There’s something in the air. Bill, a good friend and co-worker of mine’s mom is in the hospital and the prospects are not good. Another co-worker, Tsipi, from my time in Israel just lost her mom. Yesterday I was hanging out with a friend who’s a cop and one of his co-workers was killed in […]

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One of the key reasons to have raised beds is that they enable the soil to warm up to a temperature appropriate for germinating seeds and small plant starts. Separate them somewhat from the ground. To further improve things, I’m experimenting with a small greenhouse. I call it a […]

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Here’s my latest progress on my solar collector. in order to build supports for the copper, I took some wood strips, drilled some 1/2" holes and ripped them in half. The frame of the collector is a couple 2×4s, planed down a bit, […]

Random thought of the morning. If you have a bag of catnip laying around, be sure the cats can’t get to it.

Over the past year, I’ve had thoughts of building some sort of solar hot water heater. In fact the seed was planted well before this year. I lived in Israel for about 2.5 years ending with the end of 2000 when I moved to Oregon. If you look at most Israeli skylines, you’ll see that […]

I love to garden. It’s something that my girlfriend Robie and I do together. Each year we get better, we expand the garden, and learn new stuff on how to get our plants to grow.
Robie and I also try to recycle and compost as much as we can and this is includes kitchen scraps. We’ve […]

This is the first of hopefully many articles about stuff that I build. One of my obsessions is building stuff. I work on my house, in the garden, on the computer. If I haven’t worked on something for a couple days, I start to stress.
I also like to teach. some day I hope to switch […]