In the morning, Chris and I are off to the mountains to attend Georgia Organics annual conference. Of course I’ve been looking forward to it. I made us up business cards and everything.

The university here has started to heat its buildings and water with boilers converted to burn chicken fat. They claim success and note that no one has complained about the odor, though that may explain my recent cravings for fried goods.

Early Saturday morning, somewhere in Iowa, seventy-eight baby chickens were hatched. Yesterday morning, they arrived at my post office. They spent the day learning how to eat and drink and getting familiar with their surroundings: a blue plastic kiddie pool. My neighbor is getting an order of just-hatched chicks in tomorrow. His operation is a bit larger than ours; his order was for a hundred thousand. This same neighbor is plowing our field this week, so that the planting can begin.

Today is my youngest sister’s birthday. As I’ve admitted earlier, I don’t know exactly how old she is (24, maybe). But I remembered the day! Happy Birthday, Lauryl!

Just because I’ve never posted from a bar during karaoke doesn’t mean I shouldn’t.

Appearing in the Georgia Organics Resource Directory , going to the printers tomorrow: Boánn’s Banks – A Natural Farm Sustainable living on the Broad River. Vegetables, herbs and eggs. The Wagoners, www.boannsbanks.com There’s a temporary website up. A better one will follow shortly.

Falling, falling Gonna drop like a stone Falling through the atmosphere On a warm afternoon…

I discussed film aspect ratios with my mom last night. She’s seen The Lord of the Rings at several theaters now, and has noticed that some screens were showing the movie “wider” than others – that details were being dropped on the left and right on those screens not as wide. I hadn’t heard of the movie being released with differing prints, so I suggested she was the victim of an incompetent projectionist. I still don’t know, but Roger Ebert wrote an excellect article on the problem last fall.

David Chess has made me aware of Alexandra Kosteniuk’s official site. As David says, Kosteniuk is to chess what Kournikova is to tennis, except that Kosteniuk wins a lot more often.

The Himalayas are big, even from space.