May 2013
21 posts
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Our Michael: Update from Cathy →
ourmichaelp:
Hi Everyone,
This is my first time sitting down to recount all of the events that led me to share this post, so please bear with me, cause I’m not quite sure what’s going to come out. Also, it’s going to be difficult to recount a lot of specific times for when things happened and remember all…
April 2013
31 posts
Apparel Industry Trends 2012 →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
I’m just gonna start posting resources I find freely available online during my daily research. I come across new and interesting reports almost every day, on pretty much any topic or industry you can think of. It’s one of the perks of my current position. Always finding something new. Today’s installment is Free2Work’s Apparent Industry Trend report which “ranks 300...
Friends of the Somerville Public Library: Today is... →
somervillepubliclibraryfriends:
Today is National Bookmobile Day. Did you know Somerville used to have a bookmobile? Love those! SPL librarian Cathy P. (http://bathtubmarysofsomerville.tumblr.com/) drove it for some time and has some epic memories as below; if you need a smile today this should do it…
“Our bookmobile was…
Bobo's Mountain Sugar: A Sighting →
bobosmountainsugar:
The snow on the mountain is melting faster than can be believed. Within 48 hours, the garden beds emerged from complete submersion, the streams are overflowing their banks, and one can walk, snow free, across the entire soggy lawn to the west of the sugarhouse. I had hoped to run a quick…
Bobo's Mountain Sugar: Succession of Frogs →
bobosmountainsugar:
This article out of the recent Northern Woodlands made my day:
http://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/frog-symphony
Lying in bed with the windows open on spring and summer nights, I hear the progression of frogs and toads marching through migration and mating. Their chorus brings me…
So God Made a Cabot Farmer →
The remix. With actual, you know. Farmers… Photography by Skye Chalmers.
Bobo's Mountain Sugar: Boiling →
bobosmountainsugar:
There is a point when sap becomes syrup.
That point is at approximately 219F. Maple syrup boils at a temperature seven degrees higher than that of water. Water usually boils at 212F but not always. At higher elevations where there is less atmospheric pressure, it boils at a lower…
Not sure which of Skye or Tina is writing this stuff but all solid gold. SO THIS is why...
