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Final Gustav Update for Me

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments · weather

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Hurricane Gustav continues plowing inland, and is now just a Category 1 hurricane. The storm surge has peaked and is falling in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. A storm surge of 12 feet was recorded at Northeast Bay Gardene, and surges of 10 feet were seen at [...]

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After the rains…

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

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The weather here has been very dry…at least until the past week or so. We have been having a spring-like amount of rain. After complaining for so long about the lack, it seems almost sacrilegious to say anything about the water we needed so bad.
After months of not having to mow on [...]

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Blueberry Muses

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments · just musings

Up on the mountain behind my house, the wild blueberries are ripe and prolific. It’s public land, part of the Maine state-park system, so the berries are free for the picking. In a half-hour or so, if I’m lucky, I can fill a tin cup with enough berries for breakfast, mixed into muffins or pancakes [...]

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More Musing on the State of Our Food…

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Food Safety, just musings

It just goes to show you, when the government doesn’t believe in regulations…Regulations go by the wayside and enforcement becomes mute…
Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation’s largest meatpackers. It’s the [...]

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