Eco-Friendly Foods: A Complicated Picture

Cooking healthy meals was once focused on shopping seasonally, peeling foods with lots of pesticides (apples, potatoes), avoiding too many processed foods, and eating from each category on the USDA food pyramid. Now, I have to think about the carbon footprint of each food if I want to do my part to stop global warming. I…

Volunteering at the Homeless Shelter

Seattle has the third largest homeless population nationwide. I have also seen stats that the State of Washington is the worst state, overall. Most homeless people are near the heavily populated area along I-5 and in Spokane. I have walked by homeless tents in Seattle and driven by homeless people living in Spokane parks. I…

RV Dehumidifier Update

I wrote not long ago that I really needed a bigger dehumidifier. I had a tiny, table-top unit that I bought a few years ago when I stayed in coastal Alabama. The air humidity here (Olympic Peninsula, WA) is phenomenal, and now we are in the winter rainy season. Condensation forms on all the windows…

Global Impact of Overeating

I have been pudgy for about 20 years, starting when I become a full-fledged emotional eater due to events in my life that I have written about recently. Emotional eating is a habit I learned from my mom and other family. To make things worse, we are genetically-predisposed to fatness, although that does not mean one…

Save the Planet Recipes

I have been trying to figure what I can do to help stop global climate change, besides griping about it on my blog. So far, I have made a carbon budget for 2019, which will allow me to reduce my carbon footprint by 50%. It is not a huge challenge. To be honest, parts of…

Beans Instead of Beef!

Before I get into the most amazing fact about stopping climate change, I need to clarify the 2% limit on global temperature rise that I have mentioned in recent posts. I have been listening to coverage of the Climate Conference in Poland and the people interviewed refer to the goal as 1.5-2.0 degree limit. So,…

Day Trip to Seattle

On Monday I took the new fast ferry to Seattle. I drove first to the Kingston Ferry Terminal and parked my car for the day for only $5!!! The fast ferry is free until the end of the year       I had a wonderful day in Seattle. I will be heading back on…

Earthquake Ready

In the six weeks since I arrived on the Olympic Pensinsula, we had a 4.0 earthquake south of me and a 7.0 earthquake to the north (AK). This morning we had a 5.4 at Vancouver Island, which is quite close, followed by a 4.2 and 4.8 in the same area. I already knew I was in…

RV Radio Not Working

I have a satellite radio and docking station that I used for radio. However, when I moved to this RV park,  I had cable TV with music stations and ESPN, so I no longer needed satellite radio. I canceled service. Then, the cable company scrambled all the signals and now requires a box if you…