Green Me's Profile

We love ours. Goes nicely with our mid century decor and is easy to clean. We started sitting our son it in it for fun around 5 months and had to use some padding at that time, but he quickly acclimated. Since the legs are detachable, we even took it camping once over the summer! Simple clean lines, inexpensive, functional. What more do you really need?

I second baking soda with dish soap mixed in and a vinegar and water rinse down -- used with a mesh plastic scrubby sponge. Should definitely work on the nobs if not the wood. Ecover also has a really good wood floor cleaner that might work on grimy wood cupboards or counters.

I love this house! I visited a very similar one on a Solar Home Tour in Boulder a few years ago that was also gorgeous. I really like the use of wood with concrete with natural lighting and a garden.

Now that I have a kid who is more closely related to Bam Bam than Pebbles, I wonder if pressed concrete floors get scratched up or chipped, and if so, what do you do to fix it? Grind it down and polish?

Comparably priced to regular pumpkins. $2 to $5 depending on the size. Organic pie pumpkins are $0.75/lb to $1.50/lb depending on the store. Not sure what conventional pie pumpkins are going for here in CO.

Also, absolutely buy organic! The primary reason to buy organic is not the potential ingestion of pesticides, but the consequences to the environment and the folks who apply the pesticides. That is why people buy organic cotton. I'd buy everything organic if I could.

Our HOA president said that although our HOA guidelines don't allow solar panels, it wouldn't hold up in court. Several of our neighbors are in fact considering them and the building committee has said they would approve them as long as the panels maintain a low profile. Also, in Colorado this last year the State gov't passed a bill (or law?) that said HOA's can't prevent anyone from using solar panels or building windmills; they can however limit placement and aesthetics, which I find to be a good thing. There is a right way (and aesthetically pleasing way) to do most things, but not everyone has that sense.

Our City (Longmont, CO) in fact requires (for the last decade or so) new developments to have HOAs and driving through town you can definitely tell, which neighborhoods have HOAs. They can certainly be annoying, but they are effective at getting folks to pull weeds, paint their homes and not park junkers in their yard. And, in our area they also plow sidewalks around the neighborhood and even the streets on major snows, which is a good thing.

Right now it is Llama Llama Red Pajama, which is a huge improvement over Clifford, which we ready every night the month before, and which was preceded by the Little Red Hen. I have to say Llama Llama will probably stay with us forever -- at the end my son even reaches down to kiss the Llama goodnight. And he really digs his "llama bear."

They just announced that there will be in an Ikea in Colorado -- south Denver. This is about 1.5 hours and 50 miles (one way) from where we live and yet everyone "is so excited!" Even if Ikea is on the eco-side of the big box stores, encouraging masses of people to drive so far to shop...when they could buy stuff around the corner is silly. I even imagine that out of curiosity I will one day find myself down there...

I didn't answer the survey, because I've only ever bought one thing -- the antelope high chair -- and it was online.

whoops -- hit return there -- my son at 14 months loves pink and purple scarves at the music class we attend. He obviously has not been overly "genderfied" yet... And, as a kid I (a female) leaned towards blue and greens, and didn't start to like pinks until a few years ago (I am still not fond of purple), so I am not sure what that says about biology. I think the study is bogus...because they tested adults (from what I could tell) and this day and age even the Chinese have surely been influenced by "boy blue" and "girl pink" standards. I'd like to see a study testing babies, toddlers, preschoolers and up, before I'd call it biological.

Ah. I only hope this is true! There is a couple in my home town moping and whining about how unfair it is that the city historic board/planning/council didn't approve their 4500 square foot addition (and tear down) of a 115 year old stone cottage. The sad thing is that it is "unfair" in a sense, because they already let a zillion of these through and are only now beginning to realize what they've lost. sigh.

I tried this a few weeks back and it worked wonders! We've had a slow sink drain every since we moved in two years ago. Earlier this year I tried some non-toxic drano type stuff and it was no go, but the baking soda/vinegar/boiling water did the trick!