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Today's harvest: Rainbow Blend Carrots grown in the metal raised bed, strawberries, my first Chupon de Malinalco Tomatillo fruits, Magda Squash, Green Light Cucumber and Cocozelle Squash. Happy first day of summer!... #harvest #carrots #rainbowblend #rain
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Just as I was getting more comfortable sewing curves, power went off. We thought it was due to irons being plugged in, but there was a power outage in the neighborhood where the center was... And power wasn't projected to come back on until about 4:300m,s
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Sewing curves for my Double Rings quilt... and curves are harder than I thought. I need more practice, but I'm starting to get a liitle more comfortable sewing curves. #sew #sewing #doubleringsquilt #joelsdoubleringsquilt #quilt #sewingmachine #bernina770
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Someone is planting acorns (Coast Live Oak seeds) in many spots in my garden. Can you guess who?... #coastliveoak #oak #liveoak #seedling #oakseedling #garden #pot #hangingbaskets #staghornfern #alpinia
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Today's harvest: Borlotto Bush Beans from volunteer plants. I didn't even know that there were any fruits until I saw one hanging off of the pot. When I looked under the leaves, I saw even more. What a nice surprise. #bushbeans #beans #borlotto #borlottob
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Today's harvest: Fordhook Swiss Chard, Red Kale, Black Magic Kale, Red Ursa Kale, Portuguese Kale, and Gailaan for a stir fry... Spinach, Arugula, Albion Strawberries, Yedikule Lettuce, Oakleaf Lettuce, Escarole, Red Vein Dock, Parsley, and Mizuna for sal
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Took apart some of my Lego sets and made my own "Brick Headz" with parts I have. I don't have a big big collection of bricks so I had to mix colors (which in a way reminds me of a sampler quilt). #lego #brickheadz #JoelsLegos
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Today's harvest: Even more Squashes. Cocozelle, Magda and Bossa Nova Squashes... and my first Cucumbers of the year, two Green Light Cucumbers. #cucumber #harvest #JoelsHarvest #cocozellezucchini #cocozelle #zucchini #squash #rocks #bossanova #bossanovasq
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Various photos from our front yard... #veronica #balloonflower #Platycodongrandiflorus #platycodon #campanula #petunia #pepper #murasakipurplepepper #murasaki #cat #sidewalk #velvetred #velvetredtomato #angoratomato #agapanthus #lilyofthenile #tomatillo #
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Today's harvest: more Albion Strawberries, Cocozelle Squash and Bossa Nova Squash. #bossanovasquash #bossanova #cocozellezucchini #cocozelle #squash #harvest #JoelsHarvest #zucchini
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Today's harvest: a bunch of small Garlic. I didn't expect these Garlic to be big since they were just small cloves that had sprouted in December. I planted them late because I was redoing my raised bed and these had to wait until I finished. I went ahead
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Happy Global Running Day!... Yesterday, one of my nephews asked if I was going to run for Global Running Day today. I haven't ran in so long and wasn't planning on running, but I think that was the motivation to get me to run again... So I cleared the sew
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Late night sewing with Superior Doughnuts. Working on my Double Ring quilt. #joelslatenightsewing #sewing #sew #sewingmachine #bernina #bernina770qeplus #b770qeplus #stripsets #fabric #superiordoughnuts #scissor #quilt #chromebook
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Today's harvest: our first Squashes (Cocozelle, Bossa Nova and Magda) and the last Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas. Also, various salad greens: Yedikule Lettuce, Arugula, Escarole and Mizuna. #peas #snowpeas #lettuce #yedikule #yedikulelettuce #mizuna #esca
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Got some new fabrics and starting a new quilt project... (because I need another project 😜)... #fabric #sewkindofwonderfulpatterns #sewkindofwonderful #doublering #quilt #quiltpattern
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There have had more feral cats in our neighborhood and they recently have been using our lawn as their litter box... I got tired of accidentally stepping on them or picking them up when they are still fresh because it's the worse smell!... So I used these
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This is exciting... I see the first baby Cucurbit fruits: Cocozelle, Magna, and Bossa Nova Summer Squash, plus a Green Light Cucumber. #cucurbit #squash #fruit #summersquash #cucumber #greenlightcucumbers #cocozelle #cocozellezucchini #zucchini #magna #ma
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Today's harvest: Black Magic Kale, Red Ursa Kale, Utah Celery and Rainbow Blend Carrots. This is the first time growing Red Ursa Kale and it reminds me of Godzilla. I used all these harvest to make a Kale Vegetable Soup with Italian Sasauge. #soup #harves
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A few of my cacti have recently bloomed. #cactus #cacti #succulents #bloom #flower #epiphyllum #rhipsalidopsis #eastercactus #hatiora #mammillaria #mammillariaunpico #unpico #orchidCactus #rebutia #terracotta #floweringcactus
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Today's harvest: French Breakfast Radish grown on one tier of my GreenStalk vertical planter. It's starting to get warmer and I was afraid they might start bolting... But they were also due to be harvested. #radish #frenchbreakfast #frenchbreakfastradish
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Today's harvest: ok, just kidding... I was going to plant Tomatoes in some bucket pots that had no crops, but as I was digging, I noticed some Oxalis bulbs. I dug deeper and there were even more... So I decided to sift the soil and hand pick all these bul
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Today's harvest: a bunch of Salad Greens (Mesclun Mix, Mizuna, Lettuce, various Arugula and Escarole) and a French Breakfast Radish from my GreenStalk vertical planter, and Oregon Sugar Pod II Snow Peas. As I was washing the salad greens, I realized I did
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Didn't realize that I was going to have such a busy weekend. Saturday, I helped out at The Vallejo Piecemakers annual Bunco fundraiser, which had a boot scoot'n theme. Then Sunday, spent the day touring 9 gardens in the Vallejo Garden Tour. I thought I wo
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The athrocity!!! The abomination!!! What the F Home Depot and whatever company that thought to do this kosmik sh!#!... Why? If you like how this "kaktus" looks, just get a pstic fake one #homedepot #cactus #cacti #kosmikkaktus #athrocity #notcool #wtf abo
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I got my first Lego knock off set because I really liked the character. The quality of the brick was actually pretty good and the bricks connected together well, but the construction in some sections was not so good. For example the leg is just held toget
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After charging my car at Taxaco, I passed by another DC Fast charging station in downtown Vallejo that I recently heard was "coming soon" . Last I read online was that they were installed but didn't have power. Looks like the 4 DC Fast chargers now have p
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After a nearby Walmart removed the 2 EVgo DC Fast chargers that I used to charge at, there was only 2 EVgo DC Fast chargers in Vallejo, and those two chargers were "in use", broken or "unavailable" most of the time I needed them. One time when I was charg
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Today's harvest: my big leaf Arugula which I planted in my GreenStalk vertical planter a month ago. Does anyone know what variety this Arugula is? It has big leaves, some reaching 10 inches long. Most of the leaves are not lobbed and smooth like Romain Le
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I think my new metal raised beds are complete. I have been putting off installing a new drip system in it, but it's starting to get warm and there is no more rain in the 10 day forecast... so I need to put drip irrigation so I don't have to hand water thi
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Today's harvest: Early Jade Gailaan and Oregon Suger Pod II Snow Peas. Gailaan is one of my favorite vegetables and I haven't successfully grown it, until now. I only planted just 6 plants to give it another try and it finally grew to harvest. I needed to
