BlogHide Resteemsducksaplenty (54)in poetry • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.DarkLife or bones or thoughts that need immediate thinking exhume me from sleep, unwilling, a pre-dawn deposit on the hard, frozen ground of a January morning. I make coffee and sit down to work, to…ducksaplenty (54)in cooking • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Wing It Banana Bran MuffinsTo wing it or to follow a recipe, this is the question. When I was growing up in Portland, Oregon in the 1970’s, the fifth of five kids in an under-paid college professor’s motley family, I learned…ducksaplenty (54)in thoughts • 5 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.I Kept the Jacket, Like You do SometimesStuff. My stuff, my husband’s stuff, my grown kids’ stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stuff, that we have too much of it, and how that happened, and perhaps most importantly what I’m…ducksaplenty (54)in cooking • 5 years agoSweet potato toast with a lotta ricottaSo I have been wanting to try sweet potato toast (all the cool kids are doing it) and darned if it isn't quite tasty. Find a really big yam or sweet potato, cut it in quarter inch planks and toast…ducksaplenty (54)in science • 6 years agoThank you Marie CurieGot the old mammogram this morning. Stopping to thank Marie Curie for her work with radium and radioactivity. Her work lead directly to the prevention possible through mammograms. Also…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.My Actifit Report Card: March 5 2019Ok, getting serious about this fitness thing. My honey and I had a quiet evening planned together tonight, the house all to ourselves for once. So we both had to fit in fitness during the day…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agoMy Actifit Report Card: January 16 2019Fitbit says 10,816. Gotta start carrying my phone at all times. Or perhaps I should wear it as a hat? Has anyone heard when Actifit is going to sync with Fitbit for iOS devices…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agoMy Actifit Report Card: January 15 2019Missed 10,000 steps today by several hundred, but there is this: I spent two hours on the phone with my oldest friend. Not all that we do for ourselves should be about fitness of the body. Some…resteemedintothewild (63)in food • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Wanting to Try Something New for Dinner Tonight?! ~ #moquecaI got the urge the other night to be spontaneous and make something I have never made before. I googled some Brazilian recipe dishes and stumbled upon one I hadn't heard of, Moqueca . Moqueca is…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agoMy Actifit Report Card: January 11 2019It was a long hard slog to 10,000 steps today. Long day at work, one employee was needy, one was snarky, lots to do for the family, the usual. But walking helped. A lot. Walking can’t turn a…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agoMy Actifit Report Card: January 10 2019Nice step count today for me! Went to the local rec center with my husband @preparedwombat and my sister @jayna. We’re in Minnesota. It’s cold here, so having a great place to walk at night is a big…ducksaplenty (54)in actifit • 6 years agoMy Actifit Report Card: December 22 2018My first day using Actifit! I’m excited to be here. I have fallen out of the Steemit habit, working on other things in life including fitness. Got about 6500 steps today out Christmas shopping with…resteemedmazzle (63)in contest • 6 years agoDoes anyone want 300 SP for 3 weeks? No? OKWas that click bait? Not entirely. Maybe a little bit. A couple of days ago I offered up 300 SP to a new or undervalued Steemit user. And I made it into a little contest. This was to…ducksaplenty (54)in bars • 6 years agoHaunted Bar baby!The Rathskeller in Duluth, Minnesota. They say the place is haunted. Yeah, by me and my honey. Came in and can’t seem to leave. Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Webducksaplenty (54)in colorchallenge • 6 years agoColorchallenge - ThursdayGreen - Zucchini JungleA photo taken from deep down in the green of my strawbale garden, sunlight through the zucchini leaves. **photo care of my iPhoneresteemedtroubledsoles (55)in life • 7 years agoA Single Seed: Follow Your EnergyMost of us have been heard the worn-out expression of "follow your passion". Easy to throw around, harder when you have bills to pay, but hardest when you're not even sure what your passion is. If…ducksaplenty (54)in writing • 7 years agoHamsterI am a flawed parent, and if you have kids, so are you. If you haven't done something as a parent that you are profoundly ashamed of, well then you just aren't putting your back into it. That's my…ducksaplenty (54)in colorchallenge • 7 years ago#ColorChallenge FridayBlue - Lake Country at NightWith another snow storm headed our way in the Twin Cities, I thought I’d share a little ice cold blue this frigid Friday. That last one looks like foam on water. Actually ice on a frozen…resteemedomitaylor (56)in blog • 7 years agoBreaking The Silence - An Autism Journey - Part 1Autism is a condition, not a disease. Most don't care. Most others treat people with Autism like shit, like it's the cooties— hey, just being honest. It's rarely overt. Often it's subtle. And…ducksaplenty (54)in fiftyword • 7 years agoSiren - Original #fiftywords storyGemma, coat belted tight against the Wisconsin chill, stops, looking out across the field. Her friend stops too. "Here. We all did it, all those moms you know now. Buck naked, dancing through the…
