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Meh. Chickens are easier to care for than our cat or my tow beehives. We feed and water in the morning, grab eggs in the afternoon and move water into their house at night. Easy. Peasy. We buried chicken wire under lava rocks to protect the run and haven't had a problem with predators- except for alley cats who sit watching the chickens. Bonus, the girls are cuddly with us since we're raised them from one week old chicks. All of their poop goes into our yard and all of the weeds I pull go into their bellies. I think it's a terrific relationship! Don't be afraid. You can do it!

This neighborhood is full of gems that at one time had roofs popped, houses scraped and replaced with McMansions and otherwise ruined the beauty of this mid-century area. I am SO HAPPY to see a house retain many of it's original features yet get updated. And love the craft room. Wish I still lived by Ideal Market, Liz. I'd meet you for a stitch and bitch.

I don't see the wonderful peacock color named. Is that in the music room? The study? Jeez.. so many rooms, how can I identify it?

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Quilts of Gee's Bend. Worth seeing if the exhibit comes to an art museum near you. I'm about to finish my first quilt and have already decided what to do for my second, and more modern looking, quilt.

How funny! I made sweet potato hash for Sunday breakfast served on a bed of sauteed kale with two poached eggs and some slivers of avocado. I wish it were Sunday morning again! Yumm!!

I love in Bend, OR. My neighbor asked her landlord if she could use the neglected back area of the four-plex for a garden. I watched pink-mohawked dart-throwing Becky replace junk and garbage with 3 4 ft x 12 ft beds with irrigation, a large tractor tire for squash and a compost bin by bartering the eggs she had from her four chickens in her 8 x8 ft yard. It took her most of the season but she managed to hobble together all of this with egg-bartered goods, regularly visiting the local Habitat ReStore and another junk store in town. She spent maybe $150 on new things-everything else was built with her relationships. She made an ugly area gorgeous in our little corner. She probably increased the value of the rentals with her green thumb. Thumbs up to Becky!

I truly, deeply, struggle with this problem. Not only with design but clothing, music, cooking, etc. I was putting eggs on pizza, sandwiches, etc. for a while then realized so was everyone else and I was caught in the trend spiral!

Then I stopped and realized no one can claim an original idea, can they? Not to get too meta... but we are collectively gathering toward putting ampersands on everything, right?
said item and ask if he or she is interested in inheriting my sunflower stained glass or bird stencil or pallet-converted-to-a-container-garden piece.

No big deal.
Love it, leave it, pass it on.

Hot mustard bath, spicy kimchee or take out pho, chicken noodle soup, Reed's ginger beer my favorite pj's, tulsi tea and a collection of 80s classics like Footloose and 16 Candles. Also, my latest knitting/sewing project to keep my hands occupied.

I have my original Coleco Frogger mini video game proudly displayed- always a crowd pleaser. My bf has a collection of Garbage Pail kids. We like to integrate who we were with who we are.