Nashville Through Other Eyes

Recently a friend from England visited, and her photos came back as a surprise to me. It is wonderful to see Nashville through her eyes.

Doing Things The Old Way

Early last spring we took our first steps in the direction of creating some sustainability on our Golden Acre. We created garden beds for vegetables, flowers and herbs; preserved the produce;

and kept a journal of the process. We put in a water catch for roof runoff that we use frequently. When our old large appliances began to fail, we replaced them with energy-star upgrades. You can see the writing and photos on this blog dated 2008. In keeping with the old format, I wanted to post to the journal here.

Planted – Red leaf lettuce, crunchy butter lettuce, kale
Harvested – the last of the tomatoes, cantaloupe and okra. Greek oregano.
Prepared – the gardens for planting greens. We began planning garden strategy for next year, preparing to plant more varieties in higher quantity for canning and preserving.
Stored – Jelly jars for next year, flower seed, herbs, canned tomatoes.
Recycled – made two trips last week to take the recycling to the center.
Contribute to local food systems – made seed packets to distribute in the spring.

At one time, making the above list consumed all my time. Now a different way of life has taken hold for us. These are the good old days.

What Do Facebook Quizzes Know about You? ACLU Cautions.

Are you on Facebook? Are any of your friends or family part of one of the largest online communities in the world? If so, you may have seen or heard about the quizzes that are so popular on the site. But do you know just how much of your information these quizzes can access?

Even if your Facebook profile is “private,” when you take a quiz, an unknown quiz developer could be getting access to almost everything in your profile: your religious views, sexual orientation, political affiliation, pictures, and groups. Facebook quizzes also have access to most of the information on your friends’ profiles. This means that if your friend takes a quiz, they could be giving away your personal information, too.

Don’t just take our word for it: take our quiz and see for yourself! (You’ll need to have a Facebook account to take this quiz at Facebook. If you don’t have one, be sure to review Facebook's privacy policy before signing up.) Learn how to change your own privacy settings and then take the next step and tell Facebook that you want stronger privacy protections.

And, yes, we know it’s a little weird to warn you about Facebook quizzes by asking you to take a Facebook quiz but at least you know who we are and that we are committed to living up to our privacy policy, unlike many quiz authors who haven’t posted a privacy policy at all!

End of the Season

It's the end of another growing season, and still my garden keeps giving.

Logan Phillips in South America

Logan is traveling in South America and sent us these wonderful photos.