Willow bark is definitely the most common herbal medicine in any fiction book. No doubt that is because the very common real drug aspirin is directly related to it, so we all feel comfortable prescribing it. Which of course means I need to try it. It is really quite simple. Strip the inner bark from […]
We are in the perfect time of year for work outdoors: cool enough to not get very sweaty, no bugs, minimal vegetation in the way, yet still surprisingly dry. Firstly, I would like to share with you just how wonderfully the rain garden I built at the top of the new trail is doing: My
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I want to build a check dam bridge thingy. In order to do so, I need to get our little Kubota excavator and tractor into the ravine in the right spot. I also need to get into the ravine for some other erosion management beneath a big trough that carries all the runoff water from
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As part of my time series forecasting package, I have invented my own algorithm. Which sounds really cool, but in reality isn’t that special. The reason it isn’t that special is it is just a combination of existing ideas applied together to this specific domain. On the positive side, the method isn’t really that difficult
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