Posted in food, tagged chocolate ice cream, Chocolate Silk soy milk, comfort food, Eleanor Roosevelt, homemade ice cream, ice cream, ice cream recipe, Kitchen Aid mixer, small ice cream mixer, tofu, vegan recipes on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We love homemade ice cream at our house! I found a recipe for a non-dairy version on the internet and made a few changes. The recipe makes about 6 small servings or 4 generous ones. It’s quick and easy…only 5 ingredients… and has become one of our favorite comfort foods.
We make it in [...]
Posted in art, faith, food, time, tagged art, celtic abbey, celtic christianity, creation, creativity, encouragement, faith, food, grow our own food, journey, lifestyle, rhythm of life, sustainability, time, writing on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Debbie and I have too many blogs. So, why another one? Because Eden’s Path just sort of thrust itself upon us. Here we hope to bring together all the things we’ve been thinking about and trying on in our life journey. Our other blogs focus more narrowly on one or two issues. [...]
Posted in faith, tagged Bibles, Celtic Prayer Book, daily office, devotional, faith, family, friends, God Calling, good life, home altar, keeping the hours, memories, Prayer altar, quiet time, sacred space, simple life on February 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Chuck and I made a prayer altar in our home last October. It was something we had both been thinking about for a while and the time just seemed right. Our built in bookcase in the den was the perfect spot once we moved our stereo out of the way.
We didn’t [...]
Posted in do-it-ourselves, tagged cut your own hair, DIY, haircut, home haircuts, money saving tips, self-sufficient, simple life on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When you’re looking around for ways to save money and become more self-sufficient, nothing is sacred. In my many haircutting experiences, I have paid anywhere from $8 (buzz cut) to $65 (I know, that was ridiculous) for a haircut. Usually it wasn’t worth it — even the $8 one. Which is why we decided that [...]
Posted in labyrinth, tagged environmentally friendly, garden, gardening, God, labyrinth, nontoxic, onions, path, peaceful, planting, tending on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Late Monday afternoon, while Chuck was filling up the bird feeders, I grabbed my trowel and walked down to our labyrinth. It sits on the far end of our backyard where it’s peaceful and quiet…well, almost. There’s one exception…or maybe hundreds…it’s those screaming wild onions dancing down our peaceful path!
I do see the irony of [...]
Posted in animals, tagged animals, bird feeder, birds, birdseed, birdwatching, bluebirds, feeding the birds, goodthoughts, pretty kitty, simple life, simplify, squirrels, sustainable life on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We finally filled up our bird feeders today. The wind last week broke one, but the others survived. (Notice how the wind peeled the lattice off the deck. I fixed that today, too.)
The big feeder sits outside our den window, so we watch the birds in the morning after breakfast while we’re drinking our tea. [...]
Posted in simple things, tagged buck saw, chain saw, firewood, green tools, homesteading, lehman's, saws, self-sufficient, simple life, simple things, small town homestead, sustainable life, zero carbon emissions on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am with my new buck saw from Lehman’s. We have several trees down in the very back of our lot, and we’re trying to clear all this out before spring. A chain saw would make quick work of this. However, as you can tell from my technique in the photo, it might also [...]
Posted in food, tagged black bean soup, comfort food, dr. mcdougall, kalanchoe, mcdougall quick and easy cookbook, no knead bread, plant based diet, simple life, slow food, soup, soup recipe, vegan, vegetarian on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today was cold and cloudy…a perfect soup day! And one of our favorite comfort soups that’s on the table in a hurry is black bean soup. I found this recipe in The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook by John and Mary McDougall. It’s become a weekly meal at our house and it heats up again [...]
Posted in simple things, tagged classic shaving, double edge razor, gillette, merkur razor, razor, shaving, simple things, simplify, wet shaving on February 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
My new Merkur razor, blade safe, and blades.
Simple things are best. That maxim applies to razors, too, I discovered. I have been increasingly annoyed at the increasingly expensive Mach 3 Turbo razor blades I’ve been buying lately. Then I ran across a post on Cool Tools touting the superior shave of a German-made double-edge [...]
