We had our follow up inspection for our home energy audit and I expect we should get a pretty sizable rebate. Last march was an extremely painful month expense-wise, but everything we spent on will help us get something back. That month we got bought new windows, our furnace died and needed replacing, and our roof started leaking and needed ( Read more... )

Those damned astrologers at Environment Canada promised me a whole week of rain, so yesterday I seeded our lawn. It currently looks like a WWI battlefield and I wanted it to at least start looking nice for the hiatus clan's visit this weekend. Now instead of rain, those entrail readers are offering me flurries ( Read more... )

We try to be as enviro as we are able in the house. We have energy star appliances, all of our bulbs (except some chandelier bulbs) are energy saver, and we divert a significant amount of our garbage. We fill a 2 liter bucket of compostables every day and with 6 of us in the house, we only manage to fill one garbage can every week (it'd be less if ( Read more... )

Well, they've finally set me up with a truck and a working telepod and everything seems to be functioning. I'm currently online and on the road. Today is only half over and I've already worked on a DSL line at the Military base that is used to broadcast to the troops in Afganistan and Precy called to say that the duct cleaners found a nest of dead ( Read more... )

Friggen raccoons. I went to throw some stuff in the garbage just now and found the can knocked over and crap spilled all over the front porch. I was scooping up the dry stuff and resealing the can when I noticed a raccoon peeking his head around the front gate. I casually walked over to him and he casually walked up a tree. He gave me a guilty ( Read more... )

Bugger ( Read more... )

I was loosening up the dirt in my formerly crap-ass, patchy chunk of lawn and soon-to-be brilliantly awesome cherry tomato garden when it sounded like I'd hit the motherload of stones and rocks ( Read more... )

My composter's been at it for over a week now.
Where's my damn compost?
Where's the fast forward button?

I just picked up our complimentary $15 (so I guess it's not quite complimentary) composting bin from the City of Toronto and I'm kinda excited.
We're allowed up to two per household, but I'd like to see how well we manage with one before we move up to the fancy-schmancy, big league, two bin households.

The furnace guy was just here and was very cool ( Read more... )