blips + updates Things and places I've come across recently |
     Matt + Dave's Cross Country Bike Trip has progressed to Colorado, almost to Wyoming | Dave has sustained multiple tire problems [7.5 flats thus far], including one tire essentially melting | But there peresevere | They've had over $11,000 USD pledged to Cancer Research since leaving Virginia last May |
     Pam Spaulding | While looking for pictures of the Chia Pet, I sumbled across this thoughtful site by a Carolinan woman who pegs the top of her page with the following keywords: " American. Female. Lesbian. Ethnically diverse. Opinionated. An Online Magazine in the Reality-Based Community. " | Recent entries are focued on Ex-gay ministries, Karl Rove, Rick Santorum's out, black, gay, communications director |
     Eric Hunting, whom I last wrote about in January 05, has made a move to the outskirts of Santa Fe in his ongoing quest and pursuit of chemical free housing | He's updated his website and putting things in order thusly providing an impressive resource for both the chemically sensitive homeowner and folks interested in sustainable resources |
     Watching America | Want to know how the rest of the world sees us Yankee Doodles? This seems a good place to start | If handling the truth is too much, however, there's always Rupert Murdoch's rags to deceive you |
     Preserving Harlo Haagenson's Legacy | Late March, I caught wind of a "rumor" that Connecticut Audubon Society might have the 57 acre nature preserve up for sale as developable acreage | It wasn't a rumor | Turns out that Richard Martinez [executive director and president of that group] has had CAS transfer to Owl Properties LLC via a quit claim deed | Martinez is the sole employee of Owl Properties | Someting amiss in paradise? Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wonders if there is | NOTE: Connecticut Audubon is not connected with the National Audubon Society |

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  format change What the hey?!? | I tried and tried to fix the problems I was having with where the contents section rested until I got tired of even working on the weblog's contents | So I have given up, and adoped a new template from blogger's retinue | Hope you like the difference |
     My grumbing satisfaction is that I was still able to tweak the template a little bit |  ¶ 15:56 1 comments  

  collectibles From Mom's House come two treasures | A Chia Pet and Mr. Aristocrat, a "gift" from the H.J. Heinz Company to its shareholders sent out in 1982 | These were among the things I found stashed away in Mom's cedar closet | Some other things included a fondue set that none of my siblings even knew we had | It was a wedding shower gift when she married Dad in 1963, opened but never used |
     Abandoned Chia Pets, incidentally, have recently be discovered to be the cause of unwanted environmental problems in New Mexico | While perhaps not as serious as an invasive species [Chia Pets cannot reproduce outside of strict industrial lab conditions] their abandonment in arid regions may pose other problems to be aware of |  ¶ 16:26 0 comments