Class Went Well

Amazing group of (10) participants. Mostly retired professionals with PhDs or years working with the DNR. But also one high school sophomore. Not as smooth and polished as I used to be, but still pretty effective, and leading a group like this is a lot of fun. Anyway, how can you go wrong with the worlds’s best environmental literature.

Below (due to lack of pertinent photos), a shot of the little Ford truck which recently replaced the 9 year-old Chevy truck. A downsize, but a safer and more comfortable ride—plus it’s a hybrid with incredible mileage.

DEI Bread…

…Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Completely off-the-rails experimentation.
In addition to King Arthur all-purpose flour, Bob’s Red Mill whole wheat, rolled oats, flaxmeal, chia seeds—along with sourdough starter, a little yeast, and a touch of honey and olive oil and salt.
The baker was thoughtless and careless, but the loaves turned out; and while heavy and dense, not only edible but tasty, with each slice pretty close to a meal in itself.
If the process is refined and controlled, this could be the start of something good.

Colder Than…

…Christmas in Canada?

The roads around here, including the highways, are exceptionally bad; don’t know if I’ve ever seen worse. Inches thick, hardpacked cap replete with humps and holes. The result, I think, of heavy wet snow being driven over before plows could get to it —then flash frozen. Looks like a good week of going nowhere fast.

Meanwhile, Sue baked a cake and put it out to cool, and in less than a minute it was frosted.

Big Chill

Serious cold. Necessary, but hard…on wildlife and domesticated persons.

We did venture out mid-morning, for a bite of breakfast and to pick up some birdseed. The breakfast was probably silly, but the birdseed necessary.

A great many birds along the shoulders of every road. My theory is two-fold: one—birds don’t like settling in deep snow and prefer the more solid ground where the plow has passed, and two—it’s warmer down along the roadside, especially on the occasional bare spot where solar energy has warmed the ground.