Red Worm Composting
I have been reading EcoSherpa | Sustainable Living, Compost Guy | Turning Wastes Into Resources, and Red Worm Composting for several months now. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am interested in starting a compost bin near my garden. This bin would be my first foray into outdoor composting (my parents certainly never composted), and Bentley lives in Canada, and thus he experiments with winter composting. As my recent snow pictures show, I also have to be concerned about temperatures...
Read MoreBreaking the record…
…for most posts in a single day. I took this picture standing outside waiting for the eclipse. I just turned the flash off, set the camera on a tripod, and clicked. I like it. Please feel free to click on the pictures, then click on “see different sizes”, and make it larger to see it better. Pretty cool, huh? Pictures of the total lunar eclipse tonight. I am not a photographer, I didn’t have a telephoto zoom lens, and I have a $20 tripod (if that). I...
Read MoreAaron’s all amped up!!
by Aaron Each day at work while I eat my lunch, I hop on Slashdot and see what the latest buzz is in the IT world. I think I read the tech news because it’s more interesting to me and less depressing than the real news. Today I ran across the results of a competition that I hadn’t yet heard of and the contenders that made it to the top two positions really caught my interest. In classic Miss America form, I’ll proceed with the runner-up first, then the grand prize...
Read MoreGardening Challenge
I haven’t really written an introductory post about the gardening challenge I’m taking this year. Melinda over at Elements in Time: Creating Edible Landscape is hosting a challenge to grow one additional type of vegetable or fruit from seed this year. I had already started some seeds (of which most are being stubborn and doing nothing) from some packets I had laying around from last year. I figured I’d go ahead and try it to see what happened, while I’m waiting for new...
Read MoreJen’s version of Toonz’s Lasagna Soup
A friend of mine posted his world-champion award-winning Lasagna Soup on a website we both frequent. Well, okay, I don’t think it has actually won any awards, and probably isn’t a world-champion. But it should be. Unfortunately for me, his soup had meat in it. Rather than give up completely, I decided to vegetarianize it. I often take meat recipes and make them vegetarian recipes. I’d love to figure out how to make them vegan recipes, but I haven’t gotten quite that far...
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