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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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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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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A few minutes ago when I checked the rain gauge we’d picked up four inches from Tropical Storm Ida, and we filled the 5000 gallon tanks to overflowing several hours ago, probably about noon. So, last night’s filter tweaking was in plenty of time. As they say, ‘when it rains, it ….’ Well, you know. [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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This is Fall Break week at the university, which means that my work schedule is more flexible than usual. So, since today was supposed to include nice weather, I planned on taking the day off to work outside. And gorgeous it was: sunny and chilly this morning gave way to mid seventies by sunset. Perfect [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Clearly not a textbook effort at poultry management, but we have chicks from both the Jersey Giant hens (black) and the Delawares (white).
And thanks to the efforts of our incubator technician below, we achieved at least a 50% success rate on the first batch. The second should be due in a week…..
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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