Saturday Tweets: Caturday!

..., 2017 Our photo collection is full of cute and … um interesting photos of cats: https://t.co/waPPuBFZe2 #NationalCatDay pic.twitter.com/kfwvvjAMGP — L.A. Public Library (@LAPublicLibrary) October 29, 2017 Erasing nature | Garden Rant https://t.co/LRIxnFDQVl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 4, 2017 How the tech workers of WWII thwarted the Nazis with high-tech sabotage https://t.co/8suZ6FwOwn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 30, 2017 Today&...

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A happy tangle

...le to photograph, this cheery, eye-popping chaos, but we enjoy it, and the cats are entranced. While I’ve sometimes wondered if it is right to keep a feeder in our yard, I feel good about it as of now, because we are providing other sources of forage as well. We let our plants go to seed. We don’t spray, so there are plenty of bugs to eat. (Why so many spiders this year???) My thoughts are always turning toward planting strategies which provide ye...

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More on Federico Tobon

...creative and ever resourceful Federico Tobon for the podcast. Federico put up a blog post going into more detail on some of the things we talked about during the podcast, specifically the type of CNC router he uses (the ShapeOko 2 ), his social media rules, a video proving that he’s trained his cats (!), his hand sewn bike messenger bag and a shot of the LA Eco Village rooftop beehive. We talked for hours before and after recording and could talk...

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