Passions I can't deny
Posted in buying local, gardening on Jun 4th, 2010
What an exciting day! This morning we picked up our first monthly CSA allotment from Stonewall Farm. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is where customers buy a share in the year’s crop in exchange for paying at the beginning of the season. This is the first year for Stonewall Farms, located on the westside of Evansville, [...]
Posted in body care products, buying local, crafts, gadgets, soap making on Apr 26th, 2010
I love ETSY. It’s such a great place to find handmade goods. I wanted to find some nice soap dishes to give as presents with our soap this Christmas, but also to use here to help prevent these soaps from melting away in a pool of water. Before checking out ETSY, I had found several [...]
Posted in buying local, gardening, irises on Apr 22nd, 2010
I will be tagging all of my irises this year. In the past couple of years I’ve tried doing this with a variety of different tags and they all pop out of their location after the ground froze. Dave bought me some nice tags to use this year. The only problem was there were only [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Mar 24th, 2010
Yesterday I took a stroll around Happy Acres to see what has changed since the rains came. I was hoping I’d see some asparagus peaking up through the soil. Last year this time, they showed themselves and we picked our first harvest on the 25th. But last year everything seemed to be early from dogwoods [...]
Well, I finally did it – I put away one of my gadgets – the dehydrator. It’s been sitting on the corner of the kitchen counter since spring. I know it should have been put away a month or so, but as long as it’s out, in my mind it’s still summer!
The Excalibur is a [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Nov 24th, 2009
Even before reading the book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, I’ve been interested in buying more local. This book documents the yearlong story of her family’s journey after moving from Tucson to rural America where they vowed to eat only food that is grown in their garden or their neighbors. If they couldn’t do [...]
