Sometimes, I think I do vermicomposting (worms eating my garbage) just because it’s entertaining, though it makes excellent compost and tea for the garden. I don’t think that vermicomposting can process nearly the amount of organic waste that a decently cranking compost pile can.  It also implies a certain amount of fiddling that just piling [...]

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I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]

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I do go off on tangents sometimes, eh?
Let us cleanse our palates with some nice normal stuff:
Wormcake.  I was worried that they’d all fried in the recent heat.  Nope.  Quite happy living in their own filth and eating my garbage.  THANKS, GUYGALS!
I was reading this blog the other day, and it inspired me to get [...]

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Farmgirl_dk’s photo essays are truly seminal works.  They meld the grounded sensibility of early American agricultural pragmatism with a fluxus-like self-referential juxtaposition of the every day object as paradigm violating attack on our preconceived notions of art.
The “eggs” are small.  The “eggs” are large.  Which is it?  Who are we to believe?  Are we the [...]

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Apparently, there was some sort of misunderstanding… or my mood’s rubbing off on the girls, cuz they were PISSED today.  All of them.  Now, I don’t want to sound sexist… lord knows… I would never…
But, having generally hired women for my businesses, I find that… how to put this… they sometimes… let’s say… synchronize in [...]

 

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