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Hard to believe after the harsh winter, but it's planting time again. We are pretty excited because last year by the time we got the garden plot created and planted, it was already fairly late in the season. We are back again at our friends place (Keith...
So this morning I had a dentist appointment and I had to walk across the loop. It had snowed and was still snowy, so there was various snow removal going on. I walked by the Daley Center and they were clearing snow from what is admittedly a bit more sidewalk...
Over the last couple weeks I've run into several folks who are leaving the city for the suburbs and at the same time I'm reading about permaculture, so it's creating some interesting juxtupositions in my head. This morning on NPR they had a story about...
Okay, so today the base sales tax rate for the city of Chicago went up to a whopping 10.25%, the highest in the nation. While I can arguably afford this better than some other folks, anybody who cares about urban poverty knows how regressive sales taxes...
There has been a ton of stuff going on this summer related to our research into farming and trying to learn new things. I'm getting behind on blogging about it, so here are a few highlights. Over Memorial Day weekend, we visited our friends James and...
Here's what happens when crazily inventive Moto chef Homaro Cantu get "aholt of" some raccoon meat. I grew up in the country and even I've never tried raccoon, although I have had pan-fried squirrel a number of times. Hope that grosses you out.
http://mmx-chicago.weblogs.vmixcore.com/vmix_hosted_apps/62/post/1434/ Good news for the Alinea chef, his cancer is now in remission. Hope it stays that way because I still want to some day be able to experience his cooking for myself.
I'm really starting to get fed up with this city. Daley is a crook and he's running the city into the ground. Big shock. His latest budget proposal announcement for next year calls for, are you ready for it, 10-15% increase in property taxes. This while...
Some farm shots are up on Flickr , including our trip to First Farm Inn in KY just outside Cincinnati (when we went to the Over The Rhine album release party), a trip to More Than Delicious Orchard north of Chicago and our recent trip to Caveny Farm ...
Last year Kristin and I were having a big Thanksgiving dinner shindig at our place and wanted to do something different for the turkey. After looking at several options, we decided to purchase a heritage Bourbon Red turkey from Caveny Farms and picked...
Last night Kristin and I went to see DJ Tiesto live at the Congress Theater. That experience is probably better for another post, but we got in very late and didn't get up until noon today. So we decided to finally trek over to Over Easy on Damen. This...
Well, after this past weekend we can finally walk around most of the condo again. Most of our wedding gifts are put away and there has been much reorganization, donations to Salvation Army and the traditional post-wedding buying of the furniture. In our...
Tank Sushi in Lincoln Square has pretty good sushi and a lot of interesting rolls, but like most hipster sushi places it tends to be a bit overpriced. After all, they have to pay for the chillout collections they play as background music. But on Sundays...
Well, since getting back from camping over Labor Day weekend I've been in a bit of a funk. Part of it is just general life stress, but I think a lot of it is that summer is already over. I love fall, it's my favorite season and really nice In Chicago...
Heard this morning that large cab companies are going to be required to have at least one hybrid vehicle in their fleet. I think this was announced at the auto show, but I missed it then. I'ts a good start, but there is no reason Chicago can't be more...
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