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A weblog on nature and place, the design arts, critters, and baseball...
For several months now we've planning to move Feathers of Hope off of Movable Type, mostly because of the plague of comment spam, which finally exceeded our system's capabilities last week, but also because Movable Type isn't scaling well for...
Last fall I took a class through Davis Adult Education on basic auto mechanics. I was driving a new Honda Element that didn't need an oil change yet or a whole lot else but I spent many evenings hunkered over...
During our visit to North Carolina, Nicole taught us about umami. I had no idea that there is now considered to be a fifth primary taste sensation, in addition to the familiar ones of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. This...
I'm getting the cats back into clicker training. It reminds them they're in charge. It relieves boredom for cats whose world is very small. It incidentally teaches them things like "down" and "up" and "target." They are very enthusiastic and...
We're back from our trip to North Carolina and Virginia. The wheatfield is ready for harvesting: the wheat stalks all bent over. The peaches are nearly ripe. The Bullock's oriole has stuck around, and there's now a chicken in residence...
We've been in the southeast for a week now. A trip to Cape Hatteras and two boat trips, a quick trip to Kitty Hawk, a quick trip to Floyd, a quick trip to Greensboro (John Neal Books), and HUNDREDS of...
We're off on a trip to the southeast, to see Nicole and Mike and birds and Fred. Blogging will be sporadic. The cats will be left in the wonderful care of Becky, of crow fame, who will now be able...
The Senate this afternoon reached a compromise over the filibuster standoff. Hard-liners on both sides are decrying it, which I suppose means it was a good day for moderation. Anyway, how can one not be a little pleased when Michelle...
Today was one of those perfect San Francisco days: warm, sunny, nothing more than a light breeze. We drove to Vallejo and took the ferry over. It is such a peaceful way to enter a city, by boat. And...
You know you got 'em when the electrical igniter for the gas stove top starts clicking away every couple of seconds of its own accord with nobody around to have influenced things. Helpless renters that we are (there's a reason...
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