by John Pitney | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Portland (Oregon) writer David Oates thinks Noah had the right idea when he built the Ark. He knew whatever survived the Great Flood would repopulate the world…two by two. Now, millennia later, the world is going through a biological bottleneck, a pinch point as...
by John Pitney | Sep 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 4th post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3*** Bless the Lord, O my soul. You stretch out the heavens like a tent, you set the beams of your chambers on the waters… You cover it with the deep as with a garment; the...
by John Pitney | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 3rd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1 and Part 2*** Returning to our conversation about rainwater, we know 45,000 gallons of rain runs off our roof during an average rain year, and 55,000 this year. Let’s say our household uses 5,000...
by John Pitney | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
**This is the 2nd post in a series on our rainwater system. Read Part 1*** Do you know how many gallons of rainwater you could catch off your roof in a year? Any idea how many glasses of water that would fill? One square foot of roof catches .623 gallons every time...
by John Pitney | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the day the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb had sprung up—-for God had not caused it to rain on the earth—and there wasn’t yet a human to till the ground…a mist went up from the earth and watered...
by John Pitney | Jun 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the year of weddings for our family. Nephew Tim and Amanda got it started May 20 in Boise followed by all four of ours, Joel & Laura, and Erin & Amy (forthcoming in September)…the ones who joined our clan by birth, the ones they choose to love and the...
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