C&D have been enjoying hearing Christmas carols lately. Now I guess after hearing different renditions of the same songs over and over, they’ve been inspired to start singing their own versions over breakfast. Right now they’re singing The First Noel, except it seems they’ve got a few details to hammer out still. I can hear [...]

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C&D woke up early this morning; they wanted to have a St. Lucia breakfast. I figured that since we had celebrated Martinmas last month with horseshoe-shaped cookies and a lantern walk, we could be fair and celebrate a female figure this month. And anyway, what’s not to like about a holiday that’s about candles and [...]

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It’s technically Sunday, and I can’t sleep. I just don’t feel like sleeping; I feel like running, jumping, cleaning the house, or maybe cooking pancakes. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I had a productive day and that left me jazzed; maybe it’s because I can hear a cold front blow through and feel [...]

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Bad camera work, cheap admission, and no special effects. Sure to be a camp classic!   Actually, a wasp movie, at least I think. Seen on the ground at the Woodlands Trail, Big Thicket National Preserve: Basket Oak: Woodpeckers?: Sassafras, being measured with field instruments. 21″ diameter as measured by the “take off my belt [...]

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Our Pentax takes beautiful pictures, but the files are large.  It is a slow process to download them off the camera and pick them up on LiveWriter, the program I use to edit my blog posts.  From LiveWriter I upload the pictures to our blog’s host server.  Because I am on “slow” DSL, it takes [...]

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HANC ArBOOretum, 2009

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Van Weldon has been sprucing up the website for Wood Duck Farm.  C&D are now on the front page; the image links to the fall CSA application. 

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