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Eating Organic Fruits And Vegetables For More Energy
Eating Organic Fruits And Vegetables For More Energy
When you grow your own garden - they are much fresher and you can get your full vitamins and minerals. When you cook your vegetables - you do not cook them until they are soggy and wept. This will bring out the best in your vegetable. Having your vegetable a little raw bring out the vitamins and minerals better. For which in turn you will get more energy from them.
Now, when you grow your own fruit, you dont get the chemicals that is sprayed on them to preserve them like at the market. You will taste the difference if you do a taste test like I did. To do the test just buy some fruit from the store and after you have grown your own fruit then of course taste it to the store bought.
You will find that the fruits and vegetables are much better. With that being said, you will eat even more from your organic garden. The more you eat the more energy you will have.
There is a book that I read named "Family Organic Garden." Family Organic Garden is a complete and fully illustrated guide that explains in easy steps how to grow an organic food garden. Family Organic Garden provides new gardeners all the information they need to know to grow successfully their own food, save money and become healthier.
Photo attribution Southern Foodways Alliance
Eating Organic Fruits And Vegetables For More Energy
1 3 4 More Walls Up!
1 3 4 More Walls Up!
We built two more chicken house walls on Sunday. The wall they guys are holding up is only 3/4 done as it still need 4 more feet added to the top to make it even with the side wall on each end. That portion of the wall will have a 12" tall, 5 wide window across the south wall, up at the top, to add light into the coop so the girls will lay all winter. I will still need to add extra light in the morning but that will help. The east wall (far wall not yet built in this picture) will also have a big window that slides open, that will provide much light without cooking the poor things in the summer. My husband said he reached the end of his ability with framing after these two were done so now we wait for our friend to come back and help finish the framing. Maybe Wednesday. It is so nice of him to help us, he has so much of his own stuff to work on. But I am seriously impatient. I tried my hardest to talk Doyle into trying to build the rest without help but he wasnt biting. Darn it! Just thought I would show the progress!
1 3 4 More Walls Up!
Look out Dalston! More demolitions coming with TfLs Crossrail2
Look out Dalston! More demolitions coming with TfLs Crossrail2
TfL has announced plans for public consultation on the development of the Dalston Junction /Dalston Kingsland section of Crossrail2 - a new underground line budgetted at £28Bn. Construction is hoped to start in 2020 with lines running by 2030. TfLs has identified five Dalston sites, marked A-E on the map below, where there will potentially be considerable impact, including demolition and redevelopment of buildings, even streets.
The area shaded purple is the proposed underground platform with the new aboveground ticket offices at each end marked with a red triangle. The sites marked are on both sides of Kingsland ( east & west) and are all said to be required for Crossrail2 construction. TfL suggest that redevelopment of those and adjoining sites could contribute to the cost of the Crossrail2 development (What? More unaffordable TfL flats? Ed.)
The Nat West bank building and its neighbours on Kingsland High Street are within Site C and, across the road, all the shops and homes on the south side of Bradbury Street are within Site B.
South of Dalston Junction 574-586 Kingsland Road and. across the road, an 1860 terrace of houses and all of Bentley Street south side are at risk of demolition.
For a more detailed analysis of Crossrail2 impact on Dalston click here
Dalstons previous experience of TfLs consultation regarding the East London Line development did not inspire confidence, as you can read about here and here. It could all have been so much better.
TfLs Crossrail2 consultation will close on 8th January 2016 . Over the next 2 months, we will publish further information to help inform your response to TfLs plans. So watch this space and post comments on this blog.
Contact info@opendalston.net if you would like to join our team which is already examining and preparing a community response to TfLs plans.
Look out Dalston! More demolitions coming with TfLs Crossrail2
2013 in Review Part 2 Furniture Makeovers More
2013 in Review Part 2 Furniture Makeovers More
Furniture makeovers - one of my favourite things! It's so much fun to see how different a piece of furniture can look with a change of paint or stain colour or by adding something to it. Here are my 2013 makeovers - click on the captions for more details.
In the case of this first piece, I took a large butcher block cutting board and glued it to the top of a metal table that I picked up for a song at a yard sale. Easy industrial look!
Easy Industrial Table
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No More Flats With Air Free Car Tires
No More Flats With Air Free Car Tires
Hankook Tire, a company based out of South Korea, has been testing a new prototype tire dubbed iFlex that doesn’t require any air at all, eliminating the threat of getting a flat.
The iFlex uses a new type of uni-material that allows the tire to be recycled more easily.
More here
Thanks Bruce!
No More Flats With Air Free Car Tires
Shedworkers save more than £1 000 a year on travel treats
Shedworkers save more than £1 000 a year on travel treats
New research from American Express reveals that the average commuter spends more than £1,000 a year on treats for their journey to and from work. Drinks are the most popular purchase with commuters spending £16.93 a month on tea, coffee, juice and energy drinks. Snacks such as crisps, chocolate and fruit, are the second favourite (£16.49), followed by breakfast on the way to work (£13.44). Spending on newspapers and magazines (£12.83), books and ebooks (£12), music (£11.83) and apps and games (£11.48) are also on the shopping list to help make the trip into work less appalling.
The main reasons given by the 3,000 adults polled in the survey for indulging in a daily treat are a ‘stressful day at the office’ (29%) and ‘ to cheer me up’ (22%).
The research also reveals that spending habits vary significantly, with Londoners spending more than £1,900 a year on treats, closely followed by those in Birmingham (£1,758). Brighton’s commuters are the least likely to part with their cash for treats, spending £600 a year. ----------------------------------------------------
Shedworkers save more than £1 000 a year on travel treats
More Pergola Progress
More Pergola Progress
We got a good start on the pergola this weekend. The goofy boards on each corner are just braces we used to hold up the corners until we got some of the top pieces on.
There will still be six timbers that run perpendicular to the ones you see going right to left in this picture. The notching of each board is taking longer than we thought and the next course of timbers will be harder as each one will have six places to notch and not just the two we have now.
The shade this provides will be very dappled as the spacing was a touch wider than I thought it would be but it should work great. I plan to grow grape vines and maybe mingle those with some type of climbing rose and that should help with the shade a lot. We also ran into a small snag when we dug the 2 ft. deep holes for the cement tubes and brackets last week. Our pergola is not a square shape as originally planned but had to be 1.5 ft wider than my little plan called for because we found our gray water line leading to the septic tank, right where my holes were going. At least now we know where it it :-D No project around here ever goes without a hitch. Hitches make it interesting. I am hoping we will be done with this project by next weekend.
In the spring I will build some flower beds around the patio and it will be harder to notice the rectangular shape it ended up being. Cant wait to get this done, I have so many other things that need finishing before the snow flies. Where on earth did the summer go?
More Pergola Progress
More Homemade wood necklace
More Homemade wood necklace
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Putting More P in the Ti GP
Putting More P in the Ti GP
The GP stands for General Purpose. The Ti GP bikes main purpose is a commuter. And it has been outstanding in fulfilling that role for a decade now. Last winter I got serious and upgraded the creature comforts in particular the seat and handlebars. These changes prompted me to spend even more time on the bike and while comfortable and happy soon my mind turned to other ways to fully integrate my bike into my daily life.
For many years I got by just fine with a backpack for my daily commuting needs. For a while I used the handlebar basket which worked great but once I removed it I found I liked the crisp handling of an unencumbered front end.
Back in the 1990s I had a Schwinn mountain bike with fenders and a rear rack that was my commuter rig. Back then I was of limited means so I made due with an inexpensive rack trunk. That arrangement worked good for carrying my lunch and wallet and keys but during the seasonal transition when I might have a heavy jacket and gloves in the morning I found myself stacking a bungee corded Tower of Pisa of gear onto the rack when the afternoon temperatures warmed.
My goal when setting up the Ti GP was to have a solid city bike built with quality components on a sturdy, corrosion resistant titanium frame; a blend of performance and utility. For a long time I have resisted bolting on things that add weight. After a lot of thought and another season of hot humid weather just around the corner Ive decided to do the right thing and ditch the backpack and get the cargo onto the bike where it belongs.
The conundrum I faced was how to incorporate cargo hauling capability into a performance oriented "racing" bicycle frame that unlike my old Schwinn has no braze ons for mounting a rack. Luckily Im not the first person to wonder about this and I discovered Old Man Mountain racks. This company has been around a while and has created a good reputation of filling a unique niche in the bikepacking world.
There is some cool history of how OMM came to be thats worth the read. As a small business owner myself I love the opportunity to support another small American company. I purchased OMMs latest model called the Pioneer. Its the biggest rack they offer. Probably overkill for me but its always better to go big and have a little in reserve than go into a fight under gunned.
OMM racks are well designed with a number of ways to bolt onto bike frames with no threaded eyelets. I chose to bolt the upper supports to the rear brake bosses. Easy peasy. The lower attachment is where this rack really shines. The rack comes with a long skewer which bolts through the real axle. Very sturdy and secure!
The panniers I just received today. They are by Ortlieb made in Germany. What sold me on them is the excellent retention system. The set comes with several inserts so the latches can be precisely fitted to the diameter of the rack tubing.
The Pioneers stout 1/2" diameter tubing and wide width provide lots of clearance between the wheel and the panniers. Another feature I thought made perfect sense was a was a second tube welded about two inches below the top of the rack specifically as a pannier mounting point to get the load even lower down for stability.
This is my first venture into the world of panniers and I decided to run front panniers instead of full sized rear bags. They are the Front Roller Plus model so are extra large capacity versus the standard front panniers. For my purposes they will provide plenty of room so I will use them and as time goes by Ill see how they work. I have no doubt that grocery stops, beer runs and an occasional bike picnic is in the future.
Putting More P in the Ti GP
Yikes! More Garden Visitors
Yikes! More Garden Visitors
Ewww, look at this! Doyle said "Dont freak out when you see a snake in the new garden. Its just a big water snake, it wont hurt you." So I diligently looked for it and this morning Doyle saw it again.
Now that I know he is there, I wont pass out when I see him (or her). But I definitely walk with a little more caution when I go down to the new garden. The new garden is just a few feet away from the edge of a parking area outside Doyles shop. It is based with shale and then coved and compressed in road base gravel. I knew there was potential for snakes, I just hadnt seen any yet.
My husband swears it is just a water snake and that they are good to have in the garden. I hope he is right. I am not a fan of venomous snake bites. In fact the thought makes me downright sick to my stomach. But wait it gets better..........
He or she has friends. This one was laying a few feet away, tied in a knot and catching some sprinkles from the sprinkler. It must have been napping because it didnt leave as fast as the other one did. A brave snake is way worse to me than a scaredy cat snake. These snakes are not tiny either. Both were at least 2.5 feet long and as big around as a garden hose. Maybe that means they can eat voles whole. One can dream. We watched which holes they went into in the rocks and now I know what to avoid. Maybe they will eat whatever is eating my beans. Do snakes eat grass hoppers? Boy, I hope so!
Yikes! More Garden Visitors
Mandala Magic Mandalas In DIY Art Home Decor And More
Mandala Magic Mandalas In DIY Art Home Decor And More
Mandala (Sanskrit: ?????, lit, circle) is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Indian religions, representing the universe. In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.
by Kathy Klein via Glad.is
Fire pit surrounded by a mandala of roses by Kathy Klein via Glad.is
Mandala tapestry bedding
One of a kind mandala bookshelf via Apartment Therapy
Macrame mandala necklace with pink quartz agate by QuetzArt via Etsy
Dorm room style for college kids
Stenciled floor from Free People dressing room in NYC (source)
Painted floor mandala from Free People blog
Mandala art
Meditation mandala
Heres a great mandala stone tutorial from Colorful Crafts
Mandala style stencil from Stencils Lab
Instructions for how to draw a mandala using grids from
Create Mixed Media
Mandala inspired bedding
Flower petal mandala (source)
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Love,
Laura
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