Cows grazing in a field of buttercups about a mile from my home.
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Showing posts with label Appalachia. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Turning Buttercups into Butter
Just a photo I took about a month ago...
Cows grazing in a field of buttercups about a mile from my home.
Cows grazing in a field of buttercups about a mile from my home.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Storms...
I thought the rain was bad in Tazewell!
Cheryl and I are in Red House, Md. at the moment and the sotrms here last night were aweful. A power surge burnt up a device that my father-in-law uses to wake him up when the electricity goes off. The phones were also down for 14 or 15 hours.
North of us about an hour to 90 minutes, Pittsburgh almost washed away. Some places got almost 5 inches of rain.
Tomorrow we go home...
Cheryl and I are in Red House, Md. at the moment and the sotrms here last night were aweful. A power surge burnt up a device that my father-in-law uses to wake him up when the electricity goes off. The phones were also down for 14 or 15 hours.
North of us about an hour to 90 minutes, Pittsburgh almost washed away. Some places got almost 5 inches of rain.
Tomorrow we go home...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tree Swallows - an Empty Nest
Well, the tree swallows were in their nest yesterday. Today is day 21 in their little lives, and this morning they're gone. At least, five of them flew. A sixth didn't see the outside world. It laid motionless in the nest this morning at 8am, dead. I cleaned the nest out of the house and left the front open for the sun to him for a few days...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Tree Swallows - Day Eleven (and a bluebird egg)
I wasn't home to take pictures on Thursday and Friday. Cheryl took these two for me on day nine:
Here are pictures for today, day 11 in the life of the baby tree swallows...
The bluebird house has a nest in it again. You'll recall that our bluebirds abandoned a clutch of four eggs in May after a cold snap. We now have one egg again.
Here are pictures for today, day 11 in the life of the baby tree swallows...
The bluebird house has a nest in it again. You'll recall that our bluebirds abandoned a clutch of four eggs in May after a cold snap. We now have one egg again.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Things I Did Today...
In more or less chronological order...
Made a decision - to not go to Church. Cheryl woke me about 8:30am and asked it I wanted to go today. We’re kind of between churches. There's a small church nearby that we've been to a few times. We'll probably go back. Just not today...
Got up. About 9am.
Had some coffee and checked my email. Cleaned out my Google Reader.
Wrote an entry for Guuki.
Cooked breakfast: sausage, eggs & cheese, grits, toast, some leftover bacon. Biscuits and sausage gravy for Cheryl. Wished I had tomatoes, but we just set those out last weekend...
Wrote and published an entry for my education blog on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's activities this past week. Wrote a second entry that will drip onto my ed blog later this week.
Cleaned out by Google Reader. Drank more coffee.
Created a Twitter background for my profile page.
Washed the breakfast dishes.
Listed to the stuff they do on the Speed Channel before the pre-race show comes on for NASCAR while I did other stuff.
Took pictures of the baby tree swallows. They've been alive five days now. Not much difference from yesterday. Waiting for the eyes to open.
Figured out (finally) how to download a video off of YouTube for later use. Since YouTube is blocked at school, this is a very useful skill. I downloaded a handful of potentially useful videos on social networking, social media, and Twitter for a presentation I may get to do this summer.
Listened to (and, intermittently, actually watched portions of) the Autism Speaks 400, today's NASCAR race in Dover. Wanted Kyle Busch to win, but I think he can in some place near 20th...
Cooked dinner: grilled steaks (sirloin, on sale for $2.99 a pound). I rubbed the meat with garlic powder and salt; mine also got some red pepper and curry powder. Baked potatoes, green beans, and part of a cucumber.
Watched the end of the race.
Took a 90-minute nap. (My dog also took a 90-minute, curled up in the small of my back...)
Cleaned out my Google Reader. Drank some green tea I brewed myself yesterday and put in the fridge.
Worked on a Guuki entry.
Did the dinner dishes. Fixed the coffeepot for in the morning.
Ironed tomorrow's cloths.
Fixed breakfasts and lunches to take to work tomorrow: Cheryl has mashed potatoes and meatballs (with a sauce made from Concord grape jelly and chili sauce), plus cottage cheese and blueberries for breakfast. I have a sausage muffin w/ egg and cheese to heat in the morning and a mix of rice, lentils, and peas in a butter & curry sauce with onions and some beef, along with some wilted spinach in bacon grease. (I know, my arteries...)
Turned off the TV.
Had a glass of Burgundy while I listened to Yo-Yo Ma and blogged. Purchased a couple of new Yo-Yo Ma pieces from iTunes.
Went outside and sat on the deck breifly. Cheryl went to bed a while back. There are lightening bugs. I saw my first ones for the year last night. Wondered when the screech owl will arrive.
Now considering going to bed early, but I will probably resist the temptation.
Made a decision - to not go to Church. Cheryl woke me about 8:30am and asked it I wanted to go today. We’re kind of between churches. There's a small church nearby that we've been to a few times. We'll probably go back. Just not today...
Got up. About 9am.
Had some coffee and checked my email. Cleaned out my Google Reader.
Wrote an entry for Guuki.
Cooked breakfast: sausage, eggs & cheese, grits, toast, some leftover bacon. Biscuits and sausage gravy for Cheryl. Wished I had tomatoes, but we just set those out last weekend...
Wrote and published an entry for my education blog on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's activities this past week. Wrote a second entry that will drip onto my ed blog later this week.
Cleaned out by Google Reader. Drank more coffee.
Created a Twitter background for my profile page.
Washed the breakfast dishes.
Listed to the stuff they do on the Speed Channel before the pre-race show comes on for NASCAR while I did other stuff.
Took pictures of the baby tree swallows. They've been alive five days now. Not much difference from yesterday. Waiting for the eyes to open.
Figured out (finally) how to download a video off of YouTube for later use. Since YouTube is blocked at school, this is a very useful skill. I downloaded a handful of potentially useful videos on social networking, social media, and Twitter for a presentation I may get to do this summer.
Listened to (and, intermittently, actually watched portions of) the Autism Speaks 400, today's NASCAR race in Dover. Wanted Kyle Busch to win, but I think he can in some place near 20th...
Cooked dinner: grilled steaks (sirloin, on sale for $2.99 a pound). I rubbed the meat with garlic powder and salt; mine also got some red pepper and curry powder. Baked potatoes, green beans, and part of a cucumber.
Watched the end of the race.
Took a 90-minute nap. (My dog also took a 90-minute, curled up in the small of my back...)
Cleaned out my Google Reader. Drank some green tea I brewed myself yesterday and put in the fridge.
Worked on a Guuki entry.
Did the dinner dishes. Fixed the coffeepot for in the morning.
Ironed tomorrow's cloths.
Fixed breakfasts and lunches to take to work tomorrow: Cheryl has mashed potatoes and meatballs (with a sauce made from Concord grape jelly and chili sauce), plus cottage cheese and blueberries for breakfast. I have a sausage muffin w/ egg and cheese to heat in the morning and a mix of rice, lentils, and peas in a butter & curry sauce with onions and some beef, along with some wilted spinach in bacon grease. (I know, my arteries...)
Turned off the TV.
Had a glass of Burgundy while I listened to Yo-Yo Ma and blogged. Purchased a couple of new Yo-Yo Ma pieces from iTunes.
Went outside and sat on the deck breifly. Cheryl went to bed a while back. There are lightening bugs. I saw my first ones for the year last night. Wondered when the screech owl will arrive.
Now considering going to bed early, but I will probably resist the temptation.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Baby Tree Swallows - Day Three
A few more pictures of the baby bird. Three days old now. They have dark places along their spines and wings that look like feathers coming in. We'll see in the next day or two...
And the flowers in our willow stump.
And the flowers in our willow stump.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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