We hear what your saying typing. The cool thing… is we listen. 

Well… sometimes.

Do you have an ant problem?  Have you been fighting ants, but want to start fighting them organically?  Well look no further, we (Double Danger) have you covered!

We definitely feel your pain, the reason we have put together this list of Organic Ant Control is because we also had the same problems you did…

Ants covering our vegetables.

Ants bringing their friends… the aphids.

Wanting to treat ants, but doing it without horrible chemicals and pesticides.

You get the idea… right?

So with everyone looking for ways to treat ants organically - we figured we would once again point them to our articles on the subject. 

10 Organic Ways to Control Ants 

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We are not farmers by any means, but seeing these numbers really hit home at just how little actually makes it to the pockets of those farmers out there.  I know this is an average and all that - but still… sad news.

Maximize Your Farmers’ Share of The Food Dollar

So what does this mean?  This means you should be hitting up your local farmers’ market or buying directly from the source if possible.  They should definitely be making more if we can help it.  AND WE CAN!

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Tags: Gardening, Link'age, Living Green, Make A Difference by James
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As many of you know, I worked on getting our dead tree down this past weekend.  Really my plan was to just get the small stuff cut down, so that one weekend we could really get after it and take the big ones down.

Well… when you get going on those type of things, you just don’t want to stop.  So I worked for about 4 hours Saturday straight and had half the tree down.  The problem with this is the fact that I had no real intention of cutting down the big stuff so here was about a ton of wood laying on the ground and all I had was a pole saw to chop it up with.

Not cool.

Our friend Chris said he would help out, but I don’t think he knew what he was walking into, when he showed up he looked at it all and went straight for the beer.  I don’t blame him, I was half drunk by that time anyhow.  The massive amounts of wood that had to be cut up and stacked seemed to force a man to drinking.

If there was a plus side, most of the stuff was pretty dead - so it could be broke just with a swift kick.  So after a long break (it started acting like it was going to storm), we started in on it again.  Chris busted ass to get most of the small stuff broke down while I cut up the larger stuff with the pole saw.  It was sorta like beating in a nail with a wrench -but it did the job.

After about 2 more hours of work, we had most of it cleaned up and decided that a chainsaw would do the best work so most of the big stuff laid waiting.

Yesterday (Monday) I got out there about 5:30PM and started hacking away at everything again.  Took down two HUGE limbs and some smaller ones as well.  Got them chopped up, along with some more from the days before and began stacking once again.  HOLY HELL IT IS A LOT OF WOOD!  HAVE I MENTIONED THAT!

So after 4 more hours yesterday, here is what we are left with - and hopefully today I can finish it up without many problems.  Lets hope anyhow.  Actually here is a picture of the tree prior to trimming, after trimming and then the wood pile created so far.

Below you can see what it looks like as of this morning…

Then of course the wood pile, now remember there are about 6-7 huge limbs on the ground as well, not part of that.

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Tags: Gardening, Living Green, Pictures by James
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My partner in crime is out of commission until Saturday.  Believe me I am as sad as all of you.  He is better at posting regularly and he is funnier, but you all are stuck with me, so get over it and enjoy my posts.

Now down to business.

We finally got a composter this past weekend!  Our friend Amy over at Garden-of-Eatin’ (love the name and the blog) had posted about a composter that she bought at Costco which is the equivalent to our Wal Mart, so I had to check to see if our store had one.  I have been looking online for one for awhile but if I could just pick one up that would be so much better.  Obviously we found one and I have to agree with Amy on her comments about it.  While it isn’t the best composter in the world, it is huge and does the job just fine.

Ours is about half way full of grass clippings, shreadded paper, leaves and other random things from around the garden.  We have been saving things along the way so that we would have something to compost once we got the composter.

I haven’t taken the temperature yet but when I opened the lid yesterday I did feel a gust of warm air.  I don’t see how it couldn’t be hot since everything else in this part of the world is suffering from heat exhaustion.

We have a nice little cubby to keep the composter right in the garden that is completely out of site from our patio, which is nice.  Nobody wants to talk about or see your rotting left overs while having a nice meal.

Won’t be long and we will be spreading a nice dose of love all over our little veggie plants.  They will be so happy!

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As you know we picked up a chair from my Grandpa a few months ago and had plans to revitalize it for our pool area project (that we finished this past weekend).  It was in pretty bad shape with rust trying to take it out.  However with a bit of sanding… OK A LOT OF SANDING… it was coming around and ready for paint.

We went with a white paint, since it was already white to begin with - it just seemed right.  Then we did purchase a nice cushion for it on Friday and once we got it into place… we knew we had done the right thing by revitalizing it.

See the pics below of our “new” lounger before & after the revamp.

Before…

After…

Oh… and the pool area post is coming… don’t you worry.

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