Little Blog In The Big Woods

A year ago, at the end of that exceptionally hot, dry, summer, I lost a very old friend. This friend was someone I'd watched, walked ...

I haven't been posting all the stuff on Fukushima for a good while- it's mostly just too depressing, and there's nothing we can ...

Hi.  Haven't forgotten you.  Delighted so many are still here. My repeated attempts to blog more frequently have not succeeded, as we ...

As old readers here know, I have a team of visiting anthropologists - from Antares - camping out in my attic.  Periodically they offer insig...

I lit the fire in the wood cookstove today.  Almost certainly, it will stay lit, until some time next May. It's our third cookstove; I...

My tongue hurts. Because?  Well, because blackberries (the berry kind) don't grow in Minnesota; it's too cold.  We have black rasp...

TEPCO knew about water flow two years ago That's the headline today on NHK. "A spokesperson for Tokyo Electric Power Company ...