Green Rascal Design

Please excuse the pajamas and morning hair... The hubs took this picture of Pumpkin stretching her neck out against my head and the chair this morning, and I've been sharing it all over. This is the best picture of how cuddly they are!

Clover actually likes to cuddle too, but she is shy about having her picture taken while she's letting it all hang out.

Also, yesterday I discovered Eggzy in my Springwise RSS feed, and it was like the heavens appeared! We have too many eggs, and until now I haven't known what to do with them. Well Eggzy made it easy. They provided all the rules (laws for local egg selling) and some neat tools for managing egg counts and such. We started an egg stand today. While it's not beautiful yet, I'm sure it will be very helpful in the future! It's very exciting.

We have also been working on the environmental systems here. Currently we have oil heat and it's killing my soul. I intensely dislike oil in general, and the boiler here is ANCIENT. The efficiency is on the floor, and I'm here freezing my butt off all the time. This is in addition to having no air conditioning. The AC thing is somewhat ok because the cross breezes we get are pretty good, but sometimes it does get pretty darn unbearable in the summer. So we're thinking of just providing a boost to the system with a mini split heat pump. I had someone here on Tuesday, and their estimate is going to be crazy I believe. But it's just to find out how much we'll save by getting a unit ourselves and having a couple pros out to help us. We've done TONS of research on this, and it is time to pull the trigger. :)

The only other news around here is the continuation of networking efforts all over the place. The Power Lunch Project get-together at Houlihan's on Tuesday night was a lot of fun. The appetizers were plentiful! Then I had a coffee break with a TPLPer yesterday - technically not an official TPLP coffee break, but it still counts.

That's all the news that isn't! Have a good weekend. We will be digging out sea buckthorn bushes and planting lots of berry "bushes" in their place. Hey I like dirt just as much as the next chicken, haha.