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The Truth About Bell Peppers

I don’t like the taste of bell peppers. My mother and husband do so I have grown them. Most of them have become additives to my husbands salads or mixed into his omelettes in the morning. I did make...

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A Test of Clothing

I decided to do something different with my latest Eve Convention. I decided to dress in a more business casual model. Normally, I toss on whatever comes to my hands. Jeans and loose t-shirts with a...

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Of Generational Gaps

There is great truth that there is fewer things more frustrating than teaching someone technology. My mother is not technologically adept. She probably never would have been. Even as a child, I would...

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Aspects of Adulthood

It is an unfortunate reality that no one drops from the sky and fixes things for you when they break once you reach adulthood. This particular reality was made quite clear when on Friday, the day after...

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Moving Time

A few things are happening over here at my non-eve blogging attempts. I’m moving and expanding and incorporating myself under a more single brand. I purchased this site three years ago for a deal that...

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A Weekends Work

On Saturday, my husband sat down and put up the new web server for my blog. It was an all day event. Having decided to host several different media ventures, I needed a multi-site setup which WordPress...

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Site Moved

Now the site is all moved. I’m not completely up yet because I haven’t started scanning in drawings and I have not gotten the graphics tool I wanted. I expect comic production will be a month behind...

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BarkCrate

I’m going to give this a try. Someone evil introduced me to it and after pondering the value I decided to toss a bunch of money down on it. BarkCrate – Is one of those mystery crate ideas. Lootcrate is...

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Selecting a Puppy

Puppy Selection is perhaps one of the most exciting moments of obtaining a new dog. From all of those cute bundles of fluff and fat little legs is your future partner. It is also a moment that should...

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Sourcing Dog Food – The Potentials of Delivery

In 2001 a 40 pound bag of dog food cost me 20 dollars. This was for the better brands of the day. In 2005, with a bit of searching I could still get 40 pounds for 20 dollars. Then changes came to corn....

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Now is Time for Things

This year has not gone as I expected so far. I lost Nyx in December. I gained Intuition at the end of January. I have found myself neck deep in a situation of most uncomfortable potions as related to...

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Six weeks in

I need to take some updated pictures of Intuition. Inside shots just lack the luster. But, here are some from last week on his walk. Inty’s ears are cropped. This is them out of their posts. That they...

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Revamping after First Setback

Last year I started my Garden in late March. This year I was determined to start at the end of February. The general idea is to have the plants old enough to start producing fruit as soon as the...

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Expectant Dirt

Everyone needs a badly taken photograph near midnight, no? There is something restful about plants. I found myself laying on the floor staring at the still mounds of dirt. Dirt, that I hope to see...

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Seedlings

It has been a week and my dirt has started to sprout. Mark two of my planting has gone well. I went and got another light. My seedlings that had sprouted downstairs were growing ‘leggy’. This is when...

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An Ode to Photos

My husband messaged me at work yesterday and told me that my photos were not showing up on this blog. Ugh. I have been trying to use google photos. However, like many other things of googles, they are...

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Maybe, Maybe

I’ve wanted to write for a very long time. I wrote stumbling, science fiction stories as a teenager. Simple things with little plot and no depth of character. While my ideas are often creative, where I...

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Hardening off

I came home to find that the large cucumbers had a broken branch. My mother had a tumble trying to bring them back in. I expected it. Two plants are damaged. A bit shocked but they should recover from...

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The sun was still shining when we finished with errands. “Want to take the dogs out and get pictures?” my husband asked. “Sure,” I said as I ignored the longing to sit down and vegetate for a while....

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Only Perfection

The internet has taught me a lot about people. Not all people or even a particular type of people. The personality someone has online and offline can be completely different things. But the internet...

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