My New Year’s Resolution: Use less water when I shower. My plan: The “Navy shower.”
1. Turn on the water
2. Immediately wet the body
3. Turn off the water
4. Soap up and scrub
5. Turn the water back on and rinse off the soap
6. Turn off the water
Happy New Year!

Don’t be overwhelmed by styrofoam packaging this holiday season! Butte County Public Works is offering the following drop-off points for styrofoam recycling:

Block Styrofoam
*Northern Recycling & Waste Services, 920 American Way, Paradise
*Recology of Butte Colusa Counties, 2720 S. 5th Ave, Oroville
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Winter rains have me thinking about the use of rain barrels to collect runoff from our roof. The water would be saved for dry spells and used to water plants near the house.
In theory, we could collect over 70,000 gallons of rainwater from our roof in an average Chico …

When it comes to dishwasher common sense, I wish I had more of it.
A common water-saving tip is to not pre-rinse your dishes prior to putting them into the dishwasher, with the idea that the dishwasher should be able to handle the added gunk.
So I don’t (didn’t) pre-rinse. But …

This evening my wife asked me if we had a popcorn popper. I said no, but we could probably borrow one from a friend.
Then I thought to myself, maybe I can just pop them in a pot over the stove. Could it be that simple?
Yes, it is (but …

This comes to me via my brother. Joshua, I am happy to let this video serve as my birthday present.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY&feature=player_embedded

There are quite a few of us who believe that the Chico Unified School District can do better when it comes to the health and quality of K-8 meal offerings.
Pizza in mildly varying forms was on the menu four days a week in November, including twice on Thursdays, when it …

Goodbye Fostine’s
I was saddened to return home from a Thanksgiving jaunt to the Bay Area to find that Fostine’s Nursery on Nord had become a vacant lot. Don’t know when this happened, but I have have patronized them more than once over the last few years, and they were …