March 20, 2001

Still trying to figure out how this blogging thing works. Can't find html of posts...Noticed a brand new small sugar shack steaming away today about 30 yards off I-80. Still ice on the resevoirs. Back to the Study of Evergreen Habits. Heard house wrens singing merrily this morning. Received a wheat penny for my thoughts. And onward the search for Ohio Blue Tips. GoPlay seems to have gone out of business.
Note for the Beaver-did you hear the art Bell parody, with the interview about Space Rot on its way down with the MIR to infect the palnet? Phil Henry was really good; his partner couldn't even keep a "straight face", kept busting up laughing...

March 13, 2001

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10 inches of snow on March 4, 5, 6 in our part of the Clarion River valley. Brought down lots of branches & small trees. Great scenes of vultures in the pines along a snowy river, dark. Doug & Jim are going to be on Louie FREE radio talk show tomorrow. I need to find out how many pounds of plastic bags are used and either recycled or landfilled every day in the USA. Watching white pines whipping in the spring's-a'-coming wind this afternoon here in Youngstown,...here in Youngstown...with a stomach full of blast-furnace chilie peppers. Norman Rockwell did ads for Sharon steel. The Newfoundland & Labrador Wildflower Society needs a new prez. or it will be dissolved! Big article in E magazine about Newfoundland fishery of cod being strip-mined away. Also one on the possibility of Zero Waste(i.e. hardly anything to landfill or incinerate). apparently New Zealand achieved this....