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It isn’t perfect, but it is improving. My alfalfa seedlings are recovering from the long dry spell – on the other hand the deer are…
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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…
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 smaller cast than the original plays seem to call for, it stays true to the original spirit. Some adjustments are made; minor characters are consolidated, and names are changed to account for actresses stepping into traditionally male parts. But the spirit remains, the jokes are…
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)…
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
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…
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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 in the garden.
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