turn your bike into a moped

May 11, 2006

The gas canister goes where the water bottle holder is. The special wheel fits in the front fork of the bike. It will work on any 26-inch bike. Not available till 2007, 200 mpg, $400.

Who needs a car for running errands?

tomato names

After some searching, I’ve found Black Crim (Russian), Costoluto (Italian) and Asian Acclaim in 4-inch pots and Red October seeds. All the Brandywine seeds came up. Due to all the rain, my tomato garden is delayed by about two months.

The Red Octobers? They’ll come up in due time, and I’ll be able to refer to them as my ’round American tomatoes’.

another kind of winged migration

Dragonflies behave very much like birds when they migrate, according to a new study. They build up fat reserves before taking off, and seem to navigate in similar ways.

negligent animal mothers

Some eat their young. Some eat their neighbor’s young. Others never allow one twin to survive. And then there are rabbits.

If rabbits could write books, and if rabbits were voracious readers, warren shelves would be filled with such titles as ‘How to Mother in Two Minutes’ or ‘The Two Minute-Mom’, or ‘Two-Minute Mothering for Dummies’. For overachieving rabbits, ‘Mothering in Less Than Two Minutes’.Well, you get the drift. Not to mention the videos. Or the soundtrack to the film version.