working for motorola in 2001 i was well aware that the FCC mandated all phones track users which folks are just noticing. *possibly* unrelatedly i haven’t owned a cell phone since leaving ( actually, not really the reason why but i can talk no further 🙂
Monthly Archives: April 2011
lessons from backyard chickens
fun little article on 5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens which i’ve all found to be true in our experience with The Girls. jill richardson covers #3 quite extensively in her lovely post on chicken personalities.
Crystal Cave – SvĂnafellsjökull in Skaftafell, Iceland by orvaratli
grow yer own grass for easter!
it makes me smile to see an easter egg odin made with grandmother sitting in a basket odin made at school filled with real easter grass that grows and grows and grows. i like that odin makes the basket every year as a vibrant and tangible reminder that spring and its promise of renewal is, literally, right around the corner.
and it’s much more pleasant smelling and soothing to the senses than that nasty plastic grass 🙂
this year the school used rye, i believe, which grew an astonishing inch per day and goes from seed to needing a trim in about a week.
next year we’ll need hopefully dye some eggs from The Girls.
easter candy toxicity
projected U.S. 2011 easter candy sales: $2.1 billion. possibly relatedly, bite the head off that chocolate bunny while reading the recent excellent article, is sugar toxic?
German baby born at 21 weeks goes home
the most premature baby born in europe, a 21 weeker, born weighing just 16 ounces has has gone home after 5 months in the nicu with “no indication that she will not be healthy.” not to be a doubting thomas, but 16 ounces seems mighty large for a 21 weeker. i was told by the neonatologist that <23 weeks is just flat-out biologically impossible. anything earlier than that is a mistake in conception dates.