New Arrival
With Spring just around the corner I'm crossing my fingers that a new influx of Bluebirds, Robins, or Finches will stop by.
Time will tell...
February 2013
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Waiting for the new U2 album has been a long, occasionally-exciting, but mostly unpleasant experience. Finally, two mornings ago I woke up and signed onto my favorite fan forum and was delighted to hear the album had leaked. I sent an email to a fellow fan and got my hands on the eleven tracks of No Line on the Horizon within minutes.
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This morning I finished Through Howling Wilderness, a historical narrative of Benedict Arnold's winter trek up Maine's Kennebec River with a regiment of colonial militia. Scores died in the cold, inhospitable wilderness before they even entered Canada. It's hard to imagine any part of modern day America in which three weeks of walking would yield no traces of civilization; try a few hours.
It must have been the time I spent in the mountainous wilderness of Lesotho that made me appreciate these stories of geographical desolation. Since returning home in December I've been exciting myself with the prospect of a cross-country rail journey, a future journey up the Appalachian Trail, or a road trip up to Maine to visit some of the places Benedict Arnold's expedition passed through. After returning my library book I picked up Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. Knox is famous for leading a grueling overland journey from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts in which his colonial forces dragged heavy cannons to aid the Siege of Boston.
From one adventure to the next, another story of the challenges of America's incredible geography and those who toiled across it.
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Results from 4 of the 8 mystery disposable cameras:
From 2002 to 2009.
Three states and South Africa.
From 5000 ft. up.
A grandfather who has since died.
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I had the 8 disposable cameras from my bedside table taken to CVS this afternoon.
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The GOP has released their list of "wasteful" expenditures in the Obama administration's economic stimulus package. Read it HERE.
I gave them a look this morning and although I admit many of provisions the Republicans mention are a bit of a stretch (and rather "porky"), I was disappointed to see GOP leaders giving up some great measures of real economic stimulus in the name of partisan politics.
But take a look at some of the measures they selected:
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
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