From the monthly archives: November 2007
I dug up the last of the carrots today, the remaining things in my garden. I actually forgot they were still in there, LOL. Today the temperature is supposed to go below freezing so I thought I’d get them out before the ground got hard. The ground was actually pretty soft still; I had no [...]
Right now I’m mainly working on the quilts for my kids. I make them each a quilt every year. I’m also working on some scarves for family members, aprons, and a big quilt for my folks. Some small bags for friends and other family members. I’m gonna put on my thinking cap and get creative. [...]
Did you know? -Older toilets use 3.7-7 gallons per flush-Dishwashers use 8-14 gallons per cycle-Top-loading washers use 45 gallons/load-A dripping faucet waste 15-21 gallons per day-US water users withdraw enough water to fill a line of Olympic-size swimming pools reaching around the world EVERY DAY (300 billion gallons)-Although our planet is 71 percent water, humans [...]
I organized the upstairs bathroom. Do you know we had over 300 books in there??? We all love to read, me especially, but it was ridiculous. I sent some of the books my kids don’t read anymore with my husband for his class (he’s a teacher) boxed up some for my bookstore, and organized the [...]
Every year I make my kids a quilt for Christmas. The first two are made from old sweat shirt material from my husband with the backing being old sheets of theirs. The last two I made from jeans and the center pieces are from old Power Rangers sweatshirt of theirs. I am currently working on [...]
I can’t remember where I got these from, will have to google search for references, but check this out: 1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. 2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of [...]
Here are some of my turnips, I finally had to dig them up. I basically just grow turnips for the greens, I ADORE turnip greens. The actual turnip, eh not so much. Most of my turnips were kinda small but a few were nice-sized. I usually mix them in with mashed potatoes, chili, and stews. [...]
This is a skirt I made inspired by one spaceimaginarium (fellow wardrobe re-mixer on flickr) has, check it out. I loved her skirt and as soon as I saw it I wanted to make one. I had a swatch of new pink fabric my daughter gave me, it was left over from one of her [...]
One of the sweet corn cobs I dried out so I can use the kernels for next year’s planting. It’s not quite ready to pull the kernels off, but soon. I forgot to save seeds from the popcorn I planted, so next year’s will be from store bought popcorn again. This blog entry written by [...]
We finally got all the tomato plants pulled!! The kids were a huge help with pulling the stakes, picking the tomatoes, digging trenches, and laying in the compost. I told them it would only take 30 minutes but it ended up taking a whole hour, but they were good sports about it. Surprisingly, my daughter [...]
A big goal for our family is to reduce our water usage. This saves us money and it helps community resources and the environment. Think about it…if you flush every single time you pee you are using a whole tank of water for what is usually a half-cup of urine. Think about all that goes [...]
I pulled half of my tomato plants today, as it is finally getting cold here in Northeast Ohio. I had lots of baby tomatoes and some beefsteak tomatoes in varying stages of ripeness. I will set the green ones in the window to ripen. They won’t taste as good as tomatoes ripened on the vine [...]
As you can see the plants are dying though. Photos were taken November 3rd, I just picked all the ripe tomatoes and will pull the plants this afternoon if I have time. I ended up with over 50 baby tomatoes from this morning’s harvest. Here are shots of a few big ones, I only had [...]
This is an easy goal for me because I love garden veggies in the winter. Especially turnip greens! They are so good fresh from the garden or frozen quickly after picking. They are nasty canned. Here are some blanched turnip greens all packed nicely away for freezing. See more progress on: Freeze, Can & Pickle [...]
Saw this on Greenpeace.org: Plastic trash and other flotsam that is either directly thrown or washed by rivers into the North Pacific, is swept up by the currents of a gigantic swirling vortex called the North Pacific Gyre. In the centre, the calm, just northeast of Hawai’i the result is a trash carpet that scientists [...]
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