Cleaning Up and Behind

I spent much of Saturday cleaning carpets throughout my house. After the Friday fiasco, I decided I just needed to bite the bullet and rent a steam cleaner for the day and clean the carpets that had been “effected.” While I had the cleaner, I decided to shampoo all of the carpets in my house [...]

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Planning for Winter – Body, Mind and House

Here in St. Louis, Missouri the temperature had become unseasonable cold with temps in the 40′s already (and lots of rain!), and my house temp is hovering around 56. Today I almost considered turning on the furnace, but since the winter temp level I have set for myself is 52 degrees, I held off and [...]

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A Beautiful Weekend

Saturday was lovely. I worked in the yard and napped, worked in the yard and napped, and worked in the yard some more and napped some more. It was a wonderful day and I felt like I got a caught up on my sleep. Sunday was another incredible day. After church and a church gathering [...]

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A New Lenten Discipline

Many know that Lent is a weird time for me (see last year’s post) – but every year I try and wade through it – feeling that I am getting closer to the shore with every passing year. On Sunday a few friends of mine and I were sitting around at lunch talking about what [...]

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The Seeds They Be A Poppin

I have been crazy busy lately with work and meetings and organizing work and meetings and some living situation distractions. I thought I would up-date folks on my garden planning: Here is a pic of my three kinds of tomatoes (Cherry, Big Boy & Roma) and the bare spot is the bell peppers which are [...]

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Revisiting the Riot

It has been a full six months since I finished my year of RIOT for Austerity. So, I thought it was a good time for me to see how I have done over the past year – with half of the year without Rioting. I’ve gone the wrong direction in most cases – but not [...]

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Green Meme #1

I have been tagged for this GREEN MEME. These are the rules: Link to Green Meme Bloggers Link to whoever tagged you – Willow at “Contemplating Change.” Include meme number – MEME #1 Include these guidelines in your post – DONE! Answer the questions – see below Tag 3 other green bloggers – see below [...]

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HOW TO… Make a No-Sew Draft Snake

As the weather gets colder I am finding more places where I am feeling a draft… and I’m not happy about it. So, to stop this cold air I decided to make some cheap and easy draft snakes, or draft dodgers or a threshold insulators. What these are is something that is placed where air [...]

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My Oda to Bakin’ Soda (really bad poetry)

As I struggle through the ups and downs of my environmental quest to do want I need while still trying to use less. I happened upon some incredible stuff; that does so much without a cost that is tuff. Plastic is evil and doesn’t break down in the dump; Baking soda comes packaged in recycle-able [...]

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HOW TO… Select Paint

This is part of the “How To” section of the blog, which I decided to do after Sharon over at Casaubon’s Book suggested that we all learn how to do more things ourselves. I figured I could share what I knew and hopefully continue to learn from others. My first post in this teaching section [...]

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