Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I recently decided to dust off the “Mid-Willamette Valley Eat Local Challenge” blog and reinvent it. No longer a challenge, it’s now MWV Local: food, farming and flair in the Mid-Willamette Valley. I’ll be spending some time updating the existing information contained on the site, and then adding new content going forward. Please check it [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
stock photo — these aren’t my chickens! We have: 1 large cardboard box (recycled, yay!) 1 roll of screen to go over the top, so they don’t flutter out and hide under the couch 1 heat lamp 1 bag of wood shavings 1 bag of feed 1 waterer 1 feeder Now we just need the [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
1. Hyacinthe3, 2. Hyacinthe2, 3. Hyacinthe1 Check out what is gracing my living room these days! I just want to sit and stare at her, she’s so pretty. This is a late 1800s production spinning wheel from St Hyacinthe, Quebec. The lovely lady I purchased it from said she’d found it in an antique store [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
We dropped our host and went with another company… I hope this will solve the problem of this site being frequently inaccessable.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Today I made a conscious and deliberate effort to avoid a human dressed as a giant droplet of blood. The Red Cross is having their blood drive on campus, and this costumed human was cavorting around outside the Memorial Union building, presumably drawing attention to the cause. I was heading out the door, saw him [...]