Stuff I Read Lately, Tuesday 7/26/11

July 26, 2011

Normally I tweet all these links, but I’ve been thinking that I waste too much time on social networks. So, collecting and collating instead. Matt Langer · The 7 Stages of Internet Grief people tweet about dead celebrity people tweet about what dead celebrity meant to them people tweet insensitive jokes about dead celebrity people [...]

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How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Three)

June 16, 2011

(Part One, Part Two) A number of years back the roller on a drawer broke in our old refrigerator. This wasn’t that big a deal; the fridge still worked, but it was kind of a pain that the drawer didn’t open easily. But since the fridge was old, and cranky, and used a lot of [...]

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How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Two)

May 6, 2011

(read Part One here) After Greg delivered the old shed onto my driveway it sat there for close to nine months. I was too busy to clear the road to the chicken yard, and Greg apparently didn’t need his trailer back, because he never called me to demand that we finish moving it. Even braced [...]

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How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part One)

April 20, 2011

About a year ago we went down the hill one afternoon to visit with our neighbor Greg. While we were there, Greg pointed out the improvements he had made to his house, taught us how to douse for water with two bits of coat hanger held in the hands, showed us the decrepit 5000-gallon redwood [...]

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On the Making of Kimchi

February 15, 2011

For a number of years now I’ve been making big batches of kimchi in the wintertime. I make it when the big heads of chinese cabbage start to show up in the farmer’s markets, sometime just before Christmas, and it lasts me in jars through to the spring. Like jam and pickles and applesauce, kimchi [...]

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