I received the following email from a member of our local Crop Circle.
I found your AWOL bantam hen and surprise surprise she was sitting on 6 eggs under the bottom of the slippery slide. She is a proud mother of 3 babies so far but is still sitting and your silky has started hatching but […]
I stuck my arm in the compost pile that I made yesterday to see if it was going to do what it is meant to do, and it burned my fingers.
So, I turned it, watered it, and walked away smiling.
Compost is meant to get hot – I understand that. Being in the sun is probably a good thing then for a compost heap.
But, today I built one under the biggest tree that we have. Just unloaded the manure from the trailer and mixed it with a year’s worth of leaves from under […]
I cannot believe that it has been more than 2 years since I got some horse manure.
And so it was that yesterday I took my trailer to the place of a friend who is caring for someone else’s three horses.
There we were, two blokes collecting poo. At one stage, there was a grandfather and a […]
Kyle from Green With a Gun has gone and offered an excellent analysis of what a fair share of electricity is.
What does it mean for our family?
Kyle states:
So for people at home, you’re looking at an average of 100W, or 2.4kWh/day.
That’d be 876kWh each year. That is, a fair share of the world’s electricity generation […]
Originally posted at Question Marque, April 28, 2007.
We’ve just returned from visiting cousins on the other side of town, and it was strange to feel our lives had so diverged. The kids entertained themselves in front of Foxtel, we ordered pizza, and they poured my little ones big glasses of Sprite.
I felt overprotective and paranoid, […]
Originally posted at Question Marque, April 29. 2007.
Some weeks ago we ran out of dishwasher powder and I dreaded a return to sharehouse days when bowls could be piled more than a foot high (and none left to use) before anyone did the washing up by hand.
It didn’t happen. We do some handwashing almost daily […]
No Impact Man posed an interesting question some time ago about what, in the final analysis, we’re willing to give up in the interests of sustainability: What is the balance to be maintained between preserving our “way of life” and our efforts to keep the planet healthy? How healthy do we want the planet to […]
One way to entertain kids in a cramped car is to tell jokes. I’m not (as you may recall) very good at jokes, and no better at G-rated jokes. Here are some of the exchanges that occurred with my four-year-olds yesterday, which I (and possibly only I) find very entertaining. Please excuse […]
Tuesday November 20th
6:00am Husband(DH) wakes up and grazes in kitchen.
6:30am DH wakes up daughter(DD) and gets her ready for school including making a lunch
7:05am DH and DD head off to school on a special tandem bike that DH outfitted so 7 year old DH can pedal in the back. She runs a mile before school […]
