What I Found Interesting: January 22, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

With deep Arctic cold across the US Midwest and East Coast, blizzards and snowfall along the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana (New Orleans had a record-breaking 10 inches of snow in some parts), the devastating continuing wildfires in California, and the nefandous executive orders by the convicted felon and authoritarian who is now US President, it’s been a challenging week for everyone who cares about the harm and despair people are experiencing.

I’m grateful to everyone sharing positive news and uplifting blog posts.

Here are a few stories, posts, and resources I’ve read and enjoyed over the past month.

Hope you enjoy them, too!

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11 Years Later and I’m Once Again Picking Lettuce on Thanksgiving Day

Reddish plastic pot filled with bronze-tinged crinkly green lettuce leaves.

In 2013, as part of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), I chronicled my goal of picking lettuce from my garden on Thanksgiving Day in southeast Michigan.

Not an easy goal, given our nighttime November temperatures were often in the mid-teens (Fahrenheit).

And a trip to Florida in mid-November that year meant I had to rely on a heavy mulch of leaves to protect the lettuce while I was away.

It worked! Eleven years ago today, I picked lettuce for our Thanksgiving holiday meal!

This year, I did the same thing. But not intentionally.

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