Plan for a little herb garden by the kitchen door. Once you start cooking with fresh basil, thyme, rosemary, chives, you will sure be glad you did. My wife uses ours all summer long.
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Daily Archives: January 21, 2009
Smart Meter Price List Hmmm
And some folks think it will be cheaper. Not Really!!
Weekdays
7 am to 11 am 8.8¢/kWh
11 am to 5 pm 7.2¢/kWh
5 pm to 8 pm 8.8¢/kWh
8 pm to 10 pm 7.2¢/kWh
10 pm to 7 am 4.0¢/kWh
Weekends 4.0¢/kWh
Homeowners with smart meters (i.e. meters that track how much electricity is used and when) will pay different rates throughout the day. The rates are set and regularly adjusted by the OEB to reflect pricing trends in the wholesale electricity market – when demand is higher, prices tend to be higher and vice-versa.
Weather Forecast For Port Loring Ontario
Forecast
Issued: 11.30 AM EST Wednesday 21 January 2009
Today:
Periods of snow ending early this afternoon then cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Risk of freezing drizzle near noon. High minus 8.
Tonight:
Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Periods of light snow beginning overnight. Wind becoming west 20 km/h near midnight. Low minus 10.
Thursday:
Periods of light snow ending in the morning then cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Becoming cloudy periods late in the day. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light in the morning. High minus 5.
Friday:
Snow. Low minus 17. High minus 7.
Saturday:
Sunny. Low minus 26. High minus 21.
Sunday:
Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 19.
Honey Bees
Air pollution is making it harder for bees and other pollinating insects to find food, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia.
Pollutants such as ozone (smog) and nitrate radicals, formed mostly as a consequence of car exhaust, are binding with the volatile scent molecules given off by flowers, the scientists found. This chemically alters the molecules so that they no longer carry a sweet scent, and do not attract pollinating insects to plants.
I would say it probably has something to do with it but pesticides and things like that in my mind would be the worse culprit. And remember this: Honeybees are the primary pollinators for 80 percent of the world’s food crops. Bottom line is this. If the Bees Parish so do we.
Put A Smile On My Face
A minister was completing a temperance sermon.
With great emphasis he said,
‘If I had all the beer in
The world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.’
With even greater emphasis he said,
‘And if I had
All the wine in the world, I’d take it and
Pour it into the river.’
And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he Said,
‘And if I had all the whiskey in the world,
I’d take it and pour it into the river.’
Sermon complete, he sat down.
The hymn-leader stood very cautiously and announced
With a smile, nearly laughing,
‘For our closing hymn, let us sing
Hymn No.365,
‘Shall We Gather at the River.’
Smile, life is too short not to !!