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Thursday Seeds | Goose is good
Duck, duck, duck,…………GOOSE!!! Did you play it as a kid? Did you play it with your kids? The goose is good. It means there is a chase! There is movement and the anticipation is over. There is even the potential for another round if the game AND another goose! The goose doesn’t get cooked in this game. The goose does get some exercise. This goose loves water. Good food lives on the water and so does goosey type friends. And while air is important for wing stretching, all the other elements are needed too. The golden goose loves the sun but also understands the need for rainy days and cloudy…
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Thursday Seeds | Cook the Beast
Roast the bird. Take your time, do it over a long period of time at a lower temperature. Be sure to baste the bird. To taste the bird only after the temperature is perfect. (165 degrees) Stay in and cook the beast. You are cold? Put the soup on. Cook the beast ALL day! Cast iron or lecreuset, make it happen with garlic and salt and the best grassfed butter you can find. Chemical reactions of salt in cooking are taste, not reaction. No catalyst to be had except yum! Slow cook it so it doesn’t even know what happened like the frog in a pot. It’s just a hot…
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Sluething the marigolds
Look it up if you don’t know it. The word that I learned about today was Waymo. It’s a brand? Ok! It’s also a reason for collisions. In my garden observation state, I saw the reason why the marigolds are declining. Some uprooted and some just flat eaten! The Deer were under suspect as they eat everything. But I planted marigolds because deer don’t happen to like them. This week, I stood at the window and watched familiar sight of a squirrel in the yard. (no problem yet). And then as I watched, he grabbed a marigold plant from the ground and dragged it root ball and all to the…
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Thursday Seeds| Beast of Burden
Beast of Burden. First thought? The Rolling Stones. Definition of it? An animal used for carrying loads. Load carrying/bearing walls cannot be knocked down if you want to keep the integrity of the structure. If we got back to the lyrics of the song by the Rolling stones, it’s about not looking co-dependently for another to carry your load. You can carry your own pack. Don’t want to kill yourself? Pack light. Lighten the load! If you are a pack rat, this isn’t a simple thing to do. If you haven’t done your homework, you could take out a load bearing wall which could take your progress back to the…
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Hooded warblers have arrived!!
How long will they stay?
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Thursday Seeds | Put something on
The three important things to do first thing in the morning according to a favorite mentor is: Suit up, shut up, and show up. And I got two out of three, for this post should have gone out yesterday for Thursday. The dog ate my homework, there was a school shooting, and someone got cancer or Covid. (not me.) And while all of those are true, what is also true is that I learned that hummingbirds travel in a group called a charm and they are all over the backyard getting ready for their journey. They don’t wear coats, they go where it’s warm. I also know that the hooded…
