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• Back on the Weight Watchers track

  I knew this time was coming. Pants becoming progressively tighter aren’t very subtle. And, even though I avoided stepping on the scale for as long as I could, one day I did it. It wasn’t pretty. And why did we ever teach Duncan to read letters... Posted Oct 12 2008, 01:55 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Food...mmmm

• Feasting from my garden

  There’s something so satisfying about cooking dinner with food from my garden. Dinner tonight - currently bubbling away on the stove — features tilapia (from who knows where) cooked in a tomato and pepper sauce. The tomatoes, red pepper and... Posted Aug 17 2008, 06:03 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Food...mmmm, organic, garden, localvore

• What do I do with the worms in my compost?

  I love my compost bins, tucked away behind the garage. It’s so quiet and private back there (a big thing in a city backyard) and smells of leaves and rain and the forest. I finally got around to screening my compost. Oh, what beautiful stuff. It’s... Posted Aug 07 2008, 02:10 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Environment, Food...mmmm, Homesteading

• You know you’re old when…

  Kevin keeps saying that we’re old now. I’m getting more and more white hair. We have to schedule sex. But I’ve been refusing to buy into the notion of oldness. Until today. We recently switched banks because M&T Bank just screwed... Posted May 05 2008, 03:19 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions

• Composting: a new way of healing

  We’re finally getting back into composting. We’ve had a pile behind the garage since we moved in. For a couple of years I collected vegetable scraps and had them in a chicken-wire bin, but that went by the wayside, too. We still put leaves... Posted Apr 30 2008, 10:45 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Environment

• Obession #54: Crocheting

  I was supposed to go to bed early yesterday. I didn’t. I stayed up way too late, instead. Why? My new obsession. Duncan’s babette blanket. I don’t know how I came across a web site about it. But I did. And it stole my sanity. I can’t... Posted Mar 09 2008, 08:14 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Craftiness

• Rice is nice

  My God, I cannot stop myself. From what? Playing that FreeRice “game” and eating Girl Scout cookies. Why did I bring a box upstairs with me? I’ve donated 1020 grains of rice and I need to stop myself. Must. Close. Browser. Window. My... Posted Nov 15 2007, 03:54 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Writing

• OK, who’s this “Joanna” person?

  It’s freezing in the attic/office this morning. I can’t wait until my micathermic panel heater arrives. I should check on that. It’s been a while. I’ve been up here for a while working and it’s still cold, so I thought I’d... Posted Nov 08 2007, 11:31 AM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions

• What happened to “Silandara’s blog”?

  Weren’t you getting tired of that train track image? I was. And that whole dark green background thing (if the other background didn’t load, which it doesn’t on PDAs) wasn’t working for me. Change is good. And I keep wrestling... Posted Nov 05 2007, 04:49 PM by Greenie Weenie Filed under: Various obsessions, Blogging