The Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference is the largest gathering of its kind in the United States. We became aware of it in the early ’90s, when the organic farming movement was just beginning to expand beyond its narrow “counter-culture” niche. Today organic farming is big business, and some of the biggest food corporations are trying to muscle in on the fastest-growing sector of the food business. Read on »

During the years of the Bush/Cheney regime, many people displayed the American flag upside-down as a signal of distress.

Knowing that, how do we interpret this:

A Green Bay Packer flag flies upside-down on a late February afternoon in La Crosse.

I mean, weren’t they 11-6 this season? WTF?

Crashing, rumbling, scraper of blacktop
Spreader of sand, sprinkler of salt

I didn’t really put much thought into it, it just came out as the snowplow went by. RoZ said,  ”Crashing, rumbling,” and I added the rest. She counted the syllables: 17, which – along with referencing the season – makes it a haiku by definition.

So for people who are much more “into” this kind of thing than we are, here you go.

It took eight months, but we’ve finally published a tribute to Ariel, the lovebird who shared our house with us for over 12 years.

3250 words, 16 photos and four videos seems like a lot, but it doesn’t do justice to the size of his personality, or the gap that his absence leaves in our lives.

You can read all about him here, then come back to this post to comment.

On January 27, 2010, the eyes of the world were focused on one man, waiting for news of what they would be talking about – indeed, what they would be OBSESSED about – in the coming year.

Barack Obama presents the iPad at his State of the Union speech.

The day was kind of a blur, but that’s how I remember it.

;-)

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Obbie