green
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new year’s rezzies
Here’s my list. What do they all mean? Ask me. 2009 Meet with my good girlfriend MLS every Thursday, 9 a.m. 15 minute stretch/15 minute walk every day + longer jaunts/workouts 2-3 times a week Eat healthfully (mostly vegetarian, no fast food or sodas, local, sustainable food, 100 Mile Diet) Get new glasses – for all the reading I’m planning to do Get chickens Save money No spend/no new – really trying to beat last year’s record Balance checkbook every month Watch food budget – (bulk, co-op, homegrown/homemade, basics, not convenience foods) Bigger garden (take out front lawn, add to sides and back garden Travel: NY (February), Tahoe (August), Philadelphia/NJ/NY…
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weekend rain, and sun
What I learned this weekend: that clothes on a clothesline do not dry in the rain. That clothes left overnight on the clothesline, dry or wet, end up as playthings for raccoons. That wet clothes that get wetter in the rain will break the clothesline. Now I have just one clothesline. Quite annoying. Because it rained on Saturday, I saved a lot of energy by not doing much laundry, and attempting to hang out what I did wash…when it wasn’t raining. That didn’t work so well. Hey, live and learn.We did not use the heater at all this weekend, though it was chilly and damp (relative to the rest of…
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Not too late to sign up!
In case you’re local and still interested, it is definitely not too late to sign up for my next two (non-writing) classes at the Alameda Adult School. I’m teaching on the following two Wednesday nights: 7 to 9 p.m. at the Central Avenue school site (Rm 330). You have to sign up to be in the class and I believe it is $15 per class. Must be 18 years old; sorry, no kids allowed (it’s the Adult School, silly.) Visit the link above to register online. See you then? SUSTAINABLE LIVING 1“GOING GREEN” (1 CLASS MEETING) — Nov. 12Everyone’s talking about “going green,” but what does it mean and how…
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elections and such
Glory be and praise Jah — the election is over and I can finally stop thinking about it. In the news biz, we don’t have the luxury of not caring — we have to follow this stuff and write stories about it (fair coverage for all candidates) and so on. I was counting the days til the election was over so I could sit quietly and think about nothing in particular. Glad to know I can finally do so. (. . . ) –> I must say, I am tickled and delighted about our President-Elect Barack Obama — though he has inherited a boatload of difficult tasks (um, war? economy?…
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me me me and tea
I have this thing about loose leaf tea lately. Like, it never occurred to me to drink it because it’s just a pain in the patoot to measure the leaves and they get all wet and stick to everything and then you have to scrape them out of the strainer and blah blah blah. But, for some reason, lately I’ve been drinking loose leaf tea and using my tea strainer (I have a couple of cute ones — shaped like a house or a tea cup, but I like the round one best). And it feels rather nice to be enjoying a beverage that does not produce much waste and…
