Experiments in Growing Seedling Mimosa Trees in the Greenhouse (Albizia julibrissin) – Part 1

By on March 5, 2014 in Fun on My Homestead, Gardening in Southwest Idaho, In My Greenhouse

I now have 8 miniature mimosa trees under lights in my greenhouse. I did go ahead and plant a couple more of the sprouted nicked seeds and 3 of the un-nicked seeds after reporting about my mimosa seed soaking that I began in January. What happened was that they all tried to grow, but the […]

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Pre Race Barefoot Evaluation of the Shamrock Shuffle 10K Run Course

By on March 4, 2014 in Barefoot Episodes, Fun Fitness After 50

  Location:  near Nampa, Idaho; starting and ending at the Ste. Chapelle Winery Date and time of evaluation run:  Saturday, March 1, 2014, from about 11 AM to noon Weather during my run:  44°F; steady, light rain; icy wind picked up about half way through. Traffic:  minimal and polite (click on any photo to enlarge) […]

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RVWD – Is the Word Revival in the Bible ?

By on March 2, 2014 in Fun Being a Believer, Religious Vocabulary Word of the Day

The way the word revival is proliferated by many who call themselves Christians, you’d think it was on every other page of the Bible. A word search reveals that variants of it (revive, revived) occur periodically in the Old Testament in most translations. Revival itself I found one time in one translation. In the New Testament, there […]

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