Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --  “ Respect is earned, just as trust is.  Should you abuse either,  your reward will be neither.” ~ Christopher Wright  -- Chatter -- I know I mentioned this earlier this year a few times but I have to say how wonderful our readers are here. You have all been so understanding and supportive of our need to take more time for other projects with the intent, of course, of coming back to a daily blog in the future. However I should apologize as some how it became the 11th of March already and the blog got skipped for a while. So apologies for that.  On the plus side I found the recipe photos going all the way back through the years to  nearly 17 years ago... that is how long we've been working at perfecting this upcoming cookbook.  Also, I've made a lot of headway in the final edit of the manuscript - more than 2/3's done now. Whew! I also added another chapter: non-food recipes - for makin...

-- World of Writing --  Here's another installment of our World of Writing interview series - these are in Q&A format. Scroll through the archives to find this series and learn information from other people in the industry. * Shout out to Denise Thompson, Assistant to the Publisher - with Absolute Love Publishing - who sent a query our way for today's guest. Today we are featuring Steven Schatz, author of: Adima Rising - The Adima Chronicles Book 1 . Steven has been a cook, tour guide, manager, comic, and university professor. He hitchhiked around the country for two years, seeing how people have figured their path through life. Through it all, he has written – poems, short stories, songs, and books. Adima Rising is his first published novel, and it falls under the genre of "young adult". Find out more via: http://www. absolutelovepublishing.com/#! adima-rising/c1tlv Q: Give us a brief synopsis of your novel... A: For millenia, the evil Kro...

-- Quote of the Day --  “If cats could talk, they wouldn't.”  ~ Nan Porter  -- Pet Names --  *Part 1 of a  series of posts offering suggested pet names.  I came across these names while reading a book about ancient goddesses from around the world. I thought these names would work nicely for pets... you are welcome to use them if you like :) Which ones do you like the best?  Ayla (A-ee-lah) Adecina (add-ess-een-a) Sirona Aevel (aye-vell) Belisama (bell-iss-ah-mah) Saber (say-burr) Shibumi (shi-boom-ee) Halia  Kama  Hanai (hann-aye) Habia Lalita (lah-lee-tah) Daksha (dack-shaw) Chandra Nerthus (nerr-thus) Freyja (fray-ya) Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, clicking those social networking buttons, or visiting the Brummet's Store - and help rais...

-- Quote of the Day --  “Success is ordinary people stretching their dream to the world.  Without a dream, you float.” ~ Bassey Dnon -- Brummet's In the Media --  Valentina Drobnjak has a helpful information for bloggers and she contacted me earlier this month to appear in her interview series with blogging experts. How nice to be considered a blogging expert! Please do check out the interview and if you like it, please do share it on social networks :)  * Be sure to check out the closing section of that interview where I offered numerous resources. Published at this wonderful site: http://firstsiteguide.com/interviews/brummet-lifestyle-blogging/   Check out their Start a Blog Guide when you visit their site :) Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by te...

 -- Quote of the Day --  "Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference."  ~ Mignon McLaughlin -- Brummet's In the Media --        Check out my latest article on the topic of reuse in the garden - great tips for a frugal, organic gardener and for anyone interested in living more green.  Published at this wonderful site:  http://www.garden-recycle.co. uk/trash-talks-garden-recycle/   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by telling your friends, clicking those social networking buttons, or visiting the Brummet's Store - and help raise funds for charity as well!  

-- Whole-Food Nutritional Supplement, Part 2 --   On January 16 th I was approached by Patrick Ross of the Marketing Staff for NutriGold Inc. ( http://NutriGold.com ) to do a few reviews of some of their many products, which Patrick reported as shipped on January 20 th, but didn’t arrive until Feb 9th. Due to the number of products I received in 2 separate packages, I’ve decided to create a 2-part review project. You can click here to find Part 1 …you may notice the intro/outro of the reviews are similar. Whenever I do a review I look quite closely at a company, read the customer comments, do online research, scan their site, and read the material they send. In this case the company sent a 20-page catalog and the first thing I noticed were 2 symbols on the index page – one for Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and a “ please recycle ” symbol encouraging people to recycle their product information package.  SFI certifies that the catalog ...

Low Maintenance Gardening * Written by:  Todd Haiman is a landscape and garden designer, principle of Todd Haiman Landscape Design in New York City which designs and builds residential gardens, roof gardens, brownstone gardens, large landscapes, vacation properties and public spaces. http://www.toddhaimanlandscapedesign.com Whether your garden is a vertical landscape design or an urban landscape design it will require some maintenance. Low or easy maintenance gardening is what many people would like to embrace, either through necessity or preference. No garden will be a zero maintenance garden but most gardening activities have a lower input solution or alternative to consider. A professional garden designer can design a low maintenance garden, but there is no such situation where it could be a no maintenance landscape or no maintenance garden design. Even a "landscape" of non-living material such as a concrete slab requires som...