Did I ever tell you about the time I threw up a ball of grease?  I think I did.  It’s a good story.  I’ll tell it again. Throughout my entire high school career I ate the exact same thing for lunch.  Every day.  Every single day. At noon, or whenever the bell went off that [...]

The Anatomy of a chicken. by Karen.   There are several types of chicken combs.  Between my 4 chickens I have 2 single, and 2 pea combs.  Single Combs are dominant in Rhode Island Reds and Pea Combs are often seen in Ameraucana or Araucanas.  My chickens with the Pea  Combs are the ones who [...]

I hate waking up.  Whenever I see a television commercial where some fresh faced woman sits up in bed at 6 a.m. grinning and stretching  like the very idea of jumping out of bed to meet the glorious day is the best part of her life, I want to kill her.  I understand she’ll be [...]

You’ve gotta love an edible plant that comes up year after year no matter how much attention you do or don’t give it. Rhubarb.  It’s the gift that keeps on giving. And giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving. [...]

  Omg it’s gonna be May.  Holy crap. Kay.  So.  I’m still up to my nostril hairs in dirt. No funny.  No stories.  No anecdotes. Hey WAIT!  Did I ever tell you about the time I was in bed with Jerry Springer?  Oh that was quite a day.  Too bad I don’t have time to [...]

Friday’s have become a bit of a playground around here at The Art of Doing Stuff.  A day for ridiculousness.  ’Cause we all need a bit of ridiculousness in our lives.  Unless that ridiculousness comes in the form of  Rob Schneider.  Or harem pants.   That kind of ridiculous we can do without.  At least [...]

Everyone get ready to do a kartwheel … The Art of Doing Stuff is now mobile friendly. And that’s as it should be. It took me long enough.  Not having your site mobile friendly is the blog equivalent to a firefighter trying to put out a blaze with a long row of people, a few [...]

These are a few of my favourite things. Click on the sponsor to see my favourite thing from their site this month. Plus a couple of little known facts about each of them.   I thank you, the sponsors thank you, the economy thanks you, the man I hired to install my new furnace thanks [...]

Right off the bat I’ve lied to you.  This isn’t really a recap of Day 2 so much as a a week’s worth of work.  So it’s a week.  Not a day. But that’s all semantics, right? Last week I took a week off from blogging to tackle the job of turning my front yard [...]

So since we’re all up to our elbows in dirt any way, now’s the perfect time to create a little pot of microgreens. Why? Well … only because it’ll change your life, make your cats speak Spanish, improve your hearing and give you the ability to do the splits.  In both directions. Plus, microgreens are [...]

Back to the menus!  I haven’t done a menu plan for the past couple of weeks because I’ve been too busy to worry about it.  Whatever I found in the fridge or freezer is what we ate.  Worked out well actually.  More on *that* little experiment in a week or so actually. Looking for something [...]

Photoshop fun!  Seems like an oxymoron doesn’t it?  And it is.  For the first few years anyway.  After you get over that initial decade of figuring out the basics of Photoshop, it’s smooooothhhh sailing. If you’ve encountered the frustration that is the Photoshop learning curve, stick with it.  You’ll survive in the end.  Provided you [...]