was smaller than a standard 35mm roll of film. And about a third of the size ... More About: Chicken 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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