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4 Apr 2023 2 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara
Got word this morning that the World Gold Council announced that Singapore's central bank has added another 6.8 tonnes to their reserves. In a previous article, I noted that Singapore added some 45 tonnes in January. Singapore has added over 51 tonne...
17 Mar 2023 2 minute read 5 comments SweptOverNiagara
Kitco News published an article yesterday stating that gold had touched a record high in overnight trading against the Australian dollar, peaking at $2,922.36 before dropping a bit to around $2,885 per ounce for an 8% increase so far this year. In a...
23 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
A bit more clearing this past week... this time in the front area to unclutter the path that leads to the front door. This area has been weeded recently, and so much of the shrubs needed to have all the dead wood removed and the interfering bran...
22 Feb 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
PROLOGUE I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I publish it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write...
20 Feb 2023 15 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
As my regular readers may know, I have been reading Bill Bryson's Down Under (2001), about his travels through Australia. At various points, he brings up the issue of race relations vis-a-vis Aborigines and white colonists. It makes for pretty upsett...
5 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
In the coming week, weather permitting, we are going to have another two large trees taken down. Both of them are sick in different ways, so it is a good idea to have them removed before they decide to just lie down on their own accord. So, in p...
27 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ah... that weird time between Christmas and New Year... it is sort of like time stands still for us. Very rarely are there concerts, and it is just lots of time to recover from eating and drinking a touch too much and working our way through lef...
8 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes, instead of doing the garden work... I will just take the time to wander around the garden... picking up fallen branches and sticks to be later fed into the shredder... looking at various bits to figure out what to tackle next... and w...
6 Dec 2022 3 minute read 1 comment bengy
A sort of bittersweet anniversary with Pakjesavond come and gone.... we still miss our adopted home very much, and there will be so much of us that will be forever left and tied up in the Netherlands and Europe in general. Colleagues and close f...
29 Nov 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
So, this was my first foray into my rogue mulching project... if you remember, my wife had want ed me to turn the heavy clay soil, seed with gypsum and dynamic lifter, cardboard and mulch the top area. Well, I figured that that top area wasn't r...
