I like this story mainly because it’s about a company named “Sara Lee” that makes sausage named “Jimmy Dean.” I mean, how can you not love companies with such cheerfully personified identities, even if they are about to raise their prices dramatically: Sara Lee, maker of meat products such as Jimmy Dean sausages, said costs …
While we’ve all been watching gasoline go through the roof (easy to spot – sign on every street corner), natural gas has been quietly doubling in price as well. My colleague Win Quigley has a story in this morning’s paper, and Al Zelicoff, who’s been helping the paper with consumer energy saving tips, put together …
Prize-winning Treats Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. On the drive over to the Lavender Festival Saturday, my sister, Lisa, was explaining how she uses vanilla in baking. It’s like salt, she said – a little helps the other flavors. The Lavender Festival is an annual affair down at Los Poblanos Farms in Albuquerque’s valley – an …
A changing picture: $2.00 gas: “Get off the road, you fucking faggot!” $4.00 gas: “Dude! Awesome bike!” (h/t Nora)
Some stuff I wrote elsewhere about a potentially huge New Mexico water law court decision: A state court this week threw out New Mexicans’ longstanding legal right to drill a domestic water well without having to worry about whether it would leave less water for their neighbors. The ruling is a victory for activists who …
meadowlarks and $4 gas
My ABQJournal colleague Sean Olson has a story on the front page of this morning’s paper about the rise this year in water conservation in Albuquerque: Albuquerque has used about 16.4 billion gallons thus far in 2008, up from about 15.6 billion gallons through the same period in 2007, according to water authority statistics. The …
It’s always been clear, though seldom talked about, that global warming will have its winners as well as losers. Bill Griffith has an example in today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Due to global warming, this summer’s Ho Ho crop is the largest yet.
stuff I wrote elsewhere: You will see them most any evening these days in Chris Witt’s Albuquerque backyard: the darting, diving, buzzing hummingbird and the aloof nighthawk, feasting on insects in the dim distance. If you were building the bird family tree, you would have no reason to think the two were close kin. But …
Sunday’s ride with the fixie boys was a particularly amusing one: View Larger Map There in the middle you can see that we sorted out some nice shortcuts through the airport, and at the southern end some fascinating dirt road wanderings around the new Mesa del Sol development. Bonus points to Andrew for helping us …