Solve Your Measurement Problems with a Construction Calculator

May 16, 2018

Design

...soul saving power of the construction calculator. Trying to add an awkward series of measurements in feet, inches and fractions? A construction calculator can help you with that. Best of all, you can get a construction calculator in the form of a free app for your tracking device, errrr, I mean “phone.” I downloaded the free DeWalt Mobile Pro Construction Calculator, available for both iPhone and Android devices. You can purchase carpentry, masonr...

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The Survivor

Mr. Homegrown

January 4, 2007

Thoughtstylings

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We interrupt this dull series of articles about rainwater harvesting for important breaking news at our urban homestead–the development of the SurviveLA signature cocktail–the Survivor. For a long time we’ve cursed the previous owners of our compound for their useless, inedible landscaping. One of the plants they left us that we’ve lived with for all these years is an ornamental pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) that, while attractive, we had pr...

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A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance

Mr. Homegrown

August 17, 2018

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...rom the future excavated a 21st century home and reported the results. Why the photo shrines on the metal food storage units? The book is worth reading (ironically, I just sold my copy to reduce book clutter). While I no longer own the book I was happy to discover the short, three part video series on the project which I’ve embedded for your weekend enjoyment. Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyHS_-Umv4E Part III https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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RIP Susan Rudnicki

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2019

Animals, Bees

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...the emails she sent me over the past few years and I think I need to do a series of posts on them such as one that I missed which links the editor of a major bee magazine to pesticide manufacturers. I can hear her bold, uncompromising spirit in those emails. Rob McFarland of HoneyLove says in Facebook, I lost a good friend today who I loved dearly, and the world lost one of the finest beekeepers to ever wear the veil. Susan was the smartest, fier...

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Using the Google Search App for Plant Identification

Mr. Homegrown

June 19, 2019

Gardening

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...Google confuses data accumulation with wisdom. See Adam Curtis’ three part series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Part I, PartII, Part III) to see where the nightmarish world Google’s belief in cybernetics will take us. Enough ranting. You will all have to help still my urge to take a sledgehammer to the whole interwebs. To that end if any of you know a plant search alternative that works as well as Google please leave a comment. Or...

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