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Goodbye 2024

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Thoughtstylings
...e hosted a small New Years gathering where we all sat around and listened to Art Bell’s predictions show where random, unscreened callers would prognosticate about, mostly, doom and gloom stuff. I have no memory of this gathering but put a bootleg podcast of Art on this evening to drown out the fireworks and keep the animals calm. I worked all day in the woodshop making frames for a friend’s gallery show so I too will be heading to bed early. No C...

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Diyas: oil lamps from India

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Domesticus
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...’s post today–Wednesday. Please don’t miss our regular scheduled Wednesday podcast, below.] As readers of this blog and our books know, I’m a big fan of little vegetable oil lamps–the type that can be easily improvised with any shallow vessel, from sea shells to Altoid tins. If the tabletop aesthetic of oyster shells and recyclables doesn’t quite appeal to you, may I interest you in diyas? Diyas are little clay lamps used in India. They usually bu...

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Loquat Season

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Food, Foraging, Gardening
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...of these trees live in public spaces, the parkway and people’s front yards making them prime candidates for urban foraging i.e. free food. The tree itself has a vaguely tropical appearance with waxy leaves that look like the sort of plastic foliage that used to grace dentist office lobbies back in the 1960s. In short it’s a real tree that looks fake with fruit that nobody seems to care about. The loquat tree invites considerable derision from east...

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How Much Can You Carry on a Bicycle?

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Bikes, Transportation
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...s to climb hills even with heavy groceries. One need not be car-free to enjoy a cargo bike. For many years Kelly and I shared a car. The Xtracycle was a big part of making that car-light arrangement work. When people ask if urban homesteading saves money, the first thing I point to is the cargo bike, not the chicken coop. The problem? Cargo bikes are not nearly as sexy as the Playboy Land Yacht. That’s a problem I’ll get to in a future post....

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