Living Large In Our Little House

Here are today's Living Large Links for this week. I hope you all have a safe and enjoy­able week­end and if you're in for a warm up as we are, I hope you do some­thing fun to enjoy!

Stay tuned on Tuesday about news about our week­end, which should be one to write about!

Stonyfield Farm and Organic Valley con­tend they tried to fight GSO alfalfa.

Millions against Monsanto cam­paign needs vol­un­teers

Study sug­gests organic milk is health­ier (what most of us already knew!)

Returning war vet­er­ans recruited for organic farm­ing opportunities

Does “organic” mean out­side? USDA asked to define

Small space design ideas

Who freed JR?

Here are the Living Large Links for this week!

When some peo­ple see a bal­loon release, they see happy col­ors float­ing through the air. The rest of us see a poten­tial dan­ger to wildlife.

Small houses are catch­ing on in Bangkok.

Our national parks are truly trea­sures, but it seems to me that vis­it­ing one with 4 mil­lion other peo­ple defeats the purpose.

Learn to live in 80-square-feet.

Blogger goes with Meatless Mondays, says sav­ing on meat helps off­set cost of buy­ing organic.

Another Tiny House suc­cess story.

How to choose win­dows for your tiny house.

Alas, the bug got me. I was up all night between Tuesday and Wednesday with a sore throat.  I lost my voice on Wednesday.

It's very frus­trat­ing for me to be ill. I feel it a waste of pre­cious time. I did what had to be done on Wednesday, but didn't fight it if I needed a break.

Of course, I don't know if the germs were air­borne or if dis­in­fect­ing with vine­gar just didn't work.

Dale should be on the mend soon. He came home Wednesday night from the doctor's office with three pre­scrip­tions. He waited so long to see the doc­tor, the infec­tion from his chest had even moved into his eye.

We're quite the pair. He can't see out of one eye and nei­ther one of us can talk.

Thanks for stop­ping in. I will be back as soon as I find that darned voice…what could have hap­pened to it!?

It’s that time of year again at Our Little House. I’m not talk­ing about the time to have the wood burn­ing stove checked or wrap­ping up the garden.

It’s that time of year when direct mail cat­a­log com­pa­nies start mail­ing out all of those fall cat­a­log, hop­ing you will want to start plan­ning all of those gifts you’re going to buy for the holidays.

They started arriv­ing about a month ago.

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