Short attention span blogging

I think there's something seriously wrong with me when I see a big pile of donkey crap, and I think, "Aw, sweet!"

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Check out this truly amazing large-scale plant-based art.

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Last November's propane bill? $398. This November's propane bill? $54. Woohoo!

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Schedule some time off from work, because in a week or two, you're going to be sick. How do I know this? Because you just visited with people from all different places, who brought all their germs together for a different kind of holiday party. And so did everybody else. All those germ parties will be combining into a massive germ Woodstock at your local schools, churches, and workplaces. Resistance is futile.

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Sadly, mere months after losing Truck #1, Truck #2 has also gone to the great scrapyard in the sky. The trucks are survived by the Honda and the Subaru. Services were held at the local Ford dealership. In leiu of flowers, please send donations to the E4 Truck Fund.

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I've been recently fascinated by a couple of books:

Keeping Food Fresh by "the Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante", which describes Old World methods of preserving food. Instead of canning or freezing, which can be rather energy intensive, the book outlines in-ground or root cellar solutions, drying, lactic fermentation, preserving in oil, vinegar, and alcohol, preserving with sugar or salt, and even sweet-and-sour preserves.

Return to Resistance by Raoul Robinson (available for free download here), explains how simple, low-tech techniques can be used to breed a high degree of disease resistance into plants. I'll be writing more about this one later.

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Does anybody else think it's weird that in this country, human cloning is illegal, and widely considered immoral, but that meat and milk made from cloned animals is perfectly legal? In fact, it doesn't even need to be labeled as such.

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging activities.