Little Blog In The Big Woods

I left a comment on the NYT article on Borlaug's passing . Here it is: The one time I met Dr. Borlaug, I made a complete fool of myse...

SciFi writer Larry Niven, in his younger days, proliferated "Finagle's Law", which is basically Murphy's Law (Anything th...

So to speak. Readers will have noticed a falling off in posts here- the reality is that we're entering a time of the year which gets b...

Yesterday we got both our dogs "fixed". It's traumatic. For me, anyway. Poor Delilah- looks up at me with those very sad h...

Once again, this post is Sharon's fault. She posted a bit a couple days ago about facing a future with highly erratic fuel costs- mak...

Typically, time has snuck up on me. Surprise- the Summer Solstice is tonight: 5:45 Coordinated Universal Time- which translates into 45 mi...

Good job, everybody! No dumb guesses among them; but- ADAM had it right. I just got finished tearing it down and rebuilding it; and indeed ...