Sunday, 8 November 2009

Podcast 69

Click for audio
Right click the orange podcast logo above and "save file as" or "save target as" to download (32mb)

Chicken update
duck – lame duck
chicks appearing – natural rearing with their mothers/su
rrogates

Lotte
Lotte
Produce update - 3rd summer
  • tomatoes
  • garlic
  • onions
  • potatoes
  • carrots
  • peppers
  • beans
  • peas
  • zucchini (courgette)
  • berries
  • grape vines
  • water tank
Some of the harvest
AJ visit to England

Work on house
Mortgage (short), good interest rates, buffer against future disasters
Envirofoam – basement insulation
Ecowater – water softener
New windows (energystar rated)

Non-house things things (which will not add value to it) too
New sofas and other furniture
2 new netbooks after various laptop disasters

Future works
New roof, skylights, verandah restoration, kitchen door, carpet, flooring, bathrooms, closets, insulation and dry walling. Work on wiring happening in next few weeks. But probably not solar panels for now.

Bad things
AJ – his father's death
Matt – the economy

Good things

AJ – Lotte and turning 40
Matt – Skype, white woodwork, clean water, lots of produce, rainwater harvesting.

4 Comments:

At Tue Nov 10, 04:05:00 AM AST, Blogger Eva said...

Yay, a new podcast - great to hear from you again!

BTW, the episode doesn't show up in iTunes. Did you change the feed? I'm downloading it directly from your site right now.

Have a great week,
Eva

 
At Tue Nov 10, 06:03:00 PM AST, Blogger Matthew Guy said...

The google feedburner feed which makes the feed "iTunes friendly" is playing up.

I have been battling with it for two days. It claims the mp3 takes more than 10 seconds to respond - which is rubbish. I have found reports of this problem all over the net but no solutions.

I am thinking of posting a very short mp3 file telling people to come to the site to download!

So google doesn't make everything work well unfortunately.

 
At Tue Nov 10, 08:30:00 PM AST, Blogger Matthew Guy said...

Found a workaround - hopefully it should show up on iTunes soon.

 
At Fri Dec 11, 10:50:00 AM AST, Blogger Kablooie!! said...

Hey Matt and AJ!

Grant and Laura here. (www.backtothedrawlyn.blogspot.com). Just caught your latest podcast and wanted to say it's good to hear from you.

It sounds like things are going really well, and that's great to hear.

AJ, we were really sorry to hear of your father's passing.

We just wanted to let you know that we've made a step towards our plan of moving down home and living more sustainably -- we've moved back home to Saint John, NB. The most recent blog posting covers the details.

Anwyay, we just wanted to say hi and it's good to hear from you -- keep at it!

Cheers,
Grant and Laura

 

Post a Comment

<< Home