Category Archives: Daily Chores

Things you can do while doing daily chores that will make your imprint lighter.

Spring Garden

By kimba | Published: May 23, 2010
To avoid writing about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, because I really can’t do anything about it besides repeating what has been already written in the news, I’ve been focusing on the garden. I appropriated the front yard of the house this spring and went wild. By appropriated, I mean I took [...]
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Downsizing Stuff

By kimba | Published: February 23, 2010
I’m a minimalist at heart. I’m not big on having a lot of stuff. I like functionality. I like simplicity. When I imagine my dream home it has only a few sparsely furnished rooms plus a detached painting studio. That’s actually more than what I have now, but still minimalist on American terms. That said, [...]
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Seed Bombs

By kimba | Published: May 14, 2009
The house people can’t agree on what to do with the front yard. Their tastes in what a yard or garden looks like are completely different from each other. One wants a field of ever-blooming flowers and the other wants hardscaping and plants that don’t need to be taken care of. Last fall the yard had [...]
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