Saturday Tweets: Squirrels, Swingers, Singers

October 29, 2016

...ield-Expedient Tricks for Estimating the Height and Width of Objects | The Art of Manliness https://t.co/BGx0HmnC8y — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 29, 2016 "Cycling to work, school, shop, and everywhere in between is just something the Dutch do, without overthinking it." https://t.co/kvEmLhQ0sO pic.twitter.com/lQQ5AlrcWk — Chris Bruntlett (@modacitylife) October 29, 2016 Living, Dying, and Eating in the “Day of the Dead” Belt https://t.co/0ky...

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How to Fix a Sash Weight

Mr. Homegrown

June 25, 2015

Design

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...n freely and, since this is Los Angeles, they knock together loudly in an earthquake letting us know the rough magnitude and whether we should duck under a table. When we moved into the house nearly every sash cord was busted and none of the windows functioned. Repairing these old windows is as lost an art as Roman augury. Most homeowners and house flippers here throw out the old windows and replace them with the sort of cheap sliding aluminum por...

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Summer Solstice Celebration at Holy Nativity

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Events

...The open house will feature garden tours, oven explanation (the oven mud is now drying), highlights from other campus organizations like Teri Roseman’s LiveYoga Wellness, Patricia Rose’s Fresh-food-in-a-flash cooking classes, the Food Forward gleaning program, art tours by Steve O’Laughlin, and much more. Steve’s band will be performing 12-1, and pancakes will be served from 9-11. Come join us and see all the new goings-on! Summer Solstice Open H...

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Extreme Measures: Squirrel Proofing Your Fruit Trees

Mr. Homegrown

May 27, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Pests

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...on top of the situation this year. Squirrel stew. I just don’t have the heart for this option. Robert Irwin, “Two Running Violet V Forms, UCSD” photo by Tktktk – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. I think there’s a way to make aesthetically pleasing fruit tree cages. Crazy idea: what if they were as carefully crafted as Robert Irwin’s running fence piece at UC San Diego? It’s too late to fence the trees in our own garden, b...

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Saturday Tweets: Garden Yeti!

Mr. Homegrown

February 21, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...sing Impact Wheat Sensitivity http://t.co/qD9ECgX125 #crumbshot #glutenfree #wheat — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 19, 2015 Move Over Man Caves – There’s a New Trend on the Rise: Bar Sheds http://t.co/aLTmfcHdSS via @sharethis — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 18, 2015 Videos on the fine art of Japanese Joinery: http://t.co/hAApRrRbB1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 16, 2015 Once again, LA officials have it backwards: Little Free Libr...

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