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Financial ingenuity
Recently went back to reading The Oil Drum again after a long hiatus. The quality of comments seems to have improved - fewer wild-eyed "doomers" and more extremely knowledgeable people actually doing things instead of pondering numbers. Anyway, there was this gem in a recent thread, when they got a little off-topic and began comparing ways in ( Read more... ) -
Sooooo Cuuuute!
We had hens go broody and decided to let them hatch some eggs. Warning: Cuteness approaches toxicity levels... here's an example:
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Celtic music on community radio
Oak & Thorn starts in just about 3 hours (9:00 Pacific time). Special show today, featuring the voices of such luminaries as Alasdair Fraser, Moya Brennan, Dougie MacLean, etc. with brief but passionate appeals for support for American public radio, in short breaks between the music sets. Way more fun than anybody else's pledge drive shows! Get ( Read more... ) -
Bubble, bubble, boil and... yum!
Lot of boiling going on here lately. Brewed two batches of beer, made and canned 9 pints of vegetable stock, and just now there is an enormous pot of chicken stock boiling away. Tomorrow I'll turn that into quarts of chicken broth for emergency food - you know, when you come in at dusk, worn out from working in the fields or the shop, and ( Read more... ) -
Pimping my Show
Don't forget to tune in to KZYX.org tomorrow (Sunday) from 9 to 11 AM Pacifc time, for Oak & Thorn! -
Linky
Not much news, the weather and my natural sloth have kept me inside, mostly fooling around on the Intawebz. Here's a few gems:
Global Warming is Good for Montana - I guess this is progress, at least they admit it's happening.
Two gorgeous tracks from Duncan Chisholm's magnificent new CD, CanaichWe did get several pounds of Kielbasa made, and it ( Read more... ) -
Safety Warnings, and other linkages
Don't walk on Fish, and other safety warnings. I think my favorite is "Always use a fork when giving the sludge." Well, who doesn't?
(Note to iisaw: Maybe you could make a poster based on the "Never do this" pic from your birthday party?)
Man Killed by Own Cock - A timely reminder that it can be dangerous to strap razor blades onto your cock. They ( Read more... ) -
OMG! Spring!
The principal purpose of this post is to point you to this comic:
Too Much Coffee ManI'm totally making an icon of that "OMG" panel ( Read more... )
