Riona Abhainn

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since Nov 27, 2023
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I enjoy gardening, using my resources wisely, composting and learning more about permaculture and how to be in better harmony with Creation.
We  have a rental house with a small wraparound yard and a somewhat flexible landlord (won't let me kill the lawn with landscape tarps, but will let me put in raised beds), So I'm excited about what is coming for us.
I do Celtic, fantasy, folk, nature and shanty singing at Renaissance faires, fantasy festivals, pirate campouts and other events in western OR and WA. Plus I do some mental health peer support specialist work which I'm state-certified for. I also have a pop-up garden and vintage+ stand which  I set up outside the house to sell from when weather and circumstances permit.  My husband works at the grocery store, loves his videogames and is good at cooking. He enjoys learning new skills and is what we call a "social introvert", whereas I'm more extraverted.
We're Christians, we love playing in the water, we camp, we're politically moderate, even though we're family oriented and are close to our family we are childfree by choice.Our marriage has a nontraditional structure.
I set out to become good at gardening and permiculture pursuits, and I've made some progress and want to keep learning.
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Milwaukie Oregon, USA zone 8b
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I like those south down thistles, the ones I have in my yard are not pokey and they have fluff on them!  Hoping they spread, really I want almost anything that isn't grass haha.  Because variety and then I can work with it and around it.
I wish my landlord wasn't so weird about dandylions, he insists that the lawn person comes over and mows the stupid grass and weed-eats all the dandylions, I try and position the containers so they block off little areas so the lawn person can't get to them mwahahaha so I can eat dandylions and their leaves.  At least I got the landlord to no longer have the lawn person spray pesticides.  I probably need to remind him again, as its almost spring here.

As far as weird things I do.  I have a marriage with a unique structure, I perform professionally at Renaissance and fantasy faires (so I love Douglas' Midieval neighbourhood thread), and I play in the river every week in summertime for my health.
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I love that my husband snags heavily discounted flowers and candy for me at the grocery store where he works!
1 day ago
Welcome to permies Tracy, thanks for sharing this real estate posting with us.
So I listened to these ones and did some research about where it gets that cold, without windchill factoring in.  Turns out its a place called Oimikon in the east of Russian territory (spelling?).
Going to listen to the podcast of this within the next few days.
Well if I lived in that area I'd love to come and visit with you Evie.  I hope you can find some clever and helpful new friends in your area.
1 day ago
I perform Breaking of the Fellowship often, a crowd favourite.  But I do it in D as per the original.  Thanks for sharing that video with us.
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Continuing to downsize inventory by taking it to consign at the Village Merchants, my goal is to get down to a small amount of vintage+ inventory so it can live in a corner and not take up a lot of space.  Once I achieve this I can move forward with house concerts, hopefully monthly, and also hosting Sven's Norse trade blanket games periodically (a game we play at faire on some Sat. nights), but I'd love to do it in the off season for people who either can't/don't get to faires or who just want a barter circle more often.
We're not there yet, but that's what's holding me back, keeping old inventory overstock moving.

Feeling better about the garden/vintage+ stand now that the sign is better and more explanatory.  Got all of the calendula seeds I saved divvied up and they're in my selling stuff now with the pumpkin seeds I seed saved.  One of the bags of mini pumpkin seeds I put away in my own seed box but the others I've been selling and now folks can buy calendula seeds from me too.
I've been singing on facebook live the last couple of weeks, if you live in OR or WA and want to be facebook friends I'm Riona Abhainn on facebook.
2 days ago
I wonder if these sweet stories would get more attention if you posted them in the writing section of the art forum?