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French Mid-1940’s to 1950’s Moonstone Sapphire Ruby Diamond and Gold Flowering Branch Brooch Attributed to John Rubel

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My friend told me the worst fish joke the other day.

I just couldn’t believe what I was herring!

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Tea🍵✨

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Wild Chamomile

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Companion planting chart … in my experience it’s always very successful to companion plant

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THREE SISTERS GARDEN: CORN, POLE BEANS, & SQUASH

Corn, beans, and squash are called the “three sisters.” Native Americans always inter-planted this trio because they thrive together, much like three inseparable sisters.

By the time European settlers arrived in America in the early 1600s, the Iroquois had been growing the “three sisters” for over three centuries. The vegetable trio sustained the Native Americans both physically and spiritually. In legend, the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown together, eaten together, and celebrated together.

Each of the sisters contributes something to the planting. Together, the sisters provide a balanced diet from a single planting.

As older sisters often do, the corn offers the beans needed support.

The beans, the giving sister, pull nitrogen from the air and bring it to the soil for the benefit of all three.

As the beans grow through the tangle of squash vines and wind their way up the cornstalks into the sunlight, they hold the sisters close together.

The large leaves of the sprawling squash protect the threesome by creating living mulch that shades the soil, keeping it cool and moist and preventing weeds.

The prickly squash leaves also keep away raccoons, which don’t like to step on them.

Together, the three sisters provide both sustainable soil fertility as well as a healthy diet.

TIPS FOR GROWING THE THREE SISTERS

To try them in your garden, in spring, prepare the soil by adding fish scraps or wood ash to increase fertility if desired.

Make a mound of soil about a foot high and four feet wide.

When the danger of frost has passed, plant the corn in the mound. Sow six kernels of corn an inch deep and about ten inches apart in a circle of about 2 feet in diameter.

When the corn is about 5 inches tall, plant four bean seeds, evenly spaced, around each stalk. About a week later, plant six squash seeds, evenly spaced, around the perimeter of the mound.

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Send me “Wham!” for my muse to headbutt your muse.

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↖️Achievement: Stamin-UP!

🏆Very High Stamina, Can Last for Hours in any Activity

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they have stolen the HEART from INSIDE you                  but this does not DEFINE you             this is NOT who you are                            you KNOW who you are

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⦂ these starters are from LORDE’s song SOBER from the album MELODRAMA ⦂

❝ lose my mind ❞

❝ oh god ❞

❝ i’m clean out of air in my lungs ❞

❝ it’s all gone ❞

❝ played it so nonchalant ❞

❝ it’s time we danced with the truth ❞

❝ move along with the truth ❞

❝ we’re sleeping through all the days ❞

❝ i’m acting like i don’t see every ribbon you used to tie yourself to me ❞

❝ my hips have missed your hips ❞

❝ let’s get to know the kicks ❞

❝ will you sway with me? ❞

❝ go astray with me? ❞

❝ king and queen of the weekend ❞

❝ ain’t a pill that could touch our rush ❞

❝ but what will we do when we’re sober? ❞

❝ when you dream with the fever bet you wish you could touch our rush ❞

❝ these are the games of the weekend ❞

❝ we pretend that we just don’t care ❞

❝ but we care ❞

❝ i’m closing my teeth around this liquor ❞

❝ i know you’re feeling it too ❞

❝ can we keep up with the ruse? ❞

❝ bodies all through my house ❞

❝ i know this story by heart ❞

❝ jack and jill got fucked up and possessive ❞

❝ we’re fading ❞

❝ we’re jaded ❞

❝ we know that it’s over ❞

❝ in the morning, you’ll be dancing with all the heartache ❞

❝ the fantasies of leaving ❞

❝ you’ll be dancing with us ❞

❝ can you feel it?   ❞

❝ when you get to my high ❞ 

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A Botanical Alphabet (2019, watercolor)

Available on Etsy here

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The Monroe News-Star, Louisiana, May 12, 1950

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Mood: looking at plants but not buying any

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How did Pavlov get his hair so soft?

He conditioned it!

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Helleborus viridis

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A Sunday well spent is one moving a pile of gravel from one spot to another ten feet away.

Lift with your legs you slackers.