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Good news item from Grist today: "The U.S. EPA plans to tighten restrictions on five nasty soil fumigants that keep pests away from strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and peppers. ( Read more... )

i feed the songbirds in part because in the Summer I want to hear more than just machines and sad neglected dogs crying in the distance. i want to hear birdsong up close to me. now, in Midsummer, the crickets and cicadas are starting up, too -- a lovely sound...

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went to hang clothes on the line, and noticed a large lump of white on the (white) line, right in front of me, on the shaded section of the line where it comes over the deck (which is where I stand to hang clothes). looked closer -- it was a tiny (1.25 inches or so) white toad. i picked him off the line and took him to some shaded bushes nearby -- ( Read more... )

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I opened our emergency survival kit backpack to replace some items I'd taken out for our most recent rock climbing excursion in the Gunks, and I discovered that a mouse (or several?) had found the small opening I left by mistake in the zipper, and devoured the corners off 2 of the 4 "ER bars" (emergency rations bars) in there... and left a whole ( Read more... )