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Here's naughty Catori digging a hole in the backyard. As you can see, it no longer have grass and caution must be used to keep from stepping in a husky-dug hole. We've been installing a new dogproof 6 ft fence, and the dogs had a great time "helping" us dig--but mostly un-digging holes we'd filled back in.
My 3 crazy dogs have a website, check it out here: www.12muddypaws.com
I was fascinated to watch how these reed bees were able to shove their way into the Gompholobium flowers. They just kept forcing their little heads between the wings to access the pollen presenter within. It looked like a very arduous task and took this little lady several minutes to complete her task. At one point she looked well and truly stuck in there! Thankfully her persistence paid off and she was able to free herself. Here we have a good shot of her beehind sticking out, so I will include it for Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday! [Colo, NSW]
Y'know, I lived in Michigan for years and until now I've never used a shovel to de-ice my car before.
Of course the real irony of all this is that it wasn't even winter yet! Yep, the official first day of winter wouldn't come for two days. Damn it, Christmas, must you encroach even further into autumn?!?
Guinea borders Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire, three countries whose civil wars had spilt over into Guinea. As part of an effort to rebuild the communities along both sides of the borders UNICEF is with the communities and the education ministry building new schools. The schools will in time be equipped with solar powered internet. More importantly the teachers have been trained in active learning methods which are visibly improving the quality of learning. Active learning changes the relationship between the child, the teacher and the environment, moving away from rote learning to encouraging the child to question and explore. UNICEF is building the schools and providing the training, the community is building the teachers homes and the teachers volunteer to go on the training unpaid, the logic being this way the most motivated teachers will go rather than those wishing to benefit from per diems. I was impressed to see how active and engaged the children were in their classes and hope that we will be able to build upon this experiment to share active learning to many more schools across the country.
It's friday!
David and Zoe just drove down the street to pick up pizzas and salad from the grocery store and 2 movies. No plans for the weekend. Just relaxing. I, for one, am looking forward to it. And about to go open a bottle of Shiraz.
Karst peaks, the likes of which I had never encountered before, stood imperiously over the sleepy rural farmlands and dotted the landscape as though giants gathering to repast. Their verdant tops were shaggy green wigs which the hills wore with surprising composure; and the gray, craggy sides suggested a long, scarred evolution. In the confines of Yangshuo town, they loomed as towers under whose scrutiny our puny edifices appeared to cower in fear.
We settled ourselves at our lodgings and then went to the neighboring Xingping village to explore the natural beauty that lay there, a portrait of which in fact is found on the back of the 20RMB bill. A swarm of solicitous touts greeted us at the gates of the town, and after haggling with one to arrange our transportation down the Li river, we ambled over to the ferry pier. Along the way we stopped intermittently to inspect the local schools and stores; the locals, I remarked, tend to do things the old-fashioned way: by hands which embody a very humanizing dignity over work; the proletarian machines were nowhere to be found.
Sailing down a gentle waterway brought us in close proximity to the famed acclivities. Our eyes wide open, we marveled at their peculiar forms, and laughed when told their oft ridiculous names. Below them, ducks swam near their shores. And when we landed for a short break, dozens of elderly village women converged on us and requested vehemently the opportunity to relieve us of our lucre in exchange for oranges, or boiled eggs. The mountains must have laughed at the scene of these assiduous women chasing after Calvin and Irene, who eventually relented and accepted the natives' perishable goods. For my part, the lusty entreaties fell from me as if pebbles against chain mail. I wouldn't acquiesce to their demands. I would, however, later purchase quality sweets from the village to prop up their local economy.
People digging near the old buildings of "Mine Pirin" at the Bulgarian village Brezhani, near Simitli.
Rhonda Dixon, Sound Transit Community Outreach Coordinator, talks recently with Gerry Ochs, Lead Civil Inspector for the University Link project on Capitol Hill. They are standing on the landing of the Kroll Tower Crane looking down into the excavation for the Capitol Hill light rail station.
2/11
President's Day brought sunny skies but sub-zero wind chills as Boston once again begun digging out from yet another Blizzard. With the temperature hovering around 10F, MBTA 1071 leads a late train 1505 under the Charlesgate just east of Kenmore Square. Despite running a weekend schedule on the holiday, the T remained crippled by failing equipment, frozen switches, and other cold-weather maladies.
With a new level backyard we needed to put in a retaining wall. The first step was building a trench.
Tackling the weedy old raspberry patch, once the roots are out I'll have more growing space on the allotment.
Some of my ducks and the dogs having a great time on the iced over puddle down the field this afternoon
Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods, may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life." Though disputed, evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first human species to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones.
The earliest undisputed human burial, discovered so far, dates back 130,000 years. Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.
Prehistoric cemeteries are referred to by the more neutral term grave field. They are one of the chief sources of information on prehistoric cultures, and numerous archaeological cultures are defined by their burial customs, such as the Urnfield culture of the European Bronze Age.
In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to mark the place is used in almost every modern culture, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the west (cremation is the norm in India).
While seen as a new trend in modern burial, natural burial, the process by which a body is returned to the earth to decompose naturally in soil, has been practiced in Islam for almost 1500 years. Natural burial became popularized in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s by Ken West, a professional cemeterian for the City of Carlisle responding to the U.K's call for changes in government that aligned with the United Nations' Environmental Program Local Agenda 21. The practice is gaining ground rapidly and has now expanded to Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, North America, China and Japan.
Vege themed cupcakes with wee worms for a boy who is involved in the E-team at school (environmental) . They raise their own veges and make fertiliser etc.
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
An image that blended a black and white conversion with color using 'darker color' mode. The whiteness on skin is a heavy layer of sunscreen...
On the beach at the mouth of the river Wansbeck, next to the Sandy Bay Holiday Park campsite. North East England
My motorhome travels - ralph-dot-motorhoming.blogspot.com/2012/01/past-trips-uk-...