Planning your 09 garden yet? Me either…well its in its infancy…nothing solid at least. I know I’ll probably build another bed…maybe…
Until then you need some some inspiration as to why you need to start planning. Michael Pollan is interviewed on PBS about his open letter to the Presiden elect Barak Obama.
Agribusiness is ”…a welfare program for the megafarms that use the most fuel, water, pesticides; emit the most greenhouse gases; grow the most fattening crops; hire the most illegals; and depopulate rural America.” Time Magazine
Essentially what this quote is saying is if you are interested in cheaper fuel prices, slowing down the emissions of greenhouse gases, consuming less fattening food and more real food, seeking justice by not hiring illegals (essentially as slaves), not taking away the smaller farms all over the country and replacing them with agribusiness farms…then you are against the current standards in this country when it comes to food. Our current standards are not sustainable.
Go here and watch both vids. Its only a half hour total.
I went to church today! Culturally I couldn’t be further from this church…but it was refreshing to see someone so passionate and determined to preach Holiness.
Whatever athletic ability I once had has officially dwindled away along with my care for keeping up with the NFL and most noticeably the Chiefs. All I’m left with now is stories and of course I tell mine Big Fish style…meaning that the pieces I want to tell largely overshadow the nuggets that I might want to keep hidden.
As a kid playing little league baseball I had a few notable achievements…one being a dropped routine infield fly short of pitching a perfect game. I just go ahead and tell people I pitched a perfect game because the next batter continued the perfect game scenario. As a kid nobody is a Roger Clemens but sometimes people would ask how somebody so scronny with my lack of muscular strength could throw comparable to guys that were taking steroids visually looked several times my strength. I used to just say it was because of my form and according to this fascinating article about Tim Lincecum there is some truth to it.
Tim Lincecum is a 5′ 10″ 172-pound Major League pitcher with a 98-mph fastball. Such velocity out of such a small frame is attributed to his unique (but mechanically sound) pitching technique…
Its a funny thing. This guy Dave Ramsey is everywhere. Billboards, radio, tv…your church! I can’t count the number of people that have said, “We’re doing Dave Ramsey”. Really? Does he know this? ;) Or as my bro in law says, “I don’t want to hear about who you’re doing“. Regardless everybody is doing it including Morée and I. I’ve had alot of different thoughts bouncing around in my head about doing Dave Ramsey and I suppose I’ll share some of those here since apparently I haven’t thought of anything else to share.
The first thing I want to share is that the documentary “What Would Jesus Buy” is available to watch free on google. Go ahead watch it now and tell me what you think. I’m about an hour in and so far all the hype is based on legitimate concerns about our culture and what Christmas has become. Might want to try and watch it before you hit the stores on Black Friday…I’m just saying so you won’t feel so guilty.
People, I’m not joking when I say I almost died about a decade ago. I was in ICU for two weeks. Two! I cracked open my skeletor and popped my eardrum(which made it nice and bloody) riding a long board down a small hill behind LSHS. Yeah thats right. A LONG board. But Randzig I don’t know what a longboard is! Thats ok I’ve got your primer right here. Watch and learn.
Some say I was supposed to die that day and I think maybe I did… a little…but regardless I’m still in the presence of humanoids so I’ll have to deal.
Have you ever been to Cliff Drive in North East Kansas City? Apparently it was the place to be back in its day.
Cliff Drive, established in 1900, is the only Missouri scenic byway located in an urban area, passing right through Kansas City. The 4 ½ mile historic drive is also one of the shortest scenic byways in America.
There are many beautiful historic homes in the area. In this shot notice the castle like home Garfield Ave, and the homes on Pendleton Ave are quite nice too.
KC Museum is located in the area. Union Station has a website about it here…and another here.
Here is another page with historic information about the area.
Matter fact you can tour some of the Victorian style homes while they are decorated for Christmas. Wouldn’t mind seeing this home.
Ends up Lee’s Summit has ties to this mansion. Robert Long (Long View Farms) lived in this house.
Corinthian Hall, Long’s stately, 30,000-square-foot mansion, was built in 1909. After purchasing surrounding property, Long enlisted Henry Ford Hoit to design his new family home, gardens, stables, and carriage house. The end result was Kansas City’s first million-dollar home, and is now the Kansas City Museum.
