Photoshoot with a Three-Year-Old

I have energy updates and some blabbering about the Buy-Nothing Challenge, but I thought first something lighter would be good. Here are some shots from two different photo shoots with Miss L4 this afternoon. I finally got around to asking her to wear her Apple Sky Pants. L1 and I both had [...]

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What Would I Do For My Garden?

Of course I weed, I water, and last night I made sure everything that had been planted outside was covered for the frost warning.

But I have now gone beyond that. Last night my book club met at a local coffee shop that is within walking distance of my house. It was a great [...]

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Buy Nothing Update 4

This week we used money on the following:

Vet bill (eek!)
Food
Gas
Bills (they’re so pesky, every week!!)

The nonessential of the week:

Fabric for the shower gift. Then I went to town and made six napkins, hand-embroidered them all, and made six place mats, which was like making twelve because they were reversible. It was down to [...]

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Be Still My Crunchy Heart

My boy comes home from school today, runs upstairs to see me (where I’m diligently sewing on the bridal shower gift… more on that in another post!) and shows me a bag of garbage.  He exclaims, “Mama, Mama, look!  I picked this up on the playground today at recess!!”  Mama cringes as she thinks there [...]

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Why We Have the Cold Frame Habit

Remember this? Yesterday I had my first lettuce out of the cold frame that I planted at the end of October (after growing from seeds starting in September, I think). All of the green lettuce died during the winter, but the red salad bowl all made it, beautiful and tasty.
There are two [...]

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Earth Day, Every Day

Hmmm, a Crunchy Life–must be a great post about loving the Earth, all hearts and flowers and rainbows for Earth Day, right?
Wrong.
The past few days I have been contemplating what I would “do” for Earth Day. Then this morning I had this revelation that I wasn’t going to “do” anything. For me, Earth [...]

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Buy Nothing Week #3 Update

This week money was spent on:

food
bills

I was sorely tempted to buy supplies for my shop at the craft thrift shop yesterday, but I put everything back.  I went in looking for fabric to make something for the bridal shower I’m attending next weekend, but didn’t find anything.  This coming week I expect to spend money [...]

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My Bliss: Dirt!

After initial despair that all the free dirt from the town was gone this year, we spent a happy day digging and shoveling dirt yesterday. But oh! I was sore and tired last night. It was worth it as all the garden beds are now ready to receive seeds, seedlings and the new [...]

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Taking Crunchy To a New Level

I think I may have hit a wall!! Go check out Crunchy Chicken’s challenge for May!! As I looked at them, I thought, “well, I can do a lot of all them in a partial manner….” I was feeling like a crunchy loser! But I have to talk it over with [...]

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Crunchy Bed Pal

If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know that I love to make things. Many months ago I wrote a post about trying to find a balance point between being less consumerist and selling my wares. The comments in that post were helpful and have stayed with me all these [...]

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