Ecofrugal Living

Well, we did it. We got all our new plants into the ground in one (extended) weekend, and we managed to do it before the rain started. Here ...

The takeaway from today's planting seems to be that planting shrubs is a LOT easier than planting trees. It took us only two hours to ge...

I'm going to tell the story of today's planting activities as a series of statistics, à la Harper's Index . Number of trees we...

I was sitting at the keyboard, trying to figure out how to make a blog entry about getting stuff on sale from L.L. Bean sound more exciting,...

Our house was built around 1970, and our kitchen consequently lacks many of the features found in newer kitchens. I certainly don't care...

As you may or may not know, every time you do any kind of project that involves digging—from something as big as building a garage to as sma...

One of the features Brian and I like best on our new (well, two-year-old) Honda Fit is the little Maintenance Minder on the dash. It notifie...