We are lucky to be living in So. California. Our garden is now mostly "winter" vegetables and such. Our lettuce patch is now all winter variety and grown in full sun instead of being in shade. Currently growing: beets, napa cabbage, brussle sprouts, garlic, about 6 different kinds of lettuce, snow peas, spinach...

my property does have a permit to have a chicken coop in the back yard but that was 1939 I don't think the city would appreciate it. though I am tempted. more living animals to take care of though...

We'll be making a simple hot house for things like tomatoes, chinese long beans, bell pepper (Capsicans for those in Australia, England and elsewhere) this weekend.

We finally did have to buy some tomatoes for the last two weeks. And probably will do so for next 8 weeks.

I have to call few places before I cancell my regular telephone. My partner has her line and her DSL.

Things we do without:
cable/satellite
TV (who has time when there are so many books to be read)
central heat
A/C
Beef (where's the beef? not in our house)
bouquet of flowers (instead we have rose bushes, tulips, iris... growing amongst our vegetable patch.
Front yard grass torn out and now a flower garden with vegetables growing inbetween.

most of the lights in our house are CFL.

We also do not eat out as much. To lessen the cost of starbucks, I bought my partner several pkgs of pre-paid card at costco. $100 worth of coffee for $80.00, a 20% saving. And moi, I just make my own chai latte and save almost $4.00 each visit. It adds up fast!!!

then there is this hyper milage drivers

lots of little things do add up

smilingcat