Solve Your Measurement Problems with a Construction Calculator

May 16, 2018

Design

...ectrical work add-ons but the free version is good enough for most simple, homesteady projects. In addition to handling those pesky fractions, the basic version also does metric conversion. It will also help you calculate your sheet good needs. I added the carpentry module since I’ve found myself doing a lot of incompetent carpentry these past few months. I’m old enough to remember the failed attempt to convert the U.S. to the metric system in the...

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Saturday Tweets: One Crazy Week

Mr. Homegrown

November 3, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...er.com/ozXQVBakqN — Jared Pechacek (@vandroidhelsing) October 30, 2018 How Lead Ends up in drinking water: https://t.co/pr0hW1Wdll via @cenmag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 31, 2018 Waking up early won’t change your life—but it’s awesome for capitalism https://t.co/2OqJFVmtqC via @quartzatwork — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 30, 2018 https://t.co/Wh3tiVA2ng | Hundreds of teeth found in Downtown Valdosta wall — Root Simple (@rootsimple) O...

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Why I’m Growing Vegetables in a Straw Bale

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2019

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.... Growing in straw bales is also a great solution for folks, like us, with lead contaminated soil. The drawbacks of straw bale gardening are mainly environmental. You have to buy bales and nitrogen and import them in a CO2 spewing vehicle, unless you have a generously sized cargo bicycle. And in my last straw bale garden some of the tomato plants showed signs (a lot of leaves and not a lot of fruit) of too much nitrogen. On the other side of that...

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On Moon Bases, Free Parking and One Hell of a Grim Swedish Science Fiction Movie

Mr. Homegrown

June 14, 2019

Transportation

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...itely not for kids or for a cozy date night. While I’m not a fan of the film’s nihilism and dismissal of the numinous it does an excellent job of parodying the political impasse we’re currently living in (the spaceship in the film is nothing more than a bland shopping mall lead by leaders who everyone knows are lying). To my point, Aniara portrays space for what it is: an endless, empty realm of eternal darkness. The lesson of the film is don’t sc...

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Backyard in Progress

Mr. Homegrown

June 17, 2019

Garden Design, Gardening

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...I made a bridge so that when it rains water will flow under the path that leads to our shed. This is why you hire an outsider expert: Kelly and I would never have thought of this rain garden or the idea of running the flow under the path. Yes, one of these days I’ll remove the bar code from that pipe! We plan on planting this area with native plants in the fall. Laramee and his crew also hauled up some rock to better define the paths in our yard...

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