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The $5 Problem Solver Sitting in Your Garage—And 10 Genius Ways to Use It — Popular Mechanics There’s a $5 do-it-all problem solver just sitting in your garage. Put it to work!

#bucket 🪣

Large, trimmed sunflower head with white seeds exposed #gardening

Wrapping this enormous sunflower 🌻 seed head in a bow 🎁 and sending to a #gardening friend this Xmas, methinks. The seeds (and the flower) are HUGE! 🌱

Absolutely loved the ripping & stirring renditions of God Save the King and Star Spangled Banner at the #NFL 🏈 games in London.

However, my inner #FlagNerd recoiled at the singers *standing* on their relative country flags in the field. Ew. No. Bad. A flag is never to be trod upon. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

When you only have a tiny patio, this cherry blossom is the perfect pocket rocket — Modern Gardens When you only have a crumb of a patio, this is the perfect POCKET-PLOT ROCKET!

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Where have all the butterflies gone? You could help bring them back from the brink – here's how | Countryfile.com Ahead of 2025’s Big Butterfly Count, Richard ‘Bugman’ Jones looks at how we can all help to bring butterflies back from the brink

🦋 🌱 #gardening #flutterby

yellow, pink and red Zinnia flower #gardening

Pink and pale yellow cosmos flower with bright yellow center #gardening

2 pale yellow and pink cosmos flowers #gardening

3 cosmos flowers - yellow, pink and cream #gardening

🌱 there just ain’t no quit in Zinnia and Cosmos… 💥 🌺 #bloomscrolling

Deluxe Cat Cubby Bed (Calming Cat Bed) Our Deluxe Cat Cubby Bed offers a cozy and calming cat bed hideaway and comes with your choice of a raised cat feeder or a planter shelf.

Meow!! 😻 🐈 🐈‍⬛ #catsky

The Danger of Stoic Sadism When Resilience Turns into Cruelty

Excellent piece… #philosophy #stoic
“It’s easier to tweet about the indifference of pain than to wrestle with the messy obligations of empathy.”

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nom nom 😋🐦🌱 #birdsky

The Science of Slowing Down Rushing through life drains your mind, body, and relationships. Discover how slowing down helps you think clearer, connect deeper, and actually feel time again.

“slowing down is not doing less—it’s accessing more” #slow #mindfulness

Stop being afraid to crop your photos – it's NOT cheating! Why letting go of the "get it right in camera" mantra might set your images free

#photography #goodadvice

Tips on stepping back from screens and starting a new hobby A lot of us want to reduce our time spent on screens. Experts say picking up a new hobby can help do that and offer a range of other health benefits.

Preach! 🙏 #screentime #hobbies #gardening 🌱

Atalopedes campestris "Grass Skipper" Butterfly. Brown w/orange highlights sitting on a pink, yellow and white Cosmos flower.

Common Bumblebee collecting pollen on a pick and cream Cosmos flower

Common Bumblebee on a pink and red Zinnia flower

Yellow, orange and black Painted Lady Butterfly perched atop a blooming yellow Sunflower petal #gardening

A few morning #BugSky pics... #bugs 🌱 🐝 🦋

Wish I had my better camera, but couldn’t resist this cute little green metallic sweat #bee 🐝 🌱

🌿 Afternoon tip: Your garden doesn’t just need water — it needs your presence. Take 10 minutes today to check the soil, trim, and breathe with your plants. Growth is mutual. 🌱✨

Opinion: Strike 3 for wolf-ousting efforts in Colorado. Wolves win. — Colorado Newsline From parenting to work to law enforcement, “three strikes and you’re out” is a concept everyone understands. The same should apply to the attempts to pause or end Colorado’s voter-approved wolf reintr...

Strike 3 for wolf-ousting efforts in Colorado. #Wolves win.

#gardening large yellow Sunflower bloom

#bloomscrolling 🌱

Divine #cosmos 🌺 and #sunflowers 🌻
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#monarch #flutterby 🦋 🌱

A Guide to the Different Types of Zinnias | Gardener’s Path With hundreds of unique cultivars and hybrids available, how should you choose which zinnia flowers to plant in your garden? Read more on Gardener’s Path.

Nice primer on #Zinnias, for those who celebrate… 🌱#gardening

#gardening small, faded, brown sunflower seedheads in a bouquet

A small bouquet of Italian Sunflower 🌻 seedheads ready for drying! 🌱

Small yellow blooms of lettuce plant

I love it when the lettuce 🥬 blooms 🌼. I try to leave a few heads and let them go. 🌱 #gardening

Apricot Lemonade, if I recall correctly! Very subtle color.

Light pink and cream colored Cosmos flower #gardening

Cosmos #bloomscrolling 🌱

#ev ⚡️ #boats 🌞

cc: @fedbybirds.bsky.social ! 👀

How to grow abelia – my expert advice for this tough but pretty flowering shrub that will thrive in shady yards — Homes & Gardens Abelia shrubs will illuminate partially shaded borders with charming pink blooms

#gardening 🌱

2 varieties of sunflowers showing their different seeds in the flower head

Couldn’t resist an early try at seed harvesting from the mixed Sunflower 🌻 patch. Should have a pile in a few weeks! #Gardening Xmas gifts! 🎁

How to Grow Coreopsis Coreopsis flowers (Coreopsis spp.) repeat bloom throughout most of the summer, adding vibrant color. Learn how to grow this low-maintenance plant.

Good stuff on tickseed/coreopsis 🌱 #gardening 🌼