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How To Start A Butterfly Garden

  Starting a butterfly garden is one of the coolest things you can do to enhance your home. Being outdoors is great for both your mental and physical health so why not make it extra fun by making your environment more beautiful? By creating a garden that will invite butterflies you're not only helping them but you're making your own life more fun and colorful as well.    Butterflies not only bring beautiful colors and excitement to our lives, but they also help pollinate flowers and crops, play an…
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How To Grow Lavender In Any Climate

Lavender is one of the most beautiful flowers you can grow. It's native to the Mediterranean area and has a long history that goes all the way back to the Old World. It has a sweet fragrance and it's a very popular perennial herb that's used in a variety of ways for gardening and landscaping. It's also used in alternative medicine as well.    It's usually grouped into four different subgeneras, each with a large number of hybrids that have been created for different conditions all over the world…
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How a Garden Grows You: The Therapeutic and Meditative Effects of Gardening

      Every neighborhood has at least one.      From one corner of the earth to another this person isn't hard to spot.  They have been exposed to the calming, meditative, mood, and life-altering effects of gardening.  There they are, bathing in the therapeutics offered up by the delightful sights, sounds, and odors found only in a garden.       Growing up there was an old man around the corner who was always in his garden.  He had course white hair, rough, like dried sage, that poked out of his grey…
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Outdoor hobby

Airsoft-Dangerous war simulation or harmless fun

     You might have heard about this sport that is taking in proportion every year.    Airsoft has been steadily moving toward the mainstream and can now be found in most countries. I have taken an interest in it and while I was explaining what it was to my friends, I realized that people have very different opinions on it. Some thought it was cool, others wondered why I would be foolish enough to spend the money on expensive toys, some feared the effect that shooting humans would have on me, while…
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Spooked: Elk Hunting in the Pacific Northwest

by ChefPerry

    Spooked: Elk Hunting in the Pacific Northwest Perry P. Perkins          The woods were still and silent in the predawn darkness, every twig that broke under our boots, or brushed our shoulders seemed deafening.  With each snap and crackle, we would freeze, my lips forming silent curses as we waited for the telltale thunder of a bull elk crashing down the canyon wall to cross the river and leave us far behind. A moment would pass, then two, and all would remain calm.  Taking a deep breath, we would…
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Fly Fishing the Deschutes on Slow Days

by ChefPerry

  Obsession, it would seem, can do as much for one's reputation as talent.  When a friend approached me to say that her cousin was flying in from Oklahoma the next weekend, loved to fly fish, and needed someone to show him the local scene, I wasn't all that surprised, nervous yes, but not surprised.    Fly Fishing in OregonHere in Oregon, we have an amazing variety and selection of water. With several blue-ribbon rivers flowing through the state, the Deschutes, McKenzie, and Metolius just to name three…
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Bowling

Bowl a Strike! A Complete Guide of Bowling Game for Beginners

        The sound of a bowling ball spiraling into a strike is one of my favorite. To me, it invokes a feeling of accomplishment. Myself, I was on a bowling team for 6 years. Bowling is a positive way to exercise and be focused as a team.                                                                                 History of Bowling         At 7,000 years old, bowling originally started in Egypt. Interestingly enough, a bowling ball and pins were found buried in an Egyptian child’s grave. Flash…
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Collectible Trading Card Games

Best Magic! the Gathering Sealed Products - A Guide to Strategic Investment in Magic: The Gathering

      "Many Magic: The Gathering players ask the question…" Don't you ever get tired of mocking the Professor of Tolarian Community College with that opening? The answer is no, we don't. Even though we love the Professor, and this post is partly inspired by his YouTube channel's content, he's just irresistible to mimic. Not to mention, if he were here reading this, he would probably disagree with the majority of what we're going to be saying here.  The Professor, spoiler alert, usually poops on Wizards…
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