Compost-Along

I’ve had the dorkiest idea. You’ve probably heard about Knit-Alongs, where people get together online and knit the same project together in small steps over a set period of time? Well, not everybody knits.  Even if you do knit, maybe you’ve set down your needles for...

Book Giveaway–The Art of Fermentation

If I had this book last year, I wouldn’t have thrown out (and buried, yes, buried) a gallon of naturally fermented purple cabbage in my backyard.  I would’ve just scooped off the horrid slimey mold on top, and enjoyed the brilliant kraut underneath. I need...

Twitter Advice, Please!

I’m so slow getting into the Twitter. I started an account, put up a couple of tweets, kept forgetting to log in, etc. One thing stopping me is that I don’t know what people really like about Twitter and what they consider to be a worthwhile tweet. Any...

Behind the LHITS Book: Photoshop Quiz

  Publishers have a look they’re going for.  Some stuff is cool in the background.  Some stuff isn’t.  Apparently, my VANITY taste is not professionally refined.  Lemme show you what I would have photoshopped out of our pictures. (The above picture is...

Squash Update

The volunteer squash I was whining about the other day got transplanted. Thank you for your comments.  They helped me get over the wave of inertia that swept over me whenever I looked at it, which was all the time. It was right in the middle of the garden, and I...