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Working in the garden

Our weather is so darn crazy here! My milk jug greenhouses have worked pretty well. I have kale and lettuce now in the ground and they’ve survived the week well. The tomatoes are still waiting in the milk jugs because I do not trust the weather to be nice enough to put them in the ground. [...]

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Being the best mom

I read Careerealism articles frequently, and this one stood out. Being a mom is a job. I am a leader of my homeschool. I’m the operations manager of my household. Everything would fall apart and not function if I weren’t here — can you relate? I have adapted the author‘s five points to a parenting situation. How I can be [...]

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Community garden work

I added fencing to the fence posts the day after “N” installed the posts. My FIL had wires and a wire turner tool (I really don’t know what you call it) that worked real slick. I added two signs for the curious ball player or two. I also added mulch over the path I had [...]

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Handmade (by someone else) in my home

I have given tours of things I’ve made by hand, here and here, but today I would like to give a tour of my house of stuff that someone else made with their own hands. I’ve written about my Three Little Squares. There are now two little squares, which is very sad indeed, and they are [...]

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