Pocahontas County Fare

The new clothesline offers an opportunity for displaying my finished projects on hangers. Most of the sewing bloggers I follow have dress fo...

After the latest Debian sid update, Digikam quit working on one of my machines (but not the other). It would flash the start-up logo, then j...

Another holiday postcard from my grandmother's album--an Easter bell with alder catkins and lilies-of-the-valley, postmarked "Presc...

I planted a little patch of lettuce in early February. Most years, such early plantings are unsuccessful--they sprout and freeze, or get w...

The whole "If your Great-grandma wouldn't recognize it as food, don't eat it" seems to assume great-grandmas with limited ...

EQT chief speaks on fracking, coal, greenhouse gases at UC   - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - : The questio...

Some paleoclimate references my environmental science students might find useful: Climate during the Carboniferous Period Evolution of...

Via Northwest History , a selection of negative ads for the presidential race of 1864: The Ads that Could Have Won George McClellan the P...

"To Greet You On St. Patrick's Day." There's no message or signature on the flip side, just the address: "Miss Flor...

phpMyAdmin and MySQL — Drop Tables with Common Prefix | DigitalWindFire : A handy tip for my Wordpress experimentation--this is how I delete...

Here it is, tied, bound, and hung on the clothesline for photographs. This double-bed cover is made from my wardrobe from the 1980's an...

State launches gas-drilling database for public  - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - : "CHARLESTON, W.Va....

I've been knitting hats again. I haven't figured out a good way to photograph hats, but I remembered that I have some hat images fr...

Yesterday, I needed to make a label for a hat I'd knitted from some 1980's-vintage silk yarn . The search engines showed me this exc...

I haven't knit a sweater for a long time, mostly because I haven't been pleased with the fit. I've tried dozens of approaches to...

I've been reading philosophy and ecology papers, trying to get ahead of my students on the fly with courses I took over mid-semester. Si...

I don't know why this fascinates me so, but the Tyrolean mummy they call the "Iceman" has made (or unmade) more science career...

I'm currently flapping around the Internets, scavenging for articles suitable for my environmental science classes. The good news is, it...

My computational hours are still taken up with preparations for the classes I'm teaching, but Sherry Chandler has posted a miscellany o...

Follow this link to an amazing insect fossil: Super-sized fleas adapted to feed off dinosaurs--Nature News & Comment : "The flea fo...