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  • The weather in Alaska seems to be getting cooler, but as JW pointed out, the hot air seems to be lingering around Juneau. I’ve packed my bag, I’m ready to go. Well, almost. I could be out of here in ten minutes, though. I heard vague, disturbing news that I can neither tell about, ask…

  • I’m basking in the glow that is Craven Williams AND Sarah Palin quitting their jobs and doing everyone involved a huge favor. And it is not even NEAR my birthday. So good of the universe to do this as a gift to me. Cat came by the house to get the key and instructions for…

  • Well, he didn’t get fired two weeks before Christmas, but this is still sweet! Williams retires as president of Greensboro College The hooting and cheering you hear is all the ex-employees of Greensboro College who were screwed over by this man in some way. Loud, isn’t it?

  • Because I’m such a weather junkie, I added Weather Underground banners for the places on our trip on the sidebar. It is 86 degrees in Skagway, Alaska right now! Can’t wait to tell the mailman, who hates the cold and can’t believe I’m going to Alaska. No Sarah Palin jokes, please. Unless they are really…

  • Back Forty update

    As you can see, the Back "Forty" is about 40 x 40 feet, not acres. In the foreground, lemon thyme, violetto artichoke, and assorted beans. The round flowers are leeks. In the middle, heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, beans, field peas, and a fig tree. The rabbits’ dinner table is over here. That’s my studio hiding behind…

  • Let Freedom Ring

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…

  • The rabbits are methodically eating my bean plants, one by one, south to north. I just planted some more toscanelli beans on the other end of their projected path. Then I guess I’ll start over on the south side again. Must keep the Critter happy. Pruned back the white Nanking cherry bush heavily in order…

  • This was one of the prettiest days I’ve ever experienced in summer. Low humidity, high in the 80s, nice breezes. I slept until 9 am and spent the morning in the garden and the gazebo. I didn’t do a whole lot of work because Hip status: a little worse than yesterday. Uhn. I did manage…

  • Just woke up from an after-work nap. Now I’m sitting in the gazebo with an electric fan blowing on me, enjoying the fireflies that just began their show. My weekend started at 4 pm today – “worked” through lunch, if you can call most of what I did today work. I did get some files…

  • I don’t know if it was the steroid shot or just the fact that my inflammation was reduced for the first time in ten months but boy, was I energetic and happy last night and this morning. I still am, to a more normal degree, but I overdid it a bit so tonight I’m going…