I have been using all of my daily allotment of words elsewhere of late, spread between a stupid email thread and a spectacular email thread and an intriguing & exciting family discussion and a dull & painful work document. So there have not really been words left over to talk much here ( Read more... )

Scout's gone. She'd been in chronic renal failure for a while (we've known about it for a year, and have been treating it at home), and her tiny little body just started seriously giving up this past week. Once it was clear that she was in pain and not getting better, we decided to euthanize her today ( Read more... )

It's not quite composting, but the Green Burial Council has links to ethical burial providers.