TROUTS
LATEST PHOTOS
March, 2011 Issue #118
R.I.P.
TICKY ARMENTROUT
Paul “Ticky”
Armentrout, 95, of Keezletown, Virginia passed away March 1, 2011. This
month we picked up the mail and found a beautiful letter from Betty Armentrout
informing us that we won’t be seeing Ticky this year during our annual family
visit to the Shenandoah Valley. The photo above was taken last year in
Ticky’s “tool shed” with his younger brother Mark, “Babe”
Armentrout.
SUSTAINABLE
BIODIESEL SUMMIT
This year’s Summit
was held in our own back yard, so to speak. Piedmont Biofuels and The
Abundance Foundation collaborated with Central Carolina Community College to
bring biodiesel enthusiasts from all over the country and Denmark. Lyle
donned his top hat and told The Piedmont Story: From A Canoe Paddle in a 55
Gallon Drum to Enzymatic Production.
MIND MELD
Matt Steiman came
down from Dickinson College, stayed in our “Plant Room” and talked
about the Dickinson College Biodiesel project. Frankie stayed up the road
at Oilseed and stopped in for breakfast after a little mind melding with Spot.
OUT OF
TOWNERS
SBS drew biodiesel
friends from everywhere. Lorance and Debra from Colorado drove in and
stayed with us for a few days, Marco Poloing in some delicious hand picked black
beans, pintos and pinons. Mike came to help on his way to California and
stopped by to see the house formerly known as yellow where he lived as an
intern.
TENNESSEE
Mitchell and Caleb
drove down from Chattanooga and spent a little time in the garden with Bob.
OYSTERS
Some mycelium in
the slant (test tube) is the way to ensure future mushrooms like this handsome specimen
given us by Adam who grew it in a bucket on newspaper and coffee grounds. Bob
has taken his mushroom cultivation up a notch. See more at: Bob’s Mushroom Lab
THE
NEIGHBORHOOD
Every week the
neighbors get together for potluck. In addition to the usual suspects, we
were happy to see Lyle’s brother, Glen at the crokinole table. We still
had our Mardi Gras masks laying around, so Jill and Camille donned two of them
and kept on telling stories.
SPRING
The Bradford Pear
is in bloom again which is a sure sign of Spring.
TRAIL
CRAWL
Tami and Lyle
created Trail Crawl eleven years ago as a way to connect the neighbors on both
sides of Stinking Creek. Although it had rained heavily the day
before, we were able to cross the creek without getting our feet too
wet. We put a few more pictures here: Trail Crawl 2011
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“If you’ve lost the capacity
to be outraged by what’s outrageous, you’re dead.” Wendell Berry, horse
farmer, teacher and writer
“Unhappiness is an
ego-created mental-emotional disease that has reached epidemic proportions. It
is the inner equivalent of the environmental pollution of our planet. Negative
states such as anger, anxiety, hatred, resentment, discontent, envy jealousy,
and so on, are not recognized as negative but as totally justified and are
further misperceived not as self-created but as caused by someone else or some
external factor. ‘I am holding you responsible for my pain.’ This is what by
implication the ego is saying.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Appearing cheerful is vital
in a society where all of life is monitored by an employer, a credit rating
bureau or the media’s projection of the world, and mediated by the
financialization of life’s every aspect.” – Joe Bageant, The
Iron Cheer of Empire
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