Lovehandles are a great new grip for your beloved phone. Okay, we love our phone we know that’s a little weird, but we also write blogs for a living so our phone is important. If like us, you can’t afford to drop your phone, you need to be able...
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Nightmare in the Garden- Deadly, Desirable, Digitalis
Happy October! We love this time of the year in the garden, the mums are blooming, the pumpkins are ripe and the Foxglove is perfect for poisoning…Wait, what? Yep, in honor of this month of horror, we will be talking about that ever-popular Victorian poison, Digitalis. AKA Foxglove. What...
Mulch, mulch, baby…
It’s fall! If we lived on the East coast we would be blogging about turning leaves and winterizing our garden plots for the coming snow. But we live in the Bay Area and while there are things that need to be done to winterize, for the most part, our...
Bottled water
We know that water in single-use plastic is a big deal. We also know that everything has a time and a place. So we are switching from the bottled water that we used to donate for charity events (that was produced by a certain corporation that has some pretty...
Hot Topic: Extreme Heat.
As August commences, we know that summer is almost upon us. Bay Area newbies may be confused by that sentence, but those of us who have lived through at least one full year here know exactly what that means. While the rest of the country has summer in June...
Potty Mints
We have all been there. Maybe, it’s at work and you only have one bathroom but that new coffee was so good, you had to have a third cup. Maybe it’s at your new S/O’s house and you had a little too much of the margarita and taco combo...
Mosquitoes Suck! (pun intended)
A.K.A How to deter and eradicate mosquitoes. Okay, we don’t really think that Mosquitoes have complex evil plans that they discuss over a fresh lunch of us, but they really are a hazard to our health and the health of our pets. This is especially so with invasive species...
Ladybug, ladybug come to my home
You have (hopefully) been in the store and saw a sign kind of like one of these: But do you know why we carry beneficial insects? This blog is going to help the new gardener learn about beneficial insects, and hopefully, seasoned pros can learn some interesting things...
Mako 64-bit driver kit
This 64-bit driver kit ensures you have the most compact yet complete assortment of bits for electronics repair, including security and exotic bits like pentalobes that let you gain access to your Apple devices like iPhones and MacBooks. CONTENTS: Easy-to-Open Magnetized Case● Lid with Built-in Sorting Tray● 150 mm...
Illumination on (Old) Glory
Do you know the proper way to hang and display an American Flag? Most people learn how to hang the flag in the scouts or in the military. We, (the person writing this blog) learned it in an Encyclopedia Brown book when the answer to the mystery was “American...