So, I've decided to perhaps blog about this permaculture thing that we're trying to do, as we do it. So this is part one. Of many, I assume, but as usual I make no promises about my ability to coherently and regularly update ( Read more... )

I was thinking about Permaculture in a more immediate sense, as a personal way of life. I've realized lately that the only things I'm really, truly long-term interested in maintaining for years are my food, my shelter, and having kids, which, coincidentally(!) is what humans are most basically born to do here! I have little to no desire to have a ( Read more... )

Hey, it's Eric's and my wedding! Go look!

1. Stephen Hawking is wrong. This is because he thinks that if there were any equivalently advanced alien life, we would have heard from them by now, via radio signals. I think that's hogwash, because a Chinese person could have come over to Europe in the past, and gone, "Hey, these guys aren't able to make paper! I see no paper-making equipment ( Read more... )

So, it's been a little ridiculous around here. This week we ( Read more... )

So, tonight while trying to find Jimmy Duffy's catering in Berwyn, we discovered an old car, snappily painted a sparkly dark red, with 'BLACK MAGIC' written on the side in all caps. We also found an old fire truck that looked like it came from the 50's, and on the way back, we were stuck behind a Tastykake Truck that was towing a pick-up truck, ( Read more... )

This morning was a very 'Lily' morning...it began with trying on my wedding dress again and checking on various things about it, and then quickly segued into repairing/splicing together a ripped cord on a power sander while sitting at the kitchen table wearing my black cocktail dress and watching the iPhone 3.0 announcement with Eric ( Read more... )

Want to see some awesome Victorian Era-inspired machines, made by the father-in-law of yours truly??

Here's the site:
Mechanical Curiosities

And here's the YouTube channel:
MechanicalCuriosity on YouTube

And here's the Etsy store:
The Mechanical Curiosity Shop

Enjoy!!!

PS--Yes, I made the website. It was fun!

So, it turns out it's not that much fun at all (and rather expensive) to change your name in this day and age, once you're already a fully-established adult ( Read more... )

Eric and I got married ( Read more... )