Wheeled, plastic bins line the alley behind our houses. Black lid for trash, blue lid for recycling, and green lid for yard waste. Since we keep a compost pile in the garden, we don’t have a yard waste bin, but there are a few out there. Only collected every second week, the recycling bins are […]
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Our dog has become very anxious about recent thunderstorms. She gets nervous and barks, something I try to discourage. Petting to try to comfort her seems to help, but only works if she will stay near one of us. Over the last few days, we’ve heard random firecrackers in the neighborhood. At night, these seem […]
It’s been warm the last week and, befitting the first day of summer, it feels like summer is finally here in Colorado. There’s still a bit of cool overnight and early in the morning, but mostly it’s hot and sunny by afternoon. It’s been a wet year so far, but now it seems to be […]
As I get older, I become more aware of my bodily functions, some of which don’t work the same way they did twenty years ago. I seem to spend more time “spending a penny’ than I used to and have become aware of the significant amount of water I use to flush away my more […]
Recently, the BBC released a list of the 100 best children’s books ever. Reading the list evoked my childhood and even my later youth. My father read to us frequently, and I became the reader for my younger sister, a role I kept into my teens. My wife and I both read to our son, […]
“All are from the dust, and to dust all return.” ~ Ecclesiastes 3:20 Over the last week or so, I’ve been taking my compost pile apart to move it. Normally, I take it apart in the early spring to separate the good decomposed material in the center of the pile from the un-decomposed (composed?) […]
“Farmers are the heroes.” ~ Rhett Brian Burning is an age-old practice to clear the fields of the remains of last year’s crops, and it makes plowing and seeding much easier. However, poet and journalist Rhett Brian reports, “At roughly the same time each year, 2 million farmers across Punjab and Haryana set their […]
“The idea behind agrivoltaics is simple: use the ‘empty’ space beneath solar panels to grow stuff.” ~ Gabe Allen and Tyler Hickman On the hills above my town, there are some solar panels placed in the grassland. I’ve noticed that in spite of the panels, the shaded areas are full of vegetation that periodically require mowing. […]
“Two bees or not two bees, that is the question.” ~ Apologies to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet One of the most important species for continued human and animal survival upon the Earth is a small, flying insect that buzzes around our heads and can sting us painfully — the bee. Conservation Specialist Stefanie Steele notes, “Our […]
“It was a dark and stormy night …” ~ Snoopy Colorado is nice in the summer, and camping out is a favorite activity for many of us here. Fall and spring can be nice, too, but the weather can be unexpectedly erratic. Across the southern U.S., the weather is nice three-quarters of the year […]
Writes of Nature 