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134 Eric of Garden Fork on Mental Decluttering, Washing Machine Repair and More!

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Animals, Bees, Podcasts, Water and Power
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...’s quitting beekeeping, mental decluttering, washing machine repair, print making and more.ing, Watch Garden Fork on Youtube and subscribe to the Garden Fork Podcast. You can also find Garden Fork on Patreon. Eric’s DIY T-shirt video which includes a tour of Sunset Park Brooklyn Why Eric’s giving up beekeeping! Mental decluttering Washington Post Inspired Life column Don’t Give Up signs Laura Kampf You Tube Steve’s Small Engine Saloon Video of Ste...

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Counterintelligence

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Animals, Cats
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...ing down on that cheese. Few things in nature are as deliberative as a cat making a call on jumping. The assault on our kitchen counters actually came in two parts, somewhat like finding an alternate route up Mt. Everest. The first step came two weeks ago when the cats figured out they could jump on the counter adjacent to the stove. From there they must have spotted the other counter and a week later made the dinner party assault on cheese summit...

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Computer Troubles II

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Thoughtstylings
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...A big thanks to our web czar and book designer Roman of Yay Brigade for fixing last week’s WordPress problems. He did it just in time for me to jam my right index finger on a drawer thus making typing incredibly painful. Thus today’s short excusey blog post. Ouch. I’ll see you all in a few days....

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A Not So Close Shave

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Domesticus, Shaving
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...orming a kind of Golem army. We can thank our Silicon Valley overlords for making an old legend a painful force-multiplied reality. And yet, every time I look at social media it causes me to ask how am I also complicit in the curation of an idealized alternate self via this blog and our books? How many times have I presented some neatly tied up homemaking/gardening tip when the actual results were more ambiguous? Or, to go deeper with this, how of...

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