November 2015 - Making hydroponic propagation/growing basketsGetting so cold at night! Using my gran
November 2015 - Making hydroponic propagation/growing basketsGetting so cold at night! Using my grandmother’s sewing needles and pins + 100% nylon upholstery thread to take an old torn up screen door and turn it into something useful. Everything is free-handed, I just looked at one of the baskets we had already and thought it’d be worth trying. I’ve made 3 now, and right now I’m working on a much larger one set into a metal basket thing V scavenged at one point.So far they’re working out really well! Functional, not beautiful. The bottoms are doubled up for extra strength, and I’ve had to go in and patch some small tears here and there. Each one takes 3-4 hours to construct, as I’m trying to make them strong enough to withstand our rough treatment of things.While working on these I’ve been back to listening to Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital’ again. It’s such a great work, but honestly I can’t recommend it to most people, it’s simply too wonkish/academic/dry. Even parts of it are a bit grueling for me to get through, but he works in some humor and then there’s parts that make you fume and rage and you want to storm that Bastille and just start hanging the rich. The surprising thing about this book is how many critiques I’ve run across who simply don’t get it. At all. Too many try to pluck out a quote here or there and critique it and totally miss the last 100 pages of context that went into it. It’s really bad. I question how many of them actually sat down and got through the darn thing, and then, if they actually understood it. -- source link
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