June Food Stamp Challenge: Two Degrees Of Foraged Fruit A.K.A. Turning Compost Into Fancy Hooch
This morning, while waiting for my doctor’s appointment, I struck up a conversation about gardening with a guy in the waiting room. When I mentioned that I had huge loquats this year because of the bees, he mentioned that he makes a “mock amaretto” liquor by soaking the sun dried pits from his loquats in [...]
The Master List
As my 2010 Resolution is to “fix my life,” I thought it might be a good idea to keep a running list of all the unfinished projects that are knocking around the inside of my head and cluttering my house. Of course, this list is in no particular order. But let’s face it. If I [...]
It’s Like Hello Kitty For Men
As an early Christmas present, I gave Mr. Foxypants a penguin shaped seltzer machine to replace his two bottle a day Pellegrino habit. Although I absolutely prefer the taste of Pellegrino over filtered Los Angeles tap water, environmentally, bottled water is a terrible waste of resources. Financially, bottle water sucks too, as Pellegrino is more [...]
I Hate To Be One Of Those Lame People
who blog about their appliances. But I admit it:I’m an appliance whore. The only major disagreement that I have ever had with Mr. Foxypants is over my refrigerator. That’s the one thing that I had to leave behind for my renters when I moved in with him last year. My old fridge was custom-built for me [...]
Channeling My Inner-1950′s Housewife, Who, By The Way, Is Awesome
I needed to replace the gorgeous vintage Wedgewood stove in my old house (which I moved to the house that I share with Mr. Foxypants) with a “new” stove for my renters. I am a big fan of Okeefe & Merritt and Wedgewood stoves from the 1940′s and 1950′s. In addition to cooking like champs, [...]
I Wish I Had Thought of This!
In addition to a rash of people leaving presents and thank you cards on the doorsteps of fellow freecyclers, Leslie, a woman on my local freecycle group, has taken Christmas spirit one step further: “Hope you all had a Merry Christmas. If you didn’t get all the chocolate you wanted in your stocking, I have [...]
Not Working At Hollywood But At Least My House Is Clean
I had like the nastiest fun fur style yarn in “rainbow sherbert” and a bunch of partial skeins of pink and magenta “fashion” yarns that I’d gotten for free at a swap party taking up precious real estate in my crafty crap bureau (formerly the much larger crafty crap closet). I hated the yarn. It [...]
