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A few weeks ago, a friend and I uprooted the grass on this overgrown, raised, garden bed on the side of the house I currently reside in, replaced the wood sidings, picked up several bags of well-draining soil, a hoe, and some mums, and transformed the little flower bed. But now, summer has gone and autumn is upon us with winter quickly approaching and I have been throwing every skin or peel from every fruit or vegetable I've eaten into homemade composting buckets. Then the bright idea popped into my head to use the entire garden bed as composting soil since I can't grow anything in it during the winter.
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How to Use a Raised Garden Bed as a “Compost Garden” During the Winter To Improve Soil Fertility

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
Gyms, no. Surely, we can do better than that. And we can! But let's start with the more obvious stuff. You can stay in a hotel or hostel with a gym and pool, or even be luxurious with a sauna or steam room, but why not get outisde of your living quarters and see what the world has to offer?
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Exercising and Traveling: Staying Fit Abroad

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
One of my fitness goals for 2017 was finally being able to do a forearm stand. I wasn't being too ambitious. Being able to do a forearm stand while supporting my head was something I'd never been able to do even when I was at my fittest in high school dancing 8+ hours every week. This told me that whatever I'd done in the past had not truly helped me with my forearm stand, which is only partially upper body strength, but, from what I've experienced, is mostly abdominal strength and balance. Abdominal strength has never been one of my strong points, and if you caught my other post, Abdominal Strength: Thoughts From a Girl Who Has Always Been Killed By Crunches, then you know that abs and I have never been close.
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(Apparently) All I Needed to Nail My Yoga Forearm Stand Was To Start Pole Dancing

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
I might have mastered the art of multitasking . Although I do enjoy cooking , I feel like many days it takes up a lot of time. That's partially because when I do cook, I'm always making a large dish or a meat with two side items, with some rice or pasta. Because of this, I have been trying to use the oven more so I did not feel like I have to hover over the stove and babysit the food. This frees up my hands and attention so I can do other things while the food cooks itself. So...what did I choose to do? ??
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Pole (Dancing) and Pasta? Multitasking to Increase Productivity For An Easier Life

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
Most doctors and health specialists recommend 5 hours of exercise, mostly cardio, per week. The only time in my life I ever got in 5 hours of cardio in a week when I used to party every weekend but who's to say at the ripe old age of 26 that I cannot repeat this level of fitness?
Exercise

Get A Week’s Worth of Exercise in One Night…or Day By Dancing…and Other Activities

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
The hour is over?! The hour is over. The other dancers are moving around. I can't believe I slept through this session. She calls it meditation; I call it nap time. Though I do feel strangely rejuevanted, I prefer to sleep on a mattress.
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The Sleepy Art of Meditation from a Frustrated Individual Who Had to Learn How to Relax

by Maple Summers 4 years ago
I've seen quite a few different methods of toting stuff along with you as you go from place to place, pedaling, ducking, dodging, and darting through traffic, weaving in and out of lunatic drivers. In my brief (and unfortunate) days as a bike courier, I made the investment of getting a metal bike basket attached to the back of my bike. This was not my first attempt to carry a lot of stuff with me without having the added struggle of trying to maintain my balance with a heavy backpack on my own back (I found it quite difficult to turn around to view traffic, to lean into turns, and other very necessary movements that not only keep you safe, but improve the speed and quality of your bike ride.) One of the things I tried before the metal basket on the rear end of my bike was a woven basket.
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One Thing Every Bike Commuter Needs in Their Life: The Bike Basket

by Maple Summers 4 years ago
Like I was saying, I've always had poor abdominal strength. Could it be possible that I have just always been too hard on myself? Maybe, but that's only because I've never had hard abs. Even during those good old days of having dance classes and rehearsals eight to ten hours a week. Leg lifts? Manageable. High kicks? Relatively flawless. Crunches and bicycles? Immediate and everlasting death.
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Abdominal Strength: Thoughts From a Girl Who Has Always Been Killed By Crunches

by Maple Summers 4 years ago

How to Use Chinese Meditation Balls Like a Boss

by Maple Summers 4 years ago
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I saw this post that was saying that people need to stop holding on to what has hurt them, that true forgiveness means you are done being angry, and that anger somehow poisons your own soul. But I don't believe that forgiveness is the only path to letting go. Indeed, plenty of people do not deserve the blessing of my forgiveness, and did not deserve it the first hundred times I bestowed it upon them. 3
Survival Is the Underdog Of Super Powers
by Maple Summers 3 years ago
A few weeks ago, a friend and I uprooted the grass on this overgrown, raised, garden bed on the side of the house I currently reside in, replaced the wood sidings, picked up several bags of well-draining soil, a hoe, and some mums, and transformed the little flower bed. But now, summer has gone and autumn is upon us with winter quickly approaching and I have been throwing every skin or peel from every fruit or vegetable I've eaten into homemade composting buckets. Then the bright idea popped into my head to use the entire garden bed as composting soil since I can't grow anything in it during the winter. 4
How to Use a Raised Garden Bed as a “Compost Garden” During the Winter To Improve Soil Fertility
by Maple Summers 3 years ago
Gyms, no. Surely, we can do better than that. And we can! But let's start with the more obvious stuff. You can stay in a hotel or hostel with a gym and pool, or even be luxurious with a sauna or steam room, but why not get outisde of your living quarters and see what the world has to offer? 5
Exercising and Traveling: Staying Fit Abroad
by Maple Summers 3 years ago
As it seems to be her new hobby of thrusting things on me without warning whenever I go home to visit my parents, my mother did so again by surprising me with some avocados. I do say "surprise" because, I have never known her to eat avocados and I usually have to force them upon her by sliding them into smoothies or meals whenever I come around. So, I definitely did not have any intentions on cooking when I came to visit for the weekend. 6
A Delicious Spinach Avocado Dip Recipe For Getting More Spinach Into Your Diet
by Maple Summers 3 years ago
One of my fitness goals for 2017 was finally being able to do a forearm stand. I wasn't being too ambitious. Being able to do a forearm stand while supporting my head was something I'd never been able to do even when I was at my fittest in high school dancing 8+ hours every week. This told me that whatever I'd done in the past had not truly helped me with my forearm stand, which is only partially upper body strength, but, from what I've experienced, is mostly abdominal strength and balance. Abdominal strength has never been one of my strong points, and if you caught my other post, Abdominal Strength: Thoughts From a Girl Who Has Always Been Killed By Crunches, then you know that abs and I have never been close. 7
(Apparently) All I Needed to Nail My Yoga Forearm Stand Was To Start Pole Dancing
by Maple Summers 3 years ago

10 Creative Planters That Work Beautifully With Your Leca Semi Hydroponic Plants

by Maple Summers 4 months ago

15 Fruit Trees (& Shrubs) That Make Fabulous House Plants

by Maple Summers 4 months ago
I saw this post that was saying that people need to stop holding on to what has hurt them, that true forgiveness means you are done being angry, and that anger somehow poisons your own soul. But I don't believe that forgiveness is the only path to letting go. Indeed, plenty of people do not deserve the blessing of my forgiveness, and did not deserve it the first hundred times I bestowed it upon them.

Survival Is the Underdog Of Super Powers

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
A few weeks ago, a friend and I uprooted the grass on this overgrown, raised, garden bed on the side of the house I currently reside in, replaced the wood sidings, picked up several bags of well-draining soil, a hoe, and some mums, and transformed the little flower bed. But now, summer has gone and autumn is upon us with winter quickly approaching and I have been throwing every skin or peel from every fruit or vegetable I've eaten into homemade composting buckets. Then the bright idea popped into my head to use the entire garden bed as composting soil since I can't grow anything in it during the winter.

How to Use a Raised Garden Bed as a “Compost Garden” During the Winter To Improve Soil Fertility

by Maple Summers 3 years ago
Gyms, no. Surely, we can do better than that. And we can! But let's start with the more obvious stuff. You can stay in a hotel or hostel with a gym and pool, or even be luxurious with a sauna or steam room, but why not get outisde of your living quarters and see what the world has to offer?

Exercising and Traveling: Staying Fit Abroad

by Maple Summers 3 years ago

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