Updates
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I just finished The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late, which details how we are running off of “startup capital” in a resource-draining, non-integrated way. The beginning echoed many environmental books – a depressing litany of all of the…
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Group photo, originally uploaded by dunrie. My tribe includes: 1 husband 1 stepmother 4 cousins 4 cousins-once-removed (including 2 infants and 2 kids) 1 aunt 1 uncle 1 sister 1 brother-in-law 1 nephew 1 toddler niece & 5 dogs This posse of 11 adults, 3 kids, 1 toddler, 2 infants, and 5 canines shared one…
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On Friday, husband and I flew from Ann Arbor municipal airport (KARB) to Tobermory (CNR4) at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. We stopped to clear customs at Kincardine. Friday was wonderfully smooth–so smooth that I fell asleep in midair while Dave piloted the plane. (I think this new job thing must be more exhausting…
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Black-eyed Susans invading my lawn, originally uploaded by dunrie. We’ve got black-eyed Susans flowering in our back lawn, and they’ve crossed the fence and are working their way towards our neighbors’ garage. My garden is colonizing our and our neighbors’ lawn. I have been meaning to do this myself (dig up turf, replace with flowerbeds)–how…
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At a small place, one cool thing is that individual positions can be tailored to the innate talents of the staff. A downside is that jobs that are built around an individual are not readily handed off to others. People have different skills, this is a good thing. It does interfere with interchangability, though. It…
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In 1994, me and my new boyfriend got accosted by a stray cat. Not in a bad way.