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>Oil, oil, everywhere – how to help?!?
>Some people use skills and knowledge to clean oil-slicked birds.Some set up barriers and hope they’ll hold.Some apply their knowledge toward capping the devastating leak. Some raise the money to...
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>The good, the bad, and the ugly in the garden this week
>The bad: darn these baby maple seeds! The helicopters landed, I picked up as many as I could, and now I’m pulling the sprouts of those I missed. If I ever let natural succession take its course,...
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>BP or not BP: Accountability, not apologies.
>Republican Congressman Joe Barton personally apologized to BP in a congressional hearing this week. Apologized. Told the huge international company, the one responsible for eleven deaths and an...
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>Fun Day Friday — True or False
>It’s Friday! In the standard workweek, it would be a TGIF. It’s summertime, though, and in a teacher’s world that makes the schedule a bit different. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it,...
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>True or False: did you guess?
> First: did you see the true or false quiz yesterday? No? Then go to Friday’s post first. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Guess which one (yes, one) is false. Okay, you’re done now? Here’s the list again, but...
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>Throwing a greener party
>It wasn’t fully green. We did use paper plates; you can see them here. However, there were many green elements to the graduation party at our humble home last weekend. There were plastic cups...
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>A high tech and low tech day
>Readers, are you old enough to remember MegaTrends? In the early 1980s John Naisbitt wrote a book called Megatrends in which he predicted a global switch to high tech in business and in personal...
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>Summer salad: Chicken, apple, walnut, and brown rice salad
> Here’s another resource using rice from Uncle Ben’s! I made half of this because only three of us would be eating. Served on a bed of lettuce with a few more random veggies, it was delicious and...
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>Jammin’ with my Bloggy Friends
>In generations past, cooks would exchange advice over the backyard fences, over coffee in each other’s kitchens, or over the phone. In today’s world, we’re not all that different; we exchange...
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>Sloppy Joes!!
>This is modified from the Uncle Ben’s version; I didn’t use the rice. I tried it with rice and it was good, but we felt like putting rice on a bun was a little overkill in the carb category. The...
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