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Paradise From My Porch.: February 2015
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Paradise From My Porch. Travels, Travails and Terrors of Northern California from an Off Grid, Green Perspective. Friday, February 27, 2015. Support Your Local Newspaper. The other night I was at a meeting where a gentleman stated he had written a letter-to-the-editor but hadn't seen it in print as he doesn't believe in subscribing to the Chico ER because he doesn't agree with the views of the editorial board and David Little, the editor. To cancel a subscription just because an editor says something you...
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365 Walks! We Start Again: November 2011
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Thoughts and Adventures while walking outside. Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Thoreau and Cell Phones. 8220;A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”. So wrote the rebellious wunderkind, Henri David Thoreau while he occupied his elder mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson’s property; building his much vaunted cabin there back in the 1840’s. Or to paraphrase Thoreau—we are only as rich as the things we can live without. Perhaps you remember reading Thoreau’s Walden. Nor do I want...
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365 Walks! We Start Again: Fog
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Thoughts and Adventures while walking outside. Thursday, March 1, 2012. Foggy here this morning. I take our three dogs and my broken toe to do the small loop. Later today I will drive down to Chico to hear Dr. Wallace Nichols. Talk about the benefits of getting outside into nature. Nothing can make you feel more civil than to get outside into the wild. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). People Who Drop By:. Watch Allan And Joni Build A House Out Of Logs, Straw and Mud! Off The Grid RN. March 7, 1961.
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365 Walks! We Start Again: Splitting Wood...
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Thoughts and Adventures while walking outside. Friday, March 9, 2012. A neighbor brought by his Wood Splitter today so we spent a couple hours putting wood up for the rest of the winter. We heat this house only with wood and this is the fifth pickup full of rounds that we have cut this season. Not bad. And I guess we should enjoy that huh? So some things that are better now than in 1961:. 2 The Wilderness Act of 1963 and the Alaska Wilderness Act of 1980. 3 Solar panels and Wind turbines. A satisfying pe...
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I'm not that boatman: Practice Resurrection!
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I'm not that boatman. Sunday, April 4, 2010. The tomb is empty! It happened, it happens, it will happen! From The Work of Rob Bell. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You know that's not an airtight argument don't you? You still believe in airtight arguments? View my complete profile. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed. Emergent Cohorts, Faith Communities, and People. View Emergent cohorts, congregations, and people. In a larger map. Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog.
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I'm not that boatman: February 2009
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I'm not that boatman. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Ok, maybe. sorta. Lent starts today and I'm going to give up my Xbox 360, at least on weekdays. I am planning on going cold turkey from sweets though. Let's see how this goes. :). Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You know that's not an airtight argument don't you? You still believe in airtight arguments? View my complete profile. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed. Emergent Cohorts, Faith Communities, and People.
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Kat Tracks: November 2013
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Prowling the Suburban Fringe of Phoenix, Arizona. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Around here, if a scorpion doesn't get you, the ants will. This Arizona desert scorpion ( Hadrurus arizonensis. I found on the sidewalk probably met its death by a crushing foot, but it did not take long for tiny Southern fire ants ( Solenopsis xyloni. To swarm in for a feast. At least the scorpions usually hunt solo. That haunts the SW deserts. Thursday, November 14, 2013. An adult Roseate Skimmer rests on a blade of grass.
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Kat Tracks: October 2013
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Prowling the Suburban Fringe of Phoenix, Arizona. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. This Elegant Bush Katydid ( Insara elegans. Appeared on my window screen recently. Also called a Mesquite Katydid, they are distinguished from other katydids by the long narrow wings marked with white stripes. Katydids are nocturnal, so this one seemed content to let me photograph it mid-day as it rested. The males are the source of some of the rasping night sounds. Monday, October 14, 2013. Tuesday, October 1, 2013. Without d...
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Kat Tracks: April 2013
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Prowling the Suburban Fringe of Phoenix, Arizona. Monday, April 22, 2013. The Iron Cross Blister Beetle ( Tegrodera aloga. Is a handsome beast, emerging in late spring in Sonoran Desert wherever there are soft sandy soils that support healthy colonies of ground-dwelling digger bees ( Centris pallida. Yesterday evening we found a newly emerged swarm of beetles along the Central Arizona Project canal road north of Deem Hills Recreation Area. At the edge of the road. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). As a natural...
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Paradise From My Porch.: March 2015
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Paradise From My Porch. Travels, Travails and Terrors of Northern California from an Off Grid, Green Perspective. Friday, March 20, 2015. BC Media Weekly Wrap Up. I've been monitoring Butte County Print Media. For about a month now. Every Friday, I write a Weekly Wrap Up- -to sort of summarize the week's activity. This is this week's edition:. Weekly Wrap Up: 3/20/2015. Then there is the matter of salmon. They deserve their share of water too. Links to this post. Monday, March 16, 2015. Well, I finally d...
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