Monthly Archives: October 2009

Close encounters of the arachnid kind or, an arachnomania moment.

Posted on by Ann Carranza

Yesterday, as I cleaned off the plant shelves in the kitchen I encountered a black widow web near the window.  I moved a painted decorative grasshopper candle-holder, and found the usual dust motes and dead bugs, but didn’t see the spider.  So I carted the votive holder to the sink, placed it there to be [...]

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Solar clothes dryers

Posted on by Ann Carranza

We’ve gotten our first rains and I’m reminded that I won’t be able to use my solar clothes dryer (aka clothesline) so often as we progress into winter.  I love the loofa scrub I get from the sun-scented towels.  I’ve used a clothesline to dry laundry off and on all my life. For many of [...]

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Stewardship—again.

Posted on by Ann Carranza

I’ve been thinking a lot about NASA’s “mission to bomb the moon” and our woeful lack of healthy stewardship of the Earth.  What makes us so arrogant as a species, to believe that we are pursuing a “new frontier” by being destructive to another celestial body?  I read that the United States is trying to [...]

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