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Progress in the middle of Sunday's digging.
Installing a rain garden at the bungalow. First step: dig out ~9 inches of soil in the ~100 sq ft garden bed. 6 inches of that will be replaced (with compost + soil, then a layer of mulch).
Three Tawny Mining Bees were setting up home in the garden last night. Two were digging holes and the third was flying round, checking us out and then landing, sometimes doing a little bee dance. By the time it was too dark to watch anymore one bee had worked really hard and dug a good size hole, the second had excavated several little shallow holes and the third was still on lookout. Unfortunately all this activity started when it was already quite dull in the garden.
Plenty of Princess Mary's gardening tools were on show in her garden room - and they were needed for the terrace garden.
8th July 2011.
Halton.
Fuji GF670 - Ilford FP4 Plus.
Developed in Rodinal 1;100 Stand Development for about 1hr.
Scanned with a Canoscan 8800FF.
Memorial Day weekend - tried to pull out the bushes, but the tow strap broke. Used the chainsaw to cut them off, then the hard job of digging out the roots. One was a boxwood, and the roots were quite large and deep and entangled.
At a family event last weekend, a cousin pulled out her Grandfather's old suitcase with memorabilia of his time in the Army during world War 1. I only had time to photograph a few items. I hope to get the chance to copy the rest of the items.
Fun shot of Part I of our meal at Dayali.
This is the image that made it into Globe & Mail's The 10 best new restaurants in Toronto (December 14, 2013) by critic Chris Nuttall-Smith.
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/what-was-the-b...
Also, go lil' Rebel T2i, go go. My go to for food shots.
Josh being like a mole digging deep holes in the playground at Rod Paige Middle School in Monticello, Mississippi.
Coach Anderson was not too happy with Josh's digging habits.
Dashleen Kaur, Cayce Pennington, Michael Paul Russell, Joshua Rich Katelyn Alyssa White, Krystal Landrum, and Wesley Wilson.
During a brief weather opportunity, avalanche crews undertook control work on Hwy 37A from American Creek to Big Canyon.
The Canyon Slide path, had a run of 4 kilometres in length, with a fall of 2000 metres.
The control work produced an avalanche which was 800 metres wide by 400 metres long, averaging 8 metres deep.
The deepest point of avalanche deposit was approximately 17 metres deep.
This hoarding book is geared towards the hapless family of the hoarder. It focuses on a harm reduction strategy aimed not at clearing out the relatives house, but at reducing the clutter that would most put them at risk i.e. papers too near the burners of the stove, triping hazards and dust and mold.
Quite a lot of the book is devoted to addressing the perceived pscychological injury of the relative, usually an adult child with a hoarding parent who grew up believing that the hoarded accumulation was more important than the child.
These authors appears to have much more experience with treating hoarders than the researchers who put hoarders on the map (and in the DSM). Instead of broadly defining hoarding as the collecting of items with little or no value, these authors focus on the compulsive part i.e. the compulsive aquiring of items and the difficulty in discarding items.
The authors also do not push cognitive therapy as the be and end all in treatment. They know that few hoarders are willing to undergo this treatment, so only suggest it for those those who are. Instead they teach non-judgemental interviewing to the reader with the goal of pursuading the hoarding loved one to allow a team to assist in harm reduction.
Lots of exchanges of dialog are given to demonstrate how these conversations might go.
The authors also outline how to create a contract between the hoarder and the team for the harm reduction project.
Given a willing and evolved family these techniques are a sound plan for achieving the stated goals of harm reduction. I did meet a very mature daughter who brough this book to my attention. She understood the family dynamics involved in her situation and was able to impart much valuable psychological information to me. Too bad for the family that she lives 3,000 miles away, which is where I come in. The parents are also much more inclined to listen to an "expert" than to their daughter, especially the dad who is prone to rage if he does not feel understood.
Because the psychological underpinnings are manifested in such illogical accumulation of seemingly low value stuff, it is easy to think of hoarders as being mentally impaired. When they finally do decide to clear things out it is quite a step up, so I make sure not to say anything that might comment on the illogic of the past collection. They can see it for themselves because once they are willing to address it it becomes obvious. The key is to keep them at it.
This book required for certificate in Hoarding given by the NSGCD.
My determined Jack was convinced something was up in those roots! I had to wash so much sand out of his eyelids afterwards it wasn't even funny.
This is Bob's mother and siblings posing for a photograph in their war time garden. I'm not sure who took this photograph but it was used for government publicity during the war and also appeared on a modern book all about wartime cooking. I shall endeavour to find our copy of the book to find out who wrote it, I have a feeling it was something to do with Margaret Patterson. It is a wonderfully iconic photoghraph.
Big trenches right up to our back fence. Volvo lorry taking away the earth - mostly quality garden soil.
On 12th January, 2010 a 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 250,000 and leaving more than 1.3 million residents homeless. EDV responded to the Haiti earthquake in early June 2010, and we are working with Classique
school.
The school survived the earthquake undamaged. As one of the only surviving schools in the community, it has been inundated with children wanting to attend classes. The school’s director also allows many of the children in local orphanages attend for free.
But in attending, the children were facing health risks because of the flooding which affected the property.
Working with our local partners, GrassRoots United, and the school’s staff, we engaged international and Haitian volunteers to dig a large drain and relieve the flooding on the school’s property.
As there is very little working sanitation in the area, the mud also contained human faeces. Many of the children do not have shoes, so there was a risk of them contracting a waste borne illness. The standing water also provided a haven for mosquitoes which carry malaria and dengue.
The school also hosts a vocational training school which was severely affected by the earthquake. We hope that this drainage project will be the first step toward helping the vocational training school get back on its feet.
To learn more about this project please visit www.edvolunteers.org/projects-programmes. To donate donate, please visit www.EDVolunteers.org/donate