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Why we bought an Amana Refrigerator – and how we feel about it now.

Since we bought our house, we have had to make several major appliance purchases. We have to admit, it feels rather grown up – we have always rented places already furnished with these appliances. Below details our decision-making process for buying a new refrigerator, and a review “three months after” of our purchase. When thinking [...]

Watch and Save with the PowerCost Monitor

Today I found something I have been searching for for months: a tool to help monitor minute-to-minute energy use, from inside the house. Yes! The tool is known as the PowerCost Monitor and can be found here and here. Apparently easy to install, a detection unit goes on your utility meter which transmits a wireless signal to the [...]

Cx's parents, our Happy Handiman and, the joyfull retired Bionic blogger, left today to begin their summer/fall adventures - missing them!
6/14 - we planted the three sisters outside - corn, squash, beans. 6/18 - corn and beans are popping up! how exciting!
the Biopod arrived today! Big box leading to tasty, homegrown morsels of protein for our chickens to gorge on. Sure hope it works!
We just ordered the bio-pod, which will help us create protein (reduce chicken feed costs). Blog post on it - http://tinyurl.com/biopods
our chickens are finally roosting at night, fairly contentedly... took them awhile to figure that out after moving into the coop!

Why we bought an Amana Refrigerator – and how we feel about it now.

Watch and Save with the PowerCost Monitor

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