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aah, found the bug... I had replaced doesPathExist with doesDirectoryExist in a case where it should have been doesFileExist. Happy passing test suite.

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the one in the html mail works, the one in the text mail 403's, as does the one in the x-unsubscribe header

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is spamming marketing emails and all unsubscribe links in them lead to error pages

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enjoying golden hour before a 7 pm* sunset on this spring† day

* personal timezone adjustment applied
† climate change adjustment applied

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Anna (Anna and Mark: Wetknee)
How to Build a Critter-Proof DIY Hinged Strawberry Bed

Critter-Proof Strawberry Bed

When Mark and I moved to Ohio, I was excited to continue the strawberry plants I’d started growing in Virginia. Everything was going great until the chipmunks came along and ate my entire crop. After trying everything, I was ready to throw in the towel. Then Mark came along and said, “Anna. No. We’re not giving up on strawberries. I can fix this!”. 

His solution was an ingenious critter-proof strawberry bed, outlined in full detail in my new book, Building a Better Garden: DIY Gardening Projects. Essentially a raised bed with a hinged cover, it works great not only for strawberries but also for melons and any other short plants critters like to nibble on. To build your own:

  1. CoverConstruct two rectangular frames out of treated decking boards, which will serve as the base and the cover for your bed.
  2. Under your bottom frame, attach a layer of hardware cloth. This prevents chipmunks from digging into your plants from underneath.
  3. Fill up your bottom frame with soil.
  4. Use two door hinges to attach your rectangular frames together.
  5. Attach a plastic mesh to the top of your upper frame using exterior screws and small washers. The mesh should have holes large enough to let in water, light, and pollinators but small enough to keep critters out.
  6. Plant your strawberries and enjoy your delicious, chipmunk-free harvests!

For more information on the critter-proof strawberry bed, as well as five other great projects to keep out pests and grow a bountiful organic garden, check out Building a Better Garden: DIY Gardening Projects, available as an ebook and in print. Plus, you can check out the video course for more hands-on construction details if you prefer that format over reading. Enjoy!

<p>The post How to Build a Critter-Proof DIY Hinged Strawberry Bed first appeared on WetKnee Books.</p>

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At a Denny's at a truck stop. Helped someone plug her Bolt in, charger was very unclear that it was not fully latched.

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One the one hand, I've never been an author on a published paper.

on the other hand, I've never been one of 100 authors on a paper who quote an LLM generating the text "Wait. Wait. Wait. That's an aha moment" in the middle of working a mathematical proof, who all uncritically concluded it learned to think harder. lol

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topped up my car for a trip with 9 hours of charging, including 13 kwh of solar production and half of the house's battery bank

Maybe added 50 miles of range for tomorrow's road trip, although winter does reduce EV range. I'll dump the rest of the house battery into it in the morning to defrost and warm the car.

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underground it's still flowing

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having some fun charging the car from solar in this arctic weather

Yesterday, it was cloudy and the charger was only powered intermittently. The battery actually went down 1%, so possibly the battery heater was using more power than the charger was providing.

Today, it took at least 2 hours after starting to charge for the battery to warm up enough to start charging.

I have an inverter upgrade pending that will improve all of this, It's only charging at 1kw currently.

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I assume this all means they have left their website to rot in favor of an app which I will never use.

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interactions with new health insurance company have gone as follows:

- I have no id card, and the web page that they say contains a "digital id card" does not contain one (but has thing at the top saying "this page contains the digital id card").

- Trying to pay them results in a cgi error along the lines of "no ID parameter".

- Trying to contact support, on today, a weekday, results in "we are not available on weekends" (ok ok, it's MLK day)

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Mom's birthday hike bird.

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first bake in a long time, 50/50 whole wheat. I forgot that white flour likes a lot less water than my usual 100% hydration so this was very challenging to shape and so I'm happy it turned out this well

baked between hot coals in the woodstove at 700F-500F

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so begins phase 2 of solar install

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what a way to end a day.. tractor trailer driver called an hour before sunset and we decided he should not attempt even the dead-end road my driveway is on, and so I hiked to the highway with a wheelbarrow to meet him there

caught a lift back to my driveway in a pickup truck and got everything hauled as far up as makes sense until the snow melts

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half mile difficulty level

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waiting around for fedex in a 8 hour delivery window, snowy driveway edition, tractor trailer pallet load expansion pack

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