If you plan on growing avocadoes or even if you are already growing them, I highly recommend visiting the website of Greg Alder (gregalder.com). It would appear to be the definitive website for backyard avocado growers. The website includes Alder’s experiences growing a large variety of fruit and vegetable crops, yet one customary gardening practice…
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”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data. Buzz: Real estate’s secret sauce remains “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but California and other states continue to struggle to keep their homebuilding apace with a growing workforce. Source: My trusty…
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I wish I had danced around a Maypole with my mother. I’m not sure why it didn’t happen at least once in her 101 years. At the very least, I wish I had told her I wanted to. “Mom let’s celebrate my birthday month with a Maypole.” In her final days, even when her reality…
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The only way Kyrie Irving could make himself an easier mark is if he were trying to guard you. On Twitter the other day he said that “My name is worth billions to these media corporations.” Name one. But the problem with the Brooklyn Nets, the greatest dynasty that never was and never will be,…
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We are three weeks into the season and in case you haven’t noticed there are some phenomenal things happening with the pitching in baseball. For one thing, according to the Elias Bureau, the average 15.2 hits per game through the first 22 days of the season are the lowest since 14.8 in 1910! There are…
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Do you know the story of Galileo and the Inquisition? Born in 1564 in Italy, Galileo was an astronomer and mathematician. “His discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy,” the Britannica encyclopedia records, “and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition…
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The Nets being swept by Boston, and the circumstances surrounding that embarrassment, leave the Knicks with the unique and previously unheard-of opportunity to project an air of stability moving forward. That’s right, New York’s Most Dysfunctional Franchise, brought to you by James (Guitar Jimmy) Dolan, has, at this moment in time, lost that dubious distinction…
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The Miami Heat’s Eastern Conference impending semifinal playoff series took a dramatic and unexpected turn Friday when the Philadelphia 76ers confirmed that All-Star center Joel Embiid is out indefinitely due to a right orbital fracture and concussion. In a statement, the 76ers said, “Joel Embiid suffered a right orbital fracture and mild concussion in last…
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Kerby Joseph was elated when his phone finally rang Friday night and it was Detroit Lions general manager Brad Homes. “The conversation was amazing. I always wished for this moment … so for me to fulfill this milestone in my life …,” Joseph said. “I’m just so filled with joy and I’m just so happy.…
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Volunteer divers spent time this week near a sunken pre-World War II destroyer, retrieving commercial fishing nets 150 feet under the sea off the coast of San Pedro as part of an international effort to clean the world’s oceans and protect marine life. The team retrieved two lost nets that were stuck on the destroyer…
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