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well i have been painting up a storm lately, and in the process have ended up with 30 and soon to be 40 5g paint cans the lind with a resealable top. i have been trying for the life of me to come up with something that i can do with them but i am stumped beyond using them as containers for...

hey lupin to weird my ex and DD live in a house i own on westlake ave right in your old stompin grounds it seems. small world!! i lived there too for a cpl years. i really like that part of town. lots of green etc.

i was just making a joke more than anything i need to figure out the smilies so my tone isnt misread. for future reference almost everything i say is with a grin on my face. i do hate to see the way language is heading these days though to many short cuts etc.. everyone be well ciao

hey lupin you are living in my old stomping grounds i grew up in lennox and addington county and spent my summers in prince edward county or should i say "the county" lol i never use voila either unless i am using it "en francias" i just hate to see our language bastardized for convenience or...

i see it way to much as walla etc. for it to be spelling errors i just hope it doesnt go the way of colour etc. (even my friggin spellcheck says colour is spelled color?!?!?)

on a completely different train of thought something i have been noticing and that bugs the heck outa me is the the way you americans use the term "walla" or "waalaa" i am not sure where this comes from but what i am sure of that you are bastardizing the french language the word is "voila"...

perfect!!! i have been wanting to make one all summer. now i have no excuses. i would love to think that i could get it done in time for this years apples but i have a feeelinn that that may be a bit ambitious. please keep us posted.

i dint know if i can describe this well enough but to fasten plastic to your hoop house you can do this: get twice the length of each side of HH worth of 1" or 2" or whatever black pvc pipe (the kind used for irrigation lines) and cut into four lengths 2 for each side now with two of them you...

charge lots!!! i used to and may again with a bit of a twist, sell xmas baked goods either as gift baskets or just for people to have around i would sell truffles, candied ginger, fruit cake etc. etc. i prob had twenty diff items. to price each year i'd go check out the most expensive foodie...

cider!!

when i make granola i use half and half oil and honey or maple syrup, heat till emulsified. pour over grain mix bake slowly and stir constantly. if you want it to clump leave it in little piles while it cools the sugar will make it stick together. i just bake the grains i use and add things...

toyota anything but especially those little pickups 4 runners etc. they are awsome i have put 500000 plus kms on 2 of them over the years one of which is now at 600000 and i still use it as a bush truck and it never gets stuck and can go ANYWHERE. cheep on gas and easy to fix lots of parts...

ah ya unschooling our lives was a anthology you are right matt has written a tonne of great stuff on unschooling aswell.

its called the hurried infant you can find the episodes at cbc radio website just search the show title and you will find both episodes. i highly recommend listening to them. they speak to my point so exactly that i have not been able recommend to my DDs' mom because it would be taken the...

there was a two part series on ideas a radio show here in canada on cbc i think called the hurried child. this was a 2 hour doc on how this new industry of edu play(baby einstien etc.) for the very young is actually doing more harm than good. i wont go into the details but i will find the...

i have alot to say about "education" etc. but will not get into that now. what i will say is that after dropping out and running away from home at 14 that is when my real education began. luckily i was brought up in a house that supported and encouraged independent thought. now 15 years...

ah yes books and magazines for me i spend way to much money on them and way to much time reading them too. the sunday new york times is my fav and it is 9$ up here at least it takes me all week to read it and since it is so expensive i read every word. biggest problem with that is that there...

hey H23 for vegan cookbooks some friends of mine from victoria bc (well old upstairs neighbors really) wrote a cpl great vegan cookbooks called "how it all vegan" i am sure they have a website or something to check out just a thought. i am not much for making gifts but i do through out the year...

well for now enough of that i may gripe later just believe me its been one thing after another around here!! (at least i have a roof over my head) here are some pics of what i have been pulling from the gardens!! finally a little bit of red and now my first broccoli harvest!!!!! i also...

well here i am back at last i have been lurking around for a cpl days but it seems when i am most stressed etc.. is when i become the most insular. so now i spew forth i think that this has been helping me not dwell on thing and let them go i just have to remember that it works (journaling that...