I’m Cute and Fearless

I love to eat blazing star leaves.

Here I am, nibbling on the blazing star (liatris ligulistylis) while posing for my photo. This wildflower, blazing star, is a favorite nectar flower for Monarch butterflies. I think the leaves are yummy.

I live in Cameron’s deer resistant garden. I’m so cute and I hide out beneath the amsonia, monarda and agastache that is planted so thickly, Cameron can’t run me out. There’s always a place for me to hide.

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Keep the "Linux" out of it Please

Android and Ubuntu are arguably the two largest Linux success stories to date. Ubuntu with its soaring success over other Linux-based desktop solutions and Android with its seemingly single handed domination of the mobile market.

What makes these two distributions so successful?

Anyone who owns a company or sells a product will tell you – you can have the best product in the world and no one would use it if you don’t have the right advertising to back it up. Now, semantics and marketing are not the only reasons these distros have been so successful, they are genuinely good products, but there is no doubting that good PR doesn’t hurt. This brings me to an interesting question:

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Vogue September Issue-A True Economic Indicator

If you watch the news and read the papers, you can get reallly confused. One day the housing index is up, the next day it’s down. One day the stock market roars for some weird reason, the next day it tanks for other weirder reasons.

And you know what the best economic indicator there is?

The Vogue September issue.
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The Not So Big House

While sipping my coffee and watching CBS Sunday morning on this lazy Sunday I was excited to hear a snippet about a new book that was recently released.  “The Not So Big House by Sara Susanka is another affirmation to those of us living in smaller homes that shares the value system of embracing the characteristics of creating home in whatever sized abode you find yourself in.

She shares many tips on remodeling, decorating and adjusting to the lifestyle of living in a smaller home.  My favorite part of the clip was her before and after shots of her own remodel.

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TEA ICE FOR KIDNEY HAZARDS

But you know, behind the ecstasy, tea ice keeps potential harm to health. Loyola University Chicago Stritch Research School of Medicine revealed that iced tea consumption in excess increases the risk of kidney stones.

As quoted from the page of the Times of India, iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, one of the key chemicals that trigger the formation of kidney stones. “For those who have a tendency pain of kidney stones, iced tea drinks obviously be the worst,” said Dr. John Milner, an assistant professor of the Department of Urology, which was included in the study.

Milner said the hot tea was also stores the same bad effects. Only, the rate of presentation of hot tea is usually smaller. Logically, people drink hot tea would not be as much iced tea. Unlike iced tea, where many people could drink more than a glass when thirsty and hot air.

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