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Passion Fruit Pruning Cheatsheet

Quick, practical steps to prune passion fruit vines for healthier growth and better harvests.

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  • fruit
  • pruning
investing

Simple investment strategies

Simple investing notes: avoid competing with big players, mind fees and commissions, diversify broadly, and stay disciplined.

recipes

Sourdough crepes

Simple sourdough crepes: a thin batter made with sourdough starter, eggs, butter, milk, and salt.

soup

Fresh tomato soup

Ingredients 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 medium onion chopped 3 large cloves of garlic chopped very finely 7 cups / 1400 g of chopped fresh tomatoes see recipe notes 1 handful of basil leaves and stalks...

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Beginner’s Sourdough Bread

Step 1 Levain 40g Mature liquid starter 40g Stoneground Whole Wheat 40g Artisan Bread Flour 80g H2O Step 2 Autolysis 748g Artisan Bread Flour 159g Stoneground Whole Wheat 641g H2O Step 3 Levain...

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Fleet Week 2015

As always, ship tours start at 10:00am. 9:45am, a perfect Thursday morning in San Francisco and still no line to visit USS Somerset. San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, The ship was named...

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Minsk 2016

Our flight to Minsk had a connection in Moscow. To our surprise we had to pick up our luggage and go through security at Domodedovo. Minsk international airport is small so it took us only 15...

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If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair (Scott McKenzie)

A short complaint letter to SFMTA after a street cleaning citation in San Francisco.

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Why sem·i·co·lon?

Why ; out of approximately 80 buttons on my keyboard? I can easily survive without P or L or any other letter. I can easily name something myCurrentKocation instead of myCurrentLocation. Won't...

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How long does it take to hand out 80 flyers?

It took me almost 3 hours to hand out eighty flyers. Granted, most of the time I write code. But three hours... One thing I learned from being a full timer at a non-profitable (mind you, we don't...

notes

Always follow your intuition.

It was a cold summer night... I guess 66F could be considered warm by many but compared to 86F just a few hours earlier, it was cold. I was driving back home after my first thirties experience of...

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Wild Fennel Pasta

Wild fennel is an invasive plant. It is somewhat similar to the fennel we buy at the store but does not have an edible root and smells more like anise. While the root is not edible its branches...

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Farmer's Eggs, Russian (or Maybe Israeli) Style

A very simple recipe for tasty eggs.

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Summerlin

A travel diary: Summerlin, Red Rock Canyon, and Las Vegas.

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Tips on What to Expect When Visiting Texas for the First Time

A first trip to Texas, a hotel parking lot, and a sudden burst of drama.