http://twocatpots.com Life as a Maker Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:30:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lookee what I did during Sofía's nap yesterday. After spending the morning at the gym we trekked to The Roof Center and bought (yes, bought -sigh-) wooden shingles and roofing felt. I really wanted to make my own shingles out of our cut logs, but never got around to ordering a ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1465 I recently traded with a friend who had too many tomatoes and no time. Since I had the opposite, it was a perfect match. I made 8 quarts of crushed organic tomatoes and kept half; and two weeks later it was time to start again. I supplemented by buying a ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1450 Fall is growing ever nearer. Tonight it was full dark at 8pm; where did the summer go? Not that I'm complaining about the cooler, drier days, you understand. But I can't remember a summer flying by this fast since I was in grade school and clinging to every passing day ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1447 I got a lot of work done on the shed over Labor Day; Josh agreed to watch Sofía all day, so I came inside extra-sore but super-happy. (The camera's perspective makes it look a bit wonky; it's not. All posts are plumb, square, and level.) It is built good and strong. All ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1460 I love how he loves her. http://twocatpots.com/?p=1445 I've been trying to think up a name for our little homestead here for a long time now - a year, to be precise. I guess I can be pretty creative, and Josh especially so, but nothing we came up with seemed right. Back when we lived on the outskirts of ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1458 I don't know if it was the homemade chili-garlic bug remedy, the light dose of neem oil, or the recent drenching of eggshell calcium-water, but my peppers and tomatoes have perked right up (despite the persistence of the darn squash bugs!). They look so much better than they did only ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1455 We've got about 15 pounds of watermelon in the basement right now; what to do with it all? The watermelon on its own is great, but Sofía loves to crunch on the seeds and I'm not sure how good that is for her. Alternative: watermelon popsicles! The days are long and ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1443 I have hit my limit with the handmade-ness of the toolshed. I wasn't happy with how it was coming together; the gaps were too big for my liking (remember the cladding was split not cut, so the logs bowed out and in as well as left and right) and I ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1439 I went out and girled it up the other day with a good friend of mine. The next day I thought it was pretty funny that I was barefoot in the kitchen wearing an apron that matched my pedicure, and decided to take a picture. Sofía noticed right away. "Mommy, can Sofía ... http://twocatpots.com/?p=1433