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Archive for the ‘Happy Monday’ Category

  • Saturday in Patagonia

    04 Feb 2012

    Today we got the lay of the land and an understanding of what the volcanic eruption did. On June 4th,…

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  • Patagonia…

    03 Feb 2012

    On June 4th, a volcano in Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain erupted. It had been dormant for 50 years. The eruption…

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  • To Build A Fire

    25 Jan 2012

    Deep south Texas, having received no rain for the baking months of the summer of 2011, had finally gotten rain…

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  • The Future in My Hand

    10 Jan 2012

    Babies have been affecting me for some time now. But lately, it’s been a different affection. I increasingly marvel at…

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  • This week’s Five

    Selected Fire Facts

    1. Over 1million acres burned in wildfires in Texas this summer.

    2. Wildfire is first recorded in the Late Silurian fossil record, 420 million years ago, by fossils of charcoalified plants. Apparently not due to anthropogenic interference.

    3. The name 'bonfire' is believed to be derived from the Celtic custom of burning the bones of the cattle which were slaughtered at Samhain - a 'bone fire'.

    4. Celebratory bonfires have historical precedence in Alpine and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan Scandinavia, Slavic Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and College Station.

    5. "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances", quoted from Jack London in "To Build A Fire'.

  • In the most recent past…

    • Saturday in Patagonia
    • Patagonia…
    • Somewhere over the Austrian Alps, ca. 1991. Approx. 3500m altitude, declining.
    • 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper
    • To Build A Fire
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