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Vegetarian Recipe: Quinoa Recipe: Quinoa, Cranberries, Almonds
Good!
(tags: recipe quinoa cranberry almond vegetarian vegan)

Well, it’s a little more than “summer”, but it’s been quite amazing because I….

Built a beautiful two-sectioned compost bin.

Had a great camping trip to Death Valley and Pinnacles National Monument, where I got to see living condors before they go extinct.

Visited family in Ohio, being especially grateful for the chance to spend time with Grandma […]

Sexing chicks (plumage differences)
Discusses how to tell male from female chicks, but all by plumage differences.
(tags: chickens)

HenCondo
Stealth condo for urban chickens. Looks crowded for the hens to me, but many things about the design are very clever.
(tags: chickens coop)

Helmut Wimmer, 80, Painter With Planetarium for a Canvas, Dies - New York Times
I worked with Helmut for the short time I was an intern at the planetarium. He was retiring that year and not around every day, but he was an interesting fellow when you did have the chance to sit with him […]

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents (Browser safe fonts) - Web design tips & tricks
Very useful guide to fonts that you can use on web pages for both Mac and Windows users.
(tags: fonts design webdesign typography)

Crockpot Beef Brisket Recipe - Slow Cooker Hanukkah Beef Brisket Entrees Recipes - Beef Roast Recipes
This came out pretty nice…would try it again.
(tags: recipe beef brisket)

Back in prehistoric email times…say, oh, 1995 or thereabouts…many of us (well, Steve and I and at least a few others) peppered our emails with an emoticon for “grin”: <g>.
It was extraordinarily useful for avoiding miscommunication and indicating when we were were being facetious or sarcastic. And it didn’t have the cloying cuteness […]

Yesterday I was thinking about some books from my childhood that I might like to re-read now, and realized that they all had quite similar themes.

The Swiss Family Robinson — we owned a copy of this and I must have read it ten times; I really wanted to be shipwrecked with an entire ship full […]

Geoff and Nadia Lawton have done extraordinary permaculture work, and Bay Area permies have the chance to hear them speak this Thursday evening. An Evening with Permaculture Designers Geoff Lawton and Nadia Lawton is sponsored by Solstice Grove Institute, Urban Permaculture Guild and Commonvision.
Geoff Lawton might be most famous for the “Greening the Dessert” […]

Laika loves to pick and eat the blackberries that are so abundant this time of year…