Dear Wild-Eyed Store Manager…
I’m going to pull a Letters to People I Hate moment here and rant about an incident I had a couple of hours ago. As I was sitting in my car, post-craziness, I replayed the conversation I’d just had that resulted in my getting booted out of a local health food store I frequent often. [...]
Planning the Garden
I just put up a post over at Homestead Geek regarding garden planning, for anyone interesting in such things. Garden Planning “Having been through thirty-mumble transitions from dead-of-Michigan-winter to OMG-IT’S-SUDDENLY-SPRING, you could say this isn’t my first rodeo. I know if I put things off any longer, it’ll be too late to order seeds and [...]
Garden Planning
Yesterday, as the wind blew and the snow swirled, I spent a good many hours planning our first garden. We’re fortunate to have a pretty large yard with a substantial area (40′ x 100′) already fenced off for gardening. even though it’s currently buried under a foot of snow (which I adore, it’s fabulous,) it’s [...]
10 Things to Avoid in Beauty Products
The Progressive Pioneer put up a great post about 10 highly-toxic substances often found in beauty products. It’s amazing we take all this stuff for granted as being healthy! 10 Things to Avoid Posts at least a little bit like this one:10 Things to Avoid in Beauty ProductsNatural Heartburn RemedyA Case Study, C’est MoiBlogs from [...]
10 Things to Avoid in Beauty Products
The Progressive Pioneer put up a great post about 10 highly-toxic substances often found in beauty products. It’s amazing we take all this stuff for granted as being healthy! 10 Things to Avoid It’s up to us to discover these things and share the information. Sadly, large corporations will throw nasty stuff into things we [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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