As anyone who knows me can tell you, this graphic appeals to me on many levels, the most important ones being that it’s funny and it’s all about whether you can eat possibly tainted food. Huzzah!

I am willing to risk sacrificing my office’s paper shredder in an attempt to try to make these.

Package Wrap Opener

I swear I got teary-eyed when I watched this video. Could such a simple solution really exist? I’m requesting a sample for testing, so stay tuned.

When Bruce and I first started dating, I was determined to put a little country into the city boy, so I took him fishing and hiking as an introduction. The closest place to fish was a man-made pond in northern Santa Rosa behind a hotel and golf course. It was fun, although we never caught much (if anything). Then disaster struck — as we left the pond at sunset one evening I dropped my Ray-Ban Woodie sunglasses — by far my favorite pair of sunglasses ever. We went back and looked for them in the daylight, but never found them. And when I tried to buy a new pair, Ray-Ban had discontinued them, and there was no way to get a new pair.

Long story short — 22 years after I lost my favorite pair of sunglasses, I can now replace them thanks to Shwood, a Portland-based company that’s making suglasses that not only look like wood, but are wood.

These are going on my Christmas Wish List right now.

I love this photo of one of the monster cabbage plants just harvested from our local elementary school garden. I think I heard it weighed in at 15 pounds! The garden is just booming right now, producing the largest sunflowers and cabbage heads I have ever seen.

I love these projects and wish I could come up with something to do with all the use straws, bottle tops, and silver cracker bags that we can’t recycle.

I was happy to read that this lovely garden shed featured on the Inhabitat blog was built in Petaluma. Inhabitat’s posts have been striking my fancy lately; the coffin shelves they’ve written about a couple of times are ingenious as well!