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being “green”

The path to ACTUALLY eating healthy.

I’ve probably mentioned before, but I have given our diet a complete overhaul. It’s not even close to what I consider perfect, but it’s so much better than it was before…which makes me wonder how we even made it day to day pre-paying-attention-to-what-we-eat. I stopped buying snack food, started actually …

A Garden Grows in Burlington

I built a garden in my backyard. It is not a very big garden, only eight feet by four feet. Thirty-two square feet of garden-scape in my back yard. I am living the dream. It is a modest dream, in some ways, but quite grand in most others. When I …

Composting!

There were a lot of things that factored heavily when we bought our house. Fenced in yard? Check. Two car garage? Check. Crazy elevated playhouse behind the shed made of deteriorating particle-board? Che-what? Yeah, so, in the back corner of our yard, there was a tree-house that looked like a …

Passions!

Josiah is turkey hunting for the first time this weekend. He’s never been hunting. In fact, he just learned how to use a gun this past weekend from his uncle. Hunting never bothered me… I have always been unsure about my feelings on guns. I think hunting is great, but …