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they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord GOD - Daily Bible Reading: Sunday, June 6, 2021

7 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima

Genesis 3:8-15 (NRSV)   ​Second Sunday after Pentecost 8They heard the sound of the Lord GOD walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord GOD among the trees of the...

Luckyness

1 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments lemming

What is luckiness? By asking this question to a thousand people, we would probably get a thousand different answers, or maybe more. We often define luck by comparing different persons, with different lives, different stories, different pasts, and may...

Repurposing part of an old gutter.

24 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Fyrebush aka Chuck

I've wanted to grow something in some gutters ever since I saw a post on a gardening site. Guess what? I just happen to have some I saved when we had new gutters put up on our house a few years ago. I think I've saved close to 200 feet or so of those...

Compost Bins

22 May 2021 2 minute read 3 comments Fyrebush aka Chuck

Hi everyone. :) These compost bins are what I use to fill up my raised garden beds. Please look at my earlier posts to read about them. I'll have a link to them at the bottom.The first three bins are what I either found on the side of the road, got r...

How I make a simple raised bed.

18 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Fyrebush aka Chuck

When we bought this house, we tore down the old fence and put up new. I didn't want to trash the old fence panels so I stored quite a bit of them in my shed and some on the outside of the shed. I knew I was going to use those fence panels for somethi...

First Post

15 May 2021 1 minute read 6 comments Fyrebush aka Chuck

Hi! This is my first post. I have only been gardening for a few years now. I've wanted to have a raised garden bed for quite a while. I finally bought one about three years ago. Man, are those things expensive, even more so now!I bought the bed you s...

Autumn/winter edible garden planting guide

14 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Phunkylady

Autumn/winter food garden guide 🌱   This time of year sees temperatures dropping and rainfall which gives many types of edibles great conditions to grow in. These weather conditions are also excellent for prepping and establishing spring crops also....

Seeds Selling Fast at Online Retailers

12 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CDBeck

Usually ordering vegetable seeds in early March is not a problem.  But this year I got more "Out of Stock" notices than usual.  No Bragger Hybrid cucumber, no Bush Early Girl Tomato, and no eucalyptus seeds nor lemongrass seeds.  Come to think of it,...

Is It Spring Yet?

28 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments CDBeck

Spring starts and stops here depending on if the polar vortex is in town or not.  I've watched these early daffodils for a few weeks and now they are finally blooming. Daffodils! The cats are happy that the catnip is putting out fresh leaves. Catni...

My Broodminder: Saving the Bees with Backyard Data

19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CDBeck

Map image courtesy of BeeCounted Citizen Science  In earlier posts I used my Seek Thermal Camera to show the heat coming off each of my two bee hives before and after I added insulation for the winter.  So far the bees have survived the winter – they...