02 Dec
As the holiday decorations go up this year, I’ve noticed more and more homes using LED Christmas lights rather than the old incandescent standbys. I can easily pick the LED out because the light color generally hovers closer to the blue/ green end of the spectrum than the red/yellow old-fashioned lights. Seeing LED move […]
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23 Nov
Boiling your turkey carcass to make a delicious second day turkey soup or stew is hardly a new thing. The main purpose of this entry is to emphasize that this is an easy process… and so much more satisfying that throwing the remainders of the celebratory bird away.
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24 Oct
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Oftentimes San Diego seems like the heavy caboose dragging behind the nationwide Green Building train, which is why we were particularly fortunate to experience a little civic boosterism aimed at bringing us up to speed […]
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21 Oct
Where dried leaves are concerned, it’s often feast or famine. The leaves are useful year-round, as a component of “brown” refuse that must be alternated with “green” refuse (grass clippings and kitchen scraps) in a successful compost pile. In summer and winter, there often don’t seem to be enough leaves, whereas in winter and spring […]
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17 Oct
After a long hiatus, Sparrowpost.net is back online in a new Wordpress blog format. I hope that this revised structure will make it easy for everyone to contribute, and make it harder for the dreaded spambots to take over the site (it was the spambots incessant posting of Russian Porn on the forum that […]
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