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So, whatya think? Is this story of heroism worthy of a Humane Society valor award? Or is it just another day in the life of one of us who spend our lives watchin’ after God’s creatures? I can’t say but I’d like to have been a magpie in the cottonwoods watchin’.

In recent years, a worldwide shortage of tape showed few signs of relief. For a long time, National Audio muddled through by purchasing stocks of tape from other manufacturers.

GERMANY: As the first prototype of Enercon’s new EP3 platform starts operating in northern Germany, Eize de Vries visits the company’s R&D centre in Aurich to learn more about its radically different design approach, and the firm’s plans for its latest acquisition, Lagerwey.

Gold #30 – Head to BJ’s old house and make your way to the basement. The second gold piece is in a pile of crates in the back left corner of the larger basement room.

They stood guard night and day for six weeks fighting a losing battle. When the beans were ready, they cut ‘em with Raymond’s hand made rig behind the tractor. Each morning at daylight the three of them would rake the beans in a pile and pitchfork them into the pickup. There they’d fork ‘em into Raymond’s rebuilt combine, an Allis Chambers model 60 with John Deere wheels and a plywood box.

Women have wanted to be kind, but a woman has also felt that in being kind she’s somehow been sacrificial. Is kindness much bigger than women have imagined? Does it mean careful thought, even criticism? And when we’re truly kind are we really taking care of ourselves? Yes! At this eminently practical event, taught by consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, women will learn what can make married life honestly kind—and have a woman feel she is expressing her own deepest self: “The purpose of marriage is to like the world,” explained Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism. “The reason happiness in marriage is such a rare item is that people have tried to love in a way that would mean less of a like for the world—in fact, a contempt for it.” There’s going to be enlivening, insightful discussion of these important sentences by Mr. Siegel, from his lecture Mind and Kindness: "One way the large problem can be put is this: how to be kind without limit and at the same time take care of oneself without limit. The idea is always to feel that in being nice to something, you are nice to yourself. If in being nice to something you are not being … (read more)

FAT STEERS. Entirely out. No slur shall be made about the weight or their sexual predicament. Each cattle buyer will now deal in Ready Edibles. No, that won’t work either, can’t mention bulls. How ‘bout Ripened Ruminants.

Saturday was wash day. A big kettle over an open fire, the men sliverin’ homemade lye soap for the kettle. Washin’ clothes in the boiling water and ringin’em out in the gas powered Maytag. Goin’ to church on Sunday. Grandpa choppin’ wood, doin’ chores, whackin’ cedar for spendin’ money.

 “During the afternoon two flights of Beaufighters and two flights of Mosquito planes flew almost at rooftop over the city.

I pulled in, or tried to. The board—a stiff, hard-railed thing selected off a rack—was unimpressed. It kept tracking along, even veering slightly away from the face. The wave was a pretty barrel, chin-high and round, with a foamy lip, shot through with gold. My line, though, was now comically wrong. The lip landed on me and I was gone.

Graham Haynes Synesthesia with Adam Rudolph,Alex Marcelo, Hardedge – Nublu December 13, 2017 – New York

And if it works we can get a grant to research recycling old hair and toenails. After all, look at marshmallows. I think they’re made of horse’s hooves.