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It was really windy all night long. Chinooks. Now the sky is bright blue, the air calm. A beautiful day to start my 4-day weekend. Perfect!

Orv and Eva Wagaman are from Utah. On occasion they venture over the Great Divide to show their Lhasa Apsos, which they did two weekends ago. Orv passed out their new business card:

Sometimes, especially on warm summer mornings (sense a hint of longing?), I feel like a farmer. Outside doing chores. Watering the deck garden. Caring for the animals. Tending an ancient gene pool. My grandmother and grandfather had an ‘acreage’ before moving to the farm. In those days ‘acreage’ was synonymous with small-time farmer. Big vegetable gardens. Big flower gardens. A chicken coop. Grandma had practical chickens - laying hens, chickens destined for butchering. She also had her Bantee chickens. Small, colorful chickens allowed to roam the acreage during the day. Those chickens often followed grandma while she was tending her gardens. They were her pets.

Hybrid seeds were developed to improve the performance of a crop. Wanting more production, perhaps a more colorful vegetable, a vegetable that would last during shipment, farmers chose hybrid seeds. Fortunately there were people that recognized the importance of preserving - banking - the former seeds. These old-school seeds are often called heritage seeds. With genetic engineering, banking old-school seeds seems even more relevant.  

I found this very interesting..

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (Feb. 26) - A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

More photos and the whole story.

The reason Julie wasn’t here last weekend for the dogs shows was because her son got married.

Julie and Tim..

The new couple..

The wedding party.. 

You guys…I don’t know if all these posts this morning reflect how far behind I was. Or working through my grief about Genevieve. But, here I continue to sit, plunking away at the keyboard.

Willis is a brother to Ginny’s Ethan and Chloe, Christi’s Ruby, Goliath - aka Peanute - and Tango.
Tango will soon be going to New York to live with Rose’s parents. All In The Family! This delights
me! And Ginny, I’m sure.

Tibet’s Restaurant

If this chef is good enough for the Dalai Lama, he’s good enough for you.
By Jason Sheehan 
Review publishedin the February 14, 2008 issue of Westword

Illustration by John Herschend  

An Interview with Dr. Nicholas Dodman by Claudia Kawczynska

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

Photograph by Lynsey Addario

The March 2008 issue of National Geographic has two articles of particular interest, Bhutan. And Inside Animal Minds.
The links will take you to each article on National Geographic’s website.