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Tereza Okava wrote:when you make candied ginger and juice the peels for cooking. then you take the pulp from the juicer to make a bug spray for the garden. plans within plans!



Function stacking at its best!!

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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...when you gather an armful of twigs on every walk to strip and dry their bark for medicine, and take the twigs to dry and use later for basketry.

One can never be too kind to oneself or others.
Never our fault, always our responsibility

 
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M Ljin wrote:...when you gather an armful of twigs on every walk to strip and dry their bark for medicine, and take the twigs to dry and use later for basketry.



and then, just as you are wondering why you collect so much honeysuckle bark, you start feeling nasty and decide to make yourself a strong cup of tea, and find that it took a sixth of the big jar you had collected. Time to gather more(?)

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... when the neighbor calls and just says "Can you come help me?" so food gets shut off and left on the burner, and I go over.  "Can you get this tree root out?"  Oh fun! Dig dig dig, move some bricks dig dig clip clip, yay!!
When I left I thanked her for "good fun!!"  
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... when you walk through one of the largest shopping malls in the world and can't find a damn thing you need except a cup of coffee.

And then ... you walk through the freecycle zone at the local recycling centre and fill the trunk with all sorts of stuff you DO need.
 
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:... when you walk through one of the largest shopping malls in the world and can't find a damn thing you need except a cup of coffee.

And then ... you walk through the freecycle zone at the local recycling centre and fill the trunk with all sorts of stuff you DO need.


Hahahaha... yes!  I don't drink coffee, but the rest, yes. nothing interesting at malls. LOTS interesting in free or cheap places!

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... when the "baby pictures" your friends send to you, are of baby plants.

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When you do a search for organic farming singles website and premises.com pops up! 😊
 
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You know you're a permie when you have a day off and you dreamily look forward to spending it WEEDING!!! (and have plans for the weeds...)
 
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Not sure if this one belongs in "you know you are a permie when.." "you know you are a reuser when..."  or in a non-exstient thread "Technology misuse in the path of a more permie lifestyle..."
BUT!!
I need to clean my dehydrator trays, been way too long, they need a good soaking. I use the round ones in my electric dehydrator.  I generally throw them in the tub, but my back hurts today, I don't want to deal with that today.
AND!!
If you are a lunatic, you can take the agitator off the shaft of the kind of clothes washing machine I have, an older toploader, and then you can thread trays right down it :D  
I have a washer full of dehydrator trays soaking, another stack of the other half of them to be the second batch after these soak well.

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... when you don't care that your compost pile isn't running hot.
It's full of LIFE!
I went to dump the kitchen scraps and the whole pile was seething.
Good critters. Eat it up! Poop it out! Make more critters! Do it do it do it!! :D

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My wife has been bugging me about some work that needs to be done in the front yard. As I am standing on the porch with coffee in hand, a deer walks up to me and calmly nibbles on the grass a few feet away from me. I am not sure if she didn’t notice me or didn’t see me as a threat. Anyway, I stood still until she moved on.  A nice way to start the day.

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I know my son's a permie because he asked me to pick him a 1/2 liter of raspberries from my patch, for his birthday today! A present I was happy to give!

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... your daughter-in-law shows up with a treat for you, and in the bag with the treats are two pits from fruit they bought and they're hoping  I will plant them and see if they will grow!

Alas, I didn't recognize the name of the fruit, so it didn't stick, but I will ask again and write it on a label, so I can look it up and see what the babies will need if they germinate.

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you come home from dog walkies with your pockets full of fallen fruit and "look at this weird thing I found" treasures (to be incorporated into the next project)
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