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Thank you random lady from New York who gave me a hot doughnut. Yesterday my friend Heather and I went to Seattle to take class provided by the Seattle Tilth {I’ll tell you more about it a little later}. While we were there, I decided to Channel My Inner Pilgrim, and give away 7 giant Read More >>
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Dear Handsome Husband, I give up. It’s too hot to cook. We are having ice cream for dinner tonight. Pick one. ♥ Mavis {your lazy wife} Patriotic Ice Cream Sandwiches Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Old Fashioned Strawberry Ice Cream Raspberry Sorbet The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Read More >>
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School is right around the corner so I figured now was as good a time as any to load the freezers with bread. About 25% of the stock in the store $1.00. Everything else is about half of retail. And since I was planning on freezing everything we purchased, it didn’t matter to me if Read More >>
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This year my goal is to grow 2,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables. I think I can do it. With 16 raised garden beds, a greenhouse, a raspberry patch and a few more planting beds sprinkled throughout our property, I believe growing 2,000 pounds of food is an attainable goal. Even if I do Read More >>
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Remember when I did a little doorbell ditching on National Zucchini Day? Well it came back to bite me in the arse. My neighbor Francisco showed up this morning with a loaf of zucchini bread for me. He used {part of} the zucchini I gave him. How funny is that? Now I know what you Read More >>
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As I was walking back to the house for lunch, I noticed this small { 5″} spaghetti squash growing along the back porch. I tried to move it, but the way the vines are, the squash will be better off if I leave it just where it is. So what should I do? Do Read More >>
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This morning I headed outside at the crack of dawn. It’s supposed to be 80 degrees here today, and YES I know, I am a total lightweight, but come on, up here in the Seattle area that’s like scorching hot. Anyway, when I was in the greenhouse watering yesterday, I noticed the cucumbers I had Read More >>
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This week when I went to pick up the “chicken scraps” I was a bit relieved. For the first time in a long while the boxes were not stuffed with mounds and mounds of lettuce leaves. There were a few heads of iceberg lettuce this time around, but they were not salvageable. However, there was an ample Read More >>
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