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Jun. 8th, 2015 | 05:39 pm
Okay, I have a few minutes to make a quick post...I was reading my post from December 28, 2012 and saw what I wrote about the drought. Those of you in Texas,or those who have been following my facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/erinosmith
We are still dealing with predator issues but are hopeful that we have a solution in the works... we have ordered a game camera to try to catch of glimpse of the responsible critters and are working with a friend towards getting some Great Pyrs to act as guardians. While I enjoy spending time with the field animals, I am getting a little bit tired of spending my nights down by the pasture. I would prefer to use that time getting something more productive done, like sleeping and using the daylight hours to do things like shearing, cutting hay, etc.
As on any farm, there are more tasks that need doing than daylight hours and the rains prevented many of us here in Texas from doing much of anything for two months. The pastures need cutting, the animals need worming and vaccinating, and so forth. There is a lot of superficial damage and some structures that need replacing after the straight line winds that hit us in mid May. We need to finish fencing in the second pen and move everyone over so we can reseed. The garden needs a TON of work, as does the orchards.
For once the tank is full and may even have some fish left, so little needs to be done there, but I have a secret plot of dewberries that need picking, if I am brave enough to face the possibility of snakes, briars and bomber mosquitoes... I haven't quite decided yet if I am that brave.
I also need to make ice cream for the fire dept. fundraiser on June 13th. 4-7 pm at the Woodbury Community Center.
Speaking of the fire dept., I gotta go to a meeting. I'll post again soon!
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Two and a half years later...
Jun. 8th, 2015 | 05:23 pm
mood: accomplished
Hey folks, it has been a long time, but that's because I was unable to get into my account to post entries to my homestead blog.
I'm going to be doing some more updates now that I have managed to get back into Livejournal. But it may have to wait until later this evening or until later this week. I have a Fire Dept. meeting to attend this evening.
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Year End Update - Happy New Year 2012!
Dec. 28th, 2011 | 10:47 am
This past summer and fall has been one of extreme heat and drought, only now giving over to the winter bluster and cold.
Work keeps me busy – the Church where I work is an active one and the times I have stepped in to help kept me from the farm a lot of the fall. I enjoy the camaraderie and I enjoy the work, but there are days like today, with its bright sun and mild temperatures, where I feel a longing to be at home instead getting some of the never-ending list of chores done.
And never ending is exactly how it is on the farm – feeding, watering, cleaning, weeding, building, repairing – the list goes on and on.
Anyhow, this past year has been one of challenges and of joys… please read on to see just what I mean.
My last entry was in late July in the midst of the worst summer of heat that I have seen in Texas. We lost a good number of bunnies, many of our bees, and some birds. We lost most, if not all, of our plants – both in the orchard and in the gardens, and the heat continued right on into September.
Somewhere in all that heat, we managed to have a few moments of cool – just long enough for one of our angora bucks to "get busy" with the does. This Christmas will be remembered for the earliest kidding season since we started the farm, beginning on December 9 and just slowing down on the 22nd. There may still be some babies yet, but most are done. Ten in total, but our does were not in great shape this year after the summer heat and the rains that started falling relentlessly around Thanksgiving. Three survived, and only one is being bottle fed. Thank goodness for small miracles! (I'll post pictures soon.)
The rabbits are doing well this fall and the first kindlings were expected right before Christmas. Nothing has happened yet, so there may not be many babies. I think I waited too long to breed them – it's been awfully dark with all the rain for weeks now, and the bunnies need lots of daylight hours (like chickens) to breed successfully. This is perhaps a blessing, as I am still working on finishing the bunny barn and new cages for the new barn. I did make a "bunny run" up to Missouri and bought back some French angora babies. I also had some bunnies brought down from Ohio and West Virginia. Many thanks go out to Herbal Maid Fiber Farm, Ben Randolph, Nita Whitley and Lisa Rodenfels.
The turkeys are still with us and doing well. No more babies but First Lady Dolly has been trying. Mr. President (James Madison) is growing more and more protective as the months go by, but he has been well taught by the banty rooster Jimmy Cagney.
Speaking of Jimmy C., he has produced (with the Nazi hens) a pen full of very nice looking banty chickens. Unfortunately, as is the case with most of our animals, most of the surviving babies are MALE. And because the Nazi hens (Ursula, Eva and Hilda) are banty crosses, some of the rooster offspring are bigger than Jimmy. The first grandbaby chicks for Jimmy were born this December… who's watching the calendar down there?
The other pen of chickens (mostly roosters now) is looking great. Having had the rest of the year now to regrow their feathers after this past summer's molt, they are all looking quite spiffy. Since we got the variety pack in terms of the birds, we have beautiful colors, of all hues, and quite a few dapper tails – frizzles, silkies, buff orpingtons, reds, partridges, blacks with that beautiful green sheen – the rooster yard is quite magnificent at the moment.
The geese are grown now and very vocal. Spotty is definitely "head goose" – as long as DH is not around. The two females are looking very nice – full bodies, lots of down and gorgeous feathers. They are definitely Emdens. The white males (Spotty and Sweetie) are most likely White Chinese. Nibbles, Handsome and Gorgeous are Brown Chinese. All are fairly social, surprisingly enough, and they are quite demanding in terms of getting time for undivided attention.
The baby ducks from late summer are now adults – beautiful black, blue and one brown. Frankie, the sole surviving Cayuga from the first batch, is in love with the new ducks… Finally after a year he has some of his "own kind" in the pen with him. The crested white ducks and the pekins are doing well, I guess, or as well as can be done in a pen where the geese rule and the banty hens take all the best laying spots. Unfortunately they are a little bit lonely (for some ladies of their own) but it is their own fault. They were too rough with the ladies they had and now there are none. It is hard to feel sad for them – the cute and cuddly ducklings of 2010 are not very nice – nor cuddly at all- as adults. In fact, next the guineas, they are the most vicious of the farm birds we own.
All of the cats except Charlie have given up and moved into the house. Charlie, our resident barn cat, is busy at work in the barns but does venture up every few days for a "home cooked" meal and some loving. He really hates the dogs, I think, and will only venture up if he gets too lonely.
The dogs are – well, they are themselves, only more so… Pretty is slowing down some and prefers to stay inside, asleep on one of the beds. Lucky, while still a great guard dog, is turning over more and more of the night guard duties to Bubbles. Bubbles and Bouncy are very devoted to me right now and are my honor guard now that Red is gone and Lucky is facing retirement. Pauli, the small dog that the others rescued, is still DH's dog, but is slowly weakening in her resolve to "diss me" at every opportunity. When before she would only grace me with her presence during severe thunderstorms (because quite frankly, I am "meaner than thunder") she now will sneak into the bed and under the covers to sleep at my knees when it is cold out. And occasionally she will even play with me! (Yes, as obscure as it may be, we are making progress…)
Well, work beckons… so I will finish later. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
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Another day of really hot weather...
Jul. 26th, 2011 | 12:19 pm
Hey, which comes first - the really hot summer that brings a really cold winter or vice versa?
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July 2011 Update
Jul. 25th, 2011 | 06:18 pm
I won't be posting any new pictures until I can get a new camera, but I can post a bit about what we've been up to this summer.
I finally got a decent garden in the ground. I planted a wide variety of things and got a decent but not great payback in fresh veggies. The ground was composted heavily with rabbit compost and watered from the duck pools. It helped that the basic garden plot was located in the old goat and llama pens, so it already had a great foundation of goat poop, llama beans and decomposed hay. It also had a nice amount of shade and is close to the faucet for watering.
I planted potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, lots of squash, brussel sprouts, lots of peppers, strawberries, and a bunch of herbs. There were some attempts to plant okra which the geese and ducks repeatedly ate, and we also had a number of volunteer pumpkin plants from the ones we used as chicken fodder last fall. FYI - pumpkin adds tons of beta carotene to egg yolks and the seeds are a natural wormer. Plus they loved pecking out the flesh which gave them something to do. Great fodder for the animals.
We got back from the garden a moderate amount of tomatoes, mostly small but I am not the most patient when waiting for tomatoes and the heat made them ripen too early. The cucumbers were amazingly prolific, but then again, this is my first year actually getting ANY cucumbers at all, so profilic doesn't mean much in our case. Unfortunately the cucumbers were amazingly BITTER and totally inedible. I couldn't even pickle them. The zucchini that we got were small in number but HUGE in size. I am talking small baby/large football/T-ball bat sized... One of these zucchinis would make two or three giant pans of lasagna alone. We got a decent amount of eggplant, but again, there's only two of us and we have no way of storing them long-term, so the amount we got may not be much for a normal family, but was perfect for the two of us. No onions this year. Very few potatoes although they could have done well if I'd planted them properly. The squash (boh zuccini and winter varieties) are storing well and we have a number of them stored already. We got ONE small pumpkin which I picked this morning, but it has a long stem on it and I hope to keep it stored for a while. We have three pumpkins still stored from last fall which is amazing considering the 23+ days of three-digit temps we have suffered through this summer.
Suffered through? Yes, the heat is horrible. More so for the animals than us, since we are able to escape to Starbucks or to Wal-Mart or at least to the safety of our car with its air conditioning.... which the dogs have discovered, by the way. Suddenly the dogs WANT TO RIDE IN THE CAR every single chance they get - but only if the A/C is on. LOL. Smart puppies! Despite our best efforts this summer, we have lost some bunnies in the heat. We've been clipping them close, spritzing on occasion, using tons of ice for cooling the water, multiple shade levels and battery-powered fans, but the never-ending heat is just taking its toll. There is just not a cooling off period at night. Most the bunnies lost have been angoras and I am seriously rethinking the angora bunny aspect of the farm. Unfortunately, the angora bunny wool will also be our biggest moneymaker, once we can get the bunny barn finished and the animals moved into bigger and cooler cages.
So I am working on different ideas on how to keep the bunnies cool. One idea, based on rabbitries in the tropics is bamboo cages which are basically slatted and up on stilts. Not very practical here, I am afraid. Another idea requires building underground dens with a pipe that leads to an outdoor cage... This idea, while labor intensive for a lot of bunnies, might work, but only if we can manage to make the underground dens waterproof. Basically you would built TWO separate cages for the bunnies - one buried underground, the other above the ground and shaded. The underground den would be accessible by a wide pipe (or culvert) to the outer cage. I am still trying to figure out how to make it waterproof (french drains and concrete walls) and ant-proof. The fire ants pose a big problem with this design. (Any engineers out there got any ideas?) Remember, it is nearly impossible to dig in our soil at any time of the year, so the underground dens would have to be built above ground and then buried with soil. Perhaps they could be seeded to produce living insulation on top and snacking grass for the bunnies.
We have geese and ducks now in addition to the other birds. The geese are loud and obnoxious but so much fun. The alpha male is also pushy and demanding of attention. (The others are much more reserved but still affectionate when it suits them.) The geese are named: Beautiful and Precious (hens) and Spotty, Sweetie, Nibbles, Handsome and Gorgeous (ganders). Yes, we realize that the girls are outnumbered. This has been a reoccurring theme on our farm this year.... This is what we get for taking in rescued geese. The ducks are neurotic, easily spooked and totally unfriendly but they are cute. All of them are messy and their pen is horrifically noxious. Poor DH gets to clean the pen every day! OUr ducks are named but I probably can't list them. We do have six Pekins (three crested, three not) and two Cayugas. Luckily the Cayugas are a pair. I'm not sure about the white ones, but I think that there are at least two females. Dolly and President James Madison (our Bourbon Red turkeys) are doing well. Dolly is as sweet as the day I got her. Mr. President, not so much, but he's only doing his job and doing it very well. He has gotten very protective of Dolly and the other birds in his pen and will stand guard between us and them. Good old tom! The three banties in the turkey pen have raised three or four batches of chicks so far this year and we have a second little flock that will be moving to their own pen, just as soon as we can build it. Ursula, Hilda and Eva have been good mothers. Jimmy Cagney, their rooster, while annoyingly aggressive, has been a good dad. We have moved most of the hens out of the main chicken pen (which is now pretty much a frat house). The banties are in with the ducks and geese and have a separate area for the setting banty hens. They are hard at work trying to hatch out some chicks for us. They are also setting on duck and turkey eggs. We shall see if they are successful or if the geese pick off the babies before they can be moved. Hopefully since I added the extra wall of protection, we will get some babies to survive this time.
We lost most of our bees this summer. Some to swarming, some to the heat, some to yellowjacket invasions, fireant invasions and finally, some to spaying of insecticides on a neighbor's property. We have gotten some honey out of the hives this year, but I have no idea what quality is will be. One note: DH did a lot of hive removal this year and one batch were Africanized. Not a fun experience! Esp. since the bees were not the usual size for Africanized bees which delayed their official identification as dangerous. Luckily DH realized that all was not well and disposed of the hive before getting hurt.
The progress on the house has been less productive, mainly due to our repeated distractions from the animals.
Poor DH has been building cages and pens ALL Spring and Summer, as the birds outpace us on every front. There are still pens to build. He also spent a great deal of time with the goats and llamas and did the shearing single-handed this year. George the llama got a wild hair up his rear and this means they will need a new shelter, as George decided to peer on top of the pen, crushing the cattle panels in the process... (It's a Quonset hut-type design made from cattle panels, t-posts and tarps, and for some reason, after a year of NOT messing with it, George felt the need to try to climb it one day. Now it needs completely redoing as it is not repairable.) Thanks, George.
Anyhow, the house is still in the same condition, pretty much, as it was at the beginning of the Summer. We still are using the outside shower and the outhouse arrangement. The kitchen is divided between a really nice propane grill outside and a small camp stove inside. Refrigeration is limited to 20 pounds of ice in a cooler. Lighting at night is either from the moon, or from small headlamps that we wear like an elaborate head band. We go through batteries and propane like most folks go through soda.
On a side note, we did purchase a low water (energy saving washer) this past spring. It works attached to a water hose and run by the generator. It is super quiet, almost too quiet and it doesn't always get the sand out of our clothes, but that's a story for another time.
We have purchased many items for the house - among them a great pantry system and solar powered water heating systems, plus a number of other handy gadgets for living "off the grid". We're moving slowly but surely toward a completed house... (I am trying to be patient.)
More later.
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The Garden
May. 9th, 2011 | 10:58 pm
So far I have planted: potatoes, onions and leeks, tomatoes, yellow squash (two kinds), zucchini, a few winter squash (mixed varieties), watermelon, bell peppers, hot peppers, four or five kinds of eggplant, okra, carrots, kale, lots of beans (a bunch of kinds) and strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. I think there may be a few other things in there too... oh yes, Brussell sprouts, radishes, cucumbers, and a half dozen assorted herbs...including curry, greek oregano, tarragon, chocolate mint, peppermint and lemon basil.
As of May 9th, we have gotten lettuce (from the potted salad pot at the house), some green tomatoes (while thinning the plants), green beans, a couple of strawberries, a handful of radishes, one small yellow squash and a quart or so of wild blackberries from the briars out under the live oak trees.
I'm planting in successions so that we can get additional harvests as the summer progresses, especially with the potatoes and onions. We shall see how it works when the real heat gets here.
Oh, and we have a fair number of volunteer pumpkin plants coming up from all those pumpkins we fed to the chickens this past winter. It would be very cool if we were to get some pumpkins this fall. The chickens loved them!
Speaking of the chickens - Rooster (Arnold) - the buff orpington rooster that was hurt last March. He has healed nicely although one foot is still slightly off-kilter. But he has regained full use of his leg and is doing well. So well in fact that we tried to return him to the pen. Unfortunately he is no longer considered one of the flock and therefore was gang-attacked. To preserve what dignity he has left, we returned him to the goose and duck pen. He is lonely though and looks longingly at Mother Goose. OFTEN. So we tried getting him a girlfriend or two from the battered hens from the main pen. In his excitement, he was too rough with them and so they have been moved to the old duck pen to recover. We'll try reintroducing them back in again later. Poor Rooster!
The turkeys are doing well, but did not hatch out any more babies. To give Dolly credit, she is still trying... But I think it is a lost cause. Time to clean out the nest again.
The three hens in with the turkeys have hatched out baby chicks, or are in the process of doing so, but only a handful are left. The chicks managed to get out of their pen and have been slowly picked off by predators one at a time. If only they would stay in the pen! We have tried everything to keep them in.
The goats are doing well although we lost one of the french does Juliette. Unfortunately she is the momma of Drew, our youngest angora buck. Luckily he weaned himself early and is doing okay without having to be bottle fed. But he misses Momma.
More later.
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Update - May 2011
May. 9th, 2011 | 10:41 pm
This past week DH completed a nice new pen for the baby geese and ducks, who are not so little anymore at 10 weeks. We installed a small baby wading pool but it is still to tall for them to get into comfortably. So I rigged up a ramp out of an old board and we put some big bricks in the bottom of the pool so that they can get out easily. Then I had to teach the ducks how to use it. This involved catching the little buggers and then placing them into the water on the bricks, holding them until they calm down from their absolute frantic panic. Once calm, I let go and BAM! The little buggers are across the pool and out the other side, not even pausing to enjoy the water. This we repeat - over and over. Finally the two little cayugas get it. They love the pool now. But the bigger ducks are terrified of the pool still... *sigh* This is going to take some time.
I did notice that one of the geese (Mother Goose) likes to stand in the pool but she will not swim in it yet. One of the white crested ducks (I think it was Donald Trump) will swim in the pool AS LONG AS NO ONE WATCHES HIM. If he sees you watching, he will get out of the pool. Who knew Donald was that shy????
The ducks and geese are not all named but we have named a few of them: The three white geese are Mother Goose, Sister Goose, Brother Goose. (They are actually all the same age, but I like Mother Goose.) The ducks are not all named - just the white crested ducks who are named after Donald Trump, Don King and a friend of ours who likes to wear big hats. (I will not reveal their name here though to spare them the embarrassment of having a duck named after them. ) Suffice to say, she probably knows who she is.
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March 3rd Update
Mar. 3rd, 2011 | 08:34 pm
The baby ducks and geese are doing well. Baby girl (the smallest goose) gave us a couple of scares but seems to have grown out of her weaknesses. She's still small but is holding her own for now. One of the ducks is getting big - almost as big as a gosling. It will be interesting to see what breeds these all turn out to be.
The llama Merry is not pregnant. We know this because George is acting silly again and she's letting him.
The baby goats are doing well. The little black doe keeps getting her head stuck in the fence. Considering that she's named after my college roommate, I'm not too surprised. Diana is headstrong and adventuresome. She also attracks trouble. Just like my old roomie.
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My Day....
Feb. 22nd, 2011 | 08:59 pm
"Visitors are required to help out with the animals. And before you book that ticket, remember it is primitive living here until the house is done. And to further entice you...let me give you an idea of what my day was like this past Sunday......
I got up late (8:30 am) because I spent all night feeding, watering and giving the bunnies hay. Until 2 am. Then I was awoken over and over because there were coyotes and deer and skunks and whatever else the dogs felt like barking at - all night long!
Then once I was up, I had to feed the chickens and the turkeys. And the baby ducks and geese. And the goats. And the llamas. Plus the dogs and the cats.
First I go visit the chickens. Who immediately start fighting - just because they can. Our poor hens are getting mangled by the roosters who are in "overdrive". I'm going to have to build another chicken pen just to house the "battered hens and chicks"... As I enter the pen, four frantic hens fly up and try landing on my shoulders... "Save us from those terrible roosters!"
One scratches my face with her claws. Another one pecks my glasses. Finally one poops on my leg.
In the chicken pen there is a rooster that has gotten hurt - either by another rooster, or in the frantic scrambling or maybe by one of the dogs, because a couple of the chickens got out the other day and he may have been one of them. He's now crippled, hopefully only temporarily. I have to carry him around to give him food and water. He thanks me by pooping down my leg. Great. Matching legs.
After I feed the chickens, I go to feed the turkeys. Mr. President (the tom) is freaking out because The First Lady Dolly is sitting on ten turkey eggs. So he tries to attack me. Except that he's a coward. So he waits until my back is turned. Luckily he's too chicken to actually touch me. But little Jimmy Duranti, the banty rooster in the pen with him, is not so scared. He tries to spur me. He rips my pants leg.
Next I got to get the mail, which means walking past the goat and llama pen. I can't leave the hurt rooster in the chicken pen because the others will kill him given the chance. And I don't have anywhere safe to put him yet. So I'm carrying him around until I figure out what to do with him.
As I pass the llamas and goats, they come running. Sweet little baby goats bouncing and bucking, the adult goats acting like kids. Very cute, very sweet. Until I keep on walking past their pen. Yes, they thought I was coming to feed them. But see, I'm going to get the mail. So I walk the half mile to the mailbox and there's no mail. Okay. That's okay. Back to the llamas and goats to finally feed them. But I am still carrying the dumb rooster. So I put him down on top of one of the feed bins and fill the buckets with llama food, because you have to feed Merry and George first. I take the food over to Merry because she's first in line and as I'm pouring the food into her bucket, she looks me dead in the eye and SPITS. Now, I have been saying for months that my llamas don't spit at people. They only spit at other llamas. Merry spit at me dead in the eyes. Luckily I'm wearing glasses but jeez - llama spits STINKS really, really bad. (I mean, REALLY, REALLY BAD.)
Okay - summary so far...
- Two pants legs with chicken shit.
- One torn pants leg from cocky little rooster who thinks he is a turkey.
- One hurt rooster sitting on top of the feed bin and
- Nasty, smelly llama spit in my face and all down the front of my shirt.
Today is going very well so far...
I go back to dishing out feed and Merry spits at me again. TWICE now she has spit at me so I can't say she just coughed or something. Merry is not feeling very merry towards me today... I can barely see because the stench is so bad that it's making my eyes water. Then as I'm feeding the goats, I get knocked down by the herd. This is not only painful but humiliating, esp. with 20 or so goats, the llamas, one hurt rooster and five dogs looking on. The dogs hide their faces in shame.
Finally to cap things off, I finish feeding the goats and llamas, take the rooster to the house to fix up a bin to keep him in and I let the ducks and geese out to eat and drink. This is a very messy job, so I'm looking forward to my shower after I finish these chores. But oh no! The shower is busted and the water is ICE COLD. There's no hot water... I sit down and almost cry, except that while I'm trying to work up a big primal scream, I get a big mouthful of dog tongue. Oh gross! Now my day is complete.
Still wanna come visit???"
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2011 Updates
Feb. 16th, 2011 | 08:42 pm
We have been using a propane-powered on-demand hot water heater this winter for hot water for showers. I will be reviewing this product in a few days.
I will also be giving my review on our new energy and water saving washing machine. It is one of the top-loading models from Kenmore.
If I can find any other products to review also, I will. I am sure that there are a few other items that I can share our experiences with - like the Kindle I purchased from Amazon.com.
I will also write an update on the animals. We have gotten a number of new animals since I last wrote.


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NV Energy offering discounts on LED bulbs
February 7, 2014
The NV Energy Residential Lighting Program is now offering Northern Nevada NV Energy residential customers in-store discounts on qualifying Energy Star LED bulbs at Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.
According to spokesman Karl Walquist, LED bulbs use 75 to 80 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and can save approximately $7 per year on energy costs for each bulb installed. LED bulbs also last roughly 10 times longer than CFL bulbs and 20 times longer than regular incandescent bulbs making their lifetime savings as high as $135 per bulb installed.
"While typically used for commercial purposes, LED bulbs are now more versatile and appropriate for residential use," stated a press release. "They offer the color range of incandescent bulbs from soft white to daylight and are dimmable. LED bulbs are also more durable, cool to the touch and do not contain mercury."
Special pricing stickers indicate the bulbs that have been discounted by an NV Energy Residential Lighting Program rebate.
For more information visit: https://nvenergy.com/lighting.
Main Street Gardnerville selling baskets of flowers
Surprise your Valentine this year by "giving" a special basket of flowers that will be part of the Main Street Gardnerville District all summer long.
"Your basket of flowers allows you and your Valentine to become part of the beautification of downtown Gardnerville," said a Main Street spokeswoman, "as well as a supporter of the Horticultural Programs at China Spring Youth Camp/Aurora Pines Facility, Douglas High School and Smith Valley School,"
The donation amount is $85 per basket and will ensure the continuation of this Main Street project.
The goal is to hang 62 beautiful flowering baskets on lamp posts along the Main Street District corridor.
"With your help we will be able to keep "Main Street in Bloom" all summer long while you and your Valentine enjoy these lush flowers and leave the watering to us," a spokewoman said.
To sponsor a basket, call the Main Street Gardnerville office at 782-8027.
"In return for your payment, you will receive a card with a special Valentine's Day message intended for your use," sponsors said. "This is a thoughtful way to say Happy Valentine's Day or perhaps the perfect gift for a birthday, anniversary or any other special occasion."

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A school in Nepal was padlocked this week for failing to make a number of changes, including altering the school's name, hiring Nepali staff and adhering to the national curriculum. The All Nepal National Independent Students' Union Revolutionary says the padlock will not be lifted until the changes, which were previously agreed to, are implemented.
Full Story:Kantipur Online (Nepal)


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June 9th, 2013
His love for his pet was written all over his face.
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Its good to see that my senior picture was shared almost 1100 times and I had no idea. To all the ladies out there: I'm single and no longer have any spiders.
funny enough your facebook profile pic is of a spider haha!
Spiders fascinate me. I wonder what it would be like to think like a spider.
Wow! he really is spider man :/


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I have been teaching myself basic typography. It is so exciting, srsly. I redesigned the Copwatch New Haven know your rights posters that I made a long time ago, because now that I know better I know they were fugly.
Full text of the posters is at the old link, although I changed it slightly since then. As before, feel free to use the posters in any way you need to. It's mostly split from a (even fuglier) Crimethinc poster and edited from there. Contact me if you need better resolution pdfs.


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The president has singled out Congress for rebuke while citing the impact of global woes on the economy. But in doing so he projects a message of powerlessness no leader likes to convey.
In Montreal this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left the impression he's not going to take a new look at the now permit-less Northern Gateway pipeline, likely putting the project on the backburner for as long as he's in power.
It's what the Federal Court of Appeal asked his cabinet to do in last week's 153-page decision as a way to remedy "inadequate" consultation by the Crown with impacted aboriginal communities.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Barack Obama unleashed a blistering and belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls Monday, calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal with Iran "ridiculous if it weren't so sad."
After an unprecedented surge in Chinese attempts to stimulate the economy in late 2015, mostly on the fiscal side, coupled with recent monetary easing by the PBOC which cut the banks' reserve ratio recently and unleashed a tsunami of new loan creation in January, many expected that this unprecedented credit impulse would translate into at least a modest rebound for the economy, prompting a stable pick up in spending for the economy which many are touting is now consumer-spending driven as opposed to export and production.
Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will lay out a plan Thursday to fix the "broken" laws stranding millions of undocumented migrants in limbo, saying the problem has festered for too long.
The Obama administration on Friday announced two new executive actions aimed at strengthening the federal background check system. The two new moves on gun control are further proof that President Barack Obama will continue to go ahead with any and all possible moves on guns. It also signals that, for the foreseeable future in Congress, any new measures on gun control are dead.
The Obama administration on Thursday announced two new executive actions on gun control, irritating gun-rights activists in bypassing Congress.
TORONTO — Compare oil production growth from Canada's oil sands plus nearby tight-oil fields, versus pipeline infrastructure needed to transport it to consumers, and you see why Canada's energy sector is sweating bullets.
If supplies continue to rise as expected, pipeline capacity will run out around 2015/2016, when combined production from the oil sands and the Bakken tight-oil field surpasses four million barrels a day. When production hits six million barrels a day in a decade, capacity would run out again even if all proposed pipeline plans are approved and built.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — No progress to report in efforts to stave off looming government-wide spending cuts, President Barack Obama on Tuesday singled out for praise the few Republicans who say they're open to aspects of his approach, seeking to turn up the heat on GOP leaders ahead of Friday's deadline.
"Taxation without representation" says the text under the Washington, DC license plate of President Obama's inaugural limo. Citizens of DC argue they are not represented when the Congress decides on their taxes. One has to ask how well the rest of us are represented. We will get to that with some detail in a moment.
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive CNS malignancy, which is rarely curable. Diffuse brain invasion is a hallmark of this cancer. At the molecular level, the EGF receptor (EGFR) plays a central role in determining the physiology of many GBMs. EGFR gene amplification is common in GBM and frequently accompanied by an in-frame deletion of exons 2-7, which yields a truncated and constitutively active form of the receptor (EGFRvIII). Because of the profound effects of the EGFR and EGFRvIII on GBM cell physiology, EGFR-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and other EGFR-targeting therapeutics have been used to treat these tumors. Efficacy has been demonstrated;however, GBMs typically escape from control. We have identified the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) as a cell-signaling receptor that may become activated to support GBM cell growth and survival when EGFR signaling is neutralized or when GBM cells are treated with EGFR-targeting therapeutics. Activation of the uPAR cell-signaling system may increase GBM cell migration and invasion. In GBM cells, in which EGFRvIII is expressed, crosstalk pathways involving EGFRvIII and uPAR may be essential to activate the mitogenic transcription factor, STAT5B, and actualize a highly aggressive phenotype. Similar crosstalk pathways also may occur when the EGFR is amplified in the absence of EGFRvIII. The goal of this research project is to characterize the role of uPAR as a receptor that synergizes with the EGFR in GBM cells and as a receptor that may allow GBMs to escape from control in patients that are treated with EGFR-targeting therapeutics. Understanding uPAR mechanisms in GBM cells will facilitate rational design of uPAR-targeting therapeutics that could be used independently or in combination with EGFR-targeting drugs in patients with GBM.
In Aim 1, we will study multiple model systems, including human GBMs that are propagated as xenografts, to test the hypothesis that activation of uPAR signaling constitutes an important pathway by which GBM cells escape from control by EGFR-targeting therapeutics.
In Aim 2, we will characterize uPAR-EGFR crosstalk, at the molecular level in GBM cells, and test candidate therapeutic approaches for neutralizing this crosstalk.
In Aim 3, we test whether inadvertent activation of the uPA-uPAR system, in GBM cells treated with EGFR-targeting therapeutics, induces phenotypic changes favoring cell migration and invasion.
In Aim 4, we explore the relationship between uPAR and the EGFR in surgical specimens of primary and recurrent human GBMs. We also will apply quantum dot immunofluorescence microscopy to probe for evidence of uPAR signaling in human GBM specimens, at the single-cell level. Although this project has a basic science foundation, our objectives are highly translational. Ultimately, our goal is to complete the pre-clinical studies necessary to justify targeting uPAR for therapeutics development in GBM.
Effective therapies are currently not available for patients with the CNS malignancy, glioblastoma multiforme. Thus, the prognosis for these patients is poor. The goal of this proposal is to confirm that a receptor called uPAR is an important new target for drug development in glioblastoma multiforme and to determine how, mechanistically, to block the activity of uPAR and thereby eradicate glioblastoma multiforme tumor cells.
|Wykosky, Jill; Hu, Jingjing; Gomez, German G et al. (2015) A urokinase receptor-Bim signaling axis emerges during EGFR inhibitor resistance in mutant EGFR glioblastoma. Cancer Res 75:394-404
|Hu, J; Muller, K A; Furnari, F B et al. (2015) Neutralizing the EGF receptor in glioblastoma cells stimulates cell migration by activating uPAR-initiated cell signaling. Oncogene 34:4078-88
|Hu, Jingjing; Jo, Minji; Eastman, Boryana M et al. (2014) uPAR induces expression of transforming growth factor ? and interleukin-4 in cancer cells to promote tumor-permissive conditioning of macrophages. Am J Pathol 184:3384-93


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In answer to shoppers' demand for "green" products, retailers including Nordstrom and REI are stocking a growing number of sustainable pieces including scarves sewn from recycled sweaters and organic cotton shirts. "Our ecoSensitive product sales were up more than 30% in 2009," said Kelly Kraus, REI's director of sales and marketing.
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Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Church Street East, Waterhead, Oldham, OL4 2JQ
Sat, 09:00 till 14:00
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Creative Crafts Fair is set up to help Crafters promote and sell their items on a regular basis.
Our stall fees are at a competitive price to enable any size of business to attend our events.
We will hold our first event in Shaw, Oldham. We hope to host 1 Craft Fair each month in various locations around the boroughs.
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Pain Causes Pride
You never did love me
You never did care
Now you want to be free
Who are you trying to scare
I thought we have something
I thought we'd end up being together
But what is this coming
Trying to put thing's out of order
I gave my whole self to you
Devoted even my life
Because I know your love can be trusted
But I guess, this is nothing but wasted
Now you can have your freedom
And for me, my boredom
What will I do now?
Now that you're out of my life
Don't worry; I know I can find someone better
Better than myself, more deserving of my trust
But I'm still hoping that it is you I'll find
Hoping that you'll change your mind
All I have is you, all I need is you
Now, I don't have you, but still I need you
I guess I truly love you
Hoping that you do, too
But now, it's time to say goodbye
To hit our own roads
You to the left, me to the right
So, to keep you out of my sight
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Google is enhancing the voice recognition capabilities of Google Docs with a new feature announced Wednesday, which will let users edit and format documents with their voice. The company first introduced voice transcription back in September, and after today's update, creating and maintaining Google Docs is virtually hands-free. As Google outlined in its Help Center, the voice recognition technology will recognize verbal commands ranging from "copy" and "paste" to "align center" and "strikethrough."
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only is in Harlem but is African-American owned. The Cecil is NYC's first Afro-Asian-American brasserie and was opened by NY businessman Richard Parsons, former
chairman of Citigroup and former chairman and CEO of Time Warner,
and Alexander Smalls, famed restaurateur and chef. Recently, TNJ.com caught up with Smalls.
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executive life coaching from his NJ/NY/NYC location, but has clients
An African American activist and leader says more black millennials need to establish their presence and businesses in black communities.
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Vibia, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, designs and manufactures modern and contemporary lighting and living accessories. The entire Vibia line features works by prominent designers known for superb European lighting.
The Puck 1 Light Ceiling/Wall Combo is available with the following:
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- Material: Triplex Opal Blown-Glass Diffuser with white cast aluminum body
- ADA compliant
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- Made In Spain
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- Small Option: 3 Watt (352 Lumens) 120 Volt Integrated LED: CRI: 80 Color Temp: 3000K
- Small Option: One 40 Watt (500 Lumens) 120 Volt G9 Double Loop Base Halogen Lamp(s) (Not Included)
- Large Option: 7.4 Watt (720 Lumens) 120 Volt Integrated LED: CRI: 80 Color Temp: 3000K
- Large Option: One 40 Watt (500 Lumens) 120 Volt G9 Double Loop Base Halogen Lamp(s) (Not Included)
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LumensThe amount of light that comes from a bulb, which has commonly been measured in watts. The more lumens, the brighter the bulb.
WattageA measurement of the power delivered to a component of an electric circuit (allowing a one-ampere current to flow through the component under the pressure of 1 volt.)
Bulb ShapeBulb shapes are denoted with a letter, which describes the shape, and a number, which indicates the size. The number indicates the diameter of the light bulb at its widest part in eighths of an inch.
BaseThe part of the bulb that connects to the fixture and its power supply. Bulb bases are denoted with the letter E, and a number which indicates the diameter of the bulb base at its widest part in millimeters.
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