Vox Hunt: Favorite Quote

Share one of your favorite quotes. "…and the little plastic castle is a surprise every time"  – Ani DiFranco Here's the whole verse: They say goldfish have no memoryI guess their lives are much like mineAnd the little plastic castleIs a surprise every timeAnd it's hard to say if they're happyBut they don't seem much…

Germans visit

Carrie & the girls came over for dinner. Making salad                 Scavenging I made up some scavenger hunts for the girls (find something round, something fuzzy, etc)… [sorry – forgot the flash] The Lists               Ice cream & coffee while we "grownups"…

Renewal.

Here are the results (Before and After shots) of our latest home improvement project:   We really like how the new window layout opens up the view better (no mullion down the middle). Also, we've been opening the bottom sliding windows at night, which we never really did with the old awning windows; we get…

QotD: Mother Nature

What is the scariest experience you've had with Mother Nature?Submitted by jacolily. That would have to be the time I went canoeing on the Buffalo River in Tennessee with the Outing Society which I belonged to in college (Spring of 1979). I can't remember if it rained while we camped overnight, or if it had…

Veggies – 7/24/08

July 24 2008 This week's organic veggies from the farm… Some variety of beautifully curly leaf lettuce, flat-leaf parsley this time, two bunches of dill, a huge head of garlic (which we need like a hole in the head – we have hundreds of plants), a nice bunch of big green onions, more zucchini (getting…