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These are my fav!

I miss when I was a kid and we basically never talked about bathrooms.

Transfusing with an incompatible blood type also "boosts" your immunity but I wouldn't recommend it.

Screen shot of a tweet from this day in 2020 by the San Miguel sheriff department about there being a large boulder the size of a small boulder in the middle of the road.

Happy “Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder” Day to all those who celebrate.

You sound like one of my best friends who has horrible flight anxiety. Her MO is to get drunk beforehand. This has resulted in some unfortunate airport purchases, including blue eyeliner from the MAC store at DIA. Anyway it sucks and I'm sorry!

I spent yesterday morning doomscrolling and the afternoon assessing local regenerative and organic farms. I'll let you guess which one made me feel more hopeful and productive.

This helps local non-industrial farmers be able to get their seasons going. They typically aren't (as) subsidized as commodity/industrial farmers so it can be very hard financially to stay afloat. And you get local veggies that you've already paid for that aren't as subject to market variations.

Community Supported Agriculture. A typical model is that you pay a local farm upfront for a share of their harvest before the season begins. This gives them literal seed money to get things planted. Then, during the growing season, you pick up a weekly share of produce.

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I spent the afternoon researching CSAs to join this summer. We are spoiled here with an embarrassment of riches. So many awesome farms and organizations. Good work, NoCO! 👍

(And I'm nowhere close to deciding btw.)

Do not let yourself be fooled about the crises we are experiencing. They are all deeply interconnected.

Oh wow - yay!

Vista of Colorado Rockies with dusting of snow

A LOT of rage 😤 Then I look west at the front range, breathe & remember I’m a speck on the spectrum of mountain time .. and contemplate what I can do in this little corner of the world. We got this.

Cinnamon and nutmeg for sure. I always do a teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nutmeg in my banana bread.

And last but not least: cherry cobbler with sugar cookie crust for the birthday dude. I had 9 lbs of sour cherries from the farmers market this summer that hadn't been touched. I used a recipe from a local-ish baking blog, Curly Girl Kitchen (I don't think she's on here or I'd tag).

Sunday morning I cooked up some sourdough English muffins. I've made these a few times and I think this was my best batch. If you have any tips on getting these right, I'm all ears!

I also dried some orange slices for mocktails. I'm not doing an official dry January or anything, just haven't felt like drinking lately. And I'm not missing the bad sleep or icky next-morning feeling while I'm dealing with existential dread.

Then I made my first sourdough discard egg noodles. I made soup with leftover turkey and turkey broth from Thanksgiving that I've had stashed in the freezer. I added a bit of white whole wheat flour to the noodles for a little extra nutrition. So good.

I baked away the polar blast we got here from Friday through Monday. I started out with my first attempt at sourdough bagels (sooo freaking good).

Me!

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Despair is an emotion, not an analysis. - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Might need to get this tattooed onto my forehead.

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Hmm, I see Teslas alllllll the time in and around foco. My friend in Greeley even owns two. We have a Leaf though, no regrets!

One of our next door neighbors often snowblow our sidewalk before we do. So then my husband will scoop the other next door neighbors' sidewalk. We barely talk but we will all help each other with snow removal 👍

A sentence that kinda changed my life last summer was this:

"Stop thinking of yourself as a consumer and start thinking of yourself as a producer."

I guess I needed a bigger jar 🤦‍♀️

I'm going to try to become one of those annoying sourdough people. Meet Leslie Dough-pe. Someone local very kindly shared her with me. I'm also trying to be more plugged into my community, so, two birds.

Hi! Northern NoCo here!