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I’ve been keeping up with two persimmon trees and tracking their growth. As you read earlier in my blog, I started three trees from seed. As they have progressed, one has died and two continued to grow.

“Hike your own hike” is a term that I’ve learned to thoroughly appreciate lately. In the backpacking world it’s taking your own approach with hiking, section hiking, or thru-hiking. Hiking your own hike

I often get the question where do I start? If you don't know where to start, maybe this will help. There isn't anything that doesnt matter, especially when it comes to gardening. Don't think your spot

If you met Obiwan Kenobi at the Mos Eisley cantina, I could imagine the following conversation when you are eyeing his pint of cold brew awesomeness: Kenobi: “This is not the beer you are looking for..”

Hello Steemit community! Star Wars books are something that greatly enhance the Star Wars universe. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the old expanded universe was set to side so that new cannon can be made

Hello Steemit community. I’ve been on somewhat of a break. Sometimes, life happens. Well, I’m back and will be hopefully posting more than less. Why the departure? I could say writers block as a cop out.

Good morning Steemians! There have been many reviews of the individual books in the Aftermath Trilogy by Chuck Wendig. But, there are not many in the way of an evaluation of the whole book Trilogy. Image

Good afternoon! I'm sitting on my trainride out of Los Angeles today and I'm scrolling through my iTunes music selection. And, out of all the music I have on my phone I shrank the section down to two:

I was getting ready to prepare my morning coffee this morning and I was preparing my French press coffee maker as usual. When I got to it I realized I had forgotten to clean it out from yesterday. And,

As I was sweeping my porch yesterday I heard the lawnmower around my condo complex and it triggered a memory. Several years ago when I was going strong with my garden on my balcony I was going full steam

Rhubarb is a very special food that I’ve had through out my life. I’ve grown it, my parents grew it, and my grandparents grew it. As we continue moving along with the Permaculture cards from Paul Wheaton’s

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I wanted to quickly discuss something that’s important to me in making success in my life. When you begin a task, or are assigned a task, even walk into a room that looks like

I had a good couple of shelves of books from school that I honestly admitted I never was going to read again. I sat there and thought about what I would do in a situation with these books. And from my

Good evening Steemians. Tonight I’m continuing with the Permaculture cards that I mentioned in my previous blog post. These cards were spearheaded by Paul Wheaton from permies.com. With the current card,

My Moringa Tree is busy dedicating nutrients and energy to the development of the seed pod. From the image below you can see that it has gotten much denser and thicker. The length of the seed pod is roughly

I’ve been looking at the various items from Force Friday and it has been exciting to see what is available in terms of various merchandise. Nothing like new things to separate you from your money. Any

In a continuation of my previous posts discussing memorials that I’ve been to on my previous trip to Washington D.C., I wanted show some images and discuss a little of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.

One of the things I like to read up on is permaculture. As I live in Southern CA and the population is quite dense, I’m not able to truly be one that practices permaculture on a full time basis. I’m able

Good day Steemians! I saw an update on new images from the upcoming Star Wars movie and these images are fairly unique. And I'd love to hear your thoughts on them! The images were from the Starwars.com

Good morning Steemians! I was looking to see if there had been any pictures or stories posted about the Star Wars Cantina I went to back in April. And some good news that I got for Star Wars fans, the