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The garden compendium was originally meant to be a catch-all. It included medicinal herbs with drawings, uses, and recipes; planting, care, and harvest instructions for all of the herbs and vegetables I planted; a diagram of this year’s layout; a planting calendar; and a journal of what I did, what happened, and how I could…
No matter how much research I did before planting my garden (and I’m certainly not finished), there were still plenty of surprises. Some things completely failed, while others did far better than I ever imagined. I organized my garden into separate beds based on companion planting, water needs, soil type, and a handful of other…
One of the things I’ve realized this year is that I don’t really collect hobbies. From the outside, it probably looks like I bounce from one thing to another. Gardening. Bookbinding. Norwegian. Citation templates. Herbs. Cocktails. Ancient history. They’re all over the place. To me, though, they’re all the same hobby. I like understanding how…
Recently, the fam and I took a trip to Southern California to ride some roller coasters. Before we even left, we knew the main park had two restaurants with Beyond burgers. At this point, that’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect. I was actually excited that one of those restaurants was Johnny Rockets. The…
I first learned about commonplace books while reading the second book of A Discovery of Witches. It sounded like such a cool idea. I immediately found an unused notebook in my inventory and started carrying it around. I had been told that one simply writes down anything interesting. Unfortunately, I wasn’t finding anything interesting at…
After weeks of weeding and sending good thoughts into the universe, I finally have some legitimate progress in my garden. My calendula and borage are starting to bloom. It’s a small thing, but it is so nice to see something that isn’t a weed. The borage is starting to bloom, too. Speaking of weeds… I…
I think a lot of us are taught that life follows a fairly straightforward path: go to college right after high school, find a career, and work forty or more hours a week until retirement. I never really followed that plan, and for a long time I felt like I had somehow done life incorrectly.…
I had an idea for an Etsy product several weeks ago, but life happened and I had to put it on the back burner for a bit. But! I finally finished it, created my Etsy store, and listed my first product. I have felt very overwhelmed during this process. Yesterday, I decided that I didn’t…
I have a tendency to overcomplicate things. At least, that is probably how it appears from the outside. But for me, I usually have to do things the “hard way” if I want them to work at all. For example, I grouped my garden into separate beds based on companion planting, water needs, shade requirements,…
I hit Norwegian hard before my trip and ultimately got burned out. One thing that came out of it, though, was an idea I really liked: a language-learning compendium. Obviously, I started with basics like articles, gender, common verbs, and conjugations. But I also wanted to add things that I knew would help me personally.…
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