Everything Must Go Part II: Books

January 12, 2015

...of I came to much the same conclusion as Nassim Taleb does in this tweet: Cleaning my library facing Lindy effect. Lit, philosophy & mathematics don’t age/ age slowly. Nonfiction, “science” books died.~All of them. — Nassim NicholنTaleb (@nntaleb) January 5, 2015 If time passes and a book get more relevant it’s likely to stay relevant (this is the Lindy effect Taleb is referring to). Just like Taleb, the books on philosophy and theology stayed in...

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Someone Please Buy Me a KoMo Grain Mill

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2013

Bread, Food

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...rate. The salesperson showed me how easy it is to disassemble the mill for cleaning. The two models I was considering were the KoMo Magic and the KoMo Medium Grain Mill. I got so excited that I had to use supernatural powers of resistance to keep the credit card from flying out of my wallet on the spot. Komo’s “FlicFloc Manual Flaker.” In addition to grain mills they also make a manual flaker, the “FlicFloc” with a striking, triangular design. For...

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Everything Must Go Part 3: Clothing

Mrs. Homegrown

January 13, 2015

Cleaning, Domesticus, Tidying up

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Cats love the chaos of cleaning In this post we continue the tale of our tidying up using the KonMari Method discussed in this post. Clothing is the first category Marie Kondo (KonMari) recommends for sorting, presumably because her clients find it least confusing category to tackle–and also, I suspect, because it is the most immediately rewarding as well. It’s really pleasing to see your shirts hanging in a tidy row, your drawers brought to orde...

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Gardening Mistake #12: The Annual That Ate Your Backyard!

Mrs. Homegrown

September 6, 2013

Gardening, Mistakes, Vegetable Gardening

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...d you won’t remember until you find its sad, withered skeleton when you’re cleaning out the faded annuals at the end of the season. Generally, our worst culprit is the rampant nasturtium. This year, though, the serial killer prize goes to our meandering squash plants, which are doing their best to cover everything in our yard less than knee high with their 15″ leaves. This morning I wanted to cut back a squash vine which had done some damage to a...

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