“Danger” recently replaced “Please” all along the top of the dam.
Hoover Dam
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Tag Archives: Travel
Grand Canyon
one of my best shots from the Grand Canyon
Irrational Fear of Bees
I was driving back from the beach the other day and I almost died. I happened to look down and notice that there was a bee on my leg, which erased all priorities from my mind including steering the car which was traveling 55 miles per hour down a two-lane road with no shoulder and a ditch on each side…
The bee had multiple chances to sting me, but never did… I looked up just in time to see that I had drifted to the other lane. I didn’t hit the oncoming 15 passenger van, but it was close…
A couple of minutes later there was another bee on my leg. I don’t know where they were coming from, but this one didn’t cause as much consternation.
Organic Rice
I went to a wedding in Avon Connecticut this weekend. The groom was a great guy named Robbie I have known since I was 3. I got to talk to all sorts of interesting people about topics ranging from St. John’s College to entomology.
Robbie’s mom is an entomologist who works in India helping farmers use non-pesticide solutions to controlling pests in rice farming. She told me about an interesting happenstance pertaining to Certified Organic rice from her part of India. The rice buyers get the farmers to sign contracts that they will under no circumstance use chemicals to control pests. This means the farmers, when the organic controls fail, produce no rice and therefore earn no income.
She was telling me about how strange it was for her to be trying to talk the farmers out of signing those contracts, because occasionally the organic certified pest control process doesn’t work, and so the farmers should be allowed to spray in order to save the crop.
