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ZURB Wired 2013: Meet Rebuilding Together Pennisula, a bay area non-profit organization that takes on the challenge of helping our neighbors receive needed home repairs and enhancements to improve health, safety, and well-being.
The ZURB Wired 24-hour marathon is where our team and the team from one lucky local nonprofit get together to do something great in 24 hours. We spend the day helping the nonprofit solve a big challenge; whether it be marketing for an upcoming event, or completely overhauling their brand—and we get it all done in 24 hours.
ZURB is a close-knit team of product designers that help companies design better. (www.zurb.com).
4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." They do this by learning through service. A 4-H group known as the O.W.L.S., Outdoor Wildlife Leadership Service, visited Brandon Spring Group Center at Land Between The Lakes in May 2016. O.W.L.S. educates kids on a variety of outdoor, survival, and identification skills. These include wildlife tracking, studying avian populations, Dutch oven cooking, and ice cream making. These 4-H’ers planted a butterfly garden, weeded flowerbeds, and helped with trail work and maintenance projects. Photo by Brian Truskey
Larry digs us out of the massive snow storm. We had a huge blizzard with an accumulation of 11 inches of snow. Larry is digging out!
Working on the new garden bed. I can't wait until this is lush with elderberries, joe pye weed, echinacea, liatris and other native beneficial species.
As usual wearing all the old things from the closet:
old second hand jeans - super comfy
old clearance shoes - note to self, but a new pair, these are so not comfortable any more
old clearance fleece - it's like a cat, has nine lives
and of course the most wonderful garden gloves from www.Ethelgloves.com which probably cost more than everything else :)
Oh yes, and the ever present hat: sloggers, love it so much I ordered 3 backups
They took an old plate, and created their business sign. A bright idea indeed.
Nikon F5 - AF Nikkor 35mm 1:2D - Eastman Double-X (5222) @ ASA-200
Kodak D-76 (1+2) 11:00 @ 20C
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2018)
"Tanni Ille" - no water. People occupying villages on the east coast of sri lanka, face great difficulties in getting water. After Tsunami destroyed the coast, people moved inland to seek refugee there. Whole villages gather to dig wells, unfortunately many times they're unsuccessful and their women have to walk, every day, to bring water from other villages where people are fortunate enough to have it. taken somewhere in 2005
Ooops! The city plowed my neighbor's driveway shut - literally! What you see here is a pile of compacted snow, dumped right smack into the approach of my neighbor's driveway.
It's a good thing I'd cleared my drive earlier or I'd probably had a worse mess to deal with. As it was, my apron was 1/2 filled in to height of the shovel, but it was loose and movable. Val's driveway, on the other hand, was 4 feet high and so compressed I could stand on it (and I'm no lightweight)!
If I have the energy, I'll clear Val's apron after I get mine done, but a lot of times, I haven't got that energy until I've had time to rest. I knocked on Val's door last night to tell her, but there was no answer, so I'm not even sure she knows the city plowed her in!
The guy who plows us out never showed up, so I shoveled my side, and shoveled out apron twice, but Val never got plowed (same guy). It didn't matter with this mess as he'd never gotten through that pile with his pickup truck pusher blade anyway.
I called DPW and reported the problem. And told them, "Yes, I understand, the crews are tired, working too long and that this was probably an innocent mistake, but would they please fix it as soon as possible. Thank you." The answering service said they'd let someone know. When I looked out at 10 or 11 pm, the driveway was clear; I never saw or heard them. (And the pile to the left was TWICE as high as the pile to the left of my apron!)
Kudos to the city crews for showing up and fixing this as quick as they did!
It's an on-going problem - we deal with this every winter - due to the driveways sitting at the end of North Street where the plows like to U-turn, dumping excessive snow into our driveways. (You can just make out the curving trail for snow from the U-turn at lower right of this photo.)
July 16, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: The task of excavating eggs gets more and more difficult the further you have to lean into the nest because you must carefully balance yourself so you don't fall into the nest!
Photo by Jennifer Strickland, USFWS.