Picture Sundays: A Native Bee Hotel

December 16, 2012

...Don’t know much about this native bee house other than that it’s near Paris. For more info on native bee habitats, see our post from earlier this year. Update: reader Drew left a comment to say that this habitat is in the Jardin des Plantas in Paris which is attached to the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (http://www.mnhn.fr/le-museum/). Thanks to David Dalzel for the tip....

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Picture Sundays: Unique Cadillac Cargo Carrier

Mr. Homegrown

December 9, 2012

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Spotted in the posh HaFoSaFo district of Los Angeles, a re-purposed pickup truck shell serving as a cargo carrier. And since it’s so spectacular–here’s another view. A note about the house in the background: if an object stands motionless for long enough in this city it will get stuccoed. The Cadillac? It too will have a layer of matching beige/orange stucco within a year or so. Then house flippers will buy them both and rehab the interiors to lo...

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Picture Sundays: The Vigo County Canning Club

Mr. Homegrown

October 14, 2012

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...Vigo County Canning Club, Indiana 1918. Via Kaufmann Mercantile. I hope we’ll be seeing more food preservation clubs in the years to come. They make a lot of sense. You can pool resources, labor and expertise. No need to be nostalgic, this is an idea for the present and future....

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Picture Sundays: Separating Sack of Sack

Mr. Homegrown

April 14, 2013

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...For separating your sack from another sack? Or something to do with fish? Thanks to Joseph Shuldiner for separating this sack of sack from all the other items in our local Asian supermarket....

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