There's a looming global fertilizer shortage due to the idiotic Iran war. Compost isn't going to replace industrial fertilizer but it might become more valuable for commercial gardens.
Or maybe we need to go back to harvesting guano from bird-covered Pacific islands.
At a friend's house recently I picked up "Two Years Before The Mast" for something to read. It was very enjoyable, interesting, much more readable than most 19th-century books I've encountered.
It's a 1840 memoir of a college kid who signed up as a seaman on a clipper ship to fix his eyesight (which is weird, but ...) Went around Cape Horn twice, once in mid-winter!
Told in a straightforward way, it gives a really good picture of the often unpleasant life aboard ships as well as life in California before the gold rush.
I can definitely recommend it. You might want to skim through the sailing-ship parts which get a bit technical about sails and lines and whatnot!
... a sticker ball. This one is more than four years old.
... make a sticker ball. This one is more than four years old.
The Mall at Fox Run is being torn down and will be replaced by the current popular model for single-site retail: a series of stand-alone stores. I don't get it.
Why is walking between stores out in the open preferable to walking between stores under a roof?
Maybe it's just an image thing. Malls seem old-hat and separate buildings seem downtown-y. Maybe?
I'm old enough to remember when malls were new and "you don't have to walk outdoors" was a selling point! Any insight from redditors more in tune with the current shopping zeitgeist?
Can't build apartments in a commercially-zoned area because "... the development would congest local infrastructure and devalue nearby homes."
