Yuliya Libkina on Flickr Earth Day Homage #2 Yes, we are very, very glad to see the rain these days. It seems the drought here on the east coast may have ended,or abated some­what,  at least until sum­mer comes. See­ing a rainy day is good when it means the lakes have a lit­tle water in them […]

Earth Day is Com­ing! Sed­i­ment pol­lu­tion in a muddy river _ USGS Photo April 22nd, 2010 is Earth Day. This has turned out to be a greater than one day event.  Earth Day has takenon  a global aware­ness month sta­tus with events and cam­paigns to high­light ser­vice to the envi­ron­ment. As an homage to that I am […]

I don’t know about you, but I really, really don’t like rodents run­ning loose, either in my house or on my prop­erty. Pets aside, rodents are not much fun.  Car­ry­ing dis­eases, dig­ging up the land­scape, eat­ing elec­tri­cal wires, bit­ing chil­dren, destroy­ing plant­i­ngs and crops, and drop­ping mouse dirt all over the house are only a […]

  Whew, is there any end to the infor­ma­tion about fire ants? I have writ­ten 5 arti­cles about fire ants now and I haven’t even begun to tell every­thing there is to know. I give up for a while.  It’s time to think about Valentine’s Day. For the guys, I’ll just say this is the most […]