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I See Men as Trees Walking

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Thoughtstylings
...Above, the image of a “Vegetable Caterpillar”, an unlucky hybrid between vegetable and insect, from an essay by Lily Pepper on the implications of animal/vegetable hybrids brought about by advances in genetic manipulation. Read this excellent essay in the current issue of Steps Magazine here....

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DIY Christmas Trees

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Design
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A while ago Erik posted a link to an Instructable on how to make chairs out of scrapwood. William, author of that project, just let us know that he’s done a holiday Intructable on how to make a cute and quick modernist “flat pack” Christmas tree. This sent me into an internet rabbit hole, wherein I procrastinated for a long time by reading about homemade Christmas-tree-like-structures. Two favorites: 1) The Mountain Dew Christmas tree. On one han...

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Gardening Resources in Los Angeles County

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ebruary delivery. Get your order in soon as they often sell out of popular trees. Get trees with low chill hour requirements. Look up your chill hours here. Paradise Nursery in Chatsworth. Papaya Tree Nursery in Granada Hills. Check out Dave Wilson Nursery’s handy guide to backyard orcharding, Do not plant any grapes that aren’t Pierce Disease resistant. Vegetable Gardening When to plant: http://www.scribd.com/doc/154952660/What-to-Plant-When-in-S...

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Made in the shade- Passive cooling

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Domesticus
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...de, make sure to provide them with a cool, shady spot for hot summer days. Trees can also provide valuable shade for your house. Leafy trees will protect your house from the direct rays of the sun. Shade prevents solar heat gain. Pure and simple. Deciduous trees that lose their leaves in the Winter can allow sunlight to enter your house in the cool season, making them ideally suited to passive heating and cooling. You can also shade your windows....

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Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

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Miscellaneous
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...-Learn to identify trees. What a crappy goal. It’s too vaguely stated. All trees? How many trees? I do know a few more trees this year than I did last year. -Take up archery again. This means starting with practice in the back yard once or twice a week, until I have the chops back enough to visit the range without embarrassment. Uh….nope. As a partial defense, I will say there was a huge dirt pile blocking our target for at least 6 months this yea...

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