May you pedal something, reuse something, refuse something, compost something, or just thumb your nose at a gas pump today (and every day)!
Going Green in the Thorns of the Texas Panhandle
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Earth Day 2018: What's everybody up to?
Yep, it's here again. Instead of getting all crazy and re-posting a bunch of infographics and catchy slogans, I decided to share Earth Day from the point of view of some of my favorite organizations - so here goes:
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Earth Day 2018 tomorrow and plants today!
It always sneaks up on me, so I wanted to give you a little warning:
Earth Day is tomorrow - celebrate everyone's Mother's day by being good to mother earth!
Go get some Lubbock-tolerant plants and help support the people who work so hard to keep us green!
May you choose to live cleaner, regardless of what your neighbors think!
Earth Day is tomorrow - celebrate everyone's Mother's day by being good to mother earth!
Go get some Lubbock-tolerant plants and help support the people who work so hard to keep us green!
May you choose to live cleaner, regardless of what your neighbors think!
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The first lizard (of spring 2018)
the better part of the day
after work
throwing a ball for over-excited hounds
young mockingbird perches
daily witness
to ball fetchers
to frisbee catchers
adding notes daily
a new song performed
atop a pomegranate plant
unruly crowding the fence
and this week
Tuesday
placing a shovel in the shed
a fat gecko scurried away
after work
a better
smiling
part of the day
after work
throwing a ball for over-excited hounds
young mockingbird perches
daily witness
to ball fetchers
to frisbee catchers
adding notes daily
a new song performed
atop a pomegranate plant
unruly crowding the fence
and this week
Tuesday
placing a shovel in the shed
a fat gecko scurried away
after work
a better
smiling
part of the day
Monday, April 9, 2018
In case you're missing the green wheels...
If you visit Mesquite Hugger for the bikes and cars and scooters and trucks and my weird obsessions with vintage electric cars and cargo bikes, they've all rolled over to a new home:
All the other Mesquite Huggery stuff will still show up here - local wildlife, DIY, gardening, Personal Carbon Reduction, tiny houses, activism, spirituality, and all that other good stuff.
As always, thank you for reading this blog! May your life be steadily less wasteful and steadily more joyful!
If you want to look at older wheeled posts, they're still around:
All the other Mesquite Huggery stuff will still show up here - local wildlife, DIY, gardening, Personal Carbon Reduction, tiny houses, activism, spirituality, and all that other good stuff.
As always, thank you for reading this blog! May your life be steadily less wasteful and steadily more joyful!
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Now's a good time for a little resurrection (and Easter dogs!)
Hola, friends! I've missed talking with you!
This morning's ride to coffee was too beautiful not to share:
This morning's ride to coffee was too beautiful not to share:
Sunrise on my street and full moonset
(at the church where I married the love of my life!)
Yes, dogs!
Every day when I get home from work, our two wanderups caninus drag me to the backyard for a 20 minute round of frisbee and fetch. After eight hours behind a computer in an office with no windows, it is a joyful time for all.
If you are in a place where you can responsibly share your life with a pet, the world is a better place each time we choose not to irresposibly destroy a healthy dog's or cat's life.
dusty, happy, out of focus
(and they make our home a much happier place)
May you save a life and appreciate a resurrection this Easter!
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Saturday Ramble: Closing Up Shop
[Feel free to skip over this one - we're back!]
Back in the spring, Mesquite Hugger projects were going strong. The exercycle garden pump was coming together (very slowly), the local version of the CCL was being reborn, and I had been invited to talk about electric vehicles at a rally for science. Along with that, the garden plan was coming together and the pieces to build a pretty sweet electric bike and an electric scooter were stacking up in the garage. Things were looking really good.
But there wasn't much balance elsewhere in my life. The house was falling apart, the vehicles were falling apart, work was suffering, and (most important) my family was suffering.
So I backed off from the MH stuff and the DIY stuff and have tried to focus on matters closer to home.
In the meantime, the blog has devolved into an electric bicycle ad with occasional forays into other MH areas. And my small attempts at DIY projects have all gone very badly. Mesquite Hugger just ain't what it used to be.
So, it's time to stop putting energy into the blog and to put that energy into living better and pedaling more. This will be the last post.
Thank you to each of you who has spent time reading this blog and to each of you who is working and fighting to make the world a healthier, friendlier place. Keep up the great work!
May you be blessed in all of your eco-friendly ventures and may you find a joyful balance in your own life.
Back in the spring, Mesquite Hugger projects were going strong. The exercycle garden pump was coming together (very slowly), the local version of the CCL was being reborn, and I had been invited to talk about electric vehicles at a rally for science. Along with that, the garden plan was coming together and the pieces to build a pretty sweet electric bike and an electric scooter were stacking up in the garage. Things were looking really good.
But there wasn't much balance elsewhere in my life. The house was falling apart, the vehicles were falling apart, work was suffering, and (most important) my family was suffering.
So I backed off from the MH stuff and the DIY stuff and have tried to focus on matters closer to home.
In the meantime, the blog has devolved into an electric bicycle ad with occasional forays into other MH areas. And my small attempts at DIY projects have all gone very badly. Mesquite Hugger just ain't what it used to be.
So, it's time to stop putting energy into the blog and to put that energy into living better and pedaling more. This will be the last post.
Thank you to each of you who has spent time reading this blog and to each of you who is working and fighting to make the world a healthier, friendlier place. Keep up the great work!
May you be blessed in all of your eco-friendly ventures and may you find a joyful balance in your own life.
Friday, December 1, 2017
Fossil Free Friday Sunrise
This morning
You can almost find it here.
May you have a great Friday!
PS. My weirdly proud/vain moment this morning - I oogled an image search for "fossil free bike" and the whole screen filled with images from this blog. (Grizz read to me that all writers have enormous egos. I hear you, Grizz. I hear you.)
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