New Chicken Coop
Hard to believe it has been five years since we constructed a home for our first flock. Those birds developed...
Hard to believe it has been five years since we constructed a home for our first flock. Those birds developed...
In late April, we had a pretty impressive hailstorm, which led to us getting a new roof and new gutters....
In the middle of our other spring project, the timing was right to get our new pets, but that started...
This has been a busy spring. Thanks to warmer than average temperatures in February, we got a jump on our...
I challenge anyone to watch the documentary Food, Inc. and not be influenced to make at least a few changes...
[continued from Part 1] After meeting with the contractor that Ameren dispatched to walk my property line and mark trees,...
I am not a fan of Ameren. Ever since I spent seven days without electricity in the throes of a...
Last year I wrote about the state of the electric car market, so I wanted to revisit the topic and...
Last year’s garden was a big success, but it didn’t take us long to realize that it wasn’t big enough...
Looking for a good way to store your Christmas lights and don’t want to spend a lot of money? If...
A year ago I wrote about the electric car from Zenn Motors that was on the verge of becoming a...
We had our first salad the other night from our garden and it was great. I can’t wait for all...
Yeah, I know I’m a week late, but I had to post an update on our square foot garden. My...
We picked up Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening book last year with the intent of planting a small vegetable garden,...
A few years ago some folks started asking the question, What Would Jesus Drive? I’m not sure how seriously the...
If you want to “go green” for environmental reasons, that’s great. If you want to do it for financial reasons,...
Since we’ve been talking about planting a garden for quite a while now, my Earth Day gift to myself this...
I’ve written about electric cars before, but for a while now I’ve been following what I consider to be the...
Last summer when I wrote about our solar water heater installation, I was anxious to see how it would function...
As I wrote about earlier this year, my old phone had developed some kind of malignant growth on its display,...
Back in July, I wrote about having a solar water heater installed. About the same time, I also had solar-powered...
As I mentioned last month, we planned to install a solar water heater in our home this year. That plan...
As I mentioned previously, I was considering installing a photovoltaic system this year to offset some of our home energy...