Filed under: Hippy Shit, In The Kitchen, People I Know, Recipes, Things I Eat | Tags: Baking, beet cake, cake, CSA, Rae, Recipes, vegetables
I’ve been pretty big into making desserts with vegetables as the late summer harvest goes into overdrive — making a beet cake to use up those prolific, purple roots appearing in my CSA order seemed a no-brainer.
Filed under: Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, How-To, In The Kitchen, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: DIY, exfoliate, health and beauty, homemade, How-To, natural products, Recipes
With all the warning coming out about this chemical or that chemical, I thought I’d share a ‘recipe’ for a simple exfoliating scrub that you can make with ingredients found in your kitchen. This product is super-effective and so safe you could eat it — quite literally!
Filed under: Baby!, Fibre Crafts, Get Older, Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, Listen to Stuff, Make Lists of Things, My Kids, Random Geekery, Watch Stuff, Work at Susie's | Tags: Doctor Who, effexor, effexor discontinuation syndrome, extraordinary baby shoppe, Mountain Path, pregnant
I’ve become a lazy blogger — too preoccupied with my gardening, I think, to do much more than contemplate posting. However, I’ve some stuff to share in point form:
Filed under: Hippy Shit, My Kids, Random Geekery, Sewing, The Urban Jungle | Tags: guerrilla gardening, Sewing, The Urban Jungle
I’ve been an incredibly crappy blogger lately. No good excuses other than “It’s Spring! Yay!”, “I’m gardening! Yay!” and “I have a desperate compulsion to design and sew dresses for little girls, despite having none of my own! Yay?”
Spring is awesome. I feel myself coming slowly back to life after the creative stasis of Winter. This means I’ve a list of projects longer than my arm and, quite honestly, not nearly the required time to see them to completion. I’m currently (finally?) installing the recycled patio-stone walkway in my front yard — the one I’ve been thinking and talking about since I did a big part of the one in the back yard. It’s coming along nicely, but is only a couple feet long. I need to find some more patio stones to smash up for it. If anyone has some they’d like to get rid of, let me know — I’m happy to come and get them with my van!
Filed under: City of Ottawa, Hippy Shit, Sticks and Stones, The Urban Jungle, Things I Do | Tags: guerrilla gardening, Hintonburg, neighbourhood, ottawa, urban jungle, urban spaces
The park at the end of our street is a wonderful space for kids. There are broad paved paths perfect for learning to ride bikes, a smaller play structure for climbing and sliding, lots of little hills to roll down and tables and seating to encourage congregation of families and neighbours.
About the only thing missing from this great little gem, IMO, are some kid-friendly plants with flowers to be enjoyed or picked that are hardy enough to withstand the heat from the asphalt and the love from the children. What the park accomplishes in fun and function, it sorely lacks in visual appeal. A few half-hearted efforts in years past have left a couple patches of mangy forsythia bushes, some enthusiastic daylilies, a couple random tulips, and violets that have self-seeded sporadically around the park.
Fortunately, I’ve a surfeit of Spring-flowering plants needing new homes.
