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073 The first day in the garden
I finally got to work in the garden! Instead of a quick look, Pepper and I have a good look at everything, and then get to work. I clean up the garden house, take down a tree, and somehow make the trash piles even bigger. I finally got to work in the garden. There are…
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072 The garden wakes up
The garden is waking up, so I take a good look around and enjoy some sunshine before heading home to prepare a pork roast in the air fryer. I’ll also explain why I am no longer vegan. There is garlic! Yay! Oh! The onions are coming, too! Looks like everything survived the winter. It looks…
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071 Everything is dirty
The dishwasher broke again. Cleaning and repairing it led me down a rabbit whole of more things that needed cleaning. It felt as if everything was dirty. So, I cleaned. That afternoon, I even got to enjoy the sunshine on a forest walk with Pepper and my husband. There’s some actual sunshine outside. I’m excited!…
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On tracking and analytics
I don’t have a cookie banner on my website–because I don’t use cookies. I don’t know how many people use my website. I’ve disabled even tracking clicks and opens for my newsletter. I won’t know how many of you open the emails. And I’m okay with that. A few days ago, I had an issue…
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070 Kitchen catch-up chaos
Things had been piling up. Now that I was finally able to do things again, it was time to tackle them. So, I canned potatoes, baked some bread, and took care of a million little things. I am so glad, I can finally do things again. Okay, there are a lot of things I need…
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069 Almost feeling human
After ten days of the flu, pneumonia, and antibiotic side-effect bingo, I was finally able to move enough to feel human again. As I was craving potato salad, I made mayonnaise from scratch, and mixed a pretty good German potato salad together. My husband and Pepper also checked on the garden for us and found…
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On being sick and community
Hello lovely people! I don’t know if there will be episodes this coming week, as we are still pretty sick. This flu has kicked our behinds pretty thoroughly. FLU & HEALTH After a few days of the flu, we were slowly getting better. But then I woke up to one of the worst days of…
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On almost giving up
Hello my lovely people, there won’t be an episode tomorrow. I also want to talk to you about some serious doubts about continuing this journey. But let’s start where we left off last time. I almost didn’t manage to upload an episode last Wednesday. After the laptop issue in the morning, I managed to get…
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068 Hands in soil
I finally got my hands into soil. It’s been a long winter. But spring is coming. In the meantime, let’s re-pot some plants. Some of my indoor plants have been pretty unhappy. Spring will bring more sunshine. I can’t do anything about that. But I could give them better soil to work with in the…