I'm realizing that I talk about the weather a lot, but it really was perfect this week: high sixties to seventy and sunny during the day and fifty degrees at night. Of course, this means we've spent a good amount of time outside and I've gotten quite a bit of my fall garden prep done…
I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a while now, but I am now starting a Women's Personal Finance Wednesday roundup series. There are plenty of bloggers who put out roundups of their favorite posts from the previous week, and I find that I've gotten to read some great new blogs I…
When I first embarked on this clothes buying ban eighteen months ago, I couldn't have imagined I would have continued it on past the original year goal I'd set for myself; it seemed overly ambitious, but I wanted to challenge myself to do it regardless. My closet was bursting at the seams, I was attempting…
I know I've talked about previous weeks being a complete whirlwind, but that's absolutely an accurate way to describe this past week, especially with work. I'm doing work on things that I consider to be big, important parts of how my career makes an impact in this world, but the tradeoff with making that impact…
We hit our best savings rate yet in the month of August, which felt so good to follow up July, which was our most expensive month of the year so far. I probably could have shuffled some of our expenses forward to August to balance out the months a little bit, but I didn't want…
So, we ended up camping again last weekend. My husband was originally planning to go hunting this year outside the Leavenworth area, but the wildfires have burned a good part of the area. We'll see when we're there in a few weeks what the damage really is, but he wanted to scope out an alternative…
Quite obviously, I am personally not vegan. My husband and my extended family hunt and fish and I grew up crabbing even though I don't eat much in the way of seafood. We share in the purchase of a half or quarter cow every summer. We talk about some day adding chickens and honey bees…
We took off for a four day long weekend to the Washington Coast for Labor Day, so I've had back to back four day work weeks and my schedule feels completely thrown off. Not in a bad or a good way, just that I had to keep reminding myself what day of the week it…
The end of August and beginning of September is still peak harvesting around here, and my garden is in full swing. Unfortunately, this is also the time of year that I get killed into complacency because the harvest time is so easy and the garden just continues to produce without me doing much more than…
Hallelujah, I can see blue skies! It rained in earnest on Sunday and did a really good job clearing up the air beyond what was predicted, which meant we were actually able to spend a good amount of time outside this past week. Being stuck inside for a week or more at a time is…