From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Vibrams on Asphalt

April 19, 2010 Barefoot Episodes

This morning I successfully ran 2 miles on asphalt in my KSO Vibrams.  It was 39 degrees Farenheit, which in my book is still too cold for straight barefoot.  However, I have improved greatly on my barefoot form, concentrating on the foot moving in a springy motion rather vertically at the beginning and end of [...]

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Written in Mosaic

April 15, 2010 Life Around Town

Mosaic rhymes with Aramaic, so that lends credence to my belief that it is a language.  Well, anyway, my husband speaks Mosaic.  He wrote “I love Laura” all over our kitchen wall in tile pieces shaped into things like sunflowers, dragonflies, bees, and birdhouses.  You might need a translator to understand it, but after nearly [...]

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Crunchy Beans

April 9, 2010 Cooking and Food

Anyone who has ever entertained ideas of frugality, food storage, a back-to-basics diet, or farmstead cooking has tried cooking dry beans.  I have a good supply of beans in my downstairs pantry, maybe a few too many, maybe a few years old, and they appear to get drier all the time.
Earlier this week I brought [...]

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