Breathing Treatment

Sod Off! is the title of a short article in this week's LA Weekly . They are running a series of articles on green living. There's...

Nearby Learned Lumber has the following prices for 5.125" x 9" glulams Architectural Grade: $12.08 / ft Industrial Grade: $11.71 /...

Variant II kitchen (previous blog entry) requires that I span a distance formerly supported by the interior wall. This is probably best don...

I'm using the Ikea Home Planner program, a basic drafting and 3D visualization program, to set up my kitchen. It's handy since I pla...

I've been doing more thinking only to realize that even the best plans may change midstream: I've been planning my ideal kitchen and...

Even though it's not Osmia californica, I'm still excited. Instead, I think it's Megachile. I'll back up. A couple years a...

This is supposed to be a notebook style entry with updates as needed to keep track of native plants that I have, might have, or otherwise fi...

Hot on the heels of all the press about the imminent opening of Mozza , and the related chatter about the virtues of a "real" pizz...

Don't forget: It's the Sun Golds that I want next year. I grabbed it by luck this year at the nursery, along with previous favorites...

I've had a two week vacation in Santa Barbara. The occasional readers (all four of you) of this blog won't really have noticed sinc...

I finally joined the 21st Century last week when I purchased a cell phone for the first time (first time purchasers are sufficiently rare th...

I've always been a root beer fan. Over the years I've tried many, and here's how I'd rank the ones I find frequently in the...

Well, we can only hope. Among the people who give it any thought at all there's two current schools of thought on the future of the fron...

I saw the movie this weekend. I had medium expectations for the movie and they were not exceeded. I hadn't seen any previews or review...