Joe
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Chicago Zone 6 Gardening, Cooking, Artist. I design pop-up cards 👉
https://toadlypoppin.com
They’re calling for another big snowstorm this weekend. Forecasting 12” but they also said that a couple weeks ago and we got 2”. Place your bets!
#weather
#chicago
#snowstorm
14 days ago
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We’re halfway through Thanksgiving, who’s got the good stories? Drunk racist uncle? Frozen bird? Forgot to turn oven on? Let’s hear the stories! 🍽️
#thanksgiving
15 days ago
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So apparently calendula are rather cold tolerant? We have been warmer than usual winters here but still had some snow and freezing temps. Yet these calendula are still growing and flowering. 🌱
#zone6
#flowers
18 days ago
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Prime rib was on sale. So tonight we fancy! Did a rosemary, thyme and garlic rub
#cooking
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19 days ago
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If you havent watched “The Beast In Me” yet, you should. If I see Claire Danes is in something, I have to watch it. This did not disappoint.
youtu.be/8iNHGKcP0cM?...
#netflix
#thebeastinme
#bingeworthy
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The Beast in Me | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
https://youtu.be/8iNHGKcP0cM?si=m11HCFdkZPZ2Pa0e
24 days ago
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Strong geomagnetic storms today and tommorow. High chance of northern lights. 👀
#weather
#northernlights
#auroraborealis
about 1 month ago
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We could be in for a doozy tonight. 😳 We haven’t gotten a real snowstorm in Chicago for years, or even much snow at all. Crazy to think the winter opener could be a big one.
#chicago
#weather
#snowstorm
about 1 month ago
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So many peppers! First real freeze tomorrow so we’re doin the last garden harvest of the season today. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 1 month ago
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These two songs shouldn’t work together, but it’s a banger!
youtu.be/CVv8Z4_hsAU?...
#music
#deadonasunday
#mashup
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"...Baby Enjoy The Silence One More Time" (Britney Spears X Depeche Mode Cover/Mashup)
YouTube video by Dead On A Sunday
https://youtu.be/CVv8Z4_hsAU?si=RLOvEzIaKHK9W4J6e
about 1 month ago
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Yes it’s 3 weeks to December and I’m still picking tomatoes. Crazy times. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 1 month ago
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It’s short sleeves this week and snow shovels by the weekend. Currently being forecasted that we’ll get 7” of snow sunday/monday 😆
#chicago
#Weather
about 1 month ago
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When you go to urgent care cause you woke up with bad pain in your right side and the doctor isn’t sure which side the gallbladder is on, would it be rude to ask for a different doctor? Yikes!
#healthcare
about 1 month ago
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I tend to leave one or two carrots in the ground to seed out the next season. I moved a raised bed recently and this carrot trunk abomination was right in the way. 😳
#zone6
🌱
#gardeningfeed
about 1 month ago
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It’s a week to November and we are finally getting some cold nights. But here in the Chicago area I’m still seeing monarch butterflies. In my non butterfly professional opinion, that seems very late for them to still be around here. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 2 months ago
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Decided to get out of our normal concrete jungle and traffic, and go to a forest preserve for our walk. My girl Jinx was overloaded with new smells and didn’t know where to sniff next. 😆 She also saw deer for the first time.
#bordoodle
#dog
#pets
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about 2 months ago
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Using up a bunch of late harvests and fermenting into hot sauce. Tomatillos, garlic, onion, jalapeno, poblano, and chilaca chilis. Then will add cilantro and maybe a bell pepper at the end when I blend. 🌱 🍽️
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
#hotsauce
#fermenting
about 2 months ago
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I’m definitely growing these chilaca/pasilla peppers again next year. I have never seen a pepper plant put out so many peppers before. They take forever to mature though. They’re plenty hot in the green stage but when they turn brown is the best flavor. 🌱
#zone6
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#gardeningfeed
#peppers
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about 2 months ago
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Today we tuck the music garlic in for its long winter nap. 😴 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 2 months ago
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Well isn’t this the cutest little red bell pepper I’ve ever seen. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 2 months ago
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Cleaning up the garden a bit and found this huge radish hiding amongst some weeds. Sneaky! 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
about 2 months ago
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Ground up the dried shishitos into paprika and it is such a pretty red. I might have to make some paprikash with it. 🌱
#zone6
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about 2 months ago
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Today is shishito drying day for some homemade paprika. 🌱
#zone6
about 2 months ago
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It’s almost the middle of October and here I am still harvesting tomatoes. Thats crazy!
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
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2 months ago
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Have you ever grown indoor cucumbers? I didn’t even know this was a thing until today. I think I’ll try them over the winter. It’ll give me something to do until spring comes. 🌱
#gardeningfeed
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2 months ago
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We live 12 blocks from the
#broadview
ICE “camp” and all day everyday for the past 3 weeks, it’s helicopters circling. 2026/28 can’t come soon enough. 🖕
#ice
2 months ago
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My dill patch is covered in late season swallowtail caterpillars. Everywhere I look, there’s another. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
#caterpillars
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2 months ago
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Let my shishitos mature to red. Now I’m going to dry them and turn them into a paprika. I may smoke them first but haven’t decided yet. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
2 months ago
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Do you cover crop? I may be trying winter wheat this year and curious what you use. 🌱
#zone6
#gardeningfeed
2 months ago
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Maybe we’ll get a fall after all. I was afraid we’d go from the high 80s of the last weeks and go straight into snow. I’ve held off on planting my garlic but looks like maybe next week I can get them in the ground. 🌱
#gardeningfeed
#zone6
2 months ago
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My chilaca (pasilla) pepper plant has been the production winner this season. This is just one branch off the plant. There has to be close to 100 or more peppers on the whole thing. 🌱
#urbangarden
#gardeningfeed
2 months ago
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Still finding
#monarch
caterpillars on my milkweed. You better hurry up! Winters coming.
#gardeningfeed
#urbangarden
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3 months ago
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Since the squirrels are messing with the red kuri squash daily now, it’s time to harvest before they take a single bite out of the rest. From one plant we got 15 total squash. Pretty good I’d say. I think I’ll be growing these again next year. 🌱
#urbangarden
#gardeningfeed
#squash
3 months ago
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The most useless garden kitty. While the squirrels naw on my winter squash, this thing just lays there. I want to speak to your manager! 🌱
#kitty
#gardeningfeed
3 months ago
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Damn you squirrels! 😡 🖕 I guess that means I’m making squash tomorrow. 🌱
#gardeningfeed
#urbangarden
3 months ago
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If I could stop walking through
#spider
webs every time I go outside that would be great! Took my dog out and felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. 🕷️ 🕸️
3 months ago
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When you get sick, what is your go to food? That something you crave when under the weather. 🍽️
#cooking
#food
3 months ago
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My shishito plant has been providing like crazy. I really think it should be renamed to the chili roulette plant though, cause you never know what you’re gonna get from one pepper to the next. My mouth is currently on fire like I just ate a habenero. 🥵 🌱
#gardeningfeed
#urbanfarming
3 months ago
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We’ve entered the wasps all up in your face season.
#fall
#insects
#meme
3 months ago
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The
#moon
looks amazing right now. So big and orange!
3 months ago
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I can’t wait any longer. I must know what it tastes like! So I’m roasting one of these red kuri for dinner tonight. This way I’ll be able to tell if they taste much different after curing off the vine for several weeks or not. 🌱
#gardeningfeed
#wintersquash
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3 months ago
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Still finding caterpillars on my milkweed. I didn’t capture any this year but it seems like it’s been a good season for monarch caterpillars here. 🌱
#monarch
#gardeningfeed
3 months ago
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Birria in 9 hours! Who’s comin? 🤓 🍽️
#food
#birria
3 months ago
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So many kuri squash! 🌱
#gardeningfeed
4 months ago
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What do you do when you have some eggs that need to be used up…you make Dutch babies! Also had some leftover strawberries from shortcake so threw those in as well. 🍽️
#breakfast
#cooking
#dutchbaby
4 months ago
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Why are ice cream trucks always the scariest looking “you got a body in that freezer too?” vehicles?
#tellmewhy
#asksky
4 months ago
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Don’t eat the glow shrimp!
abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns...
#health
#food
#walmart
#fda
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FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart
The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns-public-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-sold/story?id=124780934
4 months ago
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It’s been lightning and thundering for going on 5 hours now. I want to go to bed but can’t until I can get my dog, who’s doesn’t like thunder, to go to the bathroom. 😩 It’s a good thing she’s cute!
#fml
#bordoodle
#dog
#pet
#weather
4 months ago
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I guess it’s storm week. We’ve had 5 storms roll through in the last 24 hours.
#illinois
#weather
4 months ago
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There’s a fuzzy butt party in my squash flower and the bouncer is right by the door checking IDs. 🌱
#insects
#gardeningfeed
4 months ago
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The stink bug that keeps laying these eggs has so far escaped my multiple daily garden checks. Thankfully my squash is growing 6’ in the air and I can easily see the undersides of all my leaves. 🌱
#gardeningfeed
4 months ago
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