This is a branch of an Autumn Joy plant that we put into a wine bottle. Didn't expect it to like this new home quite so much!

This window and ledge is at our kitchen table. And this is the full view out the window: Hope you all have a wonderful morning/evening wherever you are!

This fuzzy little guy is doing pretty well lately: Hopefully we get some flowers soon!

A recent addition to our succulent garden, sporting some flair: Stone turtle & Schlumbergera Truncata

BTC Faucets Over the last two weeks we've been checking out some BTC faucets. In case you're unfamiliar, a faucet - in the crypto sense - is usually a simple website that requires human interaction in

Really? Lending Platforms? Before we jump into the details, we wanted to address the broader question of why we spent, or continue to spend, any time and money on lending platforms, especially after

Crypto Exploration Update It's been several days since we made our last post - we've been falling down some crypto rabbit holes. But now we're back and we're here to share some of what we encountered.

With the 48 hour window having come to an end, Falconcoin wraps up a solid promotion of their new staking feature. As you can see from the numbers below - posted in the official Telegram channel - a decent

As mentioned in our previous post, Falconcoin is offering a 48 hour staking promotion that has just now kicked off. Though the site got a bit crushed under the traffic, we were able to get our coins staked

Here's some early spring flowers from our garden: First Hibiscus of the year! Chinese Fringe Flower Shrub What we think is a type of Becky Daisy

While most of the lending scene recently has been a mess, Falconcoin has shown what good "old fashioned" customer service and the ability to hunker down and incrementally improve a platform looks

So far, we've yet to buy any steem directly, and have just been accruing earnings from posting and curation. We've also been converting all of our earnings into steem power, so our curation will have more

We held off for what we want to believe is an admirable amount of time, but alas, we finally broke down yesterday and bought some cryptokitties. Using metamask to purchase and manage ownership was pretty

About two and half years ago, we were making some guacamole and decided that rather than throw out the seed like we normally do, we'd give it a try growing it. Most times, these experiments with seeds

GIMP + Pink Flower from a weed Two weeks ago we created our Steemit account and set our first milestones of 50 followers and 10 original posts and we're happy to say that as of today, we've reached both.

Like dominoes, the lending platforms are coming down or changing plans one after another. After the announcement yesterday by Davorcoin, comes one today by Thorncoin. From Thorncoin Telegram & Twitter:

Unfortunately, Davorcoin - the lending part at least, did not survive the price pancaking and recent overall crypto dip. Not good news for the other lending platforms. It always felt too good to be true

Who knew it would start off with 2 months in the fridge? Japanese Black Pine Tree Bonsai Kit & Seedling We received this bonsai kit as a gift recently and got to work on it. It comes with a small clay

Black Pine Seedlings Crypto had a lot of red this week, but Steemit kept us well distracted! Here are some of our initial thoughts: The combination of the platform and currency offer a pretty awesome ecosystem

We've been squirreling away our Falconcoin for a while now, having a little over 8k coins. Today we decided to take the plunge and make a big loan of $45k to bring our total to $50,001 loaned. As mentioned