Switching out one of my frozen quiches for a fresh one. The downside of cooking prepared freezer meals: I’ve moved on from my feta obsession to my ricotta obsession but still have two freezer quiches with feta. #goodproblemstohave #mealprep #freezermeals #budgetmeals

Not about to let takeout leftovers go to waste. 🍚

Justin cut down the dead grapevines this week 🪵 I spent yesterday outside with the girls cutting the scraps smaller (I’m campaigning to create a dead hedge!), reserving some select sticks for a future project (which the girls stripped of their bark for me), and made the bases for flower crowns

Lamb bone from our Pesach Seder going into the freezer to create stock at a later date. I am waiting til it’s thawed to smash it—I’ve only smashed chicken bones before, so it’ll be a new experience. I do have 4 different mallets now, and may take it to the lanai as to not risk damaging the counter 😅

Freezing food scraps in our effort to be more #sustainable & resourceful. Making stock with the smashed chicken bones (they were cleaned & dried first) and veggies. Might use the fruit scraps for a puree, to zest, or to steep in tea or cleaning solution. Eggs shells for potting soil 🍗🥕🍋🥚 #zerowaste

I discovered terracycle.com and their free recycling programs. They partner with over 100 brands and provide free shipping labels to send empty packaging back. Food, electronics, clothing, cigarettes, hygiene, and even fast food sauce packets. ♻️ I already signed up for Aussie and Tom’s of Maine’s 📦

Our first grove.co order, changing over some of our household cleaning and personal care items to more sustainable options. We have monthly subscriptions for the laundry pods, Dr. Bronner’s soaps, kids’ probiotics, toothpaste, and wipes, and quarterly for the toothbrushes. 🧼🧺🫧🦷 #sustainableliving

Decided against buying a flimsy MDF POS for $50+ and turned our vacuum box into a shoe bench for the lanai instead. Rolls of contact paper and duck tape were ~$5 each 😅 #repurposed #recycled

If you live in Wisconsin or in the 6th congressional district of Florida you’ll have a chance to do something the rest of us only dream about doing...

[It's also an election day in many other parts of the country, too.] https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas

Screencap only an order confirmation for two books from eBay: “A Navy SEAL’s Bug-In Guide: How to Turn Your House into the Safest Place on Earth” and “Rand McNally USA Road Atlas 2025 Best Large Scale Travel Maps United States New”. The caption overlaying the screen cap reads: “I’ve mentioned before, we’re making a move toward physical media. We have a good collection of DVD’s and books for the kiddos, and I’m working on my preparedness collection. I just ordered “A Navy Seal’s Bug-In Guide” (I have other preparedness guides, but this has *color photos*) and a collection of road maps across the U.S.”

Any suggestions for more physical guides and maps we should add to collection? #preparedness #bugoutguide #buginguide #ebay

Screen grab of an order screen, confirming purchase of two decks of cards, against a multi-color background. Stickers of cards are overlaid on the image, emblazoned with the LikeU logo.

One of the black-owned businesses dropped from Target is likeucards.com. We’re always looking for Easter basket stuffers, so I got the parents & kids deck for a pre- & post-dinner activity with the kiddos. (And I got the original deck for me and Justin!)

Their ThriftBooks.com haul. We want to mostly focus on borrowing from libraries, but I wanted them to have some books of their own in their new home 📚 They’re on a Seuss kick since visiting the museum & they’ve always loved biographical books about smart + strong figures 📖 #VashtiHarrison

A collage featuring screen caps from thrift books dot com showing the home page and orders screen. Scrolls featuring children’s books flank each side of the collage.

We made our first purchase on thriftbooks.com today. We debated. I want to rely more on libraries but want to have some permanent books for the kiddos since we left most of theirs in storage when we flew to our new home. Especially in the case of another pandemic. #AmazonAlternative

My goal is for these kids to grow up self-reliant enough that they don’t have to panic about looming government shutdowns, soaring grocery prices, and exorbitant tariffs. For them to be confident in their capabilities taking care of themselves and each other. But today, it’s homemade Italian relish.

I found 5 co-ops within an hour of our house using litterless.com. I was initially just looking for bulk/ refillery options since Whole Foods is a 🙅‍♀️❌👎🚫 (owned by Amazon), but most of these have that and so much more. Psyched to check them out next week!

I found this great website, litterless.com, that connects you with zero-waste grocery shops and compost and recycling facilities near you (nationwide). 🥕♻️🌎

I’m trying to locally source these things (and I need to stay within ~5 miles atm due to van needing work). It’s wild starting from scratch, not knowing the area, or where to start, and wanting to start living sustainably. Just tons of online searches to find sellers. But I know it’s worth it 🌎

My husband got me a set power tools for Xmas, but there’s a couple I still need to add. I want a cast-iron set for indoor/outdoor cooking. I want a quality bow, canning supplied and 5-gallon buckets, gamma lids, and bucket liners and Mylar bags with a heat press to seal them for bulk storage …

On 1 hand, we’re trying to divest in capitalism. On the other, we’re trying to buy living essentials we either didn’t have to begin with OR had to leave behind in storage when flying out to the East Coast when we relocated and aren’t going to retrieve for at least months if not longer.

What Are Public Lands For? | Defector One of my brightest childhood memories was experiencing the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone for the first time. My mom spent a few summers working in a cafeteria at Mammoth Hot Springs by the north en...

"The aesthetic and conceptual beauty of unexploited public land that anyone can freely enjoy stands as an object lesson in what's possible when the public commits to managing society's resources with intention and planning, rather than just hoping 'the market' will do something good with them."

documenting one of the last segregated proms in georgia After receiving a letter from a white girl who couldn’t bring her black boyfriend to prom, photographer Gillian Laub traveled to a small town in Montgomery County and discovered a community with deep ...

On this, the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, a reminder that the last segregated prom, in Wilcox County, Georgia, just became integrated in 2013. Racism, segregation, discrimination—these are all topics of modern history, not ancient history. #BHM

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I learned that Fridays is #scapes day on BlueSky. #scape #westernmass #connecticutriver

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Now more than ever, STAY ready. No rushing to panic buy canned food and toilet paper before weather events. Search checklists, keep your supplies at 💯 at all times. Food, warmth, dryness, 1st aid, radios, batteries, tools, water, meds, for each human and animal in your home to last at LEAST 3 days.

A collage of 4 squares: screen shots of search results on maps, with yellow circular icons representing each search result, company names, streets, towns, and highways redacted to protect privacy of my location. Each overlayed with the text: “search results for ‘meat market’”, “search results for ‘Asian market’”, “search results for ‘garden center’”, and “search results for ‘sewing accessories’”.

Spending today compiling a folder titled “La Résistance”, searching for and saving small, local businesses to replace the corporations we’ve become reliant on. I’m shook at the sheer volume of results so close in our smallish town ✊✊✊ This is what we intended when we moved east.

How a ‘Conspiracy Mindset’ Promotes Acceptance of Vaccine Misinformation, and How to Counter It | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania A paper from APPC researchers reviews research during the pandemic showing that a "conspiracy mindset" was a major factor in resistance to Covid vaccination.

“...the conspiracy mindset was a major factor in resistance to Covid vaccination in the United States, and offers lessons about how best to counter misinformation and overcome such resistance.”

Black History Month may be ending today, but that shouldn’t stop you from reading books by black authors year round 👀

Here are 31 books written by Black women that you can pick up in March 🧵

#blackbooksky #booksky

First Person: 'They ban books by Black authors. Then they tell us to celebrate Black History Month.' - Open Campus As state legislatures and boards of regents debate whose histories deserve telling, those of us behind bars have long faced explicit bans on texts that challenge dominant narratives or examine racial ...

"When Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectionality framework is banned, when Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 Project is deemed dangerous, when Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and other literary masterpieces are labeled “inappropriate,” the message is clear: our full humanity threatens the established order."