I read this Organic Gardening article about farming in Kauai, and the most interesting part to me was the information on taro. The taro root serves a similar position to the potato in Hawaiian cuisine. In Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, he describes how there were hundreds of different varieties of potatoes created to [...]
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Liked Kim Yu-N’s blue princess outfit, but I loved Mao Asada’s red and black fire demon outfit.
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Didn’t know Boner was Chekhov’s son. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b168878_cnn_offers_prayers_koenig_family_in.html
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Potato plants sprouted. Snails cut down my flowering peas. I’ll have to put up a copper barrier. Plum and peach trees are flowering.
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E is so excited that his namesake won the men’s figure skating competition that he’s told me not to delete his performance from the HTPC.
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“Outlaw the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics on farm animals.” http://food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/feeding-you-and-bacteria-too.php
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This morning, only the red cherry shrimp are swimming all over the thank while the CRS are pretty mellow. I notice the CRS seem to like to Nutrafin MAX Complete Micro Granules more than the Hikari Crab Cuisine
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My New Year’s Resolution was to run 10 miles a week or 500 miles in a year. Now I have plantar fascitis on my left foot due to too much mileage too fast. I can’t believe I’m injured due to 10 miles a week of running. The last time I had this [...]
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E says hockey is harder than speed or figure skating since you have to avoid other people.
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Drove through Sunnyvale Town and Country over the weekend and it looked like it had been hit by a neutron bomb. So sad.
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