Earlier this week I decided that whether I had anyone to go with or not, I was going to go up to Wisconsin Interstate Park this weekend and enjoy the fall colors. So I did, and I didn't even have to go by myself, hurrah! My friend Ethan joined me so the three hour drive wasn't as boring as it could've been as we are pretty good at maintaining ( Read more... )

EthanolSpirits.com - my dad's new ethanol brewing and use as a fuel. The site is under construction, but please, check it out and spread the word! This day and age, it definitely couldn't hurt to be more self-reliant and not depend on big oil companies so much, especially with the whole BP issue that is further screwing up our planet.

Okay, so today was good. Went out with the head GIS person who I'll be working with and looked at a bunch of the sites we'll be remapping when the time comes. Turns out I'm *not* going to be out re-mapping property lines in a Cement Jungle as I initially thought, and instead we'll be re-mapping a bunch of the Wildlife Habitats that the Army Core ( Read more... )

This is a very cool idea, and not as far fetched as you might think. Native Americans used to make their spring houses out of willow groves and birch bark, a treatment that actually did the willows some good in that it kept them 'groomed', so to speak, clipping out the excess growth and, at the end of the season, leaving the living grove still ( Read more... )