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April 2.

Irritations. The Non-GMO Project has a challenge -- a new challenge everyday in April. Today's: "Which of the following foods is NOT at risk for being genetically engineered?" Possible answers: Corn, Peanuts, Soy, Canola. Their answer is peanuts. This is deceptive. Peanuts have already been genetically engineered, but they have not been "approved for commercial production". (Which is what they told me after I advised that they check out the US Patent Database.)

On some site sometime in February, I signed a pledge to be GMO-free in April. I can't find anything resembling that these days, so maybe I dreamed it. Anywhooo, I'll be blogging my experience during April.

Update (Mar 12, 2011): On March 8, Hon. Rep. Bradley amended the text of his bill by replacing everything after the enacting clause with text about rabies vaccinations for dogs older than 4-months old, and with text requiring veterinarians to buy the vaccine only from reputable sellers.So, thanks, Rep. Bradley, for listening. I’m not entirely sure we need another law on the rabies vaccine, and don’t know why you didn’t just drop the bill in its entirety, but thanks for listening.

We usually get a big snow around Valentine’s Day every year, but this year it decided to show up on Groundhog Day and the day before instead.

Sampubco: LEWIS, POLLY MORRIS NY-39-15-43
State: New York
County: Otsego
Town: Morris
Name: Polly Lewis
Page Nos.: 043, 044, 045
Surrogate Court }
Last Will and Testament }
of }
Polly Lewis, deceased }
Be it remembered that heretofore
to wit on the third day of November in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty seven, Henry Lewis
the Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of Polly
Lewis late of the county of Otsego deceased appeared in

Saw these today when filling up the bird bath next to the half whiskey barrel that they are in. I looked up what they are before I killed them. Does anyone recognize the little critters?They are, of course, mosquito larvae.

It all started with wanting to look at my mom’s original genealogy database. But PAF 2.31 is only on 5.25 inch disks… and disk 2/2 has a corrupted sector… so it’s a no-go on copying to a 3.5 and then onto my laptop.

Daniel Sackett died in Troy, Rensselaer County, NY in 1845. After ordering images of his probate record from sampubco in the beginning of November (2009), I’m finally finished with the transcription.

Because I’ve worked for an attorney in a legal assistant/paralegal capacity for the past two years, I easily recognized many words, which in years past have been undecipherable: