I'm calling him Obama
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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About Me
- ed iglehart
- I live in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, near the lower end of the valley of the Urr Water. North Glen is the core of a small farm that is half woodland. Starting from my back door, I could walk for days and rarely leave the woods except to cross the roads. Though the Stewartry is known as a farming county, one third of it is wooded. From the hillside behind my house I can see thousands of acres of trees in the Stewartry and neighbouring Dumfriesshire. Sadly, the majority of these are fast growing conifers whose genetic origin is overseas and whose destination (via flush toilet) is the sea. There are, however, many small and a few larger remnants of semi-wild, semi-native woodland, often including broadleaved species from afar. Many of these trees are standing on steep slopes of the river and creek valleys that were cleared and ploughed at intervals from the early years of settlement until about the time of World War II. These are rich woodlands nevertheless. The soil, though not so deep as it once was, is healing from agricultural abuse and, because of the forest cover, is increasing in fertility. Some has never been ploughed or otherwise 'improved'.
Panorama
The Urr Valley from North Glen
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Hi. I hope you and Obama are doing well. My grandparents kept a couple of squirrels for 4 yrs. They lived outside most of the time and had free run of one of the sheds. The squirrels, that is.;) This was before I came along though. Your treehouse looks good, btw.
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ed
As referenced on the BBC 'Blether with Brian' blog:
"A Constitution for a Free Scotland" (September 2002)
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ed
Lovely pict Ed. I've 3 visit my garden and have done for years. Usually its 2 but this year 3. I lost a Scots pine last summer and thought that would be the end of them but thankfully not.
Now that an annoying dog has disappeared(don't get me wrong, I love animals), we've got squirrels and rabbits again. I had a squirrel do an Abbott and Costello on me last week. He/she couldn't figure out which way to dart to get out of the road.
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