How to not blow your entire grocery budget on a Costco trip? Portion control. This doesn’t always work, but it’s one way to keep that grocery bill manageable (and save on gas)… ride your bike! I’ve gotten pretty good over the years…
Updates may have been few and far between, crew… but life keeps on living, and what a wild ride it is! The Moose and I (or as our roommate calls us, in faux Russian accent, “Moose and Gurl”) are in Oakland, chasing…
Cook County Camping: Camp Shabbona Woods Did you know that there are a handful of campgrounds within a day’s bike ride of Chicago? You won’t find any real wilderness, but you can still have a big adventure close to home without needing…
It’s Throwback Thursday… or Truth Be Told? Either way, it’s a beautiful day. Crisp, but the sky is a clear and cheerful robin’s egg instead of the bottom of a bucket of grey mopwater that we’ve been staring up into for days….
So that last polar vortex- was -15, windchill -46. I was not mentally or physically ready to deal with that, and still reeling from everything else life had thrown at me. I confess, I gave the chickens extra food, water, and bedding…
18 degrees? 5 miles? 40 #s of mesquite charcoal? 40 #s of peanut oil for fryin’ the turkey? 40 #s of chicken leg quarters (you’re welcome, Zeus… at 64 cents a # I can’t afford not to feed it to him- good…