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Greener Than I Thought

“Mom, we just brushed our teeth with grass!” –From my 4 middle children upon returning from outside play, all with a mysterious grin on their faces

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Wonder what to do with all the grocery sacks you accumulate? Forget the usual ideas for using them in little trash cans or wrapping toxic diapers in them. My kids invented these stuffed animal parachutes all on their own. The oldest perfected the best way to tie the animals onto the grocery sack to get [...]

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The Bee Movie

We have two hives of bees that Michael keeps for fun. Sadly, we lost the older hive of bees. Not sure what happened. Maybe the dreaded Colony Collaspe Disorder, or maybe something just went awry. There weren’t a bunch of dead bees, they were just gone. Fortunately, it’s early enough in the season to order [...]

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"You’re so green!"

This comment–”You’re so green”–can be heard often around our house. What started as a little good humored chiding and encouragement between hubby and myself has now spread to the whole family. Let me first say that we have never (and will never) be tree-hugging, earth-worshipping environmentalists. But as the word ‘green’ became more mainstream in [...]

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Honey Harvest

Hubby had a desire to start a beehive in Spring of 2007. This is our second harvest year. We got lots more this year than last…34 lbs. in all! It’s so neat to think that our bees produced this honey! We don’t have all the equipment for doing it, but the friend who got us [...]

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