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-Benjamin Franklin
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Using your Zucchini
As I visit our garden, I remember a time when my driver’s door closed, latched, and didn’t lock. I went to drive home and found close to a hundred pounds of zucchinis in my back seat. I kind of sniveled about this experience, and another county agent sent me this recipe: Zucchini Jam 5 ½ Read more
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Thursday Held Shakespeare in the Park
Thursday marked another season’s Shakespeare in the Park at the Historical Village. This year’s visit offered Cymbeline. Cymbeline isn’t the only play available- which play is offered varies by location- the better known play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, will be occurring in Libby this week. While Shakespeare in the Park makes due with a much Read more
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On the sex lives of bandwing grasshoppers
I know that our grasshopper levels are higher than desirable at present, but today I caught one of my favorite types. A bandwing grasshopper, as opposed to their slantface and spurthroat kin (our most economically damaging grasshoppers here tend to be spurthroats)… Read more
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Lightning Strikes and Power Outages
Can lightning cause power outages? As it turns out, lightning doesn’t even have to strike a power pole or knock over a tree to cause a power outage. The build up of charge nearby can actually cause power surges -no contact necessary. Additionally, lightning gives off electromagnetic radiation. The phenomenon itself is called “sferic“, and Read more
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Beyond Ghost Guns
The problem with legislating gun control is that some folks out in the real world are better at making guns than the folks trying to stop them. If they’ve been making submachine guns in Quebec, I suspect the idea of shutting down ghost guns by legislation is closing the barn door after the horse is… Read more
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What Last Week’s Rains Did for Us
These maps, taken from NOAA’s website show what the early August rains did to change the moisture stored in our soil. For us, the rains lifted the pond by almost an inch and a half. They didn’t add enough soil moisture to fill the cracks in the vertisols, or create any puddles – but we have Read more
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