More on chicken breasts
I thought
this page
was also pretty informative.
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Great Glebe Garage Sale.
We are finally going to get to participate in the
Great Glebe Garage
Sale. Yay!
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Avoiding tough chicken
My chicken breasts always seem to turn out tough and stringy, so I’m
looking for ways to
avoid tough
chicken.
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Slow Compost Pile
Our compost pile is what one would call a sloooooow compost pile. It will
probably take about 2 years before it starts to produce compost (one down,
one to go!). We don’t have much choice about that, given our limited and
shared space. We’re lucky that our neighbours are good sports as it is.
Still, someday maybe I’ll be able to speed things up a little. Here are
some suggestions for how to do that.
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Damping Off
I’d like to avoid ‘damping off’ my new seedlings. This is a new term for
me, but as it turns, out ‘damping off’ killed my basil. Doh! It sounds
like something you might want to do to your plants, but in fact it’s a
generic term for the attack of any fungi that eats plants and kills them
by attacking their stems so that they get mushy, with damp spots. Here’s
some information on it:
Damping-off Seedlings
You Grow
Girl-Damping Off
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Microphones
How they work.
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Verbal Self Defense
I recently borrowed the book The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense by
Suzette Haden from a
friend. I really enjoyed it and found it useful. It isn’t about how to be
good at saying nasty things to people, as you might think. It’s about
getting past people’s antagonistic tendencies and disarming potentially
hostile conversation situations so that you can have worthwhile
converstaions and discussions with people. Useful stuff!
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Ontario Renaissance Fair
I was intrigued by the Ontario Renaissance
Festival last year, but this year, with my new knowledge of hair toys,
I really want to go. As far as I can tell, Renn fairs are hair toy
paradise.
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Situated Cognition E-Book
Here.
With a number of references.
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Another course on situated cognition
With some useful
links.
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A course on situated cognition
Here.
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A critique of situated cognition
Here.
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Flowers on my lawn
There are numerous other plants growing on my lawn, other than grass. In
some places, grass is a definite minority.
Today I identified
mouse
eared chickweed,
ground ivy,
also know as creeping charlie,
thyme-leaved
speedwell, I think, and
common
strawberrywhich I had suspected but was surprised to
confirm when it flowered.
The chickweed is edible as a pot-herb, the ground ivy can be dried and used as a tea and the common strawberry, if all goes well, should have (small) strawberries, although that may not happen if it isn’t fertilized well enough. I don’t plan to eat any of the plants though. I would wait for a second person’s identification before chowing down. Well- except in the case of the strawberries…
There are numerous other plants I have yet to identify, since they haven’t
obliged by flowering yet- and may not, if Colin mows over them with the
lawn mower before they get the chance.
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Animal Behavior Research
The significance of animal behavior research.
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Bike Racks
I am eager for Colin to get a bike rack for his car. A few models:
Thule Bike Rack
Receiver Hitch Bike Rack for a car with a hitch.
Swagman Verona Rack. Available at MEC.
Other racks available at MEC.
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Angel Episode Summaries
Detailed Angel episode
summaries.
Just because I don’t have a t.v. doesn’t mean I can’t keep up!
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P’tit Train du Nord
This trail in Quebec sounds super-cool.
200km of paved bikeway. Yum.
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Aha! Trans Canada Trail Across Ontario
This wasn’t easy (for me) to find- but it turns out the description of the
trail
across Ontario was on the official website all along.
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Cataraqui Trail
I am putting together the ‘pieces’ of the transcanada trail across
Ontario. So far I know where the trail starts (it comes in from Gatineau
Park in Quebec, across Alexandra Bridge) and where it goes up to Carleton
Place. There is still a gap in my knowledge between Carleton place and
Smiths Falls. It picks up in Smith Falls as part of the
Cataraqui Trail and
goes on to Napanee. Where it goes from there, I don’t know… yet…
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Biking Across Canada via Trans Canada Trail
Ever since I first heard of the Trans Canada Trail I have loved the idea
of biking and hiking all the way across Canada. The great thing about the
Trans Canada trail is that, once it is finished, it will be one long
continuous trail. You just get on at one end and keep going until you
reach the other. Perfect!
The weird thing aobut the trail is that, because it is being constructed section by section, community by community, even though there is a central organization there is no centeral map. This makes it pretty difficult to connect the dots, or even find the trail in the first place!
Consequently I was quite inspired by
this site. These
two
guys from Australia did manage to find the trail and follow it from
Vancouver to Newfoundland. Awesome.
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James A. Schaefer
James
Schaefer is a Caribou Researcher in Trent University.
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Rangifer.net
A site devoted to
the Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems. It looks like it has a lot of
information about people and organizations doing Caribou research.
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Useful Caribou Pics
These caribou
picturesby K. Bruce are the most useful pictures and descriptions of
caribou I have found yet. No one seems interested in small scale
description of groups- size, shape and behaviour. I must just be missing
this information.
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10th North American Caribou Workshop
Turns out
this conference is happening right
now. Doh! Maybe next year.
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Orienteering Maps
Colin and I have been doing some orienteering. I’m trying to improve my
instant interpretation of the maps, so I looked up the map symbols and
found
this useful
site with links to pictures of different map symbols.
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