Just now, I have come in from watching and listening to skein after skein of geese flying north. I've been hearing them often these days, but not in these numbers. Today must be the day the main numbers are flying north. I wonder if it has anything to do with the full moon...it reminds me of the poem I wrote years ago to remind myself of the interconnection we have with all life.
My name is written on a bird, that flies across the sky. The day that bird falls to the ground, will be the day I die.
I have not been able to construct my greenhouse yet, because I need to finish putting up the styrofoam panels on the front of the house first; I had left them leaning up against the garage wall, and the snow that fell from the metal roofing has encrusted below like a glacier. Being in the shade, it doesn't melt fast, and I spent some time yesterday on that glacier, shoveling and chopping it away from the styrofoam. Today, it better come free or I will know the reason why. I need to get that greenhouse up; my tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are too big to stay in the terrarium much longer.
I've been raking as much as I can, and picking up trash in the yard. I have a big black plastic bag full of garbage, and now a truckload of recyclables to go to the landfill, including my daughter's stuff. My vacuum cleaner works fine again, vacuumed some yesterday, but there is always more to go. I am still eating on that roast chicken I made the other day. There is still plenty of meat and potatoes left, but the stuffing and gravy is gone - the rest can go to the dogs.
On tv, I've watched the final installment of "John Adams." I've been watching this since the first installment. I also watched "Expedition to Alaska" last night and was alarmed at how the tundra is melting, putting up into the atmosphere tons of methane, which is far worse a greenhouse gas than CO2, and is flammable in the extreme. Since the tundra covers 1/5 of our planet, we are in for big trouble. I even had visions of the sky being ignited by lightning, for instance. Why can't we trap a lot of that methane, make it inert (I know they can do that), and use it. I suppose storing and transporting it would be the main problem.
On that same show, I saw where the native people are hunting whales legally, and leaving a lot of the carcasses on the beach deliberately to sustain the polar bears, who have no summer sea ice to hunt on and from. And they saw a grizzly bear show up to feed also. They showed a picture of a hybrid grizzly/polar bear, and thought that without ice to hunt from, the polar bears will have no choice but to become land bears, breed with grizzly and brown bears, and form a new species. At any rate, the polar bear stands to become the first species of animal put on the endangered species list from global warming. Of course, that won't happen until after George Bush is out of office - he refuses to help the bears. He's too worried about protecting big oil interests in the area, now that he's allowed drilling in the Chukchi Sea.
Another beautiful day outside beckons...see if I can free up my styrofoam, more raking, and it's not too soon to start hauling compost into my garden, depending on how long my back holds out. Oh, and I need to go into town today, take the recyclables in, and finally, get my prescription refilled (if the drug company lets me - today's my last pill), so they better not mess with me again.
