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On a lighter note, trying to mow down grass instead of bad ideas, we really like our Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower.  It actually cuts grass without an engine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQa9ZDbyXsw If you have never seen or used a reel (as in fishing “reel”) mower, you’re in for a treat, so long as your yard is not gigantic, or filled with twists and turns. Using this mower, with no carbon footprint other than my own, gives me a kind of personal Separate Peace with the Greens.  It’s my own...

We really enjoy two magazines, and for the same reasons: the writing is intelligent, and the subjects are interesting. The Atlantic, founded over 150 years ago in Boston, and For a taste of the modern South, Garden & Gun. One never knows what subjects will be covered in any particular issue of either magazine.  It’s fun just to look at the cover of each edition, then flip through the pages before settling in to absorb all that is offered. The subjects are so varied and covered in such...