Anything Helps: Lake Forest & Orange County Fake Grass Installations Can Help Curb Coming Crises
Everywhere you look these days, there are portents of coming doom. Experts warn us daily that the coming years will see every crisis in the book: environmental, water supplies, power supplies, public health, economics, and so on. In the face of all this, all one can do is focus on what small steps you can […]
Expect Delays!
After the insanity of the 2021 fall season for shipping and logistics, it appeared as if things were slowly getting back to normal. The number of enormous cargo ships idling off the coast of California slowly trickled down from a terrifying 100+ back in October to a more manageable 21 in recent months. This lull […]
Plumb Job
A few months back, I started noticing something strange on one of the central columns of my home. The paint was beginning to crack and peel, but only on one corner facing the back of the house. Initially thinking nothing of it, I determined it was a problem for tomorrow and that I’d just re-paint […]
Getting Ready For The Cookout
As I type this I’m watching the birds are beginning to raid my woven flower planters for nesting material and that can only mean one thing – spring is right around the corner! That means sunny days here in southern California and planning out your newest home renovations. For some of us, that time could […]
Finding Good Help
When most people think of security guards, they tend to think of harmless oafs that you see patrolling the mall or driving around parking lots late at night in cars designed to look like police vehicles. In short, poorly paid shlubs with no real authority, unable to do much more than scare young teenagers and […]
On The Home Stretch
The face of logistics has changed rapidly over the last two decades with the meteoric rise of Amazon and other online retailers. Neighborhoods that previously only saw USPS trucks rumbling through their streets are now visited by Amazon vans and even private passenger cars stopping by multiple times a day to deliver one package or […]
Getting Creative
The first truly destructive economic aftershocks of the 2020 pandemic response are beginning to let themselves be known as prices fly sky high across the board. Fuel, food, and just about every other essential consumer good’s price is rocketing upwards as global trade becomes squeezed by physical barriers and disrupted through cyber attacks. With the […]
Exterminators Going Green
The pest extermination and control process has been evolving for thousands of years as we find new and more effective means of destroying harmful bugs and rodents. As with most industries, this evolution has rapidly increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution with the introduction of more complex chemicals and dispersants that allow for […]
Termite Troubles
Today’s article is going to venture a bit into the personal realm as I tell you about my own recent troubles and the fantastic company I hired to help me out. The story begins just a few short weeks ago, when I noticed some cracks appearing in my drywall… Last year, I contracted out some […]
Fighting Fire With Fire
In literature and narrative art, there are generally four different types of conflict: man against man, man against the self, man against society, and finally man against nature. In our modern bubble, man against nature is viewed primarily voyeuristically, separated from the circumstances surrounding the conflict because of our modern self-styled ‘control’ over our environment. […]