Page 9 - Pine Nuts News Today

The first thing I did on my first day of retirement was to toss my Mickey Mouse alarm clock out the window. Then I started pricing marimba’s, as I have a latent desire to make some music. Also I’m looking for books to learn Spanish because it is a beautiful language and I want to get closer to some of my interesting neighbors.

On my way to college away back in the last century, I landed a summer job that a boy could only dream of having, "lifeguard at the Sands, South Shore, Lake Tahoe." So it was with a broad smile that I drove my ’55 Chevy to the lake and found a room to rent for those three months of summer, 1961.

Its been raining and snowing a lot in western Nevada and while everyone can appreciate the value of water in the spring and summer, its been a helluva ride.

The first noticeably happy people to attract my undivided attention were San Diego roller-bladers, skating down the boardwalk with music in their ears. This was 40 years ago or so, and these dancing athletes were clearly happy to the core. It made me smile and even laugh in the wake of their sheer joy.

Generosity will soon become coin of the realm in the saving of our planet, and it will come in the prototype of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who recently announced he and his family are giving away their $3 billion outdoor-apparel company to fight climate change.

On the 30th of September, trembling like an Aspen in Autumn, I stepped onto the stage at Piper’s Opera House in front of a packed Virginia City house. What in tarnation was I about to say? I had two hours of information to cram into 90 minutes, some things had to go, but what?

KABUL (Pajhwok): Pine nuts weighing 60 tons and worth four million US dollars were Sunday dispatched to China from Kabul during a special ceremony. Afghanistan

Chicory-obsessed farmer Stephen Carter raises some of the most beautiful examples of the veggie. Try these delicious chicory salad recipes.

The art of making and using pesto.

I’m listening just now to Aretha Franklin singing, “This bitter Earth may not be so bitter after all.” I cannot help believing her. And I attribute this guarded attitude to a mild level of optimism, based upon a middling level of confidence, that most of us do care about people who don’t always think or look like us.