Zatera Ul

Archive for June, 2010

This silly landlady…

Posted: Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 @ 1:17 pm in Foofy, General, Politics | Comments Off

…here has completely forgotten that as a creditor, she can submit nasty reports to the credit reporting agencies, and consign her over-the-top deadbeats to years and years of renting from Bad Landlords.
And if she hadn’t pissed off so many of the commenters by insulting renters in general, perhaps someone would have pointed this out to [...]

CSA

Posted: Saturday, June 19th, 2010 @ 8:45 am in Foofy, General | Comments Off

We did our first farm share pickup this week, and had a wonderful salad for dinner last night.
MFH’s strategy was to prepare for the heavy influx of spring greens by eating lots of salads over the last couple of months. My strategy was to not eat salads at all for the last [...]

Prediction Thirteen

Posted: Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 @ 8:33 am in General, Parenthood, Politics | Comments Off

Prediction Thirteen: Within my lifetime, there will be severe restrictions placed on homeschooling, from the federal government.
This partly relates to Sallie’s two recent posts about education here and here. There’s an agenda afoot to discredit homeschoolers, and it’s easy to guess who is behind it.
I emphasize that the regulations will come from the [...]

Resettling

Posted: Monday, June 14th, 2010 @ 8:37 am in Foofy, General, Projects | Comments Off

OLC now has a bedroom of her own, with a little loft.
My storage loft I narrowed and put behind the couch in the living room. (My inspiration was an apartment-style loft that I saw in a book, it was one big room with the bedroom and bathroom housed in little cabins at each end.) [...]

Upheaved

Posted: Friday, June 4th, 2010 @ 11:31 am in Foofy, General, Parenthood, Projects | Comments Off

Jury duty ate up a good month of my time and energy, and I had to put all my projects on hold.
One project, now begun, is a massive rearrangement of furniture in the apartment. We’ve been here for two years now, and I’ve done very little rearranging until now; a big change from the [...]