tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post8240870274753485969..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: This Land Is My LandPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-84666309722576070492015-12-06T19:40:51.069-05:002015-12-06T19:40:51.069-05:00I farm Hadley soil https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda...I farm Hadley soil https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/H/HADLEY.html<br /> for my (really my parents) money the best dirt in the world. My well is 410ft down all caseing. This is the bottom of a glacial lake. 1.5 month of no water and there is still something there for the plants, and then it will drain just about any rain we get. There is a saying in the valley, "if you can't farm here, you cant farm"Jacob L'Etoilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17024798380040945033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-17361980783414281592015-12-06T09:28:31.054-05:002015-12-06T09:28:31.054-05:00I just recently inherited an old soils book, with ...I just recently inherited an old soils book, with maps and overlays, of Bexar Co, TX (San Antonio). Came from the late engineer who designed most of the foundation and drainage work I have done in the past 30 years. A treasured book, and I might learn a little geology, too!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721130066588282491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-25521879922625415472015-12-05T13:55:56.650-05:002015-12-05T13:55:56.650-05:00I read that as "world soul day", still a...I read that as "world soul day", still appropriate though.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02502528836501841285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-63524228797105797792012-08-28T08:52:02.080-04:002012-08-28T08:52:02.080-04:00I have read ALL of McPhee which, as you know, is u...I have read ALL of McPhee which, as you know, is up there with reading all of Graham Greene and all of William Faulkner for sheer length (read all of them too). His best books are, of course, a matter of preference, but I like "Encounters with the Archdruid" quite a lot and "The Curve of Binding Energy". He was a classmate at Princeton with my father back in 1953.<br />PBurnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-34521620863315678372012-08-28T08:36:31.322-04:002012-08-28T08:36:31.322-04:00McPhee is one of the best teachers I know. He has ...McPhee is one of the best teachers I know. He has taught me all sorts of things. Even after several years at sea, I read his "Looking For a Ship," and learned more about the US Merchant Marine. His geology books brings the physical earth to life. In his first book, "A Sense of Where You Are," about Bill Bradley as a college basketball star, he predicts that Bradley may have a career in politics. Don't even get me started on tennis, oranges, nuclear power or the Alaskan outback!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721130066588282491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-89260530262823664312012-08-27T19:39:10.331-04:002012-08-27T19:39:10.331-04:00Arrowheads do last... I see them washed out in cre...Arrowheads do last... I see them washed out in creeks quite often looking like they were freshly made, and yet they're 2-10,000 years old. However, I do understand your point. :) Curthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10325881375911318982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-9401339283459325752007-05-22T12:46:00.000-04:002007-05-22T12:46:00.000-04:00PatrickPamunkey is also the name of an Indian trib...Patrick<BR/><BR/>Pamunkey is also the name of an Indian tribe. Pat Garrow, who gave me one of my first jobs in archaeology and who grew up in Newport News, wrote his MA thesis on Pamunkey ethnohistoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com