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A Spider Web Garden Seat

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...Looking for a last minute Christmas project for your compound mates? How about a spider’s web themed garden seat. Yes, there’s measurements: I spotted this 1920s gem on Archive.org in a promotional pamphlet, Beautifying the home grounds by the Southern Pine Association. This is the same source I used to come up with a new design for our entrance arbor and will blog about that when I put the finishing touches on it....

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Unflipping the Gentrifence

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...unds.” This pamphlet is part of the Internet Archive’s Building Technology Heritage Library, an essential resource for anyone interested in historical preservation. I recycled all of the old gentrifence, but had to buy some more lumber to complete the project. To make the oddly shaped pickets, I used a combo of table saw cuts along with a jig for my jigsaw. Making jigs increases speed and safety. I’m not entirely happy with the metal handrail but,...

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Saturday Linkages: Cat Memes, Food Allergies and a Monteverdi Drop

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Saturday Linkages
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...How a cat named Smudge’s distaste for salad created one of 2019’s most popular memes Why the world is becoming more allergic to food No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession DIY Rolling Umbrella Base A 27-year-old Costco fan loves the store so much he got a logo tattooed and had a birthday party in the food court Music break: Lamento della Ninfa by Claudio Monteverdi...

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Boozing Bees

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Animals, Bees
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...whiskey to bees in honey, and is it true that it renders them bolder and causes them to try to rob other hives? About a week ago, a man who has three colonies of bees, told me that some strange bees were completely robbing one of his colonies. Today very probably the same bees were robbing one of mine, and I only have three. I stopt up the entrances, and that helped some, for my bees are quite strong. I was told that when bees were fed whiskey in...

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