Favorites & environmental attention 09 Jul 2007 09:34 am
produce, in more ways than one.
v. , past tense: we produced.
n.:Â we have produce.Â
Item # 1, first date in nearly two years; I should probably create a new category called, “make your own entertainment” for those on budgets and TMM’s! Ours was done on the cheap: two kids at camp, two kids watched by friends (will swap childcare in the future), some window shopping (salvage yard to inspire projects), some curriculum shopping (huge savings in energy, emotions, and cash than if we’d done a traditional curriculum convention), and a fantastic lunch rather than dinner out. Tons of fun and financially free! What a concept!
would have loved to buy this door…beautiful.
Sandy, are you reading? This store is as big as Chamblain’s in Jax, but organized. You would love it! All used books and CD’s. Glorious. 
For $100, we found some of the best materials we’ve bought in years. More info to come on my school blog.
LOVE The Tomato Head!
It was a good day out. That was Friday…the door we did get was a free salvage from the Habitat store. We bought paint from there; $8/gallon, which meant the table David built me on Saturday for a kitchen counter cost a total of $8 dollars! He built it and I painted it; one more coat and it’s ready for use. Saturday also meant all the kids were back in the nest, home from camp. I picked 10 quarts of berries, made 8 pints of jam, and 1 pie. We picked and froze 4 quarts of summer squash and 2 quarts of green beans from the first picking. The plans are drawn for our homesteading projects for the coming year. On the 90% Reduction Challenge, we are down 50% on our trash. I can’t wait to get my electricty and water bills to see how my efforts in those areas are paying off!
on 10 Jul 2007 at 4:55 pm 1.dalimama said …
Sounds like a good date to me. How much do the hanging sinks and the door go for? I am curious! The bookstore looks faboo.
on 10 Jul 2007 at 5:24 pm 2.Tia said …
Funny thing on the salvage stuff: no prices. They said, “pick your pile and we’ll tell you how much it will cost”. I think it’s total dickering at that point. I didn’t care for the method; imagine digging through all that and then it falling out of the budget realm! Nah…I’ll be getting a price BEFORE I dig through the piles. At least a ballpark figure.
on 11 Jul 2007 at 12:56 pm 3.Angela123 said …
>I can’t wait to get my electricty and water bills to see how my efforts in those areas are paying off!
You can read your water and electricity meters to gauge your progress.
http://www.h2ouse.net/resources/meter/index.cfm
on 18 Jul 2007 at 10:50 am 4.Carrie J said …
I know that bookstore! Nice to find another blogger from the area. Your blog is very nice.