Lissa and I just finished putting new lights in the kitchen. We replaced the old (very old) incandescent fixtures with flourescents. More light. Less electricity. Woot.

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My dog, Sadie, amuses me as follows: She spends a great deal of her energy looking out the front window. To enable this, we’ve put a stool by the window for her to sit on. When the curtain’s closed, she’ll stick her nose under and push it up. It drapes over her head, and from …

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Drove down to the Bosque del Apache today to see the birds. Mom and Dad joined us: picture by Lissa Heineman The chief attraction is sandhill cranes: picture by Me It was a pretty cold day, as you can tell by Mom and Dad’s bundleosity in the picture above, but much of the bird-watching at …

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Maybe I’m loony to apply the collective open source free software model to everything, but I think it may apply to ecosystem restoration. Lissa and I went down to the bosque this afternoon to cut some salt cedar. As you can see, the cottonwoods are in full color, and it was a beautiful warm afternoon. …

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