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ducksaplenty (54)in #poetry • 4 years ago
Dark
Life or bones or thoughts that need immediate thinking exhume me from sleep, unwilling, a pre-dawn deposit on the hard, frozen ground of a January morning. I make coffee and…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #cooking • 5 years ago
Wing It Banana Bran Muffins
To wing it or to follow a recipe, this is the question. When I was growing up in Portland, Oregon in the 1970’s, the fifth of five kids in an under-paid college professor’s…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #thoughts • 5 years ago
I Kept the Jacket, Like You do Sometimes
Stuff. My stuff, my husband’s stuff, my grown kids’ stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stuff, that we have too much of it, and how that happened, and perhaps most…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #cooking • 5 years ago
Sweet potato toast with a lotta ricotta
So I have been wanting to try sweet potato toast (all the cool kids are doing it) and darned if it isn't quite tasty. Find a really big yam or sweet potato, cut it in quarter…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #science • 5 years ago
Thank you Marie Curie
Got the old mammogram this morning. Stopping to thank Marie Curie for her work with radium and radioactivity. Her work lead directly to the prevention possible through…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: March 5 2019
Ok, getting serious about this fitness thing. My honey and I had a quiet evening planned together tonight, the house all to ourselves for once. So we both had to fit in fitness…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: January 16 2019
Fitbit says 10,816. Gotta start carrying my phone at all times. Or perhaps I should wear it as a hat? Has anyone heard when Actifit is going to sync with Fitbit for iOS…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: January 15 2019
Missed 10,000 steps today by several hundred, but there is this: I spent two hours on the phone with my oldest friend. Not all that we do for ourselves should be about fitness of…
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ducksaplenty reblogged
intothewild (67)in #food • 5 years ago
Wanting to Try Something New for Dinner Tonight?! ~ #moqueca
I got the urge the other night to be spontaneous and make something I have never made before. I googled some Brazilian recipe dishes and stumbled upon one I hadn't heard of…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: January 11 2019
It was a long hard slog to 10,000 steps today. Long day at work, one employee was needy, one was snarky, lots to do for the family, the usual. But walking helped. A lot.…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: January 10 2019
Nice step count today for me! Went to the local rec center with my husband @preparedwombat and my sister @jayna. We’re in Minnesota. It’s cold here, so having a great place to…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #actifit • 5 years ago
My Actifit Report Card: December 22 2018
My first day using Actifit! I’m excited to be here. I have fallen out of the Steemit habit, working on other things in life including fitness. Got about 6500 steps today out…
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mazzle (64)in #contest • 6 years ago
Does anyone want 300 SP for 3 weeks? No? OK
Was that click bait? Not entirely. Maybe a little bit. A couple of days ago I offered up 300 SP to a new or undervalued Steemit user. And I made it into a little contest.…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #bars • 6 years ago
Haunted Bar baby!
The Rathskeller in Duluth, Minnesota. They say the place is haunted. Yeah, by me and my honey. Came in and can’t seem to leave. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web
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ducksaplenty (54)in #colorchallenge • 6 years ago
Colorchallenge - ThursdayGreen - Zucchini Jungle
A photo taken from deep down in the green of my strawbale garden, sunlight through the zucchini leaves. **photo care of my iPhone
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ducksaplenty reblogged
troubledsoles (54)in #life • 6 years ago
A Single Seed: Follow Your Energy
Most of us have been heard the worn-out expression of "follow your passion". Easy to throw around, harder when you have bills to pay, but hardest when you're not even sure what…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #writing • 6 years ago
Hamster
I am a flawed parent, and if you have kids, so are you. If you haven't done something as a parent that you are profoundly ashamed of, well then you just aren't putting your back…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #colorchallenge • 6 years ago
#ColorChallenge FridayBlue - Lake Country at Night
With another snow storm headed our way in the Twin Cities, I thought I’d share a little ice cold blue this frigid Friday. That last one looks like foam on water.…
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omitaylor (57)in #blog • 6 years ago
Breaking The Silence - An Autism Journey - Part 1
Autism is a condition, not a disease. Most don't care. Most others treat people with Autism like shit, like it's the cooties— hey, just being honest. It's rarely overt. Often…
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ducksaplenty (54)in #fiftyword • 6 years ago
Siren - Original #fiftywords story
Gemma, coat belted tight against the Wisconsin chill, stops, looking out across the field. Her friend stops too. "Here. We all did it, all those moms you know now. Buck naked…
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