Time to dust off my old Latin texts, in the search for a recipe. I remember something about the ground around Carthage getting salted as an answer to stopping crops.
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While watching some local cable coverage of the market garden business, I had to do a compare and contrast with our local agriculture experiment.
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The lawn still requires mowing. Our decision to replace the ancient electric machine with a new person-powered model seemed good, at the time. Now that the person has acquired education, a social life, gainful employment and wisdom, he shows little inclination to follow a spinning reel. Of course, with the local power failure this afternoon, it wouldn’t have been better with our former equipment.
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Still pretty warm, in spite of a break in the weather. Perfect moment to check out the price of running a wood stove.
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The fences are in place. Toronto is prepared to emulate Quebec, come next weekend.
I’m not going to be there. The system is prepared; not one shout of protest will be heard by the “deciders”, and come Monday next we’ll have a few bad memories and not much else to show for the publicly funded party. Oh, there’s a paltry billion dollars that will have bought some toys and padded the overtime cheques of a large number of police officers; chump change.
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If only there was a magic wand around here somewhere. One of the efficient models, wherein a wave takes care of the accumulation of a busy family in limited space. In simple terms, a “clean up your room” wand.
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Oddly enough, this long weekend coasted into the station. No sudden rush to get things done (on my part). No time spent wishing that the lead time would go by faster. I’m relaxed and it shows.
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I’m starting to understand the utility of “There’s an app for that…”™. For the longest time, I lived in a world where the iTouch was just something seen in ads. But with the inevitability of all things fashionable, some of the family gave up their tried and true and went over to the “dark side”. Not me, but one does get sucked into the vortex.
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I work around people that go to meetings. And when they are in those meetings, all too often somebody is determined that ideas will “go further” if the presenter presents, you guessed it, a Powerpoint Presentation. Let’s summarize this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Almost had a weather shock this afternoon, when the lawn turned white from a sudden fall of springtime snow. Only for an hour or so, but at least our manna was of short duration.
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