Picture Sundays: The Unintentionally Groovy Cover of the High Desert Corridor Envionmental Impact Report

October 5, 2014

...sing a chipmunk in the upper right corner). Every time I look at it I see something new: psychedelic condors riding bicycles, butterflies transformed by contact with solar panels and what might be a portal to another dimension just to the right of the project i.d. number....

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Weekend Linkages: Verging on Christmas

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Advent Lessons and Carols from St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Los Angeles Complete Hobo Stove & Cooking Pots System Grow mushrooms in a 5 gallon bucket The mayor knew They don’t want you to know about triple hung curved glass windows Not a collection of mudlarking finds from the foreshore of the Thames. Biscuits...

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Introducing #ArtShopaholism and #BiblioShopaholism

Mr. Homegrown

May 14, 2024

Design, Thoughtstylings

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...aking–that bad habit where you bake some elaborate cookie/cake/ instead of cooking a healthy dinner or cleaning the house. #ArtShopaholism: Not actually making art but, instead, shopping and/or obsessing over art supplies. I’ve found drawing useful, but it’s a skill you have to practice in order to get any good at. To counter this I’m only allowing myself to draw with whatever crappy ballpoint pen I have on me. No thinking about, buying or obsessi...

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Growing Pink Oyster Mushrooms

Mr. Homegrown

June 2, 2022

Gardening, Mushrooms

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...pink color when you heat them, they are still a colorful yellow hue after cooking. So far I’ve grown pearl, blue and pink oyster mushrooms. My favorite for flavor and texture was the pearl oyster but the other two are a very close second. I’m going to grow pink oyster mushrooms again soon and like that you can grow them here in the summer. I need to improve step 4. The difficulty with getting mushrooms to fruit is that they benefit from humidity...

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Behind the Scenes at Root Simple is a World of Big Pumpkins, Pomegranate Catapults and Man Crates

Mr. Homegrown

October 7, 2014

Thoughtstylings

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...ounty Arts Council, kids’ games from the Madera Parks Department, numerous cooking demos from local chefs, live music by the Marie Wilson Band, plus everything pomegranate. “We’ll have vendors selling the fruit itself, plus pomegranate trees, pomegranate-scented candles, jellies and anything else you could think of involving pomegranate, and probably some things you didn’t know could incorporate the fruit,” Bray mentions. Will they aim the pomegra...

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