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April 18, 2011 »
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Years ago I decided to make cold compost in my Vita-Mix! I put carrot tops and other produce waste in my extra Vita-Mix container…For some reason it looked like (gross) dinosaur vomit to me!…That Summer I grew the biggest most gorgeous vegetables and flowers [...]
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Tags: cold compost, compost, dinosaur vomit, fertilizer, vita-mix, vitamix
Carol »
August 15, 2010 »
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I didn’t grow up with a Vita-Mix in my home. I sure wish I would have! I think I would have had so much fun creating delicious concoctions. But I had to wait until I was an adult, with my own family, before I got one. With it, I have my own smoothie-bar! My Vita-Mix [...]
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Tags: blender, green smoothies, greenies, smoothies, vita-mix, vitamix
Carol »
August 08, 2010 »
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We have a very small garden space. So I was excited when I saw these felt potato grow bags that could be filled with soil and put wherever I wanted! Could a gardener ask for more? I found a sunny location, and added a drip from our irrigation system. I rolled down the felt bag [...]
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Tags: felt grow bag, grow potatoes, potato, potato grow bags, small space garden, Yukon Gold
Carol »
August 06, 2010 »
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This is a short note to explain why I haven’t been posting for many many months: I became A Dizzy Chick! One night in March I hopped into bed and felt like I was Alice-In-Wonderland falling headfirst down The Rabbit Hole, and I was spinning. When I saw the ENT I was diagnosed with “benign [...]
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Tags: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, BPPV, dizzy chick, Exerstrider, vertigo, walking poles
Carol »
September 20, 2009 »
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“There are many parts of our lives that we have little or no control over: our bosses dictate pressures from work, our family’s troubles appear beyond reason or solution, and world chaos always looms over our heads. But there are two parts of our lives we can regulate 100% [...]
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Tags: baked potatoes, Dr. John McDougall, exercise
Carol »
August 30, 2009 »
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.”
—Kahlil Gibran
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Tags: Early Girls, garden, raised beds, self watering containers, tomatoes