Picture Sundays: Water Jug Lamp
Camping lamp improvised with a headlamp and a jug of water. Via Homesteading....
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Picture Sundays: The Huddle Couch
“It’s a bed. It’s a couch. It’s a multi-functional piece of furniture for laid back lifestyles. The HuddleCouch® offers new possiblilites for entertainment and comfort.” Believe it or not this ad is dated 1994. And apparently you have to wear a suit to enjoy your HuddleCouch. But the formal attire doesn’t stop this couch from being, “the most fun you can have on a couch or a bed. It’s a way of lif...
Picture Sundays: Tax Season
Picture Sundays: Toyon in Bloom
Our young Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) had its first bloom this year. What’s so great about Toyon? Native bees and honeybees love it. UC Santa Cruz researchers found that Toyon is one of the best plants for attracting beneficial insects. Native Americans dried the red berries for use as food. It doesn’t need much water. It will grow as far north as Southern England. Get one for your food forest! ...
Picture Sundays: Staying Cool on the 4th
From HaFoSaFo.com, a Chevy S10 mobile swimming pool on the 4th of July in Los Angeles. Hope you are all staying as cool as these folks....
Picture Video Sundays: Many Ways to Open Your Beer
Who needs an opener?...
Picture Sundays: Your Livestock Can Survive Fallout from Nuclear Attack
The US Department of Agriculture published this handy pamplett circa 1962. The USDA’s main recommendation? Get yourself a “two-story, basement-type barn with a hay-filled loft, to “reduce radiation exposure [to your animals by] as much as 80 percent.” Thanks to the interwebs you can download your own copy here. And, something for the kids. There’s a film version–featuring marionettes!...
Picture Sundays: The New Root Simple Whip
And it’s powered by humanure! At last we have a stylish vehicle for our dog cheese deliveries....
Picture Sundays: Red Baron Peach in Bloom
A Red Baron peach tree blooming at a friend’s house. I planted one of these at my mom’s place and I wish I had one too. Beautiful flowers followed by tasty fruit....
Picture Sundays: Bile Beans
ETA: Kelly says: Bile beans on Easter Sunday? Oh, Erik. I’m adding the following photo to this post. It’s really exciting that a Barred Rock is featured in the photo, plus, it illustrates the ambiguous relationship between rabbits and eggs that marks Easter: a persistent ambiguity that leads little kids to believe bunnies lay eggs, or at least the chocolate ones. Here, the bunny seems to have domesticated the hen as both an...