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mTip: Halloween Homeowners Insurance

| Economical, Fun, Halloween, Holidays, Home, WholeHome
October 31, 2011

Full-Size Candy!364 days a year I steer clear from this stuff, but at Halloween it’s the ONLY thing I buy. It’s a cheap form of homeowners insurance, pluckedone by one out of my basket, by all of the neighborhood kids. Growing up in Palos Verdez, CA, it worked for Mrs. McAdoo up...
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Real Food, Real World…A Hail Mary Pass to My Family at the Dinner Table

| Dressings & Sauces, Economical, Entrees, garden, Gardening, Gluten-Free, Healthy Living, How-To, Plant to Plate, Plant-Based Cuisine, Recipes-Salads, Vegan, WholeFood
October 28, 2011

Attempt at keeping dinner time peace:Roasted Root Vegetable Salad with Sprouted Red Quinoaon a Bed of Organic Dark Leafy Greens The biggest challenge about my recent Raw For 30 Days adventure was feeding myself and my family healthy meals at the same time. It was expensive, a bit stressful and...
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A Toast to Wine in the Garden, Self-Seeding Cilantro…

| Economical, Fun, garden, Gardening, Green Living, How-To
October 26, 2011

Cilantro seedling protected from chilly fall nights by a wine bottle cloche. …and a friend with a bottle cutter! I saw this beautiful photo once of a perfect garden, with twenty perfect green-tinged, bubble-glass, and bell-shaped cloches lined up in a perfectly straight row shielding bright green lettuce seedlings from...
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mTip: Creepy for Cheapy Halloween Urns

| Design, Fun, Garden, garden, Gardening, Holidays, mTIPS
October 24, 2011

The Wicked Witch flies by sometimes, and with a strike of her wand, renders even our best-planned gardening endeavors, DEAD.Don’t be so quick to kick SLAIN trees or shrubs to the curb.Breath life back into them by making a creepy cheapy Halloween urn (or two), instead. Needed:Urn/s, soil to hold limbs in place,...
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Life Lessons From the Garden

| Fun, garden, Gardening, Healthy Living
October 21, 2011

In their silence, plants speak volumes if you take time to stop, look and listen. ABUNDANCE can come from a SINGLE SEED.Figuratively or literally, PLANT ONE!(This arrangement was created from one plant/one seed.)CosmosCosmos bipinnatus Give it all you GOT!Glacier Heirloom TomatoLycopersicum esculentum You REAP what you SOW.(Check out #1 on my “You Know...
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