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Organic whole-milk yogurt, local blackberry blossom honey, and fermented blackberries 😋
#foodstr #homesteading #fermented https://image.nostr.build/f0bf42a5035521b509d7381158af79a1c1ce6e36e95bc8fc83109f7d546ddcf0.jpg

2024-09-01 18:34:35

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Yeah, I'm not super techie, so idk where the problem originates. When streaming it will tell me it can't play this file right now, please try deleting and redownloading. 🤷‍♀️

2024-08-29 23:14:07

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Presumably because the neighbors keep complaining, even though their claims have been proved false time and again.

2024-08-28 21:59:43

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No way! Why play mind games? I strive to say what I mean and mean what I say. If I need or want something, I ask for it. I do my best to take responsibility for my own needs and my own feelings. Always.

2024-08-26 16:24:03

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When I was a homeschooled kid it was a big thing to call us all "weird" and "antisocial". My brothers were mortified to be homeschooled because of this, even though they grew up being home.
So, it doesn't seem like a new thing to me. On the other hand, I think my kids grew up with more curiosity directed at them about their homeschooled status than outright affront or disbelief than I did. I should ask their impressions of this. Because there were also plenty of times they were accosted in the grocery store with "why aren't you in school?" "Oh, you poor things, don't you want to be with your friends?" Etc.

2024-08-25 17:25:01

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I bet the spider welcomed to opportunity to get some food 😋

2024-08-24 15:47:51

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I've only read Red Mars so far, but I LOVED it 🤩 Such vivid and beautiful writing it made me want to go to Mars 🌟

2024-08-17 17:30:10

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Good morning 🌞

2024-08-07 15:44:03

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Good morning 🌞

2024-08-03 20:44:43

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Why kill the wasps?

2024-07-28 16:47:10

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It is difficult! It's so frustrating to try to fix something and find it's glued or molded in a way that prevents "tampering". Or fabrics so cheap they disintegrate instead of being mendable.
I love your home build idea 🔥 So often in home repairs we come across Why-in-the-everloving-short-sighted-fuck did they do it THAT way???

2024-07-28 16:35:09

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Yay for fixing stuff! I have a low-key goal to replace all my faux disposable stuff (appliances, tools, etc) with fixable stuff whenever possible.

2024-07-16 23:44:37

I often struggle to translate my thoughts and feelings into words-out-loud. My mind goes blank under the benign stares of other human beings.
Perhaps this is because I was slapped for saying the wrong thing when I was little. I couldn’t figure out what I’d said wrong, so began my anxiety of speaking out loud to other human beings.
Perhaps it is because my perfectionist nature sees my difficulty communicating as a shameful failure.
I’ve only expressed my deepest grief about the passing of my child when I am alone. The closest I’ve come with another person present is with Troy.
Sometimes, holding my pain in, I feel like, if my abdomen were sliced open and my entrails threatened to exit my body, or even if I saw the same happen to someone else, it would be considered in the natural course of things to scream about it.
But when the gaping wound is in my soul and the evidence of my agonizing pain is invisible, I mustn’t scream out loud. Unless I want to be seen as crazy, lost-it, not-all-there, unhinged.
Sometimes the screams build up inside me. Build and build and have nowhere to go. I must hold them in and wait and wait and wait. Wait until what was a scream can come out softly in a written thought or a painted canvas, or a few quiet tears.
Sometimes I scream in the car while driving down the highway, where no-one else can see or hear.
Sometimes I suffer debilitating migraines that disrupt sight, hearing, touch perception, and reasoning.
Sometimes my gallbladder convinces me my insides are rending apart.
Today, singing along with Pentatonix -- Hallelujah. The vibrations made in my chest on the “hallelujahs” feel like happiness.
A second time through and I remember him singing along, too. Memory sweet and bitter. He is earnest, intense, sometimes off-key, flat, enthusiastic.
For a brief moment I can almost see him standing next to me, filmy and barely there, like a ghost in a movie. I can hear him. Then the impression is gone. I clutch my chest and dig my fingers into my skin, the physical pain anchoring me to the spot, so as not to float away on the roaring emptiness of his absence.
Tears flood and I curl up on the couch, bury my face in a wad of velvety blanket to muffle my voice and let the pain turn to sound for a little while. Don’t want to keep quiet, but mustn’t alarm the neighbors. I wail and sob until I feel a little relief.
I complain as though this reserve were solely a failing of my culture, but also, I am shy. Very shy. If you asked me to cry out loud in “public” (even around just friends), said “go ahead and scream and wail” I don’t think I could do it. The walls are too high and too firm, keeping me faux-safe from unexpected slaps and other rejections.
#suicide #mentalhealth #parenting #grief #writing

2024-07-15 03:12:24

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😏 *nod*

2024-07-13 16:57:24

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To me, "value" in this context means you are putting thought and care into a post you are hoping others will interact with.

2024-07-12 22:09:52

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I think with most succulents, when damaged or transplanted, you want to le them dry out for a while before watering. Because they are so susceptible to rot, any damaged bits need a chance to callous over before being exposed to water.

2024-07-11 22:28:13

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Sounds yummy!

2024-07-07 16:33:50

Good morning 🌞
Another beautiful morning in the garden 🌱
Queen Anne's lace
https://i.ibb.co/sbyjP2f/20240706-074152.jpg
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https://i.ibb.co/3m3m0vh/20240706-074219.jpg
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#nature #photography #flowers

2024-07-06 23:52:32

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Relatable 😑

2024-07-06 16:09:57

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Good morning 🙂

2024-07-01 18:32:45

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Depends on plot, characters, and believable world-building. The subject of bitcoin is secondary to a good story. Some secondary features (meaning technologies, super powers, creatures etc) will entice me to try a book but won't keep me engaged by themselves.
Format and length aren't important to me.

2024-06-27 04:23:56

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These were my dad's favorite berry 💜 I had several volunteers come up in the yard at my old house 😍 I nurtured them until I had to move.

2024-06-25 22:25:17

This essay is one of my favorite pieces of writing. Evocative, sensual, wild, and thoughtful.
"The sun had just set. I was relaxed on the tree trunk, ensconced in the lap of lichen, watching the lily pads at my feet tremble and part dreamily over the thrusting path of a carp. A yellow bird appeared to my right and flew behind me. It caught my eye; I swiveled around-- and the next instant, inexplicably, I was looking down at a weasel, who was looking up at me."
"The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should."
https://genius.com/Annie-dillard-living-like-weasles-annotated
#writing #nature #mindfulness #reading #books

2024-06-25 21:32:43

Garlic harvest
We had planted two 4x4' raised beds last fall. This one had 5 varieties: chesnock red, yuggoth, dw marbled, german red, and Siberian. The other bed was all Siberian, which we grew last year and really liked the flavor of.
https://i.ibb.co/p1QKsyW/20240625-112537.jpg
Most of bulbs are in the shade curing, these few have orange spots on the skins. Maybe fungus? Going to peel and pickle them fresh instead of drying and storing them.
https://i.ibb.co/Nm8LJcD/20240625-121936.jpg
#gardening #homesteading #harvestr #abundance #garlic #garlicstr

2024-06-25 17:54:32

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Planting seeds from hybrids will result in some plants that are like the parent plants and some that have a combination of traits. All will still be edible potatoes :) Save some of the ones you like to plant next time.

2024-06-25 17:31:30

This morning's harvest:
hyssop, oregano, yarrow, and calendula
https://i.ibb.co/FzsjjBp/20240625-081838.jpg
coriander
https://i.ibb.co/ZgbgxC4/20240625-081925.jpg
coming soon -- garlic 😋
#gardening #homesteading #harvestr #abundance

2024-06-24 21:49:02

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You CAN grow potatoes from seed.
The potato plants grown from lil' "seed" potatoes are clones. If you're saving and planting your own potatoes year after year it's possible the plants could start to decline in quality.
Saving actual seeds and growing entirely new plants from time to time is a good practice if you're providing your own stock.

2024-06-24 01:03:04

#grief #parenting #writing
My middle child passed away a little over 2 years ago. He was 18 years old. Among many other hardships and tragedies in my life this pain is sharply unique. In some ways I've been coping well, in other ways not so much.
I am a reader and a writer. Words, language, and stories are nearly as dear to my wellbeing as food and water.
I have been writing less and less over the last couple years.
Sometimes my feelings of grief and outrage and near-relentless sorrow well up and I can breathe into the pain and make room for it and let it flow through me and out. Some of the feelings are knotted tight, coiled into nooks and caves in my inner being. I think the only way I can release or incorporate these trapped feelings is by sharing and being seen.
https://i.ibb.co/qNT2c70/img-1-1719183259634.jpg
Whenever I try to choose a memorial piece that my child’s bones will be incorporated into, I feel as though I will shatter, as though the next breath, or the one after that will begin the cracks that will spread irreversibly through me. I know this is not true. Still, I stopped looking at memorial art.
I believe I need to share my experiences, both for my own health and for the possibility that my words could positively affect someone who needs to hear them. I kept putting it off because I wanted the right words, the right timing, the right platform, the right schedule, the right persona. Because it is my learned inclination to be reserved and private and to keep most of my Self hidden most of the time.
This morning I cried suddenly, missing his smile, his laugh, his hug. I knew it was time and I promised myself that I would write AND SHARE something TODAY, and here it is.
#suicide #mentalhealth

2024-06-23 04:22:51

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We recently tried fireweed honey for the first time. It's unique for sure! And delicious 😋

2024-06-22 04:52:08

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You assume a great deal 🙄
I'm more curious how you would describe or define an experience of "embarrassingly relentless love" from God in response to pride.
Is it something you experience chiefly internally, through prayer? Or through synchronicities that encourage you to examine certain beliefs and behaviors?

2024-06-21 23:33:23

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That's where my brain would be! 🌱

2024-06-21 23:22:20

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Can you give an experiential example of this?

2024-06-21 17:54:55

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Homemade vanilla ice cream is one of my favorite treats, though store bought vanilla is one of the most insipid.
One of my more elaborate creations was orange cream with orange jam swirl and topped with chocolate covered hazelnuts 🤤
Also good:
Cinnamon vanilla with espresso chocolate chips
Banana chocolate chip
Greek yogurt and fresh lemon

2024-06-21 17:49:25

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So much to learn! I grew up baking whole wheat sandwich bread at least weekly. As a young adult I delved into sourdough a little and quickly found that whole wheat equals little rise. I have a beautiful hard-cover book about making whole grain breads and all the complexities involved. I haven't delved into it yet because I've been without an oven for a couple years, but it's on the "someday" list to get back into.

2024-06-20 17:15:16

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I haven't done it, but looking forward to hearing more about your experiences. It's a new area of knowledge for me and super fascinating.
In the fertilizer fermentation class that Troy mentioned the presenter had posters with nutrient content of various plants with the idea that you can tailor your ferments to specific needs.

2024-06-15 15:28:56

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If it burns even on low heat then there could be too much sugar in the batter. It might make great baked cake 🙂

2024-06-13 02:50:08

Shows you how much they "know" 🙄
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2024-06-12 18:07:08

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I love making jun, sauerkraut, and all kinds of lacto-fermented pickles and relishes. 😋

2024-06-07 15:44:34

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Thank you, I enjoyed reading this! Amazing how inventions evolve 🤯💙

2024-06-06 21:17:05

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Omelettes, frittatas, stir fry...

2024-06-06 21:09:58

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I love our sphinx moths here (we have vashti and bumblebee clearwing), they are beautiful, and pollinators.
I wonder if there's a "weed" one could transfer the caterpillars to, to save the tomatoes and the moth?

2024-06-06 19:22:19

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Baby Sphinx Moth :) (aka tomato hornworm)

2024-06-06 06:33:20

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Yum! I love a sprinkle of dried chives on top 😋

2024-06-04 20:44:19

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I discovered a couple years ago that a number of popular sayings like this are shortened versions of the original, and sometimes have the opposite meaning!
"Blood is thicker than water" was described to me as meaning "Blood (family ties) is stronger than water under the bridge (time spent together-- friends).
I've heard the original saying is "The blood of covenant is thicker than the water of the womb".

2024-06-04 20:37:23

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I would say with maturity rather than age.

2024-06-04 15:26:15

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I've never tried it, now I'm gonna! Pharmaceutical antihistamines fuck me up and don't work most of the time.

2024-06-02 02:03:06

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I'm not sure off the top of my head but a quick internet search suggests iron deficiency.

2024-06-01 17:12:49

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Beautiful work!

2024-06-01 17:03:53

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❤❤❤

2024-06-01 17:01:13

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What is wrong with them?

2024-06-01 17:00:50

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Pill bugs/roly-polys were eating mine.

2024-05-27 21:18:33

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💚🌱💖

2024-05-27 20:56:06

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😂

2024-05-26 17:47:28

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I love this 😊 Who is the artist?

2024-05-25 17:12:06

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Welcome! 🙂

2024-05-25 17:11:10

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I love this so much! 😆

2024-05-25 06:42:08

Somehow, young Robert Duvall looks older than elder Robert Duvall.
#TwighlightZone

2024-05-24 17:07:59

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Yes

2024-05-24 05:52:41

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You're just telling the truth. Honesty is the best thing for you and everyone who loves you.
We need to share our pain sometimes.

2024-05-23 21:43:34

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It is! It's near a river. I'm used to clay and clay heavily amended with composted leaves. Looking forward to learning the ins-and-outs of a new-to-me soil type.

2024-05-01 23:07:27

I used to prefer "specifically armed in advance" but. . . It made me sick. I am on the journey of health though the old mind-habits are strong. "trusting yourself to face unknowable threats" This is a new thought for me 🤔
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2024-04-23 19:33:58

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It also works wonderfully for bee stings! Stops the pain faster than anything else I have tried.

2024-04-08 17:23:31

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Whole Again by Jackson Mackenzie is about feeling these past emotions in order to release them from your body.

2024-04-08 17:21:35

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Most often my emotional pain is internally generated. Learning to analyze root causes helps me to slow down and respond more thoughtfully to emotional triggers.
Another thing that helps me is to realize that some feelings you just have to sit with and feel to let them out. If you weren't able to feel all the sadness or panic or anger etc in the moment something happened to you, if it's all too much, your body will store that emotion away for later. These stored emotions can be released during times of stress causing us to "overreact". Recognizing that some of what you are feeling is not caused by the present situation can go a long way toward being able to regulate your reactions.

2024-04-08 17:05:00

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The lack of interest in our medical system in any actual healing seems to growing. It's awful.

2024-04-05 19:57:27

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Brown ground beef with homemade taco seasoning, scramble in eggs, add salsa, avocado, and cheddar cheese 😋

2024-04-05 15:36:41

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Brrrr!

2024-04-04 18:54:44

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I've experienced the real struggle... AND I complain about Spotify 😆 (Used to complain, I've given up on using it)

2024-04-04 17:58:59

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The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois Mcmaster Bujold-- excellent fun, vivid characters, action, drama, and humor
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
gorgeous realism, made me want to go to Mars

2024-04-03 17:16:15

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I'm interested in this topic as well.
Both duck duck go and brave have been giving dumbed-down, largely crap results for months now, and getting worse lately.

2024-04-03 02:24:49

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I also second the comments about evaluating your mattress and inflammatory foods.

2024-04-03 02:20:23

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I recommend this youtuber -- "Feldenkrais with Taro Iwamoto" for amazing help with neck pain!
My favorite pillow is a buckwheat hull pillow for adjustable support.

2024-04-03 00:09:40

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Ravenclaw, with a healthy dose of Gryffindor to balance 🤓😎

2024-03-30 02:14:02

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That's awesome 😊 When my middle child was 8 he started mountain biking and could quickly navigate trails better than I 😄 I'm not all that coordinated lol, but he was definitely a natural.

2024-03-22 21:24:13

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Sounds delicious!

2024-03-21 17:41:07

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Thank you for the explanation 👍

2024-03-21 17:37:14

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So beautiful! 🤩

2024-03-21 17:36:07

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Same, except mine are in cloth grocery bags 😄

2024-03-20 16:54:28

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Experiencing similar currently. Disputing a charge from a cancelled subscription (Curiosity Stream). Even with a screenshot showing my subscription was cancelled several months before the charge they are fighting me.
I TRIED to delete my Paypal account a year or so ago. They wouldn't LET me, insisting there was still an active payment though I cancelled/removed all payments and vendors.
I thought, well that sucks, but I just won't use the account.
🙄😤

2024-03-20 15:59:44

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Welcome!

2024-03-17 16:49:31

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Yum!

2024-03-16 03:13:23

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2024-03-16 03:12:48

Spring Flower Fritters
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 large egg
1/2 cup milk
About one cup flowers and chopped greens (pansies, violas, dandelion, dandelion leaves, garlic leaves, etc)
avocado oil, coconut oil, or lard for frying
Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
Separately, whisk together milk, egg, and butter.
Add wet ingredients to dry and quickly stir just until there are no lumps.
In a pan heat about 1/2 to 1 inch of oil until hot (very slightly rippling) reduce heat to medium or medium-low. Test cook a drop or two of batter. You want it to solidify right away, but not brown immediately.
Gently fold your blossoms and greens into the fritter batter.
Using a tablespoon dollop heaping scoops of batter into the hot oil. Cook until golden on bottom then flip and cook the other side.
Serve plain or with a dip such as garlic mayo.
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2024-03-15 17:24:57

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Greetings! I am a writer 🙂 I mostly make notes about gardening, foraging, and herbs, when I social media at all 🤭. I write fiction (finished novella, working on a novel), nonfiction articles, and aspire to get better at creative nonfiction/personal essays.

2024-03-06 23:54:59

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Absolutely!

2024-03-03 18:54:18

The worst advertisement for Apple/Macintosh is... owning a Mac 🙄
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2024-02-23 20:59:01

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This is the one I have. The price has gone way up since I bought mine.
https://sweetzzzmattress.com/products/buckwheat-pillow?variant=42285752713369

2024-02-23 20:19:13

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Yes, nice and cool! The noise only bothers me when I'm worried it will disturb my sleeping spouse, otherwise I seldom notice it any more.

2024-02-19 02:48:15

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Buckwheat hull filling and cotton quilted cover. You adjust the amount of filling to the firmness you want.

2024-02-17 20:25:51

😍
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2024-02-17 01:09:49

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Sometimes putting aluminum foil on the countertop can deter them. They don't like the noise or the feel of it.

2023-11-09 01:16:08

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I just made my first board today to begin the migration from pinterest (that's going to be a long task, manually entering each page url, description, and image url 😆). BUT it has no pins in it yet because the "add pin" button was broken for me. I submitted the issue through github, and hopefully will be able to use pinstr soon.

2023-11-09 01:07:52

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Oh, I definitely don't trust the mainstream "health" narrative AT ALL. Never said I did, nor that I ascribe to their food pyramid. I do not. Perhaps you'd be interested in an actual discussion?
I am currently reading "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A Price. Wonderful, fascinating read! It is infuriating, really, that we've had this detailed study available for nearly a hundred years and it has been ignored by health professionals etc. I guess that's corporatocracy at work.
For my part, I will continue to study and experiment, and seek to be the healthiest I can be.

2023-10-18 03:53:01

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Good luck! They can be a bit noisy, but they sure are pretty 💗

2023-10-18 03:23:10

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All interesting!
I wasn't thinking of an "essential" carb, more of the fact that our bodies require glucose to function properly. I realize we make glucose from protein at need, but in reading some carnivore diet experiences I did come across things such as being so low carb they were unable to sleep through the night.
For nutrients, I was thinking of flavonoids and fibers 🤔
I don't say that being an "omnivore" means you eat absolutely anything edible in your vicinity. Of course there are specialized diets. And, yes, I'm aware of gorillas eating bugs, and white-tailed deer eating baby birds etc etc.
Anyway, interesting discussion, I plan to research more.
I hope you find the answer to your vitamin c puzzle!

2023-10-15 19:11:01

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But, humans aren't carnivores, we're omnivores. Agreed most of our modern diets include way too much sugar and are otherwise imbalanced.
We need the carbs (and many other nutrients) in whole fruits and vegetables.