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Sensuous Space: How to Create Romantic, Seductive and Sensuous Settings

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Design
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...he many pages of charts, spreadsheets and graphs. We’re 30 pages in by the time we see our first hot tub. The power nexus of the erotic panopticons in this book are, naturally, your disco control centers because your house must have its own private discotheque. I don’t know how you keep the blow from gumming up the electronics. Of course, such idiosyncratic spaces are the domain of the ultra-wealthy who can afford serial remodeling. Reznikoff note...

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Paper Wasps: Your New BFFs

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Gardening, Insects, Nature Awareness
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...he rest of the colony disperses and dies. The fertile queens mate one last time in the fall, and then find some little nook in which to hibernate over the winter (this is amazing to me and I haven’t found any details about it yet.) In the early spring she emerges and builds a tiny nest, like maybe six cells, to generate a first generation of workers to help her out. These workers are female, as with the bees, and as soon as they hatch they get to...

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Front Yard Update: Welcome to Crazy Town

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Back to the Garden, front yard series, Gardening
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...lching soon as the wildflowers and other spring annuals finish up. At that time I might have to make some decisions about the sunflowers. It will be interesting to see what the slope looks like without the sunflowers hogging all the attention. There are also summer and fall bloomers hidden in there, who will hopefully come to the foreground later this year. Overall, I’m happy enough to wait and see how this system stabilizes over time. It’s not pe...

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2013 in Review Part II

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Thoughtstylings
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...than harvesting tomatoes, summer here is not the best time for gardening. Time to contemplate closed vs. open floor plans and catch a crappy Hollywood movie. “Crappy Hollywood” is a redundancy, of course, as all Hollywood movies are crappy. September Mrs. Homegrown complained about my flour storage mess. I just bought a Komo mill and so this mess should diminish in the next few months. In the further interest of cleanliness, I blogged about the s...

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What does the loving landscape look like?

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Back to the Garden, Gardening
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...ong the way, the neighbors began asking for help with their yards and over time, the whole neighborhood has become a little slice of paradise, a shady oasis full of edible trees like pomegranate and mesquite. He said wild animals, like quail, are even moving back in. I still remember the pictures from his presentation, but I’m having a hard time finding anything like them to share with you. I’ve shamelessly screen grabbed a still from a nice short...

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