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Bee Trellis

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Animals, Bees
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...rellis to surround the hive boxes that reside next to her shed. In a small urban yard a trellis around your bees will keep everyone happy. Bees naturally tend to fly upwards after leaving the hive but the addition of a fence keeps the few sideways stragglers from negative canine and homo sapiens interactions. As usual, the design process around Root Simple begins with the realization that our 1920s house looks best when surrounded by fuddy-duddy l...

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Saturday Tweets: Lost in Translation

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Saturday Linkages
...mother would say, it’s a . Me in @politico: https://t.co/R4vJnAFTG0 — Jesús A. Rodríguez (@jesusrodriguezb) March 31, 2019 Turning into my fave day of the week. #caturday Letting my guilty pleasure of #drawing cats be seen. #ArtistOnTwitter #femaleartist pic.twitter.com/UOBr21lCRD — Deanne Achong (@deanneachong) March 30, 2019 The most important thing you’ll see today pic.twitter.com/3PY6tPj5Ls — Dirt Road Queen ♡ (@DirtRoadQueen__) March 29, 201...

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Little Library Walks

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Design
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...relative in San Francisco, or pet sitting in Pomona I like to punctuate my urban dérives with visits to these little cast-off book sites. To navigate, I have a Little Free Library mobile app on my phone. With the app you can check in and note if you left or took a book. There’s also a web based version. The app and map have only the Little Free Libraries that someone has decided to list, so you can, of course, find many more unofficial libraries o...

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For the Locals . . .

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Animals, Events, Thoughtstylings
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...America, home of the Silver Lake Shaman (Please read Jenni Avins hilarious article on the Silver Lake Shaman phenomenon), Kelly and I are more Medievalists than fans of the straw hat, $10 juices and hanging houseplant accoutrements of the SLS. So head thee to the 405 freeway adjacent Getty for two exhibits of (mostly) illuminated manuscripts. We were there, in part, to look for source material for a new Root Simple publishing concept. Stay tuned....

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Spaceship Earth

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...what could be more non-essential than hippie avant-garde thespians? For us urban homesteader types, it’s also good to have a reminder that hubris in the face of complexity is an occupational hazard of anyone who attempts to garden, keep animals, cook from scratch or otherwise interact with things other than laptops and iPhones. You can stream Spaceship Earth via the YouTubes for here. If you haven’t seen Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over by Machines o...

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