Trying to take care of my little piece of the planet
Fishing is ALL about preparation, and you NEVER calculate the price per pound of any fish you might be lucky enough to catch. But at least we’ll get one dinner out of the hours I spent painting the trailer and putting in new hub bearings, or those spent tackle sorting, reel rigging, etc. Not to [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Now that the work-a-thon has slowed to a more sustainable level, I’m a few weeks into my usual late summer attempt to get back into shape. Please understand: ’six pack abs’ has only one meaning in my reality, and it ain’t pretty. So, ‘in shape’ is a relative term, and my goal is to get [...]
Posted on August 15th, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Yes, he’s back.
We thought he was a goner about six weeks ago when a large tree fell on him, toppling him into our small fish pond. As is usually the case, it was my fault. We’ve had an issue for years with pine trees in our woods becoming infested with pine bark beetles. A number [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Last Sunday, I took this photo.
Any resemblance to the author is deliberate, though pipe-smoking is ancient history.
But, fast forward until February 21st. This is just a quick post at bedtime after a drive back from the coast; a weekend that included a dress-up affair with my wife and some tree-felling with my friend Mark. Both [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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When I started all this a couple of years ago, I came clean with the concept that one purpose of this blog was simply to help me keep track of stuff. So after it took me a couple of hours this past snowy weekend to track down some orchard records of what varieties I planted [...]
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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If you’ve wandered around on this site at all, you’ve realized that collecting rainwater is an obsession with me. I rationalize that I only push it as far as it’s useful, collecting rainwater when I need it and letting it go back into the ground when I don’t. So our 5000 gallon cistern has an [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2010 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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First, a photo from our recent trip to Asheville. Fortunately, other than one brief stranding of our van in an icy parking place, it really didn’t affect us too much. And yes, we had a great time. Perhaps I’ll manage a Biltmore House post later.
As for the title of this post; well, I’ve always been [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Steve, my friend and tech wizard extraordinaire, steered me to this site, where you can view/listen to this:
Posted on December 7th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Over the last thirty years, I remember a number of early December snowfalls; pretty serious combinations of rain moving up from the Gulf and cold air sliding down from the Arctic during the first few days of this month. Then, for whatever reason, we’d have pretty quiet weather until the second half of January at [...]
Posted on December 5th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Hopefully you’re unfamiliar with the terminology; but if you’re seriously injured/ill, first you wind up in the ER, then they hopefully transfer you to the ICU, and then (if you make it this far) you get to a ’step down unit’ before then going to a regular room and eventually released to go home. [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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