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Stream rehabilitation project at Pine Camp is beautiful.
Ross Catrow
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Finished reading: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark 📚 Dropped right in to a weird, terrifying, and delightful world.
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I’m really glad I planted these hearts-a-burstin’ a couple years back. They’re strange and beautiful in the fall.
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End of summer vibes.
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Modern homecoming in one picture.
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Finished reading: The Wager by David Grann 📚 I dunno, maybe just don’t ever get on a boat.
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Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff 📚 I’ve offically joined the Lauren Groff fan club and to read about more ladies out there building stuff and surviving things.
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Finished reading: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 📚 Cute fairytale with actual fairy godmothers!
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Finished reading: The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy Book 1) by N. K. Jemisin 📚 I cringed a couple of times, but loved the ending.
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Most interesting thing I’ve read in a while: None of the above mentioned cultivation methods were sufficient to grow citrus fruits in regions where the ground froze and where winter temperatures dropped below -15 degrees. Here, citrus plants were cultivated in trenches. Obviously, growing citrus fruits in trenches was only practical with dwarf and – most often – creeping plants. In this method,…
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Finished reading: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson 📚 Way different than the first one but still fascinating and wonderful. I did keep thinking it was a sequel to Whalebone Theatre. Too many WWII books! I can’t help it that they’re all so interesting!
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RPS piloting a longer school year at Fairfield Elementary has had some bonkers results: Preliminary data shows that the extra time in school has paid dividends. The percentage of children at Fairfield Court from kindergarten to second grade who passed the state’s literacy assessment grew 21 percentage points — from 61% to 82% — from last school year, with 180 days, to this school year, with 200.…
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I think this GMRVA from June 1, 2020 is one of the better things I’ve written .
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Big hydration-related news this week: Bathrooms at Four Mile Creek on the Virginia Capital Trail !
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This story on VPM about the invasive Tree of Heaven species reminded me that I just learned the biggest Tree of Heaven in Virginia lives downtown randomly growing next to some building on Monroe Street.
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“I am the luckiest guy in the world because I am alive and I can ride my bike,” he said. via Bill Walton - NBA Hall of Famer Loves to Ride His Bike
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Good stuff from the Huguenot High School Class of 2024: Our seniors have shown not only their community but also the world around them that they are powerful young leaders poised to make their indelible mark on the world…We request that our local media outlets shift their paradigm from directing the public’s attention to our low points to highlighting and relishing our successes. We invite…
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Finished reading: Open Throat by Henry Hoke 📚 Great and interesting and short enough that I finished it all on one Saturday morning.
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Finished reading: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff 📚 Like Hatchet but sad and beautiful.
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I loved this charming piece in the Wirecutter about Ralph Nader looking for a better felt tip pen. An important question remains unanswered, though: In what cases does he use purple?? Nader told us that his longtime favorite pens, Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip Pens Medium Point (0.7 mm), had started drying out too quickly… “For years I’ve been using felt pens, mostly red and black but sometimes…
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I have finished my job!