Health & Wellness
We hosted our annual 4th of July party here at the Lakehouse last week, full of fun, food, friends, and fireworks. Our little lake community organizes a great Independence Day celebration at the park across the street which ends with an amazing professional pyrotechnic fireworks show over the lake, right in our front yard! I…
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Well, we did it! We gave our municipal garbage can the boot and had Waste Management come take it away. We just weren’t using it and couldn’t see paying for it every month anymore. Six months ago, we challenged ourselves to see if we could reduce our garbage to the point where we didn’t need…
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If you’ve been following my Instagram or Facebook feed the last couple of weeks you’ve probably seen glimpses of my gutter garden as I’ve been posting updates on the robin family nesting there. I had lots and lots of questions about the gutter garden and requests for more photos of that, so today I’m going…
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We were on track to have one of the best garbage/recycling months yet! And then…oh shit! Literally! Last week we had two of our 7.5 grandkids (we have one in progress) stay with us for several days. We LOVE our grandkids, and all of our family for that matter, and look forward to having them…
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A common question people often have when starting to go zero waste is how do I travel zero waste? I’ve discussed some aspects of this, such has how to travel with your own food and water to be zero waste, but how do you deal with your food scraps when you’re traveling? Alan and I just returned…
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We recently took a holiday to Palm Desert, California for ten days. It was the first time I’d ever been to that area and I absolutely LOVED IT! The weather was perfect, mid-80s, not humid, and there is a lot of do and see there. Something I didn’t realize until we were getting ready to…
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Is your email inbox like mine, full of spam? I have no idea how I’ve gotten on so many spams lists, but I am and I have to spend the first few minutes sorting through crap to get to my real email. I used to click on the unsubscribe links, but they started looking weird and…
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It’s time for our April garbage and recycling review. After March, where we’d cut down so much on our trash and recycling, I was so excited and hopeful that we were on a big downward trend…but that was not the case. We had a lot of trash this month. It’s not as much as when…
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It’s springtime and for many of us, it’s time to clean out that winter funk, sweep up the dust bunnies, and wash the windows to let the sunshine in. While we buy commercial cleaning agents to clean our homes, many household cleaners can actually make us and the environment sick, contributing to the body burden…
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Something that always shocks new vegans is the amount of animal products hidden in foods, things they had no idea would ever have animal products in them. You really learn to be a detective, scouring food labels, to ensure you are making the right choice. But it’s not always so easy, ingredients may be listed…
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