I try to gang all my meetings and errands together. I pick a date to get them all done. I assume I will not be able to do regular work on that particular day. This was supposed to be that day. But my first meeting ran over, bumping my second meeting out of the running—it […]
Continue readingGrill Starter Kit: A Jar of Used Cooking Oil
We don’t fry much anymore, but my daughter had a birthday recently and she wanted burgers and real, home fries. Hey, it’s her day. She gets what she wants. And they were yummy. But afterward, there came my usual fried food cleanup quandary. I don’t like to pour the used cooking oil down the drain. […]
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If I were a bit more mindful of my tasks and not so attached to the outcome, I’d enjoy my work more and suffer less physically. I must be watchful of overdoing. This tendency and its result are obvious during my days in the garden. I’ll have a bed I want to put in or […]
Continue readingRepurpose: Scarf Turned Draft Buster
What a serendipitous discovery! I’ve been doing a great deal of organizing, cleaning, and culling over the month of January. It’s a pretty regular event for me. I get the Christmas tree off to the kindling heap and holiday decorations packed up and out of the way. This activity almost always instills in me the […]
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