Tag: random musings
member name: Richard Frisbie
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April 17, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
Our editor in chief (David Cooperstein) suggested I repost this to these groups. I hope it helps us all to promote gather.
There is much written about connecting, publishing, contributing . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:26 PM EST --
Ethanol is our government’s solution of choice to our reliance on foreign oil. Because of that, US ethanol production is increasing 15 percent or more annually, and is expected . . .
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August 04, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean - book review
At first I thought the unlikely title of this hilarious non-guide book went too far, Rotten Person indeed! Then, after . . .
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September 18, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
"If you don’t know where your food was grown and who grew it, you don’t know what you’re eating."
Carbon Miles / Carbon Footprints
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August 08, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
Triple Yellow Datura in my NY garden
Last night before the threatened severe weather, I took these photos of a rare . . .
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May 15, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
Subtitled: A Gardener's View of Life
When I looked at the twenty-five foot tall weeping cherry tree, with it's thinly leafed branches twisting through Central Hudson's . . .
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April 13, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
Pae'an -- n. Chant of thanksgiving for deliverance . . .
I drink in the beauty of my garden.
Mornings, Irish coffee in hand, I greet the day
Brush the dew off . . .
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April 28, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
A Gardener is as a Gardener Does
At my house brilliant color photographs on glossy paper scream out from the covers of a half dozen or more gardener's wish books in a pile . . .
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May 26, 2006 12:06 PM EDT --
We do things a little differently in my home town. We actually celebrate holidays on the day they occur. I know, I know. When you look at the calendar and see a Monday holiday, you think . . .
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August 03, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Garbage Pesto
An inexpensive, healthy, and very efficient family meal using up the "things going bad in the refrigerator". Perfect for a frugal gormet at months end . . .
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August 07, 2007 02:29 PM EDT --
Scranton PA - A Foodies Paradise
Scranton PA - Part Second
Scranton Culinary Tour - Part Third - The Inn at Nichols Village
A few miles north of Scranton in Clark’s Summit is the boutique hotel . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:20 PM EDT --
When touring the Champagne region north of Paris recently, many of the best establishments I frequented offered me champagne. Imagine if Heaven followed this tradition, you . . .
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September 08, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
What is it about humans that drives us to seek the fastest, the biggest, the best, of everything? That’s how we measure our success. So it is with farmers and pumpkins.
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September 23, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
Just so you know - I wrote here on Sunday , 9/20, about NY Rieslings and how great the 2006 vintage was and how the 2007 was as good. Since then this breaking news:
STRONG SHOWING FOR . . .
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July 22, 2007 01:20 PM EDT --
The Scranton/Harrisburg region of Northeast Pennsylvania is a foodie’s paradise.
There is something about driving across the border to Metamorous (PA) and thinking I’m leaving . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
I recently recorded this 725 word essay for WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, our local NPR feed. I was sorry the listener's couldn't see the photos from my week-long pilgrimage. I hope you enjoy . . .
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August 20, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
In the Wilds of Longwood Gardens!
Longwood Gardens, just outside of Philadelphia in the Brandywine Valley, is the premier horticulture destination of Pennsylvania. They have over 350 acres of formal rose . . .
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May 25, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
I fried a skirt steak for dinner the other night. It brought back great memories of holidays when I was growing up, a scion of a big Irish family, with Aunts and Uncles and . . .
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May 20, 2006 12:22 PM EDT --
Junior lied to the officer, "Honest, it was ablaze when I arrived."
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May 05, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
Whatever happened to the idea that automation would make our lives easier? I remember TV ads in the fifties and sixties touting time- and labor-saving devices. Vacuum cleaners, electric . . .
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