Kids lose teeth. But wait, they grow back. Some of them at least. So far all our kids teeth have been lost without the help of pavements, baseball bats or skateboards. I found this interesting link to the traditions of losing teeth- it’s loaded with witches, magic and superstitions- When a Catanzaro boy loses [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Tooth Fairy Mobile
Posted in Celebrations, Recycling, tagged longaberger, Recycling, tooth fairy, woodworking on 30 October,2008 | 1 Comment »
Hot Dogs & Baseball
Posted in Food, Recipe, Sports, tagged baseball, dodgers, grilling, hot dogs, vin scully on 24 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, The match up I hoped for between The Dodgers and The Red Sox has vanished. As fall reluctantly shows itself in southern California with temps hitting near 90, wild fires dropping ashes on our porch and early voting just starting I reluctantly rolled out the tv to watch game 2 of The World Series [...]
Laundry
Posted in Day to day maintance, Uncategorized, tagged cloth diapers, energy saving tips, kookaburra, laundry, toilet training on 24 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
No matter how you cut the mustard, there’s always a lot of laundry to do in a house with seven people. I can’t go more than 2 days without doing a load, and really, I rarely miss a day. Think of it, even at a minimum,there’s 7 pairs of underware( well Ollie rarely wears any, [...]
Persimmon Pudding
Posted in Food, Recipe, Uncategorized, tagged best desserts, ohsawa pot, persimmon pudding, pressure cookers on 24 October,2008 | 2 Comments »
Persimmons don’t show up at our local farmer’s market until late fall, but they showed up on our doorstep last week when a friend brought by some that she had been given. They weren’t quite ripe yet but a few days on the kitchen window sill solved that problem. We don’t eat the fruit in [...]
Yogi The Plumber
Posted in Day to day maintance, tagged o rings, plumbing, yoga on 23 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
Call it bridge pose call it setu bandha sarvangasana call it fixing a leaky pipe. We’ve had small stubborn leak under our sink since the dawn of time (actually, it started when I repaired our dishwasher). When our friend Keoki came to stay with us last week he was glad to lend his guidance. Of [...]
Birthday Calendar
Posted in Arts and crafts, Education, tagged birthday calendars, Waldorf on 23 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
With 5 kids almost every other month sees one of their birthdays. We try to keep things simple but special and incorporate lots of tradition and ritual into the celebration. The first thing we do is make a birthday countdown calendar for the month. They markoff the passing days with a sticker.I finally found a [...]
Bread and Wood
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, Recipe, tagged bread baking, economy, King Arthur, Surfas, woodworking on 22 October,2008 | 1 Comment »
With the economy slipping into the great abyss here’s a couple of ideas that might just save us all.
1. Bake a loaf of bread everyday. Debbie’s been doing this and I guarantee if everyone does it we will be living in a different world. It is basically an adaptation of the “no-knead” bread recipe from [...]
Alley Blackberries
Posted in Food, Free Fun, Recipe, Recycling, tagged berry crumble, Blackberries, free food, Recycling on 22 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the alley where we do our recycling there is a blackberry vine with some nice tart fruit. I’m pretty sure it’s a “Himalaya” blackberry, then again it could be of the “Cascade” variety of Rosaceae. I’ve only noticed it here this past summer but it looks well established. It’s super thorny like a rose. [...]
Water Main Explosion !!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged loud noises, no sleep, water main explosion on 22 October,2008 | Leave a Comment »
At 2:15 am we were awoken by the sound a loud tapping coming from outside. Loud sounds at 2:15 am are not uncommon in out neighborhood. There seems to be some correlation between “closing time” and loud sounds. Drinking alcohol seems to escalate the sound of throwing up, the phrases of good night and I [...]
In Search Of Gambusia
Posted in Free Fun, tagged Add new tag, Free Fun, Gambusia, Mosquito Fish on 20 October,2008 | 2 Comments »
Wednesdays are half days at my kids’ school. This Wednesday I have thought of something exciting fun and FREE to do. Today we go in search of Gambusia Affinius (mosquito fish) for our small pond.
I had some vague idea where to get the Gambusias. A triangular building near Sepulveda blvd. and Jefferson blvd. is my only [...]
