Monthly Archives: May 2010
Happy Homesteaders
| May 30, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Just Pictures |
Just for fun, here are a couple of pictures of Joshua and me. We’ve got all kinds of happy things going on, and it’s nice to get that happiness caught on camera now and then. Keep Reading
How to Cool Your Home Naturally – Part Two
| May 27, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Simple-Eco-Happy |
You’re probably not going to make large-scale changes to your home and you might not want to invest in awnings and there’s only so much you can do with your appliances. What you really want to know is how to simply use your windows to make your home cooler. This is where window magic comes in. (And this is my favorite part!) Keep Reading
How to Cool Your Home Naturally – Part One
| May 25, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Simple-Eco-Happy |
When Joshua and I moved in at The Wallow, it was going on winter. Our home has an awesome wood stove, so we were able to heat the house just with wood, even though the house also has central air and heat. Now it’s summer, and we’re also committed to cooling the house without A/C. So far, the experiment is going well. It has yet to get over 75 in the house, even as outside temperatures have approached 90. In many other houses, I’ve tried to cool naturally with much less success, as I’m sure many other have. Here’s a little primer on how to cool your house naturally in case you’d like to give it a try. Keep Reading
Salad Bar Meals
| May 20, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen |
Of all the meals in the world, I feel the most decadent and joyful when I’m eating from a plate of juicy fruits and veggies and little bits of meat and cheese. It feels like a tiny little Roman orgy on a plate, as if there should be someone nearby fanning me with a palm leaf. Keep Reading
Step One: Notice
| May 17, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Have you seen the 1988 John Carpenter movie They Live? The most memorable bit to me is when Roddy Piper’s character puts on a pair of found sunglasses and instantly begins seeing subliminal messages in the things around him. I find it useful to do the job of those sunglasses for myself sometimes, especially with advertising. Ads are trying to convince me to buy their product, but they are often trying to convince me of something pretty silly in an effort to do so. When I’m watching a car ad and I say out loud to myself, “Oh, apparently, if I buy this brand of car, chicks will dig me,” I hope that it makes my mind less fertile ground for that message. Keep Reading
Smile! Unexpected Art
| May 13, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Uncategorized |
Via Shakesville, I read about these awesome sculptures by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle that just went up in Washington DC. As mentioned at the ribbon cutting, the sculptures help get more art out of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and into the streets. Keep Reading
Food Waste
| May 10, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Animals |
I read a lot of homesteading blogs and other blogs that cover environmental or hippie topics from one direction or another. A common things that I see is various “challenges”, where the blogger will try really hard to do or not do something in a given time frame. Maybe it’s a no-TV challenge, where the blogger will not watch any television for a week or a month. Maybe it’s monitoring plastic purchases or going cold turkey on fast food. Recently, I watched several bloggers take part in a “Real Food Challenge”, which involved a variety of ways to alter ones relationship with food.
Recently, I ran across a blogger who focuses on food waste. On Friday she posts what food her family wasted that week, including a picture. There are other bloggers who are in on this Food Waste challenge, including posting pictures of waste and outlining ways to reduce food waste. Keep Reading
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