BurningbirdThe first environmental impact from November’s Clean Sweep is the Bush Administration’s proposal to: … give managers of the nation’s 155 national forests greater leeway to approve logging and commercial activities with less examination of potential environmental damages. Regional managers are easily influenced by timber interests, who tend to have as much interest in the good of […]
Coming back from dinner tonight, in the grass next to one of the dumpsters was a white mouse. Not a small white mouse, a larger one, almost as big as a small rat. And its fur was luminescent and shiny— softly glowing against the dark wet of the ground. This is something you don’t see […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeneane just posted a plea to help her find a way to capture a feral kitten that’s in her garage. She’s worried that the kitten is sick and hungry and scared, which it most likely is. If you have any ideas in how she can lure out this few week old kitten, […]
I called my mother yesterday to wish her happy birthday. She told me that last Friday when she was out walking her two poodles, Amy and Crissy, a big dog ran through an open gate and attacked Amy. It got her by the throat and tried to shake her to death. Mom said it took […]
I’ve been having considerable problems with my Dell laptop keyboard. Several of the keys (SHFT, CTRL, and ‘c’) only work if you pound them, hard, and the ‘a’ key keeps repeaaaaaaaaaaating. Thinking that the keyboard needed cleaning, I grabbed an index card and started digging around underneath the keys. Cat hairs. Thousands and thousands of […]