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• Micro Pigs - The New Pet?

  
  Garden Fresh Living — Authority: 116
  I just saw this clip from a British telecast on Micro Pigs: little teeny-tiny pigs that never get beyond 14 inches tall! They are a hot new craze in Britain and I can see why. What Urban Farmer wouldnt want...
  11 hours ago

• Running out of gas.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Silence Dogood here (again). When our friend Ben and I moved to our cottage home, Hawk’s Haven, located in the precise middle of nowhere, PA, we inherited a big old gas stove along with the house. To my ongoing amusement, it’s a Caloric stove. (No kidding.) I guess there was actually a time when “caloric” was ...
  12 hours ago

• “Stir-fry? Yuck!!!”

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Silence Dogood here. Last week, our friend Ben and I had invited our friend Rob over for dinner and a movie. I found myself craving stir-fry, and also realized that I had a perfect assortment of ingredients for it: broccoli, snow peas, mushrooms, onions, garlic, yellow and orange bell peppers, slivered almonds. So ...
  13 hours ago

• A New 3000, to Mitigate Risks

  
  3000 NewsWire — Authority: 125
  At this falls e3000 Community Meet, ScreenJets Alan Yeo shared an unexpected story. His company helped to establish a new HP 3000 customer site within the past year. While theres a lot of talk about the risk of remaining on the HP 3000 due to the vendors exit in 2010, this company saw a 3000 app as a way to avoid the ...
  2 days ago

• Chickenless

  
  Howling Hill — Authority: 103
  Wolf culled the chickens (10) yesterday. Howling Hill is sans chickens. *pout*
  3 days ago

• Buffet Table

  
  Peppylady Almost Prefect World — Authority: 118
  There been a few project we been working on but it seem to take us so many moon to do them. I believe it lays the categories of lack of money, lack of knowledge, lack of time, and lot of time all three. But we did get a buffet table into our dinning area. It was an older dresser that my parents had. I believe it ...
  3 days ago

• Comforting treats for cold weather.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Silence Dogood here. Brrrr, it’s cold! And the holiday season is already upon us: Hallowe’en, Harvest Home, Advent, Thanksgiving, Christmas or Hanukkah, New Year’s, and on and on. I don’t know about you, but I think we could all use some comforting treats ’round about now. Here are two classic sweet treats ...
  3 days ago

• Free Mulch and one step further into self-sufficiency on our Urban Homestead.

  
  Natural Living Des Moines — Authority: 98
  Today, we took our new Yard Chipper out of its box and put it to work. (And I broke it all in one day.)Um, can you say LOVE?Here at our little Urban Homestead, we have tons of trees. They are beautiful and also a pain in the butt. One of the reasons they’re a pain [...]
  4 days ago

• Photo Hunt (Veterans/Military)

  
  Peppylady Almost Prefect World — Authority: 118
  This Saturday I decide to do photo hunt and this week challenge is November 7: Veterans/Military I don’t know much about our local National Guards here in Bonners Ferry. They got a new building in last few years. But before that it was a green cinder block building. I understand back in the 40’s the ...
  4 days ago

• Rats!!! (and mice)

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Readers, please cover your eyes if you can’t imagine a mouse in your house or greenhouse, or a (shudder) rat in your garage, attic, or chicken coop. Relief is only a (mouse) click away! (Sorry, I can never resist a pun.) Our friend Ben’s family home was out in the country, and while there were no working farms ...
  4 days ago

• 3000 shareware lives at 3k.com

  
  3000 NewsWire — Authority: 125
  Some programs from the former HP shareware server Jazz are online at Speedware and Client Systems hosts. But some are not -- especially the 3000 tools written by the user community. One of the best repositories of such 3000 programs is still online and serving software. 3k.com is, as its founder and curator Chris ...
  5 days ago

• Why I am not a “crunchy con”

  
  Principled Discovery — Authority: 456
  A commenter recently pointed me to Rod Dreher’s book (and blog )  Crunchy Cons in response to my thoughts on the politicization of choosing an agrarian lifestyle . Truth be told, I’ve always had an uneasy feeling reading about this idea of “crunchy” conservatism. What does a political philosophy have ...
  5 days ago

• Frugal living tip #44.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Silence Dogood here, with another Frugal Living Tip from Poor Richard’s Almanac. This one’s about getting your home ready for winter, and it’s courtesy of the newsletter in our monthly bill from our electric utility company. They suggest removing any cracked caulking around doors and windows and recaulking to ...
  5 days ago

• Change of address

  
  High Mountain Musing — Authority: 127
  Announcing a change of address for this blog! The Rio Grande Pyramid and The Window in Autumn High Mountain Musing is changing it’s web site address from:  highmountainmuse.wordpress.com   to:  highmountainmuse.com .  A bit confusing in the short run; but hopefully simpler in the long run.  The ...
  6 days ago

• Please Take Off Your Blinders

  
  Peppylady Almost Prefect World — Authority: 118
  Last few times with my client I been stepping out of the box to help them. It really gets to me how narrow minded some people or have blinders on. I can see how much therapeutic a pet is for elderly and disable. My client Donna has this wonderful pet called Rex. On my job description I’m only there to help ...
  6 days ago

• HOMEGROWN Inspiration: Building with whole trees, community supported foraging

  
  www.HOMEGROWN.org — Authority: 113
  There’s a fascinating article in today’s Home section of the New York Times about forester-architect Roald Gunderson and partner Amelia Baxter and their company Whole Tree Architecture and Construction. Gunderson explains the structural, aesthetic and environmental benefits of building with whole trees. Photos ...
  6 days ago

• The birds are back in town.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  With all due apologies to Thin Lizzy and “The Boys Are Back in Town,” our friend Ben and Silence Dogood have been enjoying the return of our winter birds here at our cottage home, Hawk’s Haven, located in the precise middle of nowhere, PA. We’d kept up three tube feeders through the summer, enjoying the ...
  6 days ago

• Well Water Maintenance and Responsibility

  
  DIVORCEDDADFRUGALDAD.COM — Authority: 130
  Many of us who live more rurally are not on city water, we have our own wells.  With those wells come some maintenance issues and certain responsibilities. I love having a well.   I love not paying for my water-- being dependent on "the man".  I know people who pay for the water coming into the house and the ...
  1 week ago

• Freegan Sheet Mulching for Beginners

  
  The Wild Green Yonder — Authority: 91
  The following account of sheet-mulching a hell strip is from Denver permie and Wild Green Yonder affiliate Jonathan Hontz. Enjoy! I have a love/hate relationship with my tree lawn.  It used to be  a 15 x 24 foot strip of weedy, sun-baked, and compacted land that neither the City nor I wanted to spend any time ...
  1 week ago

• The White Stuff

  
  Lehman's Country Life — Authority: 123
  SNOW! It’s SNOWING outside our windows here at Lehman’s (in northeast Ohio). Ok, ok, we realize many of you have already SEEN the white stuff this fall, but we were caught offguard this morning. Brrr…it’s chilly out, too. Time to fire up the wood stoves!Bookmark it:Hide Sites$$(div.d3507).each( function(e) { ...
  1 week ago

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