2019-03-25 14:38
My sister has been researching water distillers and asked me to give her a review of the one I have, so I thought I might as well review it here on the blog.
For Christmas last year, I gift… Read More
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2018-12-02 14:17
There are some things you won’t buy for yourself, but you would totally love to get as gifts. You know, either they’re a little silly or just for fun, or are a bit of an extravag… Read More
2018-10-01 15:55
I needed a new mattress.
The only good thing about my old mattress (and it was literally from the Reagan administration era so I do mean OLD), was that it was SO OLD I figured the toxic chem… Read More
2017-04-27 22:11
I’d never heard of tea jelly before I started seeing Davidson’s Organic Tea demonstrate how to cook with the stuff. Such as . . .
White Pomegranate Tea Jelly Gastrique
Ear… Read More
2017-04-13 23:41
I wanna buy ya everything
Except cologne
’cause it’s poison.
–Train (If It’s Love)
I have an odd history with perfume.
When I try on a perfume (parfum, eau de parfu… Read More
2017-04-03 17:11
Remember from Psych 101 the study about babies and Object Permanence? How before a certain age infants can’t grasp the concept that once something disappears it isn’t necessarily… Read More
2017-03-21 00:34
First, let me say I’m always a little reluctant to use the term “home farming” when describing what I do, because I know what I do is negligible compared to what true farmi… Read More
2017-03-17 22:27
I’m a tea drinker.
I brew a pot of tea every day, just for myself, sometimes two pots. If that isn’t enough, there’s tea bags to brew it by the cup.
Several years ago, my… Read More
2017-02-20 14:54
I’m starting to wonder if this is going to be one of those winters that never happened.
Yes, we’ve had some freezing temps, but all in all, above-normal readings nearly every wee… Read More
2016-12-29 19:50
If you’re like me at this time of year, you’re one table full of sweet, highly-refined and fatty treats from running for the hills to subsist off roots and berries. But there is… Read More
2016-12-19 04:51
Back in 2014, the electrical transformer in my yard blew up during a storm and the lid came off and the oil inside sprayed over part of my garden.
You can read more about it here.
I sued the… Read More
2016-12-19 04:51
Back in 2014, the electrical transformer in my yard blew up during a storm and the lid came off and the oil inside sprayed over part of my garden.
You can read more about it here.
I sued the… Read More
2016-11-18 01:04
Who wouldn’t love to say goodbye to their electric bill (or most of it) and get your electricity from the sun?
I think I would, but the high cost, the complexity, the fact that it alw… Read More
2016-11-06 22:18
. . . I’d have no tomatoes at all.
Weird year for tomatoes.
We had plenty of spring rain and mild weather so the tomatoes I planted in the garden got off to a good start.
Unfortunatel… Read More
2016-09-23 20:57
I et a stinkbug yesterday.
That’s an exaggeration. I chomped down on a stinkbug by accident and spit it out.
The thing is, I wasn’t fazed by this, and for a second I was separa… Read More
2016-09-15 22:47
A while back, I decided to try bagging one of the three Asian pears my tree successfully produced this year. I wanted to see if it made any difference in pest damage prevention.
Here are t… Read More
2016-09-09 15:12
I’m getting into the gift-making spirit.
My favorite type of gift is homemade, and I love gift baskets, as evidenced by the entire chapter on homemade gift baskets in our book. Howeve… Read More
2016-09-03 12:04
After staring down this ever growing bowl of passion fruit for a week, searching passionately for passion fruit recipes, I decided to make my own recipe. This is a creamy-smooth, less-sugar… Read More
2016-09-01 15:28
How do I decide when to get more chickens?
Simple: When I don’t have enough eggs.
Why did I decide to get 6 week old juvenile chickens this time?
This spring we got angora rabbits, a… Read More
2016-08-28 21:02
As I looked at today’s harvest of passionfruit, eggs, figs, and (not in the pic), muscadines, I couldn’t help but think about the roundness of it all; four very different things… Read More
2016-08-24 20:37
When I was a kid, my dad strung an electric fence around our horse pasture.
It was seldom electrified, so I suppose the horses learned pretty quickly to avoid it. I don’t ever remembe… Read More
2016-08-18 19:32
As far back as I remember, all I’ve ever wanted to be was a homemaker.
And for all that time, I’ve been ashamed of it.
Perhaps I was born at the wrong time.
During the era when… Read More
2016-08-16 11:46
One day I’m searching the bare earth for signs of life, tiny green cotyledons shaped like a pair of back-to-back capitol letter Ds.
Baby basil.
The next day, it’s months really… Read More
2016-08-14 19:24
Did you know you could keep the birds and the bees and still have no spots on your apples?
Fruit bagging is an age-old practice in Japanese orchards. After the fruit clusters have been thin… Read More
2016-08-09 00:27
I know it’s late in the season for squash, but I just had to give it one last try.
My inability to win the squash bug, squash beetle, and, particularly, squash BORER battle is a sore s… Read More
2016-08-07 12:10
I’m very insecure about my fall gardening game.
Whenever I’ve had a good fall/winter garden, it’s been largely by accident.
Yay! I’m eating spinach in December!
How d… Read More
2016-08-05 01:41
It’s school supply time.
Is it just me, or are those lists getting longer and more complicated every year?
45 boxes of crayola crayons, 19 glue sticks, 14 bradded plastic folders with… Read More
2016-07-30 17:52
With well over a thousand posts and goodness-knows-how-many recipes, it came as a shock for me to realize we only had ONE granola recipe.
That is unacceptable for such a crunchy blog.
Our o… Read More
2016-07-27 14:57
Of course it’s wrong.
It’s misguided.
It lacks discipline and demonstrates poor planning, shows impulse control and neglect.
I’m letting passionfruit vines take over my yar… Read More
2016-07-22 22:58
I usually have a smoothie for breakfast, especially in the growing season when fresh greens and herbs are blowing up in the garden, and it’s too hot to want to stand in front of the s… Read More
2016-07-22 11:24
I have an affinity for things that are real, well made, and local (at least insofar as they are domestically produced and don’t find their way here on gigantic freighters). It’s… Read More
2016-07-18 13:12
This is a book I’m ashamed to admit I only recently read.
The Unsettling of America was published in 1977, which means I could have read it as a child, again as a teenager, a young ad… Read More
2016-07-13 18:32
English Angora rabbits in the US south–how does that work?
I’m a new rabbit mom, having only adopted our bunnies this spring, so figuring out how to keep woolly critters comforta… Read More
2016-07-06 00:46
Culantro, Eryngium foetidum, is very distinct from cilantro, in spite of having a similar name.
It does have a similar flavor and scent.
Close your nose, though, and from its appearance, yo… Read More
2016-06-28 17:59
If there’s one good thing about weeding, it makes the world slow down.
You can’t work on the computer, or your phone.
Unless you’re a bluetooth person.
Nothing against blue… Read More
2016-06-26 16:13
This morning, after a couple of hours of weeding, I was starving so I decided to play one of my favorite games: Breakfast From The Yard.
It’s exactly what it sounds like: See how much… Read More
2016-06-02 18:03
It all started with a sad day, a walk of hope.
I wrote about it here.
It ended with a bumper crop of passion fruit, not a bad outcome, at all.
That passion fruit I planted is back, with a ve… Read More
2016-05-26 15:40
First for the win:
I have delicious carrots!
I have dozens of beautiful carrots, all in a row. I used seed tape, store-bought this time, although you can make your own.
I kept them watered… Read More
2016-05-22 13:59
Somewhere along the line I was brainwashed into thinking there was a list of certain plants I could grow.
Frustratingly, that list included things I can’t grow: European pears, sweet c… Read More
2016-05-20 14:14
A lush green lawn is the perfect welcome mat for your home. But despite your best efforts, it’s not always easy to keep it in top shape. Bare spots, or weak, thinning or patchy grass… Read More
2016-05-20 14:08
America may have its legendary tale of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 (when Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty threw more than 340 chests of tea off three ships moored in Boston harbor), bu… Read More
2016-05-06 03:29
Pie is the best.
Or the worst.
Like so many things, a good pie is GREAT, and a bad pie is terrible. When something has so much potential, sub-par renditions are made execrable by comparison… Read More
2016-04-27 20:36
Nature knows that summer is going to bring with it a host of skin challenges: bug bites, heat rash, sunburn, mysterious itches, minor scrapes and more. To give us a weapon to deal with thes… Read More
2016-04-23 15:36
I’m disorganized at everything, and gardening is no exception.
Most of the time when I remember to do something at the right time, it’s by accident.
I’ve seen examples of s… Read More
2016-04-18 16:52
Why would anyone want to raise worms?
There are tons of worms everywhere already!
Underneath the potted plants on the patio, below that cardboard box you left out on the driveway, every tim… Read More
2016-04-15 15:46
Every spring when I step outside and the stench of my neighbors’ lawn care service chemicals hits me like a bad memory, I have the same impulse: convince everybody to go natural!
This… Read More
2016-04-12 06:39
Remember that old thing about the National Park trashcans? They can’t make them bear-proof because there’s too much overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest human? &n&helli…Read More
2016-04-08 00:12
You know how some people say to “leave it on the field” or “leave it on the dance floor”? My chicken left it “in the yard”. Her chicken butt… Read More
2016-04-07 17:56
We brought the buns home last night.
They’re getting settled in, getting more than their fair share of cuddles.
More photos later, and a pic of the other sister soon. During this photo… Read More
2016-04-05 06:33
It happens every year: my winter knitting drags on into spring and I lose interest in having my lap full of wool.
Still, I like to have a little project for waiting rooms, non-taxing tv (be… Read More
2016-04-02 14:09
As I write this, I can hear the sound of newspaper being ripped in long, thin strips in the next room.
According to the USPS Tracking system, 1000 of my newest pets have already arrived at… Read More
2016-03-29 03:24
The rabbit hutch is coming along.
Its basic carcass is plywood and 2x2s, plus the Curb Whisperer rescued a bunch of old cedar fencing and I’m using it for siding and for the door.
It&r&hell…Read More
2016-03-26 23:32
Having a blog with a blog partner is great. I can safely say we couldn’t do it without each other.
I, Daisy, am technologically disastrous, have no sense of organization, and truly can… Read More
2016-03-24 06:33
I have a biscuit block. HAD a biscuit block. Back in 2012, I wrote about my bad biscuits. My husband took this great picture.
After getting that cookbook I’ve been raving about… Read More
2016-03-22 06:33
2016-03-19 15:34
Now the rains have called it quits for the time being and things have had a chance to dry out, I’m back in the garden evaluating and wrapping up the first phase of my ShapeUp. All but… Read More
2016-03-17 18:59
Back in the day, I was drowning in little kids and the only structure I could create was around meals. I made this hilarious, totally bad for you, not frugal summer menu. It was… Read More
2016-03-15 06:31
Of all the things I’ve made and done on this site, THIS is the thing they remember. It comes up weekly. “Hey, Mom, remember that time you blew up the squash and it&rs&helli…Read More
2016-03-13 01:10
I’ve called a temporary halt to my garden shape-up due to inclement weather. We’ve had over 10 inches of rain over the last few days and it’s raining right now.
I’m e… Read More
2016-03-10 01:18
Review
**STARRED REVIEW**
“Over all, a superb introduction to this potent poetic form, teaching pre-readers both the evocative power of description and the reward for listening close… Read More
2016-03-08 12:52
I’m back with some more progress to report. Above pic is the asparagus bed; taken over by renegade blackberry vines, deadnettle, hairy bittercress, creeping charlie, peppermint, bermu… Read More
2016-03-08 06:40
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2016-03-06 14:48
It seems like all I’ve been doing lately is gardening. I’ve really enjoyed it, although on the inside-the-house front the kitchen surfaces are sticky enough to perform double dut… Read More
2016-03-03 00:54
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Sounds like a great book!
Sheila, Mystie will be contacting you to get you your e-book! For everyo… Read More
2016-03-01 09:00
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2016-03-01 04:17
One thing I’m learning as I do this ShapeUp is the importance of my master list.
When I was writing that list, I deliberately focused on things that would make a big impact from an ou… Read More
2016-02-26 13:21
Getting our gardens in shape is its own reward, but it never hurts to have a little extra incentive; a dangling carrot and/or a motivating stick.
Now we’ve got a master list and a pla… Read More
2016-02-25 03:01
Years ago, I read through all of Rachael Ray’s 365 something-or-other cookbook. I made a standard pantry list. I could cook almost anything in the book on the spur of the moment. My p… Read More
2016-02-24 14:44
We’re getting our gardens ready for spring, step by step.
We declared our intention.
Then we got out our paper and pencils and even cameras and made a master list and took Before pics… Read More
2016-02-23 06:47
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2016-02-21 14:30
In case you missed the first post on this Garden CleanUp-Along, here’s the link to review.
To re-cap, I’m going to post periodic garden tasks (sometimes weekly, sometimes more of… Read More
2016-02-20 16:15
Does your garden look like something snaked out of the J-trap under your kitchen sink?
Do you refer to it as “the wasteland”?
Did a location scout for a post-apocalyptic movie j… Read More
2016-02-11 18:45
I’m not a winter person, but I get more knitting done between the months of December and March than I do the rest of the year combined.
The fireside and knitting go together very well… Read More
2016-01-28 18:21
I’m finally getting back into sourdough after a long hiatus. Not only is it delicious, of course, but the sourdough process does this fermenting goodness to the grain that is so healt… Read More
2015-12-21 17:55
I know a lot of people are contemplating whether or not to get chickens these days, and one of the factors involved is often how will the children in the family react and interact wi… Read More
2015-11-21 17:53
‘Tis the season to pick delicious things up off the ground.
So far this fall I’ve picked up about 35 pounds of pecans (pre-shelled weight unfortunately), and enough persimmons t… Read More
2015-11-12 15:51
Quite by accident I discovered a persimmon tree Tuesday afternoon.
I was in a hurry and could only pick up a handful of the soft, ripe “sugar plums” to take home. It’s bee… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today I collected all the gloves, mittens, wooly caps and scarves into a pile on the floor. There they lay in a mismatched jumble of color, style, and size. I picked them up as best as… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Now that we are safely on this side of winter I can make a few observations about the surprise survivors of the coldest winter in our area in 20 years. First up, kiwi. Last year I planted fu… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
While I was on a walk yesterday I made the discovery of an intact bale of straw put out for curb collection. Naturally I hurried home to get the station wagon to pick up my new friend. I sto… Read More
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