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How to Keep Skunks Out of the Yard

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Gardening, Pests
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...gs, tangles up, and occasionally traps a bird. I hate the stuff. It took me 16 years to realize that I could exclude skunks from the entire backyard. All it takes is a simple strategy: know thy enemy. Our new back gate. Hopefully the skunks will be scared by the Seneca stencil. Skunks can’t climb Skunks, unlike raccoons and possums, are poor climbers. I noted that they were able to climb up on my straw bales, but that’s about as high as they can g...

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What the Internet Will Look Like After the Zombie Apocalypse

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Water and Power
...of off the shelf wireless routers overlaps with amateur radio frequencies making it legal for Hams to boost the range of these devices. That and the fact that several models of ubiquitous Linksys routers are cheap and easy to hack. Photo: Texas Ham Radio All you do is take your Linksys router, screw in a better antenna (note the one above made with a tin can), load some open source software on to it, scatter them around town and you’ve got a wire...

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My Brand New Homebrew Soda Carbonator

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Domesticus, Food
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...husband award this Valentine’s Day. He surprised me with my very own soda making machine. This is not a SodaStream–it’s better. It’s an industrial strength CO2 tank topped with sturdy dials and valves and whatnot, all sourced from the local homebrew shop. He’s going to do a how-to post soon (tomorrow maybe?) on how to put together the parts, and how to use it. So hold on for those details! Right now, I’m just going to gush. I’ve been wanting some...

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Dave Miller on Baking with 100% Whole Wheat

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Bread, Food
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...ed by Chad Robertson’s first cookbook. Results were better but I was still making white bread. My new bread baking adventure began this weekend when I took a workshop taught by Chico, California baker Dave Miller. His breads are almost all 100% whole wheat. He mills his own flour from carefully sourced heritage grains. Using a levain (a starter), he creates loaves that foreground the flavor of the grain. In short, he shows that bread can have as m...

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