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Better Late Than Never
So it’s been a while since my last post. Here’s why: It started with the quilt for Ariel’s wedding. That led to a commission for a baby quilt. That led to an invite to participate in a craft show in...
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Rebooting
Well, the garden was a disaster this year. The squash died, the Corn tasseled but failed to fill out, the brocs and kale perished in the heat, the dog dug up the cukes, the potatoes grew luxuriant, but...
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Please Take a Minute and Help Me Start My Business
I’ve been sewing a lot and came up with a new product, a diaper bag that can be shoulder-carried or mounted on a stroller. Today was a pretty big day for me and the bag. I can now say “patent...
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Oh, SNAP! Living On Food Stamps
I did it for four years, feeding myself and my three children. We never went hungry, ran out of food, or had to hit the soup kitchen or local food pantry. Now, I know that there are people who will...
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Forgot One Moneysaving Hint
Many years ago, the National Lampoon said it best. Headline: Housewife Serves Dead Bird to Family Caption: Tearful confession—“I made soup from the bones!”
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Reboot
Hi! Teri here. Just wanted to thank those of you who’ve chosen to follow my blog. So here’s what I’ve been doing lately, instead of posting: SuburbUtopia is now on Etsy, selling my handmade crafts....
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Why I Love My Husband
He woke at 5:33 am this morning, hearing a dog barking outside. Both of our dogs were in the bed with him. “Why don’t they let their dog in?” he thought and rolled over. The barking stopped, but began...
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Spring in Delaware
We actually are having (or possibly have had) a real Spring here in Delaware this year. A normal Delaware Spring is 3 days long: three, balmy, lovely days which may or may not occur in a row. Then it’s...
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Dino Watch
This just in from ThinkProgress: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3436923/germany-energy-records/ Yes, Germany, with it’s average 30 days of sunshine a year, just hit 74.9% of it’s energy...
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A Good Week in Suburbutopia
It’s been an embarrassingly ridiculously long time since I posted last. Evidently, living in a rented room writing about your husband’s gardening adventures is not quite the same as actually living...
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Unexpectedly Happy Ending
Ralph discovered these things in our compost heap. Yikes! There were millions of them, it seemed, busily munching on a head of cabbage that had split and gone bad. We’d dealt with an earwig...
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Suburban Garden Planning 101
It’s raining compost. Fall really is the time to start your garden. It’s just raining compost as the leaves fall from the trees. The days are cool and much more pleasant to work in than the muggy days...
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Suburban Garden Planning 102
After. This article is about the before part. So there you are with your hot cup of tea (or coffee, hot chocolate, cold beer, whatever) and the newly arrived seed catalogs, or your computer browser is...
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Suburban Garden Planning 103
Collards and broccoli, just set out. So, remember how I said not to order anything yet? Hope you were paying attention, because this time we’re going to talk about an important piece of the gardening...
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Summer Soup
The woodstove heats the house on this chilly late fall day.. I rummaged in the freezer and found yellow squash, green beans, Roma tomatoes, a pint of blanching water from some vegetable or other. I...
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Snow Day Soup
It’s snowing, so it’s Soup Day. Here’s what I’m making. How about you? Brazilian Black Bean Soup (Feijoada) 1 lb black beans, washed and picked over 2 qts water 8 cloves garlic 2 bay leaves 1 orange,...
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In Case You Didn’t Think the Republican Party is Owned by the Fossil Fuel...
http://grist.org/politics/why-are-republican-leaders-so-strongly-opposed-to-a-climate-deal/ These are death throes.
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