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spring birds in the park
This has been a good spring for seeing birds in our local park. In addition to the pair of Yellow-crowned Night Herons that returns each year, we have two and possibly three pairs of Mallards nesting along the stream. During my morning walks with the sprout, I’ve seen the usual suspects (Northern Flickers, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, [...]
posted: June 9th, 2011 under garden, local, nature.
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getting the detergent reek out of thrift store clothing
It’s been years since I’ve shopped at thrift stores for myself; since October I have become addicted to thrifting for clothes for the baby. I keep saying I’m going to stop; what happens instead is that I just become more selective. Now that I’ve covered the basics, I look for better quality brands and focus [...]
posted: April 12th, 2011 under home, local.
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illegal dumping in our local stream
The startling green stream at 5:30pm. Slightly further upstream. Once again, a company upstream dumped a whole bunch of stuff down the storm drains that flowed directly into our stream. This seems to happen every couple of months, which is frustrating (to put it lightly) to those of us working hard in town to clean [...]
posted: March 31st, 2011 under local, nature.
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ice storm
posted: January 18th, 2011 under home, local.
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Dark Days : local Christmas dinner
Christmas dinner: the table. Christmas dinner: roasted chicken. Christmas dinner: roasted sweet potatoes and squash, apple, and cranberry bake. Christmas dinner: cornbread sausage stuffing. Christmas dinner. The meal for Week 4 of the Dark Days Challenge was surprisingly easy to come up with: it was our planned Christmas dinner. Because there were only three adults [...]
posted: December 26th, 2010 under food, local.
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