timberwalkers

Earlier this summer we took Dad back to Salemburg. We took his ashes to lay down next to his brothers, which is what he asked for. He also w...

For the last twenty four years I've maintained a "natural" lawn. It's a practice that some would encourage, even many of t...

Are you prepared for a data disaster? I thought I was, but I discovered some gaps in my preparations. Consider the impact on your life if a ...

Many of the objects that fill my life could generously be described as "good enough". This is true today, and has been for decades...

I grew up near the dawn of the era of human space flight. As a child I read about Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard and John Glenn. I joined the...

No, definitely not. Not free anyway. I did build a cooler (my second, here's a post about the first one ) using scrap Styrofoam as the i...

I've long dreamed of getting solar panels to power our home. I think home based solar is an important part of solving our climate and en...