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An Opening

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Design
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...plastic sheeting. Put construction debris in plastic bags (the big orange store sells extra thick garbage bags for this purpose). Vacuum like there’s no tomorrow. Here’s what it looked like before (note the cracked drywall sheets that, I discovered, were barely attached to the studs): During: And after: I don’t have a picture, but I removed the studs after confirming that the old header was adequate (it’s not a load bearing wall). The next step w...

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100 Years

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...a clawfoot tub and shower curtain. The salespeople at the plumbing supply store thought we were crazy to do this. They were wrong. It’s fine. Egyptian Court Apartments, San Diego. Kelly and I have been living in 1920s buildings since we met in San Diego in the early 1990s. Our first apartment was in a spectacular, if rough around the edges, bungalow court with an Egyptian theme. While the outside was styled like something out of a Boris Karloff m...

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Sorting Family Photos

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...udio portraits as well as shots of my paternal great-grandparent’s general store in Stockton, California. With the advent of snapshot photography in the early 20th century there’s more photos, but I suspect photography was still relatively expensive. The early 20th century snapshots seem more carefully posed than what comes later when photography gets cheaper. There’s a lot more photos from the 1970s and 80s but the quality of many of those photos...

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135 Larry Korn: Rest in Revolution

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Food, Gardening, Permaculture, Podcasts
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...oka’s natural farming philosophy. During the discussion we cover how natural farming is similar to indigenous agriculture and how it’s different than permaculture. We also talk about the mystical experience that changed Fukuoka’s life. Larry’s website is onestrawrevolution.net. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTu...

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