Author Archives: jkmcintyre

Olla Hand Building Class Spring 2013!

Posted on January 13, 2013 by jkmcintyre

Yes! I will be teaching an olla hand-building class this spring at South Seattle Community College. The class will take place over two Saturdays; March 23 and March 30 from 10am-1pm. We will briefly go over the history and how-to … Continue reading →

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Urban Birds – 6 species in 6 minutes!

Posted on January 9, 2013 by jkmcintyre

It is a cold rainy January morning here in Seattle. I realize that several of those words are redundant. ‘It is January in Seattle’ would have sufficed.  There is nothing special about today; a hard rain all night, and a … Continue reading →

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Heating the Homestead

Posted on January 4, 2013 by jkmcintyre

Most of the time we heat our house from the electricity grid.  Yawn, I know. Passive solar does the trick on rare, glorious sunny Seattle days, but the rest of the time we use an efficient ductless heat pump for … Continue reading →

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Delicious and Nutritious Homemade Granola

Posted on November 20, 2012 by jkmcintyre

We used to buy granola. Scott likes his with yoghurt. I like mine with milk. We would get it in bulk from the Thriftway, from the Ballard Market, from PCC. They mostly sucked (weird vanilla-y flavours). And/or they were very … Continue reading →

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