Happy Birthday to my Sweetie Unikyrn!

How it is done.  The mysterious and frequent phenomenon of profiteering and its connection with disasters ( Read more... )

I was driving along the northern edge of downtown Spokane, looked south at the sky and saw a splotch of brilliant rainbow on what I think was a cloud. There were some subtle wisps of pink outside the splotch/cloud and the rest of the sky was its usual lovely blue with white clouds here and there. I do not recall ever seeing such a phenomenon in ( Read more... )

I have purple basil, Italian basil, chives, mint and dill popping out. In just a few days the cilantro and parsley should show up. Given the size of the parsley plant in our garden I will be discovering new ways to fix it...cook, juice, etc. Today I am considering making a parsley, angelica, onion soup with more herbs and a few parsnips, and ( Read more... )

After 3 months of detoxing plastic outgassing, I set up the aerogarden. The heat from the grow lights set off more plastic outgassing this afternoon. The aroma now is reminiscent of raw oysters, which ain't so bad. Not likely to toxify me anyway. Maybe it is from the feed pellets? Fresh herbs in a few weeks right in my kitchen! And fresh ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I went to work at an elderly lady's home. Her yard had been treated with weed and feed by a local pest control company...against our wishes and her daughter's orders. I had requested it not be done because it makes me quite ill...No wonder for anyone who takes the time to read about the effects of 2,4-D, which is widely used in ( Read more... )

I watched the cat food recall news, returned anything on the recall list and bought my kitties some human grade food at a specialty shop. They do not relish eating the really, really good food. And I figured I would just intesperse it with their usual. ha. I went to buy their primary usual today and it had been pulled sometime in the past week ( Read more... )

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It isn't here yet. It's snowing and the snow isn't sticking. Hooray ( Read more... )