I predicted it here several months ago: the NY Times discovers the deep freeze! Also that manure can be good for your garden! In a work of staggering genius, an Australian invents a process to make paper from wombat poop. In barbeque-mad Memphis (my old home town), the Italian community has accomodated local tastes by …
Author: Reid Farmer
FOD and Bird Strikes
A concept I became intimately familiar with during my aerospace days was foreign object damage, commonly known as FOD. Objects such as rocks, tools, garbage, etc. left on the runway can be ingested into a jet engine and cause damage. In the common way we have in English, FOD has become the term for the …
Farmer – Wilson Wedding
My participation here has been a bit light lately, due to all the activity involved with our daughter Lauren’s wedding which took place last Saturday in Long Beach, California. Here she is with new husband Zachary Wilson. Embarrassingly enough, I don’t have my hands on a decent picture of the ceremony, but will post one …
Santa Barbara Burns Again
Fire season has come early to California this year, and you may have seen news coverage of another destructive fire in the Santa Barbara area. We are currently in Orange County for our daughter’s wedding, and have seen the big plumes of smoke that have blown out over the ocean. A number of our friends …
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Our latest Spring storm (17 inches of snow on Saturday) brought a visit from the first yellow-headed blackbird I’ve seen at our house. This fellow was the only member of his species in a large mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds and great-tailed grackles. It was interesting to note how aggressive he was: he resolutely refused …
The “Original” Folsom Point
I have another quick post here based on our visit to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This little exhibit as you can see, has a wonderful Bison antiquus skull and the tan block of excavated matrix in the case, shown in the shot below. This block of matrix was excavated by Jesse Figgins …
Going and Gone
Over the weekend Connie and I took a trip to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the first visit we have made there since moving back. This museum holds a special place in my heart: it is the first place I ever saw dinosaur and large fossil mammal mounts when we visited on a …
Spring Blizzard
We are in the middle of a big Spring storm that we have really needed. It’s been a very dry Winter, and we can use all the moisture we can get. We have about six inches of snow right now and it’s predicted to snow through the night. As usual, this kind of weather has …
Douglas B-18
Over the Holidays, I made a visit to our local aviation museum, Wings Over the Rockies. The museum is in suburban Denver and located in one of the remaining hangars from Lowry Air Force Base, which closed in 1994. The majority of the exhibits are military aircraft and date from the Cold War. I’ll cover …
Web Miscellany
The NY Times has an interesting piece on Texas rattlesnake roundups. Fascinating that they actually put it in the sports section. Get your Simon Bolivar action figures! Nederland, Colorado just hosted the 2009 edition of Frozen Dead Guy Days. I need to get up there next year to give you all a first-hand account. And …