Saturday was a huge day for us. We went to New York City for the day. The DH went to the Guggenheim and the Natural History Museum while I ‘took a meeting’ and took the aforementioned cooking class. The meeting was with one of my favorite bloggers, Geri Brin of FOF.
It was one of [...]
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The Country Mouse Meets the City Mouse
Raising Small Livestock: The Devil’s in the Details
A lot of people would like to raise some sort of livestock – whether it’s chickens or pigs or lambs or whatever – but they are stopped by lack of experience and fear. Actually, raising animals is pretty simple (not necessarily easy – which is a whole different deal):
– Make sure they have [...]
No bike riding for a while…
That’s my left shoulder area from yesterday afternoon. I’ve got, what is known in the trade as a “fractured glenoid” – a broken scapula (shoulder blade) caused when I fell off my bike while riding home from work. The shoulder itself is also dislocated. When I was falling, I threw my arm out. [...]
On Your Mark, Get Set….
In our last episode, One Year Later, one of the items I noted was that the soil temperatures were pretty chilly. It was March 27th, 5 days ago. Between the freak storm and the very chilly temperatures, even the soil in the bed under the glass was only 40.3 degrees F. As you can [...]
Shameless Product Plug
Wooly pockets. Vertical gardens. Who knew?
Landscape Plants On the Cheap – Rooting Roses
Rooting your own is a fine way of obtaining and increasing the plants you have for your garden.
Resolved Not To Have Resolutions
A final look at the year.
My Christmas Story
On holidays, let’s not forget people who have to work to keep us safe.
Best Deal on the Best Interfacing on the Planet!
If you are looking for better (much better) interfacings than you can get at your local ‘extremely large chain fabric store that is really a crafts store with a little bit of fabric”, it’s time for you to become acquainted with Pam Erny. She carries the ‘good stuff’ – the stuff that manufacturers use that [...]
Get Back..Get Back..Get Back to Where You Once Belonged…
Coat sewing series: the guts of the thing.
Kitchen Counter Economics is a community where we can share ideas on how to save money, live more sustainably, and gain control over the stuff of daily living for ourselves and our families in the current economic environment. This started as a series of diary postings at the 
