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Unplugged by Scott Newkirk - A one-room cabin in the woods pulls the cord on modern living in New York.
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Botanist and designer Macoto Murayama has created “Inorganic Flora,” a collection of intricate blueprints of numerous flowers. Murayama buys different flowers from roadside stands and then dissects, photographs, and sketches them, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Then he creates detailed digital 3D models of the flower and its parts and makes a beautiful, annotated blueprint of each bloom. More of Murayama’s amazing floral blueprints can be viewed at Frantic Gallery.
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450 square feet, WOW! - specht harpman
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If you are holding a bird, it will poop on you.
If you are a small dog, of similar color to a flock of chickens, they will try to pull your fur out to find your feathers…The first bit of knowledge I’ve known for a while, the second is something that I’m just now finding out. Anyone else’s chickens try to groom their dog?
Of course, the invasive bird hatched first. If it starts bullying the other chicks or eating the unhatched eggs I’ll take care of it. Those flycatchers are going to be keeping the bugs in the yard to a minimum, so they are on my watch list.
While there are a dozen different methods to create homemade essential oils, using a crockpot is by far the easiest way. Homemade essential oils vary in quality and strength, and are not 100 percent essential oils such as you would buy in the store. Make sure you understand the properties of whatever herb, spice, or flavoring you use to make the…
This method is using a carrier oil, probably more for the scent than anything.
Essential oils have been used for many generations. The traditional way of extracting the oil from the plants is through distillation using a still. If you have a supply of flowers or herbs from your garden, you can make a simple homemade still to extract the essential oils yourself.
I knew this had to be relatively simple!!!! I’m going to make so much mint and lavendar oil…