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No spots and bruising, no storm damage here ( Read more... )

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I was curious about the weather that happened in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas yesterday, happy there wasn't a headline about a tornado flattening some town on the NY Times. Ah-ha! https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20240506  That gives an ( Read more... )

Christine's released another of her Ambient Ledger compositions (which are in the ambient-ish space, this one with sax and bass as well as synthetic sounds ( Read more... )

If your public library doesn't have good ebooks, http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the ( Read more... )

I came home from Mom and Dad's in the late afternoon on Friday, as they had an appointment. I sat out in the orchard working, and was able to work late. We brought out the fire pit and gave it a go. It didn't really keep me as warm as i would hope. I suspect (1) we need to start the fire earlier and (2) the sticks we have aren't really firewood. I ( Read more... )

I have used the butterfly net three times in the past week and a half since returning from travel. Two evenings i scooped up flying bugs in the living room and evacuated them. Just now i scooped up a vole that presumably Edward had brought in and evacuated it (to the front of the property, away from my fruit trees ( Read more... )

First, Mom looks great. More light in her eyes, more curiosity. More strength. A few more words. A long way to go. Some reading helps me to believe they are sending her home because there are good rehab outcomes for people at home, not because that's that.

( notes from a rehab study )

This blog post is a book review of Etrog: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol. It made me think of
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