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Rena's Recipes
Because food is love.
[and gardens are life]
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BREAKING NEWS: Local genus man stupid about his feelings
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Tori no Uta (鳥の歌 'Bird's Song') Directed By: Yoshitaka Amano (2007)
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Well yknow what? Whatever you do get done, be proud of it, yeah? :3
Today feels like a "make a list of things to do and then actually go do them" kinda day
which doesn't mean it will completely happen, but I'm going to go at least start laundry now
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I know no one asked for this but I know questions will be asked in the future XD
Reminder that I use Procreate and brushes are semi different for every drawing app. This is just for a better understanding to how I draw what I draw.
These are the brushes I use and what I use them for. Most of them have same jobs, mostly because I use them for different actions, emotions shown and details.
There really isn’t much to how I go about with brushes other then some are used for extreme details or less details.
If you guys have anymore questions do ask :3
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I'm going to toss my hat in the ring, here, as another (former) small cattle operation manager. (We had 30 to 40 head of heifers and cows, and one bull.)
Unless you leave cows in a field long enough that they begin pulling the grass up by the roots out of desperation because they've eaten everything else down, grazing and even making hay are closer to giving you a haircut than it is to killing the plants. The plant itself remains alive; the part that dries and gets bailed to be fed later is just the hair that was clipped off.
A barren field is a major sign of improper resource management and overgrazing. Also, we did feed our cows ground up corn stalks or beet greens as a treat- but these were a result of us cleaning up our own garden to get it ready for winter, or harvesting things for ourselves, as Scout said above.
Basically, my point is that unless theres mismanagement going on to the point that cows are forced to overgraze their field, theres no actual plant death involved in cattle care for the sake of the cattle, its all byproducts.
Now, re: trees, I think an argument can be made for *selective* harvesting, at least insofar on an individuals farm or ranch that doesnt utilize protected or endangered areas like national parks, federal land, or places like the Amazon.
Theres a number of reasons for this; some people still use wood as their main source of heat in the winter, for instance. (I was one of them, at one point.) The alternative where I lived (and in many other rural areas) was natural gas. I preferred wood, since I could plant another native tree but I can't create more natural gas.
But.. again. All of this boils down to responsible stewardship in order to avoid stripping or killing the land and everything that comes from it.
Regarding underpaid and 3xploitative labor- unfortunately, unless you're growing your own vegetables or buying nothing but local, by buying vegan food you are potentially supporting such labor practices, both in major agriculture AND in the factories and plants that make the more processed foods like vegan cheeses, etcetera. (No Evil foods and their anti-union tactics, as well as the reasons their workers wanted a union to begin with, for one example.)
IMO, in both cases of veganism and non, the best thing one can do in order to mitigate both human and animal suffering is to fully support local farmers, and to put pressure on big ag re: their less than stellar practices.
Iunno, just my (scattered) thoughts on the matter.
One of the things that struck me about Robin Wall Kimmerer's perspective when I was reading Braiding Sweetgrass was the way the ethical obligation to life she discussed contrasted with the colonizer's culture.
It is increasingly popular to find it inherently unethical and exploitative to kill animals for food or to farm them for animal products, and instead eat and wear "plant-based" things. This is an impulse toward ethical treatment of non-human living things.
But this way of seeing animals as "lives" and behaving accordingly, depends on seeing plants as non-lives. Asking whether we have ethical obligations toward plants is so absurd, it's dismissed as trolling.
I've known many people who farmed or hunted animals who had a great reverence for their lives. Some people would think that this is not genuine and that it is never morally acceptable to take a life for your own use.
Kimmerer discusses Indigenous use of animals. But when a tree needs to be cut down or a plant uprooted, there is the same vivid awareness that a life is being taken, that the plant's life is A Life.
Now I'm troubled by the dismissal of plants as providing total freedom from guilt and moral responsibility among many people and organizations who see animal life as deeply sacred. Plant based products are cruelty-free alternatives to animal products and plant-based diets mean nothing had to die for your meal.
I understand not wanting to support cruel industries or being uncomfortable with eating animals, but the more I learn about plants, the less I believe that all animals have something all plants lack, that means we have moral obligations toward animals and not toward plants.
Plants are incredibly unlike us, but they respond to their environments, they communicate with other plants, and they engage in behaviors. Objection to potential plant intelligence and sentience (ability to feel) is more cultural than scientific; we are just only beginning to scratch the surface of the inner world of plants. What if we have to respect plants as life? What does respect mean then, if we have to explore the idea that it doesn't necessarily contradict taking life?
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Once upon a time I worked in this little burger/coffee/ice cream shop and a lady came in one winter and asked if we had a caramel apple drink and we were like ‘well we have cider’ and she was like ‘no I don’t remember what it’s called but this place made a drink that was chai tea, apple cider, and caramel’ and Breezy offered to try and make something for her but she changed her mind and left so Breezy and I were like ‘alright let’s try this’ because we had chai tea, instant cider mix, a shit ton of caramel, instant hot water from the espresso and too much free time.
And let me tell you it was delightful. It tastes like watching the leaves changing color and dancing in the wind. It tastes like picking out pumpkins and gourds and fresh apples at the farm up north. It tastes like witches and freedom.
I make it every year now and this year I walked in the house on the morning of October first with all the ingredients and shouted ‘FALL DRINK’ and my roommates were like ‘????’ so I made them Fall Drink and now every time they get home from work they’re like ‘Fall Drink pls?????’
Anyway I remember literally nothing else about that woman but I’m very grateful to her.
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The set of sewing machine presser feet that I ordered from china arrived today. So because the instructions/labelling was in Chinese. I had to do some googling/ researching to identify each foot type and its use. I’m posting up the look-up guide I made, to help anyone out there. It’s a compact list and it has a brief explanation about each foot type. Foot style may vary depending on the type of sewing machine. Hope this guide proves of some use.
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I got a ton of new followers recently so not all of you know my favorite sewing machine hack
Handsewing too slow and uneven? Project too fiddly for machine speed? Need to constantly adjust needle placement but want to keep your wrists? Enter the Hand Crank. A friend made it out of wood but I bet you could 3d print one of these bad boys no problem.
When I was living off my sewing it literally saved my wrists.
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Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami Cherry Blossom Tote 🌸
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Hello welcome from Twitter, here are my favorite flower illustrations I’ve done
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They do! But I think if I'm careful, it might just be doable. I'll just have to go through all my keto cookie recipes and see which ones may be closest to a potential starting base. Want me to let you know if I get it figured out?
I just wanted to let you know, I've been reblogging your stuff to a side blog anddddd I may take a crack at makijg these recipes keto. Thank you so much for sharing these, and your experience with crumbl as an employer.
good luck making them keto!!! They currently contain a lot of carbs, but a high amount of fat i suppose 🧐
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Oh.. this is a mood.
if i still manage to get sunburned, so help me god…
#The problem with being a redhead#Freckles everywhere but not a tan in sight#and you turn as bright as your hair if you're put too long
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Uhm! Probably a cherry cream soda, I think.
if i were a drink i’d be cherry vanilla coke
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