My Easter Egg Bantams arrived yesterday! They are super cute and really, really freaking loud. Hence, they are living in a rubbermaid bin in the sunshine during the day and in the warm garage at night. Here are the new ladies:
This is Twinkle… can you guess who chose that name?
This is Serama the [...]
I hate grass.
Not in nature… gorgeous meadows of wild grasses and flowers blooming together, that kind of grass I am fond of. That soft, lovely green stuff found on golf courses and outdoor stadiums, that stuff is fine.
I’m talking about lawns, specifically. Such a resource-wasting-time-consuming-non-producing bit of Americana. The whole white picket fence syndrome. Its [...]
This morning on the radio they were talking about a bill passed by the Los Angeles city council that places a ban on the opening of any new fast food establishments in South L. A. The reasoning being that in an area which is most decidedly on the lower end of the economic scale and [...]
I’ve tried several methods of composting over the years: Bins, boxes, large piles of crap sitting in the middle of the yard, etc. The problem with these methods is that it can be tricky to know when the compost is “done” and even trickier getting it out to use it! Of course, you can shell [...]
… since that is all I ever talk about. But right now the sun is shining (but not too much!) and I am busy getting my garden and yard all ready so that I can stay inside with the AC on once those triple digit days hit. Because I know they will.
I have determined that [...]
As someone with an admittedly out of control addiction to fabric and craft supplies in general, storage is often on my mind. My house is right around 900 sqaure feet, so its not like I have the luxury of an entire room dedicated to my hobby (although I’m sure if I did, it would still [...]
I’m all about the individual. I firmly believe that if every individual did as much as they could to be true to themselves, their families, and took as much care of their bodies, homes and planet as much as they took care of their cars and ipods, the world would, little by little, begin to [...]
