timberwalkers

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...

This is one of the beavers that lives rent-free on our property.