Trying to take care of my little piece of the planet
I was reminded by last night’s blast of both the wind and the temperature in the twenties, that spring is still out of reach. I knew better. I was also reminded by the photo in ‘Waiting for Spring’ on the blog ‘Robert’s Roost’ that shows his chickens foraging for scratch on several inches of snow. [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I shouldn’t be so impatient. In a recent comment from Ohio, a fellow blogger reported taking his kids sledding on three inches of new snow. But I’m ready to get dirty and it’s just not quite time. But we’re close. As I said, the spirea is starting to bloom. Here you can see one of [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Today was a step back in time. A step back to a time that I think of as my Vietnam, my Peace Corps, though it so, so pales by comparison. Today I attended a memorial service for a colleague from my high school teaching days. The memorial was for a woman who worked for more [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I’m trying to think of a rational reason for this story from UPI, but I can’t.
I’ve had to go through metal detectors at football games. But apparently in Dallas, of all places, they’re optional at an Obama rally. Inexcusable. Fix it.
Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren said that the event’s security plans didn’t involve having [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I drove home last night from my beekeeper’s meeting with this tune from Melissa Etheridge’s first album blaring on the car stereo. Must have worked since we’ve had a light rain on and off since then. Hopefully some more of the way tonight. The cistern is filling slowly, and I’ll have to buckle down and [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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A quick late night post, two hours into the poll numbers and speeches that followed the Wisconsin primary.
I’m in.
Listening to the contrast between Obama and McCain….I’ll do my part to beat that tired, old man, whose ideas are older and have more holes than the Vietnam pilot I respect. Senator McCain, read my lips: “Stop [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I was reading comments in one of my favorite political blogs (Tagen Goddard’s ‘Political Wire’), when a comment about the eventual role of Michigan and Florida made me think.
There is a behind-the-scenes effort to enhance one candidate’s (or possibly the other’s) standing in the Democratic presidential contest by locking in the superdelegate votes and by [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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When did things get so complicated that it became impossible to just get the facts? For example, today Democrats in the House of Representatives are attempting to strike retroactive immunity for telecommunications firms from a renewal of the FISA. This immunity would protect the telecom firms from prosecution for possibly breaking federal law by revealing [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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I’ve been thinking about the candidacy of Barack Obama lately. A lot. At some point I’ll weigh in on all that it has come to mean to me, and apparently a lot of other people. But this morning I wanted to point to an item in one of my political-junkie sites: Taegan Goddard’s ‘Political Wire’. [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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Just received this shot of one of my other ‘cistern assistants‘ from my brother. One of the photos that he shot at Thanksgiving.
Yes, he’s a mama’s boy. A favorite with the cats too.
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by jack-of-all-thumbs
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