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phedizzle
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recipes, poetry, permaculture, nature, recording engineering, rare disease/endocrine research, freethinker
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2017-12-13 22:56
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phedizzle
firstpost
2020-03-20 15:31
I don't know what I'm doing but I'm here
I've been MIA for months. I don't even understand what this fork is about. But here I am. { : First post on Hive. YOLO
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phedizzle
homestead
2018-11-03 03:34
Would you look at that?! Efficiency, here we come!
My Christmas and Birthday gifts came Early! We've been trying to get the right tools over time, as circumstances allow, so that we can become a lot more efficient and cost effective with our food
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phedizzle
homestead
2018-10-27 03:34
FRUIT AND NUT ORCHARD UPDATE
I haven't updated about the fruit and nut trees that were planted this spring. Since the winter is fast approaching, now would be a good time. This is one of the dwarf peaches. The one which took a really
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phedizzle
homestead
2018-10-20 03:37
THE WHISTLEPIG AND THE PEAR
Groundhogs. Woodchucks. Whistlepigs. UGH. Need I say more? Well, I will. A few falls ago I remember seeing a beaver walking around on it's hind legs in the orchard nearest the creek. That was the best
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phedizzle
photo
2018-10-13 03:44
SLEEPING TREE FROG ON MY DOOR
This is a little treefrog I found sleeping on my door under a temporary sign I'd left for a delivery driver. I thought it was the neatest thing. There have been many tree frogs hanging around my patio
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phedizzle
garden
2018-10-06 03:45
HELPING AT THE FARMERS MARKET 2
The market season is winding down here. Only about 5 weeks left I believe. I'm so thankful it's cooler now. We've had a few hot days interspersed between typical Fall weather, but starting Sunday it will
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phedizzle
poetry
2018-09-29 03:52
FINALLY FALL IS HERE!
source Pixabay In the last weeks of winter Frigid temperatures lingered Coldly snapping At my fingers The winter was long With little snow Grey and brown Dead grass of gold The propane furnace labored
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phedizzle
garden
2018-09-22 03:53
HELPING AT THE FARMERS MARKET
Still not back in the swing of things online, but did help at a farmer's market last weekend for Dragonfly Farm which is a mom and pop farm in the Kansas City Metro area specializing in gourmet mushrooms
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phedizzle
life
2018-09-15 03:55
VISITED BY ROYALTY: The Noble Feast of Pears
Feasting on the nectar of neglected pears, on this beautiful late summer eve near dusk, royalty dined before me as I was deciding what to post about this week. I decided to share some pictures like I'm
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phedizzle
life
2018-09-08 04:56
ALL PURPOSE COLD & FLU HERBAL TEA ELIXIR
Ooph. I'm not feeling well. This has been a prolonged period of what I first thought was a bad case of allergies. That morphed into what I thought was a cold. Now I am feeling on the edge of a flu. For
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-09-01 05:13
OUTDOOR KITCHEN DESIGN: (CAD) FIRST DRAFT
I mentioned before that from middle school to high school I was dead set on becoming an Architect. That never panned out. I DID spent many years learning how to hand draft, as well as draft using AutoCAD.
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-08-25 05:23
FREE ENERGY COOKING: I GOT A FRESNEL LENS!!
Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass in science class or girl/boy scouts? Well, in my search for a zero energy means of cooking, I came across fresnel lenses. These are strong magnifying
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-08-18 05:32
ONE OUT OF MANY: MY FIRST TIME GROWING SWEET POTATOES
During the late winter I made a post about sweet potatoes we had left over from Thanksgiving that had started to show the first signs of shoots. I detailed how I tried to get them to grow into slips. Well,
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-08-11 05:50
COMFREY: ANOTHER QUINTESSENTIAL PERMACULTURE ADDITION TO OUR FOOD FOREST
Comfrey, scientific name Symphytum officinale, is an ubiquitous and quintessential element in the permaculture ecosystem. It's a perennial plant in my zone, which is nice because that means it will grow
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-08-04 06:17
ZONE 2 OF THE FOOD FOREST
This year started off quite busy with the Food Forest Project finally getting started. At first it went quick. Regrettably, progress slowed to a halt. That's okay. I'm happy we've gotten as far as we have
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-07-28 06:40
WILD PURPLE GARLIC TRANSPLANT UPDATE
A while back I posted about some wild purple garlic and chives that I transplanted from the orchard. In today's post I will be going over how that worked out. When we moved here it was pretty obvious the
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phedizzle
food
2018-07-21 10:02
WHAT'S FOR DINNER? BEETS ME! FIRST GARDEN HARVEST AND RECIPE
SOME OF YOU ARE BEET HATERS. IS IT BECAUSE THEY STAIN YOUR FINGERS, POSSIBLY YOUR URINE? IS IT BECAUSE THEY TASTE LIKE THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH? WELL, WHATEVER YOUR REASON, YOU ARE MISSING OUT. I know
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phedizzle
poetry
2018-07-14 13:49
LIGHTS OUT BABY ROBIN
One cold morning in late March, while sitting outside drinking coffee, I watched the most spectacular thing! Birds teaching their young to fly. It reminded me of parents teaching their kids to ride a bike
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phedizzle
permaculture
2018-07-07 13:53
ORCHARD: PLANNING, PREPPING & PLANTING
It's been a while since I have updated everyone on the food forest. Here I talked about what trees were ordered if you'd like to go take a look. It took a few weeks to get everything planted. The truth
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phedizzle
story
2018-06-30 15:42
BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: Rewind: Growing up with turntables
I was born in the decade when Atari was King. Hair metal bands, Soft Rock, and Country dominated the airwaves. Home televisions were mostly black and white and were housed in humongous cabinets with turn
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