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I am fairly sure that this tiny bird is an immature one. It has no facial or wing markings to help ID it.
It’s legs are darkish, sort of a dull charcoal colour.
I have heard no sounds coming from it.
The tail is “notched” at th...

Another list of little jobs to do in the heat. It is hot, but its the humidity that gets you. Well, nothing for it but to just get on with the graft.

Before going to the lottie we popped out into the country to pick up a couple of broccoli plants. The place was almost sold out of plants for the season, but I could pick out a few plants from the selection of seconds.
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A small harvest for supper the first leek came out for our su...

I run a small manufacturing company, and over the past few years we have been facing increasing labor costs, difficulties in finding qualified workers, and growing pressure from international competition. We are increasingly considering investing in the automation of certain processes, but we are concerned about how cost-effective such an investment would be for smaller manufact...

I THOUGHT this year we were going to have a super hot summer. Every map I've seen of the PNW shows us in the red, meaning above average heat. I heard June was going to be hot. Then it was July and August. Now it's August and September and I am losing my mind because it's the first week in July and I had the heat on this morning again! Where's that global warming they promised us...