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Dealing with nature

This morning the B.C. comic was so appropriate. Last night after planting the garden there was a frost warning. Susan quickly got the plants covered. Since we’re leaving today to go north when we uncover the plants they will be “on their own” for a while. This morning it was 36F when I got up,…

Garden 2026

It’s time to think about what’s going into our garden this year sice we will be planting it this week. Three of the beds are ready for planting. One bed, the lower right one still needs mint removed. The two rows with stuff already growing are our garlic beds. Once the garlic comes out we’ll…

Hantavirus

The recent outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise-ship has brought this incurable disease into the forefront of the news. I first heard about hantavirus in the mid-1990s when there was an regional outbreak in the Navajo Nation in the southwest United States. This outbreak involved the deaths of three young healthy Navajo runners. It took…

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