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I love trying new places and @valleyhousebrewing never disappoints! • Their pickled vegetables were on-point last night: Yum!! { & the succotash - both served in Mason jars - just like I do at my house🖤} • I’m off alcohol with my new meds, but the dark house beer on tap is fab 🍺 • 🖤 • Oh! But of course, I have duplicitous notions for posting ... it’s not just for the great service, beers, and grub... it’s also for my writing friend @reinventions.reena - a quick sneak peek at our 100 Word Wednesday Image Prompt 🖤 • This one I took just last night on the way in to our Brave Learner Seattle Book Club meeting in the Valley 📚🖤 • • • • • #100wordwednesday #100wordwednesdays #only100words #bikurgurl #bikurgurlblog #writerswanted #100ww_w122 #writingprompt #imagewritingprompt #imagewritingprompts #bikurgurltravels #bikurgurltravelsto #bikurgurltravelstoduvall #bikurgurltravelstoduvallwa #bikurgurltravelstoduvallwashington #bikurgurltravelstoduvall_washington

I am in awe of all the amazing artists on Instagram, but one of my current favorites is @indominusjezz who recently topped not just 10K, but 12K, followers! • Way to go! • I love how his work is mostly on notebook paper - the visuality of the art literally jumping from the page is amazing. • My Artist son and I so enjoy his work 🖤 • • • • #artistspromotingartists #indojezz10k #artistswelove #youbetjurassicsgood #visualityofart #artjumpingfromthepage #notebookingyourart #eclecticunschool #eclectic_unschool #eclectic_unschoolers

Bees Buzzing 🐝 • Dizzing Delirium • Let me tell you: there’s nothing I love more than seeing so many different bee species buzzing my rhododendrons 🖤 • It’s a feeding frenzy - with birds and Pacific Tree Frogs chirping in the background, you wouldn’t know we’re nestled in a suburban Seattle cul-de-sac! • We organically Garden our small slice of suburbia and I continually tinker with making it a place for not our our wildlife habitat, but the humans who co-habitate this small plot of land. • We do what we can for them 🖤 • • • • #pollinatorgarden #pollinatorfriendlygarden #pollinatorfriendlyorganicgarden #bikurgurl #bikurgurlbeevideo #beevideo

My raised beds are super easy to maintain. So easy, in fact, I actually have to remember to come check on them! • I usually set up a sprinkler on a timer, but to be honest, we’re not used to the sunny stream we’ve had this May, so I’ve just come out and watered for about 10 minutes, jotted down some notes, and enjoyed the quiet of my garden on these sunny evenings. • The bees are buzzing, the squirrels are pestering me, the rabbits and slugs can’t get in. It’s as sweet of a deal as I’m going to get. • What I love about gardening is its art that is always in progress. There’s always something to do, but life won’t end if it doesn’t get done. My projects for this season are aplenty, as always, but for tonight, I’ll just enjoy the view 🖤 • • • • #mygarden2019 #bikurgurlgarden #bikurgurlgardens #bikurgurlgardenvideo #bikurgurlgardenvideo2019 #bikurgurlgarden2019 #bikurgurl #organicraisedbedvideo #organicraisedbedgardening #inmygarden_may2019

My sweet husband spoils me. • He has become quite the coffee connoisseur and makes me fresh French Press coffee. • Every. Morning. • It’s amazing. • He’s started also leaving me little love notes, nothing fancy, but in his already hurried, busy mornings when he’s already getting up early to take calls or get to the office, his sweet devotion to me and our love still makes my heart flutter 🖤 • It wasn’t always like this, but after 17 years together, I think we’re finally hitting our stride 🖤 • Wishing you a wonderful weekend of joy, love, and happiness! • And if you can’t find that - gurl, get a good cup of coffee or tea! You deserve it 🖤 • • • • Coffee cup by Mercury Coffee, Beans are actually Dark Espresso Roasted locally by River Trail Roaster ☕️🖤 • #rivertrailroaster #rivertrailroastercoffee #rivertrailroasterscoffee #localseattleroastersilove #shoplocalyearround #seattlelocal_yearround #seattle_itswherecoffeeisroasted #bikurgurl #17yearsandwerefinallyhittingourstride

Moms Night Out! • We set up Moms Night Out in our local Homeschool New Book and Consignment store, @homeschoolpotpourristore ! • I’ve shopped there for years - Books, games, and even my beloved Story of the World and History of the World {thank you @susanwisebauer } 🖤 • Thank you for a great night Alex and Homeschool Potpourri🖤 • • • • #usedmypoetryteatimeset #homeschoolmamasnightout #homeschoolmomsnightout #creatingcommunityforhomeschoolmamas #creatingcommunityforhomeschoolmoms #momsnightout #homeschoolpotpourri #seattlebookstore #seattleusedbookstore #seattleusedcurriculumbookstore #homeeducatingourchildren_fulfillingourselves #laughingtogether_learningtogether #nothingfillsthehomeschoolmamasoullikesnacksandbooks #ishouldhaveinstagrammedthatfirst

Time to Go Rogue • Our home educating is humming right along, but now that I’ve gone 3 days straight without a migraine I’m getting a little stir crazy. • I’m ready for travel; some ‘Fun in the sun’ 🖤 • Of course, this is the middle of our school year, we’re finally hitting our stride! It’s great! Everything just kind of does it’s thing.... • Well, my migraine/hormone/ongoing health issues PLUS some cancelled classes this spring almost sent me into cardiac arrest.... BUT .... now that we’ve ironed out most of that? • It’s summer! • It’s our sweet spot - we really just cruise through summer because our late schedule finally jives with everyone else’s 😉 • We travel later, then take a big swath of time of in winter when we need a break with the constant Seattle rain. We travel them too 🖤 .• So here I am, my mind still going a million miles an hour after a busy day and you know....all I can think of is to continue to roam 🖤

‘Let’s Thanos the House!’ • Reducing by about half all the items in our home - it continues. • Our goal for the weekend is to clear out the final push of clutter, superfluous, the stuff I’ve grown accustomed to and enjoy..... but do I *love* it?!? • Idk: That may be overstating. • For me, it’s finally going through the vignettes ‘cluttering’ every flat surface in the house. • But more importantly: my closet. • My closet is one of the last bastions of clutter in my home. • • It’s where I squirreled away my 11 years of our 3 sets of 3-ring binders from home educating my boys, the toys I’m not keeping forever but haven’t yet been able to give away, my clothes hamper from when I was a baby that I painted red for my boys but they’ve long since outgrown.....}.... • *sigh* • So now is when I pull EVERYTHING out of my closet. • EV-ER-Y-THING. • Oh, it’s a walk-in, did I mention? It was the selling point on the house {even though if it had a carpeted Master Bathroom directly from the 1980’s}! • Wish me luck....I’m loading up on coffee. ☕️☕️☕️ • • And pears....because Bosc pears: what can’t they do?!? • • • • • • With a circuitry board controlling the lighting and sound, this Ragnarok protype v. 1 is well on its way to becoming a fully-functioning summer project.... • Wheels are in motion, so any tips for making mobile units are welcome! • My Artist has started the drawing the schematics! • • • • • #wearecreatorsinthishouse #thisisthebehinningofthenextbestthing #storycreationisourthing #characterarcisourthing #eclectic_unschoolers #bikurgurl #eclecticunschoolingfamily #eclectic_unschooly_family #eclecticunschoolers #eclecticunschooling #ragnarok #ironmanishisinspiration #avengers #marvelavengersendgamethefirsttenyears

With summer seemingly officially here, I have to give a shout out to our AMAZING painting company @jcpaintingpro 🖤 • We interviewed a dozen companies, but José and his crew are amazing! • From his honest, fair pricing, to his meticulous attention to detail, to José’s crew making the whole area as clean as they found it, JC Paint Pro is the ONLY painter we trust! • José even climbed under our deck and painted THE ENTIRE exterior of the house, top to bottom! It hadn’t even occurred to us - we were mainly worried about sun damage and other wear and tear! • • Looking for interior painters? José and his crew do that as well - he’s repainted nearly every wall and ceiling, including our two story entry, inside our home. • Whenever we have a small patch job, a light fixture moved, something changed in another small remodel, it’s only José and his crew we trust to come out and get the jobs done right. • When you find someone you trust, they are worth their weight in gold. We are loyal customers, not affiliates, because José and his crew are just the best! • • • • • #bestseattlepainter #jcpainting #jcpaintingpro #jcpaintingproexterior #besteastsidepainter #bestseattleeastsidepainter #sherwinwilliams #sherwinwilliamspaint #bestofthe425 #seattlelocal #shoplocalseattle #seattlelocalbusiness #smallbusinessseattle #seattlesmallbusinessowner

In honor of GIVE BIG, I’m posting a picture of our two PUPS, Darkpaw and Darth Kemosabe ‘Sunspots’ Vader 🖤 • {He used to have more names when my Artist was younger, but I could only remember so many!} • @pupdogrescue is one of the many wonderful organizations who participate in Seattle’s annual matching day of giving. • PUP Dog Rescue is a fantastic organization who rescues animals, finds treatment if necessary, cares, and fosters them to find the right family to match them with. We found the right pair for our family only a few years apart 🖤 • Posting pictures of our happy PUPS to encourage you to GIVE BIG too 🖤 •••••• #blackdogsrule #iloveblackdogs #iloveblackdogsandicannotlie #bikurgurl #darkpaw #kemotheterrier #kemothedog #darthkemosabevader #darthkemosunspotsvader #darkpawthedog #ourpupsdogs #givebigtopupsdogrescue

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