here we are!

the other half of this experiment, reporting for blogging duty! we are slowly moving along in our own family's pursuit of more simple living. my bike is in the shop right now, and i get to pick it up today! that should dramatically increase my ability to be mobile without my car.

last weekend, we finally cleared out this plot in front of our house so that we can plant our winter garden! we hope our neighbors will come over and plant seeds tomorrow with us. (wink,wink)

i noticed that i felt a little self-conscious as we were gardening our plot. we live on a pretty busy street in a lower-income part of san diego. we are already a minority in our neighborhood, and especially as we break our our hoe and rake, i feel like people look at us funny. oh well!

the other problem with our garden plot is that people seem to use it as an alternate sidewalk. we're not sure what to do about that.

anyhow, despite the funny looks, in this economy, i think it's important to be thinking beyond our normal consumption patterns. so... less gas... check! eggs... almost check! veggies... almost check!

as far as the car status, our job is to take our car into our mechanic to check it out and make sure that we're not entering into our car-share with a lemon!

i'll leave you all (who's reading this anyhow?) with a little picture story. when we were building the chicken coop, the b.'s cat became a little obsessed with getting to the chickens inside the coop. so much so that she got herself stuck behind the hen-house.
it was pretty funny... beatrix potter worthy. *note, this was awhile ago, so the chickies are a lot smaller.