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How to Live Without a Refrigerator
Why would anyone live without a refrigerator? Because refrigerators need POWER, and you may not have enough of it. Maybe the power is out in your neighborhood. Maybe you’re just starting to build and you don’t have power yet. Maybe you just can’t afford a fridge right now.
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Rainy season in Mexico
It is incredible how green everything is now. Here in Nayarit, “dry season” still has some green in the landscape. It doesn’t get completely brown, like Guadalajara does. But after it’s rained for a few weeks, the green in Nature’s color TV monitor gets turned up all the way.
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Keto pizza
8/05/24 Lurko reached into his pizza-making experience from The Tomato to come up with this recipe. We eat it almost every day, usually for breakfast. It’s easy to make, you can change up the sauce and toppings so you never get bored, it’s 100% keto-friendly, it’s a great source of fiber, and it’s DELICIOUS.
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Review: Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing (online course)
This is a review of the online course, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. Some of y’all know that I lost my summer job in May 2024, and this made me start scrambling to find other means to make money.
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Review: Affiliate Marketing Tips For Bloggers (free eBook)
What would it take to transform our online journal into a money-making venture?
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Making Money With Affiliate Marketing
Some friends and family are skeptical that I will ever make money blogging, let alone make money with affiliate marketing. I do understand their trepidation. Making money with affiliate marketing might sound too good to be true. Maybe it sounds like some get-rich-quick Ponzi scheme. But I’ve done the research, I’ve read other people’s stories,
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An Off-Grid Sunday in Mexico
07/21/24 Here’s what we did in our off-grid life today: – Woke up around 4:30am. It’s too dark to get up, so we lie in bed reading our Kindles. – At 6am we check the battery (38%), turn on Starlink and check our messages. Then I get up to feed the dogs, while Lurko plays
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How We Did Keto in Mexico
In other posts, I have mentioned that Lurko and I are on the keto diet. In this post I’ll go into more detail about the hows and the whys. Also, the whens: We started on November 18, 2023. After a month of slow progress, we added intermittent fasting. From then on, our window to eat
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The Great Crab Migration
Years ago, I remember driving from Sayulita with my brother and sister-in-law. We often made this 16-minute drive because our mom had a boutique store in Sayulita. During the day we’d help her out, and then drive back to our parents’ house in Higuera Blanca. On this summer day the drive was unusual because there
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Birthday Plan B
Our birthdays are coming up — Lurko’s on Friday and mine on Saturday. Most years we throw a party, and Lurko grills a bunch of meat, and everyone brings food or beer which we keep in the fridge.
