dang, the bookbinding looks super cool! good for you. i am slowly beginning to investigate a partnership between my workplace (in the IT field, and we do a lot of ewaste recycling) and the local migrant center to provide them with a bunch of machines for things like GED, citizenship study, and communication.

good luck and good powerthrough!

https://stripedspatula.com/gallo-pinto/#wprm-recipe-container-7474 was quite tasty when we made it the other night. also https://www.ruchiskitchen.com/vegan-spicy-peanut-noodles/#recipe. both good!

i don't know if this link is great, but it's one that i'm going to read and try to follow along with. https://stablepoint.com/blog/how-to-host-your-own-website

oh yeah, the Praxis test! I remember that from back in the day when i was in school to be a teacher. that's the subject-matter test, right? like, if you're going to be a math teacher it's the test that proves you can do math?

I've never heard of coffeeberry, but I'm intrigued! I'll need to look it up.

Ascent for business, Outback for pleasure, lol. the Ascent is the car I drive for work, the Outback is my personal car.

I think it's designed for outdoorsy stuff as it also has a firestarter component. but it definitely works well for basic networking stuff too!

lol, yes it is! I got my glasses from there ages ago before I knew there were cheaper options. I like my glasses and need lens cleaning cloths all the time, so it works.

I wish I had a photo of my setup but I apparently never did that, how odd! Anyway, it's a series of pallets tied together with zip ties to make bins. I keep a seal-able five gallon bucket with lid in the kitchen, and we toss any organic scraps in there. We don't have much yard yet so there are few grass clippings, but we have added some from neighbors before. Plus woodchips, leaves, etc. The smell issue came from unloading the buckets weekly in the pile - I would gag from the smell, though it was pretty mild all things considered. The pile itself didn't reek really, but the bucket did. I just need to clean it more but with my brain sometimes a tiny challenge becomes a Mighty Challenge and it's easier just to stop.

hell yeah!

basically we googled lasagna gardening/lasagna compost, and did some research on the soil in our area. once we got our head around the basics we just started using what we had on-hand.