Posted in urban chickens, personal, dogs, cat on Dec 24th, 2007
Merry Christmas all!
Years ago I used to write a Christmas letter and send copies out to everyone. I’m not sure when I stopped, but I haven’t done it for a few years now. This year we had photo cards made with the picture of our tree and we’re sending them out (hopefully) later this week. […]
Last night Mike and I had dinner at Tilth. We were supposed to go to Phoenix for Christmas - but didn’t so that we can spend the whole week getting our house in order - and dinner at Tilth was our special celebration for just the two of us. Even though we’ll now be spending […]
We’ve found the house we want and we’re working out that side of the deal. I don’t want to jinx it so I won’t be posting anything about it here until it’s a done deal. However, the flip side of finding the house we want is that we have to sell the house we have.
Starting […]
Posted in personal on Dec 21st, 2007
Random fact you might not know about me if you haven’t met me in real life. I am an avid skier and have been since I was about 8 years old. I learned to ski on the hills in southeastern Minnesota. Every year my parents took us on ski trips to places like Lutsen Mountain, […]
Turns out that you can cook a fresh ham roast just like you can cook a pork shoulder. Once I found that out from a very helpful internet friend, then the world was my oyster. Or at least my pork roast. I looked around for a while and finally decided to try a recipe from […]
Posted in personal on Dec 18th, 2007
We’ve lived in our house for going on 7 years. The first five of them were spent moving from one updating project to the next. We’ve gutted and remodeled the bathroom, painted every room, given the kitchen a facelift, refinished the hardwoods, added hardscaped patio and paths, built a shed and fence, replaced windows and […]
Last week was tough for us, food wise, as I didn’t have time to go to the farmer’s market. I think the only really completely local dinner we had was eggs and bacon. The rest of the meals we cooked were between 50 and 75% local, but none were really the 90% I strive for.
This […]
