This is good, I guess, but the fact that we have to certify someplace as a "dark sky" park is, quite frankly, sad beyond belief.

Glacier Achieves Full Certification as International Dark Sky Park

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week At Work. Shearing.

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week At Work. Shearing.:  

Mid Week At Work. Shearing.

Lex Anteinternet: Poster Saturday. The Elk and the Antelope

Lex Anteinternet: Poster Saturday. The Elk and the Antelope:  

Poster Saturday. The Elk and the Antelope

Lex Anteinternet: The coyotes were howling in the distance, and not ...

Lex Anteinternet: The coyotes were howling in the distance, and not ...: I don't know if a person can pick up moods or attitudes by reading a blog.  I.e., I don't know if you can read a blog and detect the...

Towns and Nature: Leesburg, FL: Paquette's Historical Farmall Museum

Towns and Nature: Leesburg, FL: Paquette's Historical Farmall Museum: ( Satellite ) This is one of those topics for which I took so many photos in the museum that I was intimated by the prospect of discussing t...

Lex Anteinternet: "All along the watchtower".

Lex Anteinternet: "All along the watchtower".: There must be some kind of way outta here  Said the joker to the thief  There's too much confusion  can't get no relief Bob Dylan, &...

Blog Mirror: Losing Time

 A new entry by South Roane:

Losing Time

This gets a bit to a topic I've addressed elsewhere, both here and on Lex Anteinternet, that being that if I'd had my ruthers, I'd just get by on what I grow, shoot or catch.  That wouldn't be my wife's ruthers, however, so a volunteer cow and one of her cousin's pigs is in the freezer right now. And with my really bad luck on hunting license draws recently, if we got by on what I shot or caught, we'd be eating a lot, and I do mean a lot, of rabbit, as it's the only thing that in recent years I could be nearly guaranteed of getting.  

Having said that, I did get a deer last year with a general draw license.

I posted a comment on the linked in blog entry, which is as always well worth reading, but what I'd note again here is that when we look back, and some do, and think "I'd live just like my ancestors. . . ", well, they didn't have freezers.  At least not until the 1950s.

Related threads:

Hunting (and fishing), Stateside, during World War Two.

Foods, Seasons, and our Memories. A Hundred Years Ago: The Last Fresh Vegetable Month

So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in general) during the Great War and there's talk of food conservation, and you are a hunter. . .

Food: Seasonal, local, and from the grocery store. A revolution we don't often recognize.