That's the sound of the nest emptying. Whoops! Emma wasn't even really looking for a place. She was preparing to look for a place this summer. She emailed her Jason some Craigslist links to show him what the market was looking like, and -- suddenly, Jason found them a little room in a luxury apartment downtown (that is, five blocks from us and ( Read more... )

If you cut the celery root raw into little pieces and fry them with onions and a tiny amount of carrot and whatever herbs you like with potatoes, you can have a low-glycemic home fries that's really really yummy ( Read more... )

Four inches in a day, maybe a half an inch since then. To put this in perspective: until now, we had five inches in the whole rain year (since July, but the season really starts in late October or early November), and we get thirty in a normal year. So two days takes us from one-sixth of our normal total to one-third, and also takes us from ( Read more... )

We went up "back o' Cowell" today to check on Zak's guess that boletes have come and gone for the year already. Apparently they have. Their big flush is usually around Thanksgiving and maybe as much as a week in either direction, with a few of them before that and a trickle throughout the rest of the rainy season ( Read more... )

No, it's not my Bay, that would be Monterey Bay, but it's our Bay. The San Francisco Bay is the outlet for the whole Central Valley and two rivers which may not look mighty on your world map but which deliver (where's my California Rivers book? It's usually right here) astonishing amounts of water. The Delta system begins at the bay (or ends ( Read more... )

So the police rioted on campus yesterday. People were sitting in trees and marching around with drums, so the police busted out the pepper spray and the batons. Films all over: links behind the cut, at the bottom, in case you want to scroll down and skip the neepery.

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Maybe tonight. Gotta go label collection bottles and check my kit. Also, cooler? Ice? got to get. Also, I fit into my rain pants now!

Unfortunately, that also means that my rain jacket from the same set is way too big. As are most of my clothes.

How do you do an RSS feed for Blogger blogs?  I have several bookmarked that I'd like to keep up with but it isn't going to happen unless I can add them to my flist.

Also,
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You should be listening to Democracy Now anyway. Reading the site is good too. Today's lead story is about the privatization of water and the lies behind the bottled water boom ( Read more... )

got 'em. Boys have done the deed in the moonlight in a scene that I think does what it's supposed to do. Less than five hundred words today, but unlike most of my days lately, I think they're keepers ( Read more... )