September 2011

Kraut Catastrophe: A Tale of Woe Part II

FLOPS

When we last left this saga, I had finally unstuck the lid from Ivory’s Picklemeister.  It was a great feeling. I was so psyched to get the kraut started.  I layered it in the crock with salt, added the inoculant from Ivory’s pickles and enough water to cover, put the lids on, the glass pusher [...]

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Kraut Catastrophe: A Tale of Woe Part I

FLOPS

As you all know, everything I do always turns out perfectly. What’s that choking sound? Ah, you’ve read our flops. Well, as long as we’re letting it all hang out, you might as well know what happened when I, inspired by Ivory’s fantabulous experiences making naturally fermented pickles, decided to devote my entire crop of [...]

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Practically Green: Excavations show what’s really down in the dumps

Green Up

The scientists are fighting in the news again over global warming. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist resigned from the American Physical Society over its position that global warming is an “incontrovertible” fact. Lots of angry technical things were said back and forth that I do not understand. And I think I’m not going to spend a [...]

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Slow Gardening, Felder Rushing Style

Garden

As I rush to get the last of the fall garden in, I’ve been reading, ironically, Felder Rushing’s new book, Slow Gardening, out of Chelsea Green Publishing, THE go-to sustainable living publishing house. If Felder Rushing is a new name to you, you’re in for a treat.  In short, he’s a hoot.  But, that doesn’t [...]

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Andalutheean Knitted Dishcloth

Crafts

The latest in my so-easy-you-can-knit-with-swarming-kids dish/washcloth series.  If you can knit and purl, you can knit this hanging upside down from the monkey bars. The name . . . I have friends who speak Castilian Spanish and I love the way they pronounce some of their “s” sounds.  LOVE IT.  I could listen to them [...]

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