I did a DITL on Sunday.  We planted our garden, but I neglected to take photos of it.
Here's what we have growing:
sunflowers,
1 hill of pumpkins
onions and leeks
1 whole row of kale
1 row of lettuce
cauliflower
broccoli
carrots
fennel
pepper
buttercup squash
tomatoes
herbs: basil, oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme, and parsley

We also broke the herb seedlings (or ( Read more... )

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There is nothing better than a leisurely Saturday, where you wake and are out of bed at a decent hour, enjoy a nice breakfast and a cooing baby, followed by nursing, shower, and sending the baby off to nap with Daddy while you head out to the garden to get your hands in the earth ( Read more... )

We (well, Jake) just finished putting in a bunch of topsoil and planting seeds in our raised bed garden.  I mostly just watched and chattered at him and handed him seed packets ( Read more... )

Watching the Olympics makes me feel like a big fat tool sometimes.  All right, most of the time.  These people are in AWESOME shape and are dedicated to keeping themselves that way, to competing for the best of the best... it makes me envious ( Read more... )

This kind of upsets me.  "I don't like shopping at Wal-Mart because I disagree with their labor practices and all their products are made overseas and they're not moving toward environmentally-positive practices, but I NEED my frozen pizzas and other junk food, so I still shop there"

Ugh.

I've never used Freecycle before, although I've read about how wonderful it is on both LJ communities and in the news.  I figured yesterday I'd use it to try to get rid of a kids plastic picnic table that we've had lying around our front lawn since we moved in.  We're not going to use it and by the time we have kids it would probably be in bad ( Read more... )