Colleen Ashley

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[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@KevinEspiritu I’m so sorry for your loss 😢

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

Same here! We’ve been seed oil free for like 3-4 years now. I’ve noticed a ton of benefits from it, though we also still allow ourselves to live and we understand going out to eat, which is very very rarely, that it prob won’t be 100% seed oil free. It’s nice seeing so many companies switch to better fats to give us some more options. The first year or so was hard and we cut out sooo much because we wanted to be really strict with it for a while to see if it made a difference.

[Whisk In The Wild @Whiskinthewild]

Coming off being sick for 2 weeks so finally getting the rest of my garden planted out.
Don’t forget to check out @epicgardening and use code WILDWHISK for 5% off your orders!

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

So excited for my new seeds! Thanks @epicgardening & @BotanicalSeeds

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@KevinEspiritu It’s always so hard for me to throw a packet out when I’ve used all the seeds since I’ve always loved the artwork on the packs!

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@KevinEspiritu I’m loving this evolution of you! While my inner creative isn’t calling me to draw, I have been back to crocheting and making g baby blankets for friends and co-workers, as well as re-taught myself how to sew and I’m making a few quilts this year.

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

I’m Colleen - I have a small backyard garden that I’ve been growing and expanding in the last 4 years. You’re a huge reason I decided to have a backyard garden! I’ve been trying to work on growing my garden/homesteading page @Whiskinthewild (trying to be more consistent this year), I was super stoked when your team invited me to be one of your affiliates as well! 95%+ of my seeds all come from Botanical Interests, even before they became part of Epic Gardening!

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@NickRogersBTL Yall should check out WonderVu if you ever make it up north a bit! It’s 22 holes on 25 acres in the mountains. It’s up by Gross Reservoir.

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@KevinEspiritu Gardening twitter is the best!

My tik tok is all crochet and sewing

Facebook is everything 😂

IG is homesteading, Gardening, pro 2A content, and somehow all the conspiracy theories.

YouTube - depends on which account I’m on 😂 either crypto, pro 2A, or gardening

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

I’ve been around long enough and see the same planes by our regional airport. We are outside every day and it’s weird how some planes have normal contrails that disappear like normal. Where others leave long clouds that don’t dissipate at all. Plus there’s been an open secret and openly talked about how we do cloud seeding in the US…so no it’s not all perfectly normal. They do it all over the world.

[Whisk In The Wild @Whiskinthewild]

Wednesday morning epiphanies 🤣
On a side note my Epic Gardening 6-Cells are great!

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

Making another blanket!

This is one a baby blanket for a co-worker who has a newborn little girl! Can’t wait to be done and get it shipped to her!

[Whisk In The Wild @Whiskinthewild]

3rd times a charm!

Tried 2 other patterns I originally wanted for this blanket and frogged them both. Decided to give the large granny square a try and this is the winner! Now 10 more rounds to go before it’s done!

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

@NickRogersBTL On our weekend walks we were joking about how all the planes we were seeing were seeding above us with the way the “clouds” formed after a mysterious trail didn’t just disappear but really just kind of blocked the sun.

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

Same here. Mid 30s. I’ve known since I was 12 I didn’t want kids after watching my sister have 2 pretty young. She’s about 9 years older than me. But I realized real quick, that wasn’t the life I wanted. I love my nieces and nephews, and even baby sit for friends when they need someone, I just have no desire to have them myself. I’m like you, and I will absolutely protect kids at all cost even if I don’t have any.

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

Really happy to be getting back into creating things. This is like the 3rd or 4th crochet project I’ve recently finished since January and I have a few more planned along with more quilts and sewing projects. 😊

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

It’s so incredibly frustrating. They already did that to us up here in Westminster. It’s 3x the rate for electricity used between 5pm - 9pm. God forbid if you work a normal 9-5 job and have to do dishes and laundry after work. They literally said in their pamphlet they mailed to us “limit using your dishwasher and laundry between these hours”. I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t work for majority of working people. I am very fortunate we both have remote jobs and I can do laundry at 7am now, but I know a lot of Coloradans don’t have that luxury.

[Whisk In The Wild @Whiskinthewild]

60+ hours of crochet work! Finally finished it! Now just working on attaching it to a rod for it to be a wall hanging art piece!
#crochet #handmade

[Colleen Ashley @ColleenAshley89]

Somehow manage to do all my loads of laundry, folded AND put away in one day, along with all my work meetings, calls to the vet to get dog Rx’s refilled, filmed new content, and started a new crafting project 😆

Who am I and what did I do with myself 🤣