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Pollinator Week Canada 2024 June 17 - 23 Pollinator Week is a project that was started  by Pollinator Partnerships Canada in 2007 and soon grew to become an international event with National Pollinator Week events happening across the planet.  Learn about pollinators, citizen science and back yard or school projects... promote pollinator health by spreading the word and planting gardens.  Scan for online webinars, in person gatherings, garden tours and farm tours... there is a lot going on! Visit  https://pollinatorpartnership.ca/ to download their toolkits, participate in projects and discover tons of resources and organizations. And don't forget to learn how to preserve those amazing summer harvests produced by local small farmers! Check out this cookbook: From One Small Garden - Over 300 Delicious Nutritious Recipes . 

Thank you for your patience while we transitioned to the new location and settled in. A lot has happened in just a short time from that moment in April when we tentatively queried a realtor about downsizing. By mid-May we had downsized our belongings, relocated the drum teaching/repair studio and moved in to our new-to-us "tiny home" living. We chose to do this in order to focus our energy on living life fully, projects in the to-do list and in preparation for the semi-retirement stage that we hope to obtain in the future. We also said "farewell" to our fuzzy cutie fur-kid Korma (in picture below)... as she had reached the appropriate age for letting her go. Yeah - that was a lot to take on and it happened super fast... right?! Faster than expected, that's for sure. However that was the situation and so we pivoted our attention from our publication schedule and action plan in order to focus on the tasks at hand. Well, the office is now set up and ready for us ...

A huge hug goes out to Kiki W & Gary Towne who posted a review for our guidebook for writers,   Purple Snowflake Marketing - How To Make Your Book Stand Out In A Crowd .   Today I'd like to share with you his review of that book :   4 out of 5 stars   This review titled:  "Practical, Realistic Guidance",  was posted on  Amazon.ca  (Canada) on October 17, 2023  "This book has been helpful for my husband and me, as we have been working on a non-fiction book. One of the first lessons we learned was that writing the book is the easy part, which came as a surprise to my husband, as he was proud of all the thought and work he had put into his literary project, but then stalled several years ago when he realized that the manuscript creation is just the first step.  Publishing, and then marketing the book and getting it out there, all of which requires money we didn’t want to spend, seemed too daunting.  More recentl...

Loyal readers and new ones...  Thank you for being a part of this blog for over 20 years now!  Yup Daily, or almost daily, posts for 20 years. I'm taking a break!  Sort of... We are moving from one home to another, and relocating the client services to another location as well.  Dave and I should have completed this transition by June 1st but a lot will still be going on the first few months as we settle in.  As such =  over the next few weeks there will be fewer new posts ...but Dave and I encourage you to scroll through the 20 years of archives here on this blog and the 3 years of archives on Dave's blog.   If you are looking for a specific topic - use the search box. on either of our 2 blogs, to call up related posts. Find the links to our 7 published books (so far) on the sidebar of this page. There are links there for the YouTube Channel and both blogs. Feel free to explore :) and Feel free to keep in contact with us, but please understand th...

A big hug of appreciation goes out to Kiki and Gary Towne who rated our Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green series as 5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon.ca (Canada) on Oct 17, 2023.  Thanks guys! We sure appreciate it!!  The book review titled "Cumulative Change" is shared below: "My husband, who grumpily takes up the daily mantle of “recycling police” for our own condo building as well as those of his clients, sees this book as his rule book.  Many of us (unfortunately not all of us) know that modern society must make huge changes in order to alter our dangerous and cumulative trajectory regarding how we as a species fail to properly take care of the planet where we live. If we just wait for big government and big corporations to “do the right thing,” there would likely be little change, even with some political activism.  Although we like the idea (at least in theory) of protecting our home planet for ourselves and future generations, we as a people actually fall deepe...

visit the links below for a complete list of events and workshops. Watershed Alliance of SW WA Participate in their work parties. Oregon Metro Attend their community events. Metro Area Master Gardeners Check out their talks and workshops. East Multnomah SWCD Enjoy their new or recorded classes. Tualatin SWCD Enjoy their new or recorded classes. Clark Conservation District Attend their workshops and webinars.  North Clackamas Watersheds Council Get involved with their work.  

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