The goings on of our family.
The weather took a turn.
It’s snowing steadily now. Huge, wet flakes. The size of the flakes means that it is sticking and building up quickly. I expect it’ll turn to rain before much longer – it’s still above freezing out there. But it is nice. I miss snow.
I went to bed last night dreaming of snow covering the ground this morning. The forecast called for 1-4 inches. True, it was supposed to turn to rain later today and become a big slushy mess but for a few hours we’d have a nice snowy expanse.
It didn’t happen. Nothing but rain out there tonight. It never got cold enough. I’m disappointed. I was even planning to walk to work just to enjoy the snow in the brief time while it lasted (and because I don’t trust how people will drive in the snow). Maybe we’ll get some snow this winter but it doesn’t look like now. At higher elevations they probably are getting snow, but not here.
Peak Oil resolution in U.S. House of Representatives | EnergyBulletin.net | Energy and Peak Oil News
I doubt that anything is going to happen with this – but at least some people are trying to get people to wake up and realize that this is a problem. Oil production is going to peak. Now is the time to start making the transition (actually we should have been working on this long before now).
Poppy isn’t feeling well. Sunday morning she started vomitting. We were a bit concerned but later in the day she seemed to feel better. Monday she seemed to be doing better but didn’t eat much. But then Tuesday she vomitted again and started stretching a lot, looking uncomfortable. Clearly something wasn’t right. We took her to the vet and it turns out she’s got pancreatitis. We caught it pretty early so hopefully she’ll be okay. She has to take medicine and is on a special diet. We’ll have to see how she does. She’s not too happy this morning but has settled down some after a bit of her special food and medicine.
WebLife: Cob Builders Handbook: Contents
The Cob Builders Handbook is online – a nice resource to have available.
It can also be purchased at Amazon:
The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
Another good resource:
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (The Real Goods Solar Living Book)
Another:
The Cobber’s Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen Home
There are some nice photos at the Cobworks site.
Rain, rain, go away
Come again some other day
The old nursery rhyme sums up my feelings completely. Most of the time I actually like the rain but it has been wet, muddy, cold, and grey for far too many days.
We got our last box from the CSA last week. We enjoyed our summer of owning a share of an organic farm. The produce was fresh and delicious and we tried out quite a few new foods. However, we decided not to do it again next year. I definitely will be going to the Farmer’s Market every week for our fruits and veggies, I really enjoyed the trips down there and the food is marvelous. But the CSA just didn’t really work for us, we’d get an overload of some things and too little of others. The same thing happens in your own garden of course but you would plant for your tastes. Plant a little bit of beets, lots of tomatoes, little bit of fennel, tons of asparagus.
We still had an overload of carrots in our fridge and Ryan kept mentioning carrot cake so I finally got the grater out (didn’t even grate one knuckle!). The vegetable drawer is much lighter now that I’ve used up a lot of the carrots.
