Aly’s New Library Video

Aly belongs to the Haines Library Film Club, an after school program for teens. Lately, they’ve been making videos promoting using the library. Aly wrote the script for the latest one, which her friend, Eli White, filmed and edited. I thought the concept was pretty cute. I especially like the “star” of the video, but as her father, I’m biased, of course.

The video is posted on YouTube, but isn’t set up to embed, so you’ll need to follow this link to view the video.

If you’re reading Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons as a lunar calendar with me, today if your in or near my time zone, tomorrow if you’re closer to the east coast, is the day to read the poem, Pink Moon—The Pond, on April’s full moon.

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Still Waiting for the Thaw

Our weather has been fairly warm with a lot of sunshine lately. We feel like spring is here. However, we still see signs that we have a ways to go yet. Our summer water system is still too frozen to begin collecting water for the coming season. The little freezing we’ve experienced in the winter system, amazingly limited to a monitoring pipe, only recently loosened up enough to be useful again.

This all seemed strange, until I joined Michelle in the garden for some heavy work yesterday. Continue reading →

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