Category: Just Blogging
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Benefits of Having a Greenhouse
By Tricia Deed What is a greenhouse? It is a multi-functional building for starting, growing, or maintaining plant seeds, young plants, and plants foreign to the current environment. Many seeds from fruits, flowers, vegetables, herbs, and trees will grow in a greenhouse. The building is helpful in providing work space and storage facilities. Other…
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Ad Astra: A Reflection on why I like SciFi
Ad Astra is a 2019 science fiction movie starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Liv Tyler, and many others. Ad Astra = to the stars… I didn’t see this movie in the theater, but I did see it on HBO. I thought the film was really good and Brad…
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Celebrate Juneteenth
#Juneteenth marks the complete end of slavery in the #UnitedStates. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth; also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day is a holiday celebrating the liberation of those who had been held as slaves in the United States. https://tnc.network/celebrate-juneteenth/ #Juneteenth Moments in History: Garrett A…
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Girl on the Bridge (video)
Saturday, September 28, 2019 (Around 9:37 AM) I saw something strange as I was driving southbound on State Route 51. I was traveling in the middle lane when I noticed something on the familiar pedestrian bridge that spans the freeway between Union Hills and Bell Road. On the bridge, just above my lane, I saw…
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Bill Maher takes another shot at fans of comics!
This past Friday on the New Rules segment of his HBO show, Real Time, Bill Maher addressed his blog post regarding fans of comics and super hero movies.
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I Do Remember the Corvair
I do remember my family having this vehicle when I was a kid, I know that it was bought just before I was born. I was in kindergarten and I remember my mom driving us to school in it. It was replaced thereafter by a new Datsun 510 and a 1962 Plymouth Valiant my dad…
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Billionaires in Space: A Critique of Problem Areas
Is it problematic for billionaires to invest in space travel and space technology? Is it a means for escape from a troubled planet?
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I REMEMBER WIZARD OF WOR FOR C64
Sharing a Memory from my Pure Thoughts blog. It was 1983, and I remember this game fondly, my younger sister Nanette and I played it on our Commodore 64s. I remember Nan buying the Commodore Magic Voice speech module a bit after that. http://www.cactuspix.com/purethoughtsblog/wizard-of-wor-for-c64/
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GREENHOUSE UPDATE
Now that we are a few weeks into fall, I find I am concentrating on other things than cooling the greenhouse, even though the temperatures are briefly in the mid to upper 90s. The overall temperatures are a far cry from the triple digits of the summer months. The new challenge is now plant predators…
