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Just reminding you you can harvest some of the weeds from your Yarden if it's Spring in your area like it is in ours. We have a book on Amazon telling you some of what you can do with them. Here is the link to our books. Here are some pictures of what you can do when you get creative...

Hope you like the book and use what's in your yard...

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Bear here...

Hope everyone is safe. We are on day 40 of no store shopping or going anywhere. Good thing we have our Yarden to keep us busy. We had a few good days outside and thought you would like to see some of what we did to get ready for summer. 

We did a lot of work by our white shed. Lots of deadheading while we could still walk back there...

We also put some round pavers on our patio tho give us something to walk on when we pick wild strawberries this year.

Last year we had a lot of weeds growing in the path of our Celtic Cross garden so we decided to pull them and use the mulch we had on hand. The pine needles from our front tree. This year when we cleaned up some of our front paths we put the pine needles back on the Celtic Cross path for a head start at stopping the weeds. Looks pretty good...

As you will see below, one of our big projects was to clear out the sunchoke area enough to start digging them up. 

Now all we need to do is dig them up before they start sprouting. Hopefully this week.

Hope you liked the cleaning tour.

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Bear here...

Sense we are limited in where we can go it's good our yarden and back yard is so cool. Our catio 2 is ready for spring and summer fun. The cats like it. Another thing the cats like is grass so be sure to have areas for some...

...I think Frost is a little perturbed the kids got the good spots,
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Gotta love catios for keeping the furry kids happy...

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Bear here...

Letting you know what we are doing during the shut down. One of the things we are trying to do is  experiment with baking bread and making crackers. Since we have a good grain mill (see below) and lots of different grains we can try lots of experiments.

I am going to spend some time this week grinding different stuff to try as flour. We have 2 types of wheat one for pastries and one for breads. Just to let you know the pastry flour works a lot better for making pancakes, just sayen...

Currently my list of flours also include whole groats (pictured above), the two types of wheat, black beans, barley and chickpeas. So far the chickpeas make the best crackers. I am thinking another Cook of Anarchy challenge may be with the different flours. I gotta read how gluten works and see what happens. Who Knows?

Hope you are all doing well, 

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From Theresa: During this time of global upheaval, as many are forced to take a pause from their “normal” lives, I have seen people express their hope that, after we mourn our losses, this time of isolation will bring about positive change, in ourselves, and in the societies in which we live. How do you hope the world will change as a result of this upheaval?

Click to see my list of what I hope will happen after the pandemic...