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| 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast with honey, half an orange, & a cup of decaf = a workin mans breakfast |
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| Starting a batch of jun. Made like kombucha but with honey not sugar. |
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| Levi had his 1st piano lesson on his 8th birthday, from his 1st cousin 3 times removed. Ann is 93 & has taught piano for 70 years. It is a great honor for us to have her teach Levi. Here Levi listens to an older student play. |
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| Cupcakes ready to take to school. |
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| My 1st batch of kimchi, ready to pack & ferment. Daikon, green onions, sweet & hot peppers from the garden. |
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| My music girl. |
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| Seaming the last few stitches of Joe's vest. |
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| The constant flow of blocks into the garden. |
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| Cookie & Indi. Mom's been so inspiring through her battle with breast cancer. |
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| Egads!... upside down I'm tired of fiddling with this so I'm going with it... you get the gist. Just got an exciting package from Ireland with a passel of (mostly) perennial cut flower seeds. Starting to ramp up a little and flush out for some cut flowers next summer. |
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| I spent Saturday and Sunday making & seeding hundreds of soil blocks. Here some red hot pokers go in. |
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| My little monkeys. Who over the weekend also ate a week's worth of bananas. |
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| Quietly sitting in the carport drawing by herself. |
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| My chainsaw man at work. *love* The garden is going through an expansion, so all those shrubby shade-making trees to the south are getting the axe. |
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| timber.... |
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| crash |
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| sun-drying |
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| pac choy :: BEFORE |
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| beautifully done by my Horseman |
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| these interweave into my days :: many many this season |
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| September means 'spider lilies' to me |
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| foraging for turkey tails :: the real one is in the middle, the other two are false |
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| flip them over to tell :: the false are smooth, the real one has tiny pores all over it, I blew these up so you can see |
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| watching something special on Daddy's phone |
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| Wildwood buckeye |
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| ready to push |
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| sawdust flying |
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| Wildwood :: black walnuts |
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| her last day :: a few weeks shy of her 15th birthday |
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| ice cream Friday |
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| pac choy :: AFTER |
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| late tomatillos |
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| elephant garlic :: 56 cloves in, planted primarily for cut flowers |
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| what I worked on today :: at center, better late than never, fine crumbly carrot bed |
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| a trickle of October tomatoes keeping us happy |
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| a bulk of the purple basil got the heave-ho |
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| the green basil that was in the way too :: heading to the house with it for a pesto freeze lots more in the garden tucked here & there for fresh eating |
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| what joy to see the kids keeping the beans picked all by themselves, I just go back & get the ones way up high |
