Category Archives: Daily Chores

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

Spring Garden

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

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

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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