Archive | February 2011
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No Impact Week Photo Awards — YES! Magazine
We’re very happy that YES! Magazine chose three of our photos from No Impact Week for their slideshow- Thanks, YES! No Impact Week Photo Awards — YES! Magazine.
Regarding Baked Rodents, and other thoughts on mothering a problem feeder
Another post from my now-defunct old blog. We’ve come such a long, long way since I wrote this in 2007, it’s good for me to remember what it was like back then. If you’re not familiar with the difference between a picky eater and a problem feeder, if you believe as I did that “if […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s the chicken scrap bucket! Throwing a Lower Waste Classroom Party
A’s class had a Valentine’s Day party yesterday, and I volunteered myself as the PITA zero waste parent. There’s plenty of room for improvement, but here’s what we did yesterday. I loaded up our little red wagon with my almost-zero waste party supplies: 3 boxes of Ikea’s inexpensive glasses, leftover from my wedding 11 years […]
Odd & Beautiful Day at the Beach
A got new waterproof boots on Friday and wanted to visit “Mud Island” at Stinky Beach to celebrate. I’m sorry I don’t have pictures of what happened 30 seconds into our visit to the deep mud of the estuary…A had both of her new boots stuck deep in the muck and her sock-footed self standing […]