I (Chellie) am beginning to really miss my "Smithy". I haven't swung a hammer in about a year now, so I am going to get in gear and set up a makeshift shop and get back to it. This gate hook is an early example of my beginning blacksmithery. Forged from rebar. Rebar isn't ideal to work, but it's easy to scrounge for free. You don't have to have a whole lot of money to get started and sourcing material can become an obsession! But I'll get some photos as I go along. Hope y'all enjoy them. Have a blessed day ❤️
This is a great place to go and learn about blacksmithing, blade making, and other areas of metal work. And the folks there are very generous with their time and knowledge
Killed this thing.... graveyard dead I killed it. Big honkin centipede. Stuff of nightmares
Forwarded from Chellie
Ok y'all. I'm thankful for victories no matter how small they may seem. I was elated to find a tomato growing! Some of the squash is growing flowers. And that gnarly zucchini plant is finally putting on female flowers. I am over the moon about that 😁
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/heb.4.16.KJV
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/heb.4.16.KJV
Forwarded from Serra Ametrine
Jiaogulan is a plant that grows wild in China. The leaf is used to make medicine. Jiaogulan is sometimes referred to as “Southern Ginseng” because it grows in south central China and is used in similar ways as ginseng.
Jiaogulan is used for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and improving heart function. It is also used for strengthening the immune system, increasing stamina and endurance, increasing resistance to environmental stress (as an “adaptogen”), improving memory, and preventing hair loss.
Other uses include treatment of poor appetite, cough, chronic bronchitis, ongoing stomach pain (chronic gastritis), pain and swelling (inflammation), ulcers, constipation, stress, gallstones, ovesity, cancer, diabetes, trouble sleeping (insomnia), backache, and pain.
Some people use jiaogulan as an anti-aging agent, antioxidant, and detoxifying agent.
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https://www.rxlist.com/jiaogulan/supplements.htm
Jiaogulan is used for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and improving heart function. It is also used for strengthening the immune system, increasing stamina and endurance, increasing resistance to environmental stress (as an “adaptogen”), improving memory, and preventing hair loss.
Other uses include treatment of poor appetite, cough, chronic bronchitis, ongoing stomach pain (chronic gastritis), pain and swelling (inflammation), ulcers, constipation, stress, gallstones, ovesity, cancer, diabetes, trouble sleeping (insomnia), backache, and pain.
Some people use jiaogulan as an anti-aging agent, antioxidant, and detoxifying agent.
#daysoflearning
#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
https://www.rxlist.com/jiaogulan/supplements.htm
RxList
Jiaogulan: Health Benefits, Side Effects, Uses, Dose & Precautions
Learn more about Jiaogulan health benefits, uses, side effects, effectiveness, safety, precautions, and warnings
Forwarded from Serra Ametrine
Gynostemma pentaphyllum, also called jiaogulan (Chinese: 绞股蓝, Pinyin: jiǎogǔlán, literally "twisting blue plant"), is a diocieous, herbacious climbing vine of the family Cucurbicitae (cucumber or gourd family) widely distributed in South and East Asia as well as New Guinea. Jiaogulan has recently been incorporated into traditional medicine.
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#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
(From Wiki, here on out it's me!)
#daysoflearning
#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
Forwarded from Serra Ametrine
#daysoflearning #jiaogulan #immortalityvine
Here's my lil fella! I got this one from a cutting on Etsy, once it is better established I can send some cuttings out for others. =)
The leaves are sweet-ish in flavor and can be added raw to green foods, dried and powdered, or used to make a tea!
They are powerful climbers! They like a trellis, or they'll trail.
It is almost invasively sturdy, but can be fed to livestock as well, and does not strangle other plants insofar as I can tell. It propogates by rooting, and requires a male and female plant to go to seed.
It can go wild outdoors and be cut back in zone 8 and above and mulched overwinter, or makes a huge luscious houseplant.
Here's my lil fella! I got this one from a cutting on Etsy, once it is better established I can send some cuttings out for others. =)
The leaves are sweet-ish in flavor and can be added raw to green foods, dried and powdered, or used to make a tea!
They are powerful climbers! They like a trellis, or they'll trail.
It is almost invasively sturdy, but can be fed to livestock as well, and does not strangle other plants insofar as I can tell. It propogates by rooting, and requires a male and female plant to go to seed.
It can go wild outdoors and be cut back in zone 8 and above and mulched overwinter, or makes a huge luscious houseplant.
So yesterday I dug and plumbed in a frost free hydrant and my friend from over @FoxfireHomestead helped me bring rock up from the pasture for it and helped fill it in. There is a video to follow