Little Blog In The Big Woods

My old, old post here, on " No Refrigerator- for 30 Years " - (38, now...) continues to be one that gets very high attention, eve...

Unplug what? Unplug - everything. Yes, that's a drastic suggestion; but if you aren't feeling drastic today, you never will. Nuc...

If you're an expert at something, you're familiar with the "tuned eye" phenomenon; i.e., if you're an expert on raisi...

We're in the segment of the year when our house energy balance is always very, very tight. I was just getting ready to do an "ene...

Strange to use the phrase here in Minnesota, but Deep Summer is what I've got. It's mostly a phrase from the US South- and it mean...

This post came to mind because a commenter over on Crhuncky Chincken was asking "how much water use is 'normal' ? Where shoul...

Had a new comment come in on one of the "unplugging your fridge" threads, so I'm going to take this opportunity to answer a nu...

People have no idea what I sacrifice for the work I do. Grump grump grump. This time- it was apple blossom time. I was gone for a week. ...

Yesterday saw a pile of current conversations that wound up freezing me in their headlines. Too many things to comment on! No Impact Man wa...

A bit of a shorty here, partly by way of explanation. I've missed a couple days, and in general I don't intend to. When I first go...

Answers for Deanna, whose whole post is here: comment I'd love to do my quotations here with margin insets; but I'm too lazy to figu...

Unless it's August. Almost wrote "a warm chain saw" - but that would probably be just a bit much for some of us. Chain saw is ...