Posts Tagged "life"

I’ve blogged and ranted on such things before but I’m still and regularly amazed at the things in society we see as hobbiest stuff, or only for the real connoisseur.  What am I talking about? Basic stuff, like fixing your car. How many know the basics of oil and spark plug changes? How many actually check their tire pressure and ensure their fluids are topped up (without the prompting of the idiot lights on the dash)? Or baking bread, it used to be something everyone did every day, that was how they got their bread. Or collecting eggs from their chickens. Even coffee roasting, the luxury with coffee isn’t in roasting it yourself, though it is a better tasting result, the luxury is in buying it already roasted in convenient ‘fresh...

This year playing hockey I’ve noticed that I wasn’t as good as I used to be, though I was never a superstar or anything but I was fast. Now not so much. I realize I’m on the down side of the hill now. Most of it comes from my physical fitness which isn’t the best since I sit behind a desk 8 hours a day. I just don’t get the exercise anymore to stay in shape. I think 10 years ago, you didn’t really need to exercise much, you were just in shape.. No need to exercise, but as you grow older, you start getting into the 9 to 5 work week and such I think it just adds up to where you aren’t naturally full of energy and strength anymore and you aren’t exercising, cause you never did (me) so you just start getting slower. I...

 Some quick calculations, we throw out SO much compost all the time (with Arden not eating toast crusts and such…). I assume we will have even MORE compost as we have more kids too. So how much money to we basically throw away every year? We consume 4288 pounds of food per year.  We spend about $6480 on food per year. If we throw out 0.5 lbs a day, over the year that means we throw away about $300. So we buy $300 worth of food, and we throw it into the garbage. And that I think is a low estimation! I would think its even closer to $1000. Hard to say exactly. Now, as per last blog, a significant amount of that is food that we can’t or don’t want to eat, apple cores, seeds, left overs of all sorts. If you could compost it and get...

 No, i’m not talking about SOPA. Sometimes in the morning I look at my RSS feeds and news apps and nothing really changes. I kinda expect new exciting news on some front daily. Sometimes I just find myself trying to figure out what to google next, what interesting thing can I look up? Is there another website on prophecy or coffee, or some other hobby of mine that I haven’t see yet? Maybe an incredible website full of informations and vids that for some reason I hadn’t spotted up till now? Alas, often times I just feel like I’ve seen all there is to see on a subject and I”m slightly disappointed. It may be that that is a sign I’m spending TOO much time on my ipad in the morning sipping my coffee when I really could /...

My question of the day is, why is it cheaper, healthier and generally more fun to do things the old fashioned way?   Some examples: Maple Syrup – you can tap your own trees with very basic equipment and boil it down for less then the cost of purchasing it at the grocery store. Its right there, out your window in spring time Apples – grow an apple tree and get KNOWN organic, fresh apples for FREE. You know where they were grown, from where they traveled (across your yard), how fresh they are, whether they’ve been injected with growth hormones (i hope you don’t inject your apple tree with growth hormones :S) Coffee – You can purchase your coffee ground from the store for an amount of money, or you can take one step back and buy...