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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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A Pomeranian Pack
When Yoshi (Sam’s dog) comes to visit, we wind up with a three Pom Pack. Yoshi has had a career as a service dog, Kiki was in a commercial puppy operation, and the Little Lass came to us as a mellow puppy who has no problem deferring to these two dominating older dogs. Today, the Read more
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Trego – The Hippie Years (and an occasional remittance man)
If I were forced to set a date for the end of Trego’s boomtown years, it would be somewhere around 1970 or 71. First the tunnel was completed, then Koocanusa filled and the rails that had once connected the county along the Kootenai were picked up. The last construction project finished was highway 37, connecting Read more
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Max Weber on Government
I am fundamentally a Weberian Sociologist – and some have claimed that Weber’s writings are merely a long-running debate with the ghost of Karl Marx. However you translate it, at the foundation, the base of my thoughts on society is that there is a hell of a lot of social conflict going on. In a Read more
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La Nina Returns
The prediction is that the ocean currents off Peru will shift, and la nina will return. I learned 50 years ago that the little girl has a great influence on our local weather patterns – so I’ve shifted to NOAA to see what the predictions are: And later in the winter, it looks like It Read more
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Cleared
Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem “Cleared” in 1890, ‘in memory of the Parnell Commission.’ I don’t know if Parnell wrote “Though I regret the accident of Lord F Cavendish’s death I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts” and was signed “Yours very truly, Charles S. Parnell”. or if the Read more
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Barrels – Or Drums
I’ve known that they come in different sizes – but I never did the minimal research to be able to recognize and name them. The talent required to build these watertight wooden barrels was once fairly common. Humbling. Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 