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Wednesday, March 10
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Macaroni & cheese
Snacks: Pumpkin Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Today's climate change find:
"In its "high emissions scenario" for climate change, the Union of Concerned Scientists has predicted that orchards in southeastern


A scene from life in Central Frontenac Township.

Pennsylvania will receive 1,000 or more chill hours in just 50 to 60 percent of winters. Because Pennsylvania is the fourth-largest remaining producer of apples in this country, and because much of its $60 million annual crop comes from the southeastern region, these predictions have generated considerable anxiety among orchard keepers." Grist

Tuesday, March 9
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Potato hash and eggs
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Monday, March 8
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Pinto beans, rice and our canned yellow beans
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Today's climate change find:
Tenney Naumer sums up what's happening in the Nares Straits between the north of Ellesmere Island and Greenland:

"The ice arches had prevented much of the outflow through the Nares Strait. It's going out gangbusters now. Also, with regard to the ancient ice shelves that were attached to the northern shores of the Canadian archipelago -- these had functioned as buttresses, holding back the speed of the glaciers. Further, there was a simply enormous ice shelf that detached from the extreme northeastern shore of Greenland. It too had been a buttress. No longer... So, when comparing the ice extent or thickness of 2009-2010 with any preceding year, we are simple trying to compare apples to oranges, which is no comparison at all. But as to your question about some of the ice hanging around from last year -- it is doing its best to break up and go out the straits."

Sunday, March 7
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, pears & yogurt
Supper: Squash soup, hummus sandwiches with sprouts and bread & butter pickles
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Saturday, March 6
Breakfast: Fried plantain (from the quick-sale rack) & eggs
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Hummus & squash soup
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Today Andrew's holding a Tiny House Work Bee planning meeting as part of the Country Know-how series.The blog is here.

Today's climate change find:
Uh-oh. From a Toronto Star report on our Conservative federal government's new budget: "federal environmental assessments on new energy projects are to be removed from the purview of the regulator that usually deals with such things, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Instead, they are to be handed over to the much more industry-friendly National Energy Board." That includes the tars sands.

Friday, March 5
Breakfast: Fried plantain & eggs
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Black & Orange
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Thursday, March 4
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Black Bean Soup and Polenta
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Wednesday, March 3
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Ratatouille, Lentils and Rice
Snacks: Rhubarb Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

We packed up to take our lunch with us on our daily walk (well, we intend to walk daily). Andrew is an intrepid canoe camper, so he's confident we'll quickly have a fire to heat our cabbage soup. Here I am heating up cabbage soup. It tasted a little smoky, just fine.

Tuesday, March 2
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, peaches & yogurt
Supper: Ratatouille, Lentils and Rice
Snacks: Pumpkin Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

Monday, March 1
Breakfast: Oatmeal with yogurt
Lunch: Cabbage soup, peanut butter sandwich, froz. strawberries & yogurt
Supper: Restaurant Thai food, in the city
Snacks: Pumpkin Bread (made with my still experimental gluten-free mix)

I went out and found off-cut slotted panels for a buck each and got 7 clear plastic trays at the dollar store, $1.25 each. And some thin sticks to make 2 racks where the trays will slide into the slots, providing water-holding shelves for bedding plants. One at the south facing window and one at the east-facing window. We'll move the trays with the sun. This will allow us to plant seeds in late March, in the humus our 'herd' of worms have been making with our kitchen scraps in the basement since November - in two plastic wash pans. We have pretty bad soil, but we're trying to start growing lots of the things we actually eat.

Today's climate change find:
The Mountain Pine Beetle is now poised to jump to Canada's boreal forest of jack pine, which starts in BC and goes right across the country.
via Tenney Naumer :

 



Many, if not most of my climate changes tidbits come from Tenney Naumer's blog, where she ads links almost daily.
 
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