Category: history
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Two Broods of Mallards; Floods and Wild Fires/
Hopefully some of the new Mallards will return to our slough and make it their seasonal nesting grounds. The Canadians have done so as the the Great White Bellied Geese have; they have returned now for the last 5 years. This is a safe nesting area for them, the closest hunting is a few miles away.
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I Thought That Was My Ship Coming In.
Having coffee while watching a few bulk carrier ships work their way upstream or down winding their way under the Antioch Bridge, is an interesting wake up call.
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Early Morning on The Slough.
The morning shadows did not last long but they will be back tomorrow as long as the Sun Shines. Tonight at dusk the show will start again with the shadows in the opposite direction, the wind will be stronger, and the critters will begin to come out for the night.
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The California Condor “Firebird” and Mount Diablo.
Surely these are the Mountains of the Devil the Spanish soldiers exclaimed, and that, pointing to Mount Diablo is the home of the Devil.
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125 Year Old Shack; Jack London and Creedence Clearwater.
This Island has fond memories for a lot of people in the Bay Area, at one time it was way out in the Boondocks.
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An Environmental Disaster I helped Create; 43 years ago, Still felt Today.
25 years had passed since I walked off that drilling platform into the night, that was the first end. The second end was found when I began living next to the river, this is where they planned to pump the toxic water with the idea it would flow to the ocean.
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A Bit of History; Levees, Water, and the 49ers, OK Mark Twain too.
Unknown to most the 100th meridian is the beginning of our water woes, that’s in the middle of North Dakota running South through Texas; it affects the entire country.
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Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Ridgecrest, 7.1 can not be ignored. Why do we Ignore the Warnings?
We ignore the warnings at our own peril, we must take them seriously.
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A Man ate a Gecko, he Died. What else have we Thought was Poison?
Most of the worlds religions believe eating shellfish, Pork, Fish with no scales, and all bottomfeeders is a direct tenet from God. There is a reason for them being noted as unedible foods- disease.
Follow the Fork in the Road 