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How To Build Your Food Storage Overnight…

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  Before you go out and stock up on perishables… You’re going to need a few things…  Gloves, Goggles, Headlamp, Grocery bag, Phone number of a friend who will bail you out of jail @ 2am are the first items that come to mind. 🙂 Mavis Must See This Movie!

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Tacoma Urban Chicken Coop Tour 2011

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In the paper the other day there was a picture that caught my eye.  It was a story about an upcoming chicken coop tour in Tacoma.  2 things immediately caught my eye.  Chickens & FREE Admission.   🙂 In order to get the map for the tour we first had to drive to the Garden Sphere Read More >>

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FREE Berries… I can’t wait!

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I finally used up the last of my 10 bazillion pounds of blueberries from last years awesome blueberry deal at Fred Meyer. I some how managed to keep 5… 6 or maybe it was 7 gallon bags hidden in the freezer all winter long… And let me tell you… keeping fruit hidden from The Girl Read More >>

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The tale of 2 museums…

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A few days before Mothers Day I announced “I’d like to go see the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum on Mothers Day.” Anyone care to guess WHY I wanted to go on Mothers Day? Hmmm… Well I’ll tell you…because admission was FREE of course! And apparently I’m not the only one who Read More >>

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