Under the Silver Maple
Jan. 1st, 2020
01:10 pm - Contact Me
I've had to set my LJ email preferences to only permit emails from members of my Flist, due to the bad boundaries and inappropriate behavior of one particular person, so if you need to contact me and you're not on my Flist please comment here.
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determinedOct. 21st, 2009
08:58 am - Thank you, Today Show; may you rot
Those of you who know celiacs in person and occasionally or frequently feed them: statements recently made on The Today Show notwithstanding, celiacs cannot have farro or spelt. These are types of wheat, they contain gluten, and they make celiacs sick.
If someone tells you otherwise, don't trust anything they say about food safety. Truly.
Thank you.
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angryOct. 18th, 2009
07:59 pm - [CSF] Acceptable suicide
( May be triggery; includes the death of an elderly man with dementia, and discussion of suicide )
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uncomfortableJun. 17th, 2009
04:41 pm - Memeage on a hot June afternoon
I always like to do this one, because I could name so many people of whom this is true...including a lot of you right here on LJ.
If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
There will be substantive posts one of these days, but I am busy and tired so it may not be too soon. I do still live, however.
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workingOct. 29th, 2008
11:56 am - A straight-but-not-narrow meme
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
workingApr. 22nd, 2008
10:28 pm - My favorite Earth Day post
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lupabitch: here.
This? Is the kind of common sense of which the Earth Day foofaraw needs more. Thanks, Lupa!
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cheerfulMar. 4th, 2008
07:52 pm - Public Post - Comment Here
I've had a couple of folks lately who wanted to friend me and who left comments on what has until now been my one and only public post. Therefore, a new public post specifically for people who want to leave comments that don't relate to the entry on fireless cookers!
If you want to ask about friending me or make comments, here is the place. Please read my profile first, though, so you know what you're getting into. *g*
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thoughtfulOct. 15th, 2007
08:41 pm - And now, since it's a day to blog about green living...
I want to write about a piece of appropriate technology that deserves a renaissance, one relevant to the challenges we face in an age of peak oil, soaring energy costs, and people’s increasing struggles to stay within depleted budgets. I think it’s a resource that will be of use to some of you on my FList, and that’s within the household skills of even the most technically challenged among you.
That technology is the fireless cooker, or haybox as it was once known all over Europe. Basically a cross between a thermos and a crockpot, the fireless cooker provides a way to cook slowly with retained heat, at very little expenditure of energy. As recently as the 1920s, fireless cookers that looked like stoves and used soapstone inserts could be found in many American homes, and hayboxes thrived all over Europe until the end of WWII. It was the advent of readily-available electricity and electric stoves that finally did in the fireless cooker, but here and there some still remember and use it.
If this sound appealing to you, all I can say is --- go for it and have fun!
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