I'm trying to find a good cardio exercise (or mix of exercises ( Read more... )

I've now posted every day for a month. I'm not sure if I'd even done 30 posts total before this month.

I've got some plans to do a lot more posting next year, although it will primarily be about hobbies and projects. It won't all be here, and I won't cross post everywhere, but I might note when new stuff is up.

I finished the Lord Of The Rings, which I hadn't read since probably high school. This time around I have a much better understanding of the context. Guess I learned more at BAPA than I realized ( Read more... )

We're home from our travels through Indiana and Ohio.

There's an ebook on sale today I might download, but the only conspicuous consumption on today's agenda involves yesterday's leftovers. Yum.

Have a great Thanksgiving Day!

Every day I run across new inspirations for more and more projects and hobbies. I write a lot of them down. Even so, there are so many and they fly past so fast, I'm trying to figure out how to capture and prioritize them better ( Read more... )

My mom has a small grain mill (about the size of a stand mixer or tall rice cooker), and buys wheat berries at a local (to her) bulk food store. This way she's got real whole wheat flour - even the "whole wheat" flour that we buy in the store isn't truly whole wheat. It's got less stuff removed than white flour, but real -actually whole - whole ( Read more... )

We've started thinking about next year's garden already. We had a good start this year, but we didn't harvest and use or preserve as quickly and thoroughly as we should have. And, I'm wondering if we couldn't get that amount of space to produce a lot more food for us next year ( Read more... )

I ran the sound board for a couple of masses today. Amazing what you get to hear when you have the unique power to isolate individuals. There are some extremely talented individuals. And some folks to balance things out. On rare occassion, those are the same people ( Read more... )