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Category: Hobbies
Plant Lust
Recipe Notes
2025/12/15 Roasting radicchio: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Wash, core, and cut radicchio into six wedges lengthwise. Work olive oil into the outer leaves, sprinkle with salt, and place in a casserole dish cut side down. Roast until outer leaves crisp, at least 8 minutes. Serve with stewed beans. 2025/11 Cornmeal Cranberry Rosemary Cookies…
Crafts
Kintsugi Methods: crack; Makienaoshi or piece (filling in holes); and Yobitsugi, joint, or joint-call (attaching pieces from more than one item). Tomotsugi is similar to the joint method but pieces together like items. Staple repair is another method. Use masking tape to trial run gluing order and to number order to be glued. While wearing…
FTM Connect
Treevault Antenna Tree. One Antenna Tree per Treevault subscription ($18 per year) unless buy FTM Support ($250+ per year). Creating an Antenna Tree.
Fruit Tree Care
Also see Fruit Trees. Crabapple Susceptible to powdery mildew – some varieties more than others. Plant in an area that gets good sun and that has good air movement. (Keep the sweet peas away from the crapapple since it also gets powdery mildew in Alameda.) Spores spread by the wind. Prune before the blooming season…
Birds
Apps Bay Area
Fresh Tea
Camellia sinensis Japanese Green Tea Sencha Usually made from the Yabukita cultivar. The new leaf growth is harvested in early Spring. Less expensive teas are mechanically harvested and the non-leaf plant material is used to make kukicha (twig tea). The freshly harvested leaves are steamed for as long as two minutes (to prevent oxidation), dried,…
Dance Clothes
Dressy Shoes Aris Allen. Sneakers Sansha all-black leather half-boots, all-black leather work boots, all-black split-sole work boots, all-black split-sole hi-top sneakers, all-black leather hi-tops. Pastry wheat work boot sneaker, all-black military sneaker boot. Dancewear Solutions Pastry Pop Tart Sneakers. Fuego all-black low-top dance sneakers, black high-top (with white soles). Taygra black mid-top chamois (also in…
South Bay Fusion
SBF Anniversary Dance Thirteen year celebration on 2024/03/07. Eventbrite pricing for selling tickets in the US: free for up to 25, $10 for up to 100. Eventbrite social distancing tools.