Riot 4 Austerity

Iris has a Nature Bingo game that has really beautiful illustrations. The backs of the cards have information about different elements of nature. For example, here’s what the “Fungi” card says:

Fungi is a large group of lower plants that lack photosynthetic ability or chlorophyll. The group includes, molds, mildews, mushrooms, and most bacteria. Yeast is a fungi and is used in making some breads and cheeses. The fungi with large fruiting structures are known as morels, mushrooms and puffballs. The study of fungi is mycology.

I’m appalled.

The weather has been so beautiful, sunny and warm, that I decided to get out my tote of summer clothes.
I piled the clothes high on the coffee table and got down to business.

Sorted by type: t-shirt, tank top, Sunday shirt, shorts, capris, and skirts.
Set aside anything that is ripped, soiled, or just plain ugly.
Then I […]

I brought home the hive yesterday. Amie is so excited about it; it is finally becoming real, as in, not just Mama talking. She’s going to help me paint it, though she’s not happy about it having to be white or something close to that.
Having just purchased all the stuff necessary for begin a hive, […]

Down…getting things down (on paper), slowing down, working down the chain…the things I want to explore the most when I think of down. Recording an idea…thinking what if one of my old prayer flags was stitched to a new piece…

back at work (income continues, yay)working hard on uni course loadenvisioning a house of light and wood in a beautiful bushland settingseeing a lot of injustices, and basic lack of respects and am feeling outraged.. and unsure of what can be done abou…

I did a lot of work in the garden today, another glorious Spring day. I filled up almost the entire new bed against the fence (4 x 16 feet). I am using the soil from the potato towers, which after sitting still for a good 7 months is showing its true nature: it’s full of […]

My twenty-something nephew is a pretty impressive guy.
He’s tall, gorgeous – and hungry. He wants to make something of himself and he’s willing to work hard for it. I remember when Sam [not his real name] was fourteen and getting ready to enter high school. He decided to try out for the state champion […]

I guess this whole “green thing” is catching on, Nabisco and 3M have started coming out with more eco-conscious products. The first is this Trisquits box I came across, that had a sheet of cardboard that had basil seeds embedded in it. You plant the …

Today I decided to sort through my small collection of purses and bags.  Thankfully this only took a few minutes of time.  It took me longer to find them all than to go through the minimizing process.
I found 2 cotton green purses, 1 vinyl brown purse, a black fancy clutch purse, a fanny pack,  a […]

I don’t usually like taking solicited requests for reviews of any kind, but I got an email from Nicole, at Ecofreek.com, who asked for a review. My only criteria for non-annoying eco-friendly websites is that they not have ads. Ecofreek had one ad, f…