The Blue Bear

...rrangements, and also made a pretty good pillow for reading. What my young self did know, however, was that he was handmade expressly for me and that was nothing short of miraculous. I did not come from a crafty family. The kind of emotional weight that I’ve attributed to the gift accounts for his longevity. I’ve dragged him along with me for all these years. Mostly he has spent his time on a closet shelf, ignored but kept, because great-grandma m...

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Root Simple is 10 Years Old

...e that I’ve lost the password to access and can’t delete it. The parkway itself is, ironically, still a work in progress. Our podcast, now in its 89th episode as of this week, also had two false starts but is going strong. Much ink could be spilled on the influence on bloggers like us of events such as 9/11, Katrina, Y2K, climate change and the 2008 economic meltdown on this blog and others like it, but that will have to wait for another post or e...

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Our new front yard: history

...ng their own landscaping, I’m following through on that promise. In a more selfish way, I like to have records like this of both our actions and our thought processes, because inevitably Erik and I will forget when we did things– and sometimes even why we did them! In the unlikely event you want to learn the history of our front yard while you drink your coffee, read on. Considering the site First, a brief description of the site. Our front yard c...

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Saturday Tweets: Lyme Disease, Unuselessness and a Plum Mystery

10 Self-Propogating Herbs and Flowers That Take Over My Garden Every Spring https://t.co/CVYTSAomDL via @nwedible — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 The New Look for Gardeners Freaked out about Lyme Disease | Garden Rant https://t.co/234f22E1gD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 The art of the unuseless: https://t.co/nTa3gH6iRW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 5, 2018 Great new resource–free online Sustainable Food Systems Sourcebook inc...

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