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5 Things Friday

0June 2, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

Five Things Friday: 6/2/17

How to justify chocolate chips for breakfast, a new favorite watering tool for the garden, the most adorable house-swap you’ll ever see, my everyday beverage carry, and why no one goes out for lunch anymore.

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2May 26, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday 5/26/17: Tree Collards, Plastic Salt, Creating and More

This week’s roundup: slow flowers, tree collards, plastic in your salt, the revelation of decent nail clippers, and why you need to unplug from the fear-and-outrage drip.

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0May 19, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 5/19/17

Five Things Friday this week: I’m on Patreon! Plus, the architecture of mental illness, a fantastically versatile miso dressing, surviving lettuce-pocalyse, and a quote on minimalism to ponder.

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3May 12, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 5/12/17

Five Things Friday: assorted favorites, oddities, time-sensitive announcements, discoveries, random thoughts, life tidbits and whatever else pops into my head. Cue the intro. Boom! What I’m Reading – Weekly Reads Random assortment of articles from around the interwoobles that I read this week. If it’s in this list it made me nod vigorously, tut aggressively,…

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1May 5, 2017Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 5/5/17

Five Things Friday: assorted favorites, oddities, time-sensitive announcements, discoveries, random thoughts, life tidbits and whatever else pops into my head. Cue the intro. Boom! Weekly Awesome: Permaculture Design Course Kickstarter My buddy Paul Wheaton is running a kickstarter. You may know Paul as the Crazy Permaculture Man-Giant in Overalls behind Permies.com. You may also know him as the…

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0February 27, 2016Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 2/26/16

Ooh, how time flies! This week: what the heck I’ve been doing for the past week, Jim Gaffigan on parenthood, slow flowers for late February and more.

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0February 12, 2016Recent Posts by Erica

Five Things Friday: 2/12/16

I’m sick. I’ve been sick and more-or-less in bed for three days. Shout out to my husband for keeping everything running around here while I’ve been down for the count. So this week’s 5 Things Friday is really 3 Things Friday. I’m cutting it off short so I can go crawl back into bed with my tea….

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0February 5, 2016Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 2/5/16

Time for the weekly-ish round-up of randomness! 5 Things Friday is my way of shoe-horning in and discussing things that don’t necessarily belong on an urban homesteading blog, just because I’ve been thinking about them the past week. This week: George Carlin is my kind of life philosopher, how to get one over on the internet, a…

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0January 22, 2016Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 1/22/16

Time for the weekly-ish round-up of randomness! This is my way of shoe-horning in and discussing things that don’t necessarily belong on an urban homesteading blog, just because I’ve been thinking about them the past week. This week: my new favorite TV show tackles baking like a Victorian, I probably love my napkins way too…

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1January 8, 2016Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 1/8/16

A friend of mine recently reminded me that, back in October, I announced a new type of post – an end-of-the-week roundup of random stuff I’ve been thinking about. He gently pointed out that one post does not a series make. Fair point. This week: seed catalogs, minding your own business, Alan Watts, the pleasure of…

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1October 16, 2015Recent Posts by Erica

5 Things Friday: 10/16/15

I’m going to try a new thing here – an end-of-the-week bullet point recap of all the things occupying my time and brain. Like every other blogger in the entire world, I’m calling this Five Things Friday. It’s where, once a week or as I remember, I just throw out things I love, things I…

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Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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