Author: Calamity Jane
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Budgeting
I know it might seem like it’s always “Riana” this and “Riana” that, but she’s really helping me kick myself in the butt lately. I’m impressed by her almost two years of hardly buying anything. What she calls the Slow Years. I’m almost enticed by the extremity of it. But. There’s always a but. I…
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A Garden! (Sort Of)
(This will be first of many posts, in the process of checking one of the biggies off of my To-Do List– ‘get a space at a community garden’) I’m SOOOOOO excited! I finally have a garden! Sort of. Well, what I have is permission, and help to accomplish a concept. The concept being a new…
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Baking Bonanza!
As promised by the weatherman, the temperature dipped enormously last night. There was a helluva storm bringing it in too. Even though the sliver of sky I can see from our bed is small, when there’s lightening it flashes white even through my eyelids. I love to lay there with my eyes closed and “see”…
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Worm Bin Update
Well, I made my bin. Hooray for me. Kind of anticlimactic though, because according to this knowledgeable looking site, I have to let it “age” before I add the wormies. So I made the bin last week, added a layer of shredded paper, a layer of food, and another of paper. During the week I’ve…
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Of Toys and Not Toys
Just saw one of Riana’s old posts with a little video about kids and consumerism. Holy Crapola! I forget how extreme that all is, we lead such a sheltered life. I feel wicked enough setting the toddler down in front of a video once a day (ever since she stopped napping at 1 1/2!) I…
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