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Karen Shapiro

@wetpaintjournal

Home Inspector | Freelance Writer for the Construction Industry, Home Improvement Companies and REI | Old Proghead | Dance Enthusiast

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calendar_today07-01-2010 01:31:42

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5 min Yoga for Neck Pain & Tension youtu.be/ekLJMzJWZU4?siโ€ฆ via YouTube Flexibility has never been a problem for me. But last week, out of the blue, my neck felt so stiff and I lost significant ROM. My regular stretches weren't helping. Then I found this short video. I followed

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Interesting thread about how rammed earth can be used as an urban building material. It's also available in brick/block form. I had no idea.

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Before I began reading about stone walls in our region, I had no idea that the earth heaved so much between freezing and thawing cycles. Enough to leave behind new fragments of stone that had to be removed before spring planting could happen. Hence the name fieldstone.

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This is the type of house where the home inspector would find large mattresses lined up against the interior side of this wall.

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Less than half of what the US has sent to the Ukraine. Seems we have money lying around to help those who just lost everything. And in NC, too.

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A knee-length puffer jacket with a fur trimmed hood. Hot Hands toe warmers in my sneakers. Leg warmers over my jeans. Two hoodies under my coat. A pair of lined gloves with a pair of Hot Hands mittens over them and Iโ€™m good to go for hours in single digit wind chills. Iโ€™ll take

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Leyla Because lumber mills and mass-produced nails were invented as we were expanding rapidly, and so all industry, regulations and trades ended up focusing on wood frame construction. Particularly at the beginning of the 20th century. Iโ€™m an advocate for conventional wood frame for

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What if we against started building things that delighted us? Even mass produced, ordered from a catalogue and cast in some backstreet foundry.

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This is so beautiful. A lost art. Circa 1940, my MIL and FIL courted with letters like this. They both lived in Brooklyn but neither family had a phone or a car, so they sent each other letters to arrange their dates and they illustrated the envelopes.

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An important post about the mindset we all most adopt to stay consistent with our training. I'm in Mangan's demographic, and age has taught me that "motivation" can't enter into the decision to train. (Or most important decisions, when you get down to it.) I love the suggestion