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Friday Flotsam

window tomatoes / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroop! You know what my problem is? My entire problem, I have it figured it out. Know what it is? (you’re like, “you mean we have to choose?”) This is my problem: I don’t use enough Saran Wrap. I don’t pull enough out of the box the first go around. I never pull enough. Never. […]

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blue and plants / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRR i d a a a a a a a a a h! I just had this INTENSE dream that I need to tell you about. It was wild. And I just woke up from it. Like an hour ago. Depending on when you read this internet blog URL website post. Listen to this: I […]

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pretty flowers / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRamlamdampam! Let me see if I understand this correctly. A cicada egg baby is born like, on the ground? Is that it? Then it climbs down into the ground through a tiny dirty hole and stays there for seventeen entire years. Long enough to watch every season of Grey’s Anatomy. THEN, they crawl back out […]

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Heirloom Bakery / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRitz! ay! iday! Our monarch caterpillar ATE ITS OWN HEAD OFF. It did! Listen, this sounds wonky do, I know. But it happened. Literally happened. And I mean literally as in literally. We walked in to check on our one chrysalis and two baby caterpillars. (I forgot to tell you, we’re raising more. We are. […]

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playhouse / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRieeeeuuuuuuumuuuuday! (<–?) I’m sorry, what’s wrong with lemons? Yeah, you heard me. WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH A GOOD LEMON? Sorry to yell at you first thing on a Friday. I’m just trying to finally understand the phrase “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” LEMONADE? I don’t even like lemonade. But guess what I […]

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summer tomatoes / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRulumupududopolomo! YOU GUYS. We’re getting so close with this renovation. One week left. And I (think?) I mean it! We’re two weeks and a day in, with sixish days to go. It’s so dusty. It’s such chaos. It’s such a mess. Nothing is where it’s supposed to be. The bottoms of our feet and shoes […]

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lamp post / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRR97856453421! Are you a puzzle person? Not to be confused with puzzled person. But a puzzle person. One who loves and adores and obsesses and maniacally works puzzles with unbridled pleasure. I’ve come to discover in my life that there are two camps of people in this world. Well, two camps, plus a sub camp […]

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backyard daisies / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRumuluduru! I wish I was a skirt person. I TRY. I try with skirts. I think, “Look at that skirt! What a cute skirt! I need that skirt!” And then I hate the stupid skirt. And I’ve tried Everlane, Madewell, Target, Old Navy, even F41 a few years ago, but nothing is quite right. Why […]

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SOT - bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRamlambam. “That’s the rub.” Have you . . . ever heard this phrase? And it’s not “That’s A rub.” It’s “That’s THE rub.” What’s the rub? What’s a rub? Like a dry rub? A massage? What exactly are we talking about? I discover, on an hourly basis, just how elderly I’m speedily becoming when I’m […]

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