CHEESESLAVE

My mom (Babsie) and my friend Louisa (who lives in France) both tagged me on this meme.
Rules of “tag”:
1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog
2. Share 7 random and/or weird things about yourself
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to [...]

I’m excited! I just scored 15 pallets. And they were free! I found them on Craig’s List yesterday.
I have to drive to North Hollywood to pick them up but I’m not working today and Alla will be here to take care of Kate so I’m going to use the day to do errands and get [...]

We got back from Santa Barbara last Friday but then we were busy all weekend and have had very long days at work every day this week.
So here’s an old photo — from last week in Santa Barbara — Kate at the zoo watching the penguins swim:

Oops gotta run now — I have to go [...]

Somebody on one of my email lists posted this story yesterday. It’s so good, I have to share:
This morning, Vernon told me a bee story that he heard from Daniel and Jonas (his father and brother) who attended the organic beekeepers conference in Arizona.
One of the speakers described an experiment that he did with honey. [...]

We are back from vacation and I’m excited about a new idea (okay, an old idea!).
Drying clothes outside on a clothesline.
The bottom line assuming a 5,000-watt unit is 50 cents per hour. And while this might not sound like much, it really adds up over the course of a month. Heat-producing appliances always use surprisingly [...]

Tonight we ate at Bouchon in Santa Barbara.
Unbelievable food. The foie gras was outstanding. Best of my life — and I’m not exaggerating. And that includes all the foie gras I had in Paris.
They took the brioche and they prepared it French toast style, then slathered it with blood orange marmalade, and served the seared [...]

Here’s Kate having her morning bottle. I love the way she has her feet crossed, like a little lady.
She still has a runny nose and a cough. I really think it’s the Biokult causing a healing crisis. We upped her dose (per Dr. Campbell McBride’s instructions) last week from 2 capsules per day to 4 [...]

The other day, an envelope from Northern California appeared in my mailbox. It was full of dehydrated water kefir grains (sent by Claire, a WAPF member I met on the Yahoo Discussing NT mailing list — thanks, Claire!).
I put the grains in some distilled water and BOOM they tripled in size within an hour or [...]

Kate was sick today. She was coughing and sneezing and her nose was very runny. And she was cranky — not her usual happy self.
Here she is watching her program in her jammies before bed.

I hope she gets better before we go on vacation next week! It’s just a little cold, so I think she [...]

I can’t stop thinking about the guy who saved his trash for a year.
I read about him a while back but it didn’t really gel with me until now. I guess because all of this stuff is cumulative. You do one thing and it leads to another and another. It’s actually become a hobby for [...]