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Feb.19.2013 It's Been Awhile photo: from the show's Wikipedia page It's been ten days since the last post, and the reason for the absence, bottom line, is that I'm on vacation, so not spending too much time in front of the computer screen. But now that I've had a moment, let's see what else has been going on...	Aug.06.2012 Musings at the New Firepit photos: The Old Firepit, with raging inferno, and The New Firepit, with distinct and subtle flame. This is one of those blog moments where everything is sorta connected to everything else, maybe yet another minor epiphany, but here it goes: So, moments after I (hopefully)...
Jul.10.2012 Re-Claiming My House and Land So now I bring your attention to http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com. This is a website, also a little old and I don't know when it was last updated, about a guy who essentially is like the MacGyver we all want to be in, and around, our own homes. He has gardens that could...	Feb.28.2012 Iron and Fire Iron can be heated and poured, molten, into molds of almost any conceivable shape. For the better part of a century objects created in foundries and pieced together by human hands dominated our lives. Iron was the medium of the industrial revolution but wood was it's fuel. The world was conquered...
Feb.06.2011 Real and Old Our new flooring was installed yesterday by James, a wiry and energetic individual who has been installing floors for 32 years now. He got the job done in a few clicks over four hours and left with a wave of his hand and a quick good-bye. After I put my kitchen back together, I looked at the...	Sep.17.2010 THE ENERGY MOSAIC, WHY WE DON’T NEED TO FREEZE IN THE DARK Part One An examination of sustainable energy technologies from solar panels to methane-composting, sewage-treatment plants and the parts they can play in saving our society. The above is a panel discussion I’ve suggested for the Ad Astra Science Fiction Convention. The title says it all and offers hope...