Reblogged from Auntie Dogma's Garden Spot: Garden to Attract More Pollinators I have a bumper sticker that reminds everyone who likes to eat to thank a farmer, but maybe we need one that exhorts us to celebrate the pollinators that make it all possible. Farmers and gardeners depend on honeybees and other insects to move […]
The board felt that, technically, he had the law in his favor,” Schroeder said. “But I think that all of us on the board agreed that the garden is an eyesore. It goes against common sense, really, to put a garden in the front yard instead of the back.” Personally, I think this Schroeder dude […]
The full article this is excerpted from is rather lengthy but it is very interesting (& disturbing)…and well worth the time spent reading it in full. Fair warning tho – there are some rather graphic images embedded into the original article that may not be suitable for all audiences. This was reported back in February […]
I find it very sad and disturbing that the general masses have little-to-no interest in facing our “prison problem”…in spite of millions of Americans being incarcerated, folks on the outside still tend to assume that if you are in prison, you deserve everything you get. Sooner or later this problem child of ours is going […]
“Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row…” Okay, maybe my garden doesn’t have silver bells and cockle shells or pretty maids in a row but what it lacks in decoration, it makes up for in plants and sprouts! For starting out as […]
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May 15, 2013 by MICHAEL FORRESTER on PreventDisease.com “Historically, research has been conducted to link the 11 year cycle of the sun to changes in human behavior and society. The most famous research was been done by professor A.L. Tchijevsky, a Russian scientist, who presented a paper to the American Meteorological Society at Philadelphia in […]
Pennsylvania’s Freedom March for the Wrongfully Convicted Monday, June 3, 2013 City County Building 414 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 “Bringing awareness to the issue of wrongful convictions and giving a voice to those that have been silenced. We are honored to have Terrell Johnson as our guest speaker, exonerated in October 2012 for a crime […] […]
Years ago I was an innocent enough young man who had no reason to worry about the corporations involved in my life, and no reason to doubt they were regulated towards the benefit of us all. I was always a curious fella though, and as I was more fond...
I'm not sure anyone can say with absolute certainty who the first major league baseball player was to use steroids, and so it can't be determined where and when it all started. I will say, however, that the steroid era in major league baseball got...
Ah baseball, I so love thee. Baseball season starts in the Spring, and brings with it all the joy of the new year, and as regular as the sunrise in the morning, new heroes and new goats, and loads of terrific stories. I fell in love with baseball...
Now there is no real need to go on here about just what an African elephant is, the African elephant is one of the most easily identifiable creatures on planet Earth; literally everyone with the gift of sight knows what one is. Oh I suppose some...
Ah spiders! Even the baddest of men will sometimes shriek like small girls when surprised by one, and in the cases when anyone is surprised to find a brown recluse spider nearby, the shrieking is justified, but only when either a swift stroke of a...
Why not just try ... just try to be open to other possibilities ...
something unfamiliar ... possibly uncomfortable ... it might
just change you ... and it most certainly could change the world ...