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Looking for something to do?

By redstategreen • Jun 13th, 2010

Now that summer’s in full swing, here’s something fun that will help others as well: knit or crochet a scarf for the Special Olympics 2011 Winter Games
They have patterns if you need one, or you can use your own. This would be a good project if you have some young, old, or in-between knitters or […]



Busy

By redstategreen • May 23rd, 2010

If you’re anything like me, you’re at the beginning of the major growing season and the end of the school season (with all that entails), so you get how busy things are here. Not to mention two of my kids are in band (a year-round endeavor) and they start into the marching band season next […]



And yet another blog …

By redstategreen • Apr 21st, 2010

I just ran across The Burning Platform from an article over at The Market Oracle which was picked up on The Oil Drum (great thing to follow if you’re at all interested in energy).
Not only does this guy get the whole generational thing, but he’s not afraid to say what he’s thinking. (better not read […]



New blog link

By redstategreen • Apr 20th, 2010

Just stumbled across a blog called One Straw, which is going on my reader. He’s saying stuff I’ve been saying for a while now.
One thing I really liked was this article: HOA meets CSA. I’ve been slacking off quite a bit lately, and to see someone else in an HOA taking this seriously is tremendously […]



Compassion is hard

By Theresa • Apr 5th, 2010

When I sit on my meditation cushion and (try to) meditate, one of the types of meditation I seem drawn to the most is ‘metta’ meditation. During this type of meditation, you work at cultivating feelings of loving kindness and friendliness to all being…



Socks!

By redstategreen • Mar 9th, 2010

Just wanted to share the socks I made for my husband during Ravelry’s Ravelympics challenge (which, of course, was during the Olympics):

These are from a discontinued kit I got at KnitPicks.com, called the “sock cocktail”. It has a bunch of different patterns for the sock’s body, heels, toes, and cuffs that you can mix and […]



Socks!

By redstategreen • Mar 9th, 2010

Just wanted to share the socks I made for my husband during Ravelry’s Ravelympics challenge (which, of course, was during the Olympics):

These are from a discontinued kit I got at KnitPicks.com, called the “sock cocktail”. It has a bunch of different patterns for the sock’s body, heels, toes, and cuffs that you can mix and […]



A Flower Garden for Bees and People

By brooklinemama • Jan 22nd, 2010

Our back garden, house and veg garden are on a little hill. The slope (in red) is quite steep, and we terraced the part where the soil had been disturbed and was eroding. We put beds on either side (only the two lowest ones shown in brown) and a path of grass in the middle. […]



Wherever you go, there you are

By redstategreen • Jan 21st, 2010

A friend showed me this article about the relation between taxes and population movement in the US. Basically, people move when taxes get too high. Businesses move, families move.
The states they leave are usually blue states, those that receive them are more likely to be red states. Good for the states getting them, right?
Not necessarily. […]



Praying for the people of Haiti

By redstategreen • Jan 14th, 2010

If you have the means, please send money to a legitimate relief organization, preferably one that has a presence in Haiti already with people who speak the language. If not, please pray. They have a long road ahead of them. This is 9/11 on a national scale in terms of the destruction the earthquake has […]