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Those of you who’ve been reading a few months know that we’ve been doing a lot of renovation here at Granola Central. The renovation is nearing completion, but we’re missing some critical electrical work that make the rest of the kitchen appliances usable. So we can’t use any of our new toys. When work started [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on April 14th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Think about how much effort you put into your garden, but what you get for it? Yes… a summer of beauty, but after that? Nothing. You don’t get doodly squat. Isn’t it much more efficient to put your sweat and, as if often the case when I garden, blood into something that will bring benefits [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on April 1st, 2008 | Add Comment! »

I know this is a little bit late, but I’ve been behind in my reading. This is a gem from my favorite local muckraker and guest blogger Lappe Parrish. Is Leap Day more significant than most people tend to acknowledge? What exactly does “any day” to the calendar do to our intrinsic sense of time? [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Lappe Parish on March 25th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Earlier this week before my surgery one of my last two-handed tasks was to make a very crude map of our small plot of land. This is the time of year when we need to order food bearing trees to plant throughout the yard. But before we ordered trees, we had to have a good [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, Food on March 20th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

This is an excerpt from Richard Heinberg’s Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World. I learn really well from analogies like this. This is why I like Elaine so much. Much like the first time I listened to another alcoholic’s story with an open mind, this excerpt from Heinberg’s introduction really hit home. [...]

Filed under: EWAKI, General Observations, Politics on February 10th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Coming home with a bag full of zingy bright greens in the winter is an easy, nonsexual way to impress your spouse. Luckily, there are literally fields of salads around here, because behind our neighborhood is a creek, and behind that is really large nature preserve. When I first started thinking about wild sustenance, I [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on February 10th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

If you’re the type of person who likes authoritative narrators and solid information, these posts will frustrate you. I’m a neophyte at wild foods, falling all over the place with dumbness, so most of these posts will be reporting the obvious and maybe even promulgating lies until I improve a bit. Sorry about that. Anyhow, [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on February 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On a gold forum somewhere, someone asked, how did everyone here get into precious metals? And since THAT INCLUDED ME!, I wrote: For the first time this year I had some meaningful cash to stash into a 401K. I realized I didn’t have the slightest idea of how to invest it. I started reading up [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on February 9th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

Although peak oil is a pretty new concept for me, I think I’m at the acceptance phase, and so it’s time to start doing something about it and using Granola Box to do it. The Queen of My Universe and I use the acronym EWAKI (End of the World as we Know It) to make [...]

Filed under: EWAKI on February 9th, 2008 | Add Comment! »