Posted on Friday, June 26, 02009 under
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I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]
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Deny global warming now, you crazy neo-cons. I dare you. Did anyone else step outside at any point this weekend? It was 12C yesterday. Twelve. Above zero. In the middle of February. If you’re reading this from the middle of Africa — and judging by all the spam I’m getting, someone is — and think this a bit of an odd rant, consider this: normal mid-February events in this, the nether-regions of Canada, might include such popular activites as staying warm, avoiding frostbite, shovelling snow, scraping windshields, and burning fossil fuels to heat our homes. Mid-February is usually cold. No, not just cold — very cold. It’s usually the coldest part of the year, in fact. Double-digit negatives dot the landscaped weather maps, and everone’s [...]
