Well — that was a project! This weekend was gorgeous — sixty, sixty-five degrees both days, although the wind kicked back in yesterday afternoon (along with the clouds that made this photo a little gloomy). Thank goodness it was gorgeous, because this was a real project. I am sore. Even my fingers are sore. Where to start? First thing I did was to pull the screws all along the right side of the garden, and pull the boards up. Then I recycled the wood, trimmed the edges, and used scrap lumber to fill the gaps for the long bed on the…

LivingSmall finally took the most obvious money-saving, small-living step, and got rid of cable TV! Woo! Hoo! Cable/Satellite has been a thorn in my side for ages. It’s so unnecessarily expensive — and for what? garbage mostly. But we do like sports. So about a year ago, I got an AppleTV, in part because I liked Netflix streaming and the little pop-up wireless doohickey for my TiVo was slow. AppleTV was pretty awesome, and, we discovered, you could buy a subscription to MLB.com. Himself is from Boston, and we don’t get very many Red Sox games on tv out here…