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Showing posts with label Natural History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural History. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2016

The Women's Wars: How "Smart Girl Power" Has Wrecked The World, and May Have Started WWIII

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We used to hear about how peaceful the world would be "if women ran the world". Over the past 20 years, we've had a chance t...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Big Texas Weather: Same Old Climate, Same El Nino Events Cause Texas Floods and Texas Rains

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There is nothing unusual about the rain or flooding that Texas and Oklahoma are experiencing . It is actually a feature of our same old clim...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

How To Create A Morel Mushroom Habitat and Plant Morel Spawn

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Morel mushrooms are a rare delicacy.  Like truffles, they have their own unique flavor that is nothing like the usual mushrooms that can...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Picking and Cooking Wild Greens From Our Yard

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How I gathered, prepared, and cooked Shepherd's Purse and Henbit to have as mixed greens for New Year's!   Shepherd's Purse ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

When a friend gives you Basil... make Pesto for the freezer!

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My latest video gets you ready for one of the easiest, quickest, after-work home cooked meals there is: Pesto with  pecans! :-)  Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Foraging Wild Foods In Our Yard

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Kon-Tiki - An Exercise in Real Anthropological Science from 1947, and an Exciting Adventure Too!

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 Somehow I have a great fascination with first-person accounts of exploration - especially on the ocean or in the arctic. Why I do not kn...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Raising Tomatoes, Part 4: Folklore: Planting Before Good Friday & Rain on Easter

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This year, I set a goal of learning how to raise tomatoes successfully. I am part way there, as I raised about a hundred plants from see...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

January Update on My Winter Garden: Things Learned So Far

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 I had a lot of fun planting my first "winter garden" this year. Then, Paul got sick. But God was so good that He watered my g...
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Plowing For a Winter Garden, and Getting Ready Now for Spring Planting

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 We are going to raise a garden again. The deer and grasshoppers ate everything I planted this year, but we are going to fence out the d...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

A Nook eReader: Make Room for the Library of Alexandria

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Where have I been all week? Wellllll.....Devin and Sandy gave me a Nook for Mother's Day. Oh my! Here was a gift I didn't know ...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Roses & Pecan Trees are Blooming!

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 These are from the only rosebush that survived the drought, but oh aren't they gorgeous! Paul commented that they "are almos...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

The Word

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In the beginning was The Word .....  This beautiful Icon image was painted by the Russian artist Victor Vasnetsov . It's unusual to s...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

On Fact and Fallacy, and How They Can Change: "Ten Thousand Years Ago, A Lemming"

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 The most awesome thing about this story: " Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels ov...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Dr Margaret Mead, on Today's Headlines

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Anthropologist Margaret Mead is often quoted as saying " I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. ...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Meteor Shower Tonight & the Wee Hours of Morning! November 17 & 18 2011

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If you look toward the eastern horizon this evening, from about 9:30 Central Time "straight on 'til morning", you may be abl...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Healing the Burns: References For Wildfire & Drought Recovery Plantings

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Every landscape contains some plants that will not grow unless they have gone through fire . These seed lay dormant, awaiting their call to ...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Adding To Our Media Library: Best British Mysteries, Clean Comedy, and Awesome Nature & Travel Documentaries

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So today I have been searching for DVD bargains on Amazon. We are fleshing out our collection with clean comedy, documentaries, movies we...
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