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Archive for June, 2006

an inconvenient truth

Posted: Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 in nature and environment | 7 Comments »

I’ve had a few comments and emails asking me what’s up with the green banner on my front page. (If you subscribe to an RSS feed instead of actually visiting the site you may have missed the banner entirely). Ordinarily I don’t put advertisements on the blog but I think that this is […]

my trees

Posted: Monday, June 26th, 2006 in outside in the garden | 6 Comments »

I felt surely that I would write something about trees by the end of the month so that I would have something to contribute to the Festival of Trees. Nothing seems to have happened though and the deadline is drawing near so it looks like I am going to have to force myself to […]

ivan the terrible

Posted: Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 in ailurophilia | 8 Comments »

This was in the NY Times yesterday
Lewis, the black and white cat from Fairfield whose attacks on passers-by nearly sent his owner to jail, was spared a death sentence on Tuesday when a judge ordered home confinement instead. He will also keep his claws, despite one victim’s request that they be removed.
I can relate to […]

bird nest

Posted: Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 in outside in the garden | Comments Off

I found this bird’s next in a live oak tree that was growing next to the house under a downspout. I watched it for several days to make sure the nest was not being used then cut the tree down. I don’t know what kind of bird built it. There are […]

coals to newcastle

Posted: Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 in current events | 6 Comments »

I feel lucky to work with people from many different backgrounds and origins than my own. For instance I regularly get to have lunch with a man who came here from China. I enjoy hearing his stories of growing up in China and learning about “real” Chinese food at the mom and pop restaurants […]

 

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