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Dragon fruit

Posted by Annette Olson

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My final new food of 2015 was the dragon fruit, or Pitaya, which includes the fruit of  several species of night-blooming cacti in the genus Hylocereus, and which is quite delicious.  Just slice in half, scoop out the flesh, slice, … Continue reading →

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2015 Adventures

  • Catching up on 2016 Blogs
  • A new blog
  • The last adventure of 2015
  • Dragon fruit
  • Volunteer to save lives from HIV
  • Wrap Art
  • Yampee
  • Hot Air Ballooning
  • Face-painting kids on Halloween is a Treat
  • Schwooxie squash
  • A Southern Plantation in Louisiana
  • Atlanta
  • Purple mini-bananas
  • Dog Adoption Drive
  • Sapotes, Annapolis, and A Walk in the Woods
  • SAFARI!
  • A Korean melon, and a cleanup.
  • Catch up: mullein, KEEN, a reunion, mini-zucchini, and apnea
  • Guitar Lessons
  • Being a tourist in my own hometown
  • Pepino Melon
  • Parade Balloon Handler. Really.
  • Laser Power
  • Kiwano Melon
  • 70 packets
  • XC Skiing
  • The Supremes, a King, and Burwell
  • Air Force Memorial
  • Chayotes
  • Books to Prisons
  • Romanesque Green Cauliflower
  • Polar Bear Plunge!
  • Flotation Therapy, i.e., a Sensory Deprivation Tank
  • Should I, or shouldn’t I, do the Polar Bear Plunge?

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My Solar Panel Installation — on Earth Day, No Less

Political Rally – with Beto

The Corn Maze

Sleeper Car on the Train

Night of the Environmentalists – Veggie Potluck & Outdoor Movie

An Impulse to Get Inked

A vegetarian for 25 years – where has that gotten the world?

Samples of Previous Adventures: adventuresacross2014

SAFARI!

Adventures Across 2015 have started — in a Sensory Deprivation Tank!

The Year 2014 in Adventures

Candlemaking with my Dad

Glassblowing

Juniper and Elder Berries

Longwood Gardens

Simply through a Lens

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

SE Oklahoma, aka Indian Nation

My New Blog: Climate Steps

Trees

Trees. Gorgeous and calming, providing homes for birds and other life, they also help clean the air of carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And, if planted in a city or in your backyard, will cool during the summer and warm in the winter. So here’s a brief list of tips to consider about helping save […]

Fuzzy Socks

As I sit huddled in a fluffy robe, unwilling to turn on the boiler yet because it is just too early in the season to turn on the heat (and because it requires moving some stuff in the basement first), I contemplate the many other ways I have and still need to keep warm. First, […]

Recirculating Stuff

After we ourselves “Reuse” something, but before we “Recycle” it, there is a concept we really need to become aware of and do: we need to “Recirculate.” In other words….

SCORE!

Glacial Pace: The Face of Change

….observing the distance of glacial retreat as measured by year markers drew gasps from nearly everyone…

Climate Steps for the Extreme Beginner

How would I even start doing something about those things? I think I’ll crawl under the covers and hope someone else figures this stuff out. … But wait!….

Climate-Related Books to Read for Bookclub, to Give Your Library, or to Gift

….a twist — what do I read when I want to save the planet? Because there are actually books that help you do that.

Plastic = Climate Change, Part 1

A Plastic Affair to Remember – Always. Plastic first came into our lives 150 years ago, and we fell in love, hard. But although it made and makes our lives wonderful in many ways – it comes with baggage now. Lots and lots of terrible baggage. This article, Part 1, outlines the impact plastic makes, […]

My Solar Panel Installation — on Earth Day, No Less

….there’s a big handle on one of the boxes outside, that you push up and lock with a satisfying “thunk.”

Unique (and Downright Strange) Steps towards Zero Waste

The Next Steps in Recycling By Amy Copeland As we dutifully pitch our cardboard, glass, and the sometimes-hard-to-avoid plastic bottles into the recycling bin every week, it can feel like a lot is left over for the trashcan. That does not feel great. But it turns out, a lot more can be recycled that we […]

Starter-Kit Action Plans now Available

So brief note: I am creating the Climate Steps Climate Action Plan Central (whoop!), found on https://climatesteps.org/action-plans-resolutions/. First, the goal of an action plan is to help you write down specific steps you think you can feasibly take, steps that are so specific numbers are even attached to them. Kindof like saying, “I will eat […]

The Adventure Rules

The goal: To stretch and grow, as well as to look forward, instead of behind. So each month, I plan three adventures:

A New Food: As in 2014, the 'something new' has to be a truly new type of action for me; for instance, the new food has to be a new fruit or vegetable that I have never eaten before. I’m vegetarian, so there will be no eating of bizarre insects, thank you. But I am prepared for my taste buds to be disgusted, bored, or enthralled.

A New Activity or Place: These have to involve a little effort or courage. A new movie, concert, or a new restaurant does not count. It has to be a new type of music in a new concert hall, a new city, a new type of art class. Btw, hot-air ballooning is still on the list.

A New Volunteer Effort. This will be something I haven't done before, and each month will be different. Potentially I could mix all three up, say by volunteering to be a taster at a durian pie-making contest at a world's fair, but my goal for the volunteer effort is to help people and the planet, so the likelihood is that each month will have three different adventures. We shall see.

Famous quote to go with this: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” G. K. Chesterton.

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