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In 1874, he went looking for coal in the North Cascades. He found some near Hamilton, but broke his leg in a fall. Before he could get to a doctor in Seattle, infection set in and the leg had to be amputated. Then the company he formed to mine the coal failed. He went searching again, this time for gold and on a peg leg. He met expenses, mostly.
But in the process he staked and settled a claim on the east bank of the Baker River near its confluence with the Skagit River. Years later, he realized he was surrounded by high-quality deposits of clay and limestone. Pale substitutes for coal and gold, but a cosmic, outrageous change of luck nonetheless.
For this dirt and rock was the raw material for ton after ton of the stuff on which so much of civilization is built, the same stuff that has given the town its name: Concrete. It made some of the best concrete in the world. It went into some of the region's most glorious public works projects, including the Grand Coulee Dam. But it was not enough to sustain Concrete, which almost literally choked itself to death on its own dust. These days, Concrete is on the downside of its luck and nearly a ghost town entombed in its namesake.
One fist-size rock is a grainy black and gray with a box shape outlined on one side. Mullen found it not far from where she grew up, taking a sledgehammer to a hillside outside Concrete for her University of Washington class in geobiology, the study of how life affects the composition of the earth. The box shape is the cross-section of a crinoid, the fundamental actor in this tale. Crinoids (pronounced CRY-noids) are echinoderms, mostly bottom-dwelling animals related to sea stars and urchins. They look like wind-wracked umbrellas stuck in the sand, protecting their soft parts in boxes of calcium carbonate. In their day, which was called the Paleozoic era, they were so common that they came in about 6,000 different versions. But around 250 million years ago, volcanic activity or perhaps a giant asteroid or both so upset the chemistry of the planet's surface that 90 percent of all marine life died. The crinoids were hammered. Then the number of predators in the oceans soared, making the remaining crinoids prey to crabs and skates and gastropods that made easy work of their protective shells. With their bases moored to the ocean bottom, said Mullen, "they were sitting ducks. They couldn't hide anywhere. So they were basically wiped out."
But somewhere in the Pacific, possibly in a quiet volcanic arc or a deep ravine, was a vast trove of dead crinoids. Embedded in sediment, they rode the crust of the ocean floor north as it floated on the liquid mantle below. At last our crinoids bumped into the northwest corner of the North American continent.
The result is a wild hodgepodge that geologists like Joe Dragovich of the state Department of Natural Resources struggle to figure out, particularly as so much is now covered with trees and blackberry bushes. "That's the most amazing thing about these rocks: the deformation, the very tortured history these rocks have suffered or enjoyed, depending on your viewpoint," said Dragovich as he clambered around the old Concrete quarry. "I think they enjoyed it myself." Then came the last wave of glaciers, which butted into the Skagit River valley from the west, blocking the river and getting plumes of sediment to settle out in layered beds of silt and clay, cement's other key ingredient. It was the final act of luck in Concrete's prehistory. "You've got Paleozoic against the last Ice Age," said Dragovich. "To have clay right next to limestone, God, it might be the only place in the state."
IN 1824, AN ENGLISH bricklayer named Joseph Aspdin cooked ground limestone and clay to make a cement that hardened with the addition of water. It looked like stone quarried on the Isle of Portland; hence the name, portland cement (which is not capitalized now that the patent has expired).
More energy is used to make cement than any other material. It accounts for 7 percent of the United States emission of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The concrete it makes is homely. It can break the skin at the slightest provocation. But concrete still borders on being the ultimate in hardware. "I think very highly of concrete as a material," said Jack Christiansen, structural design engineer for the former 130,000-ton Kingdome and among the most bereft over its demise last year. "Why is that?" he said. "It's very economical. You can buy tons of it for a few dollars. It's very durable. It's just like you're constructing artificial stone. It has a long life - it's fireproof and rot proof, and other common structural materials are not. It's a plastic material, in its liquid form, so you can shape it into anything you can possibly build a form for." Each year, nearly two tons of concrete are poured for each person on Earth. It is the most commonly used building material in the world. It is the world's second-most heavily consumed substance, after water. It is in buildings, basements, lamp posts, sidewalks, birdbaths, missile silos, sewer pipes, Jersey barriers, about 30,000 miles of interstate highway and more than half a million highway bridges in America alone. Thomas Edison built houses of concrete, complete with concrete stairway balusters, plumbing and bathtubs. College engineering students make concrete canoes and race them. And as Amasa Everett learned after chancing onto the largest reserve of limestone in western Washington, it was good for making a town.
EVERETT'S DISCOVERY led to the creation of the Washington Portland Cement Co. in 1905 on the east side of the Baker River, in what was then called "Cement City." Three years later, the Superior Portland Cement Co. completed a second plant across the river in what was called Baker. The two towns merged under the name Concrete in 1909, and Superior bought out Washington in 1918.
At least once a day, whistles would blow, followed a minute or so later by a town-shaking blast in the quarry. A single blast could involve as much as 28 tons of dynamite and up to 200,000 tons of rock. Quarry-side crushers broke the rock, which often teemed with crinoids, into small chunks that were loaded into an overhead tram that clunked more than a mile across the Baker River and into town. "When they started those buckets at 7:30 in the morning, that was our call to get up for school," said Mary Johnson, a resident of 73 years whose father ran a shovel at the quarry. "You had to be careful walking under them in case rocks fell out. If they oiled the lines, you better not have your laundry out."
Inside the plant, a stew of limestone and clay was baked in six kilns up to 192 feet long, removing water and carbon dioxide and forming the calcium silicates that give concrete its strength. These came out in marble-sized chunks called clinker, which was cooled and ground and piled outside.
Meanwhile, logging trucks, their jake brakes screaming, brought timber down Burpee Hill. Between the trees and cement rumbling out of town in Great Northern railcars, the Concrete depot became one of the busiest in the state. "Everything was humming here in Concrete," said Albert Frank, a grocer born and raised 60 feet from the cement plant. Concrete was everywhere. Workers cleaned out returning rail cars and used the sweepings to make concrete blocks for their homes. The streets and sidewalks were concrete, much of it donated by the company. All three schools were concrete, as were the fake boulders lining the entrance to the high school. Most of the buildings on Main Street were rebuilt in concrete after they burned down over the years. The Henry Thompson Bridge, built between 1916 and 1918, was in its day the longest single-span cement bridge in the world. The lower Baker River Dam, built in the '20s, was the tallest dam in the world. Superior cement also went into the Ballard Locks, the Grand Coulee Dam, Rock Island Dam, World War II airstrips in the Pacific and Seattle City Light dam projects up the Skagit. At one point the town had 1,700 residents, with hundreds employed in cement production. With timber workers, they made brisk business for a theater, several hotels and a dozen or so saloons. "And houses of ill-repute," said Mary Johnson. "They had one of those for every saloon. My girlfriend used to go chase her dad and found his dog was at the bottom of the steps of one, so she knew he was in there." It was not a paradise. As a child, Johnson helped unveil a safety trophy near the Superior office building. The trophy showcased years of perfect records - "1934, 1939, 1944, 1955, 1957, 1958," and so on, but the gaps tell of less-than-perfect years. Albert Frank recalls a blast that killed two men and splattered his father with rock, putting him in the hospital for three days. Then there was the dust. "If you had a cyclone fence," said Don Ross, the bank president, "it would eventually become solid."
Residents first asked that something be done about the dust in 1915, but they tolerated it for decades after.
"When you lived in a family where all the livelihood came from there, it wasn't that dusty," said Dave Wright, who used to oversee crews loading cement into 94-pound sacks. "But it was dusty, I will admit. You don't have to put that down that I admitted that." To its credit, the company handed out acid that residents used to wash the dust off their cars, lest they become Flintmobiles. But emissions from the plant in the mid-1960s averaged more than 500 tons per square mile each month. "Wonder if a thousand years from now somebody will dig our city out of the cement dust and wonder about what kind of people lived here?" wrote Chuck Dwelley, who crusaded against the dust for more than 40 years as editor and publisher of the Concrete Herald. At last, pollution laws and aging equipment caught up with Concrete. The Lone Star Cement Corp., which had bought the plant from Superior in 1957, stopped operations in 1969. Two years later, a bridge was built across the Baker River as part of the new North Cascades Highway. Where travelers on Route 20 once had to drive through downtown, they could now bypass Concrete entirely.
THE FRONT OF the Concrete police station sports a mural of the town that says, "Welcome to Concrete - Center of the Known Universe."
It's more like Concrete has found a way to stop time, pausing at the 1950s to weigh the future against the Paleozoic oblivion from which it came. The town is dead in the winter, opening slowly when the dandelions carpet the city's vacant lots. Half the buildings are shuttered with tulips gamely painted on their windows. On a quiet afternoon, which is just about any afternoon in Concrete, the slightest activity on Main Street is amplified by the concrete surroundings: beer cases getting unloaded from a truck, a starling's whistle, random conversations at the bank's drive-up window. "There you go. Have a nice day." "I've got to go to Colorado tomorrow. My mom's in the hospital with cancer." The Henry Thompson Bridge is worn and chipped around the corners. The Superior office building is a mausoleum of falling ceiling tiles, rusting overhead lamps and leaking ceilings. Renovating it would cost $250,000, said Cheri Cook-Blodgett, coordinator of Skagit County's local satellite office. After the plant closed, Mary Johnson kept planting flowers around the safety monument until a few years ago. Then kids started pulling the flowers up and spray-painting both the monument and the nearby office building, she said, "and I just gave up." The town's biggest claim to fame may now be that Tobias Wolff once lived there. His memoir of living in the town in the '50s, "This Boy's Life," was later made into an unflinchingly grim movie starring Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin and a fledgling Leonardo DiCaprio. In a recent survey of residents, one-third said the town has become a less desirable place to live. "Concrete is a depressed town," said one respondent. "There is no employment for the young; you have to drive 30 miles for employment." Others complained of junk cars, rundown houses and a fear that, if something isn't done, the town "will probably become a ghost town." About half the town's 790 residents work at the schools or in a few local stores and restaurants. But with cement jobs gone and timber work dwindling, many residents work at the dams or commute to Sedro-Woolley, Anacortes, Burlington, Everett and even Seattle. There's little future here for young people, no matter if they want to stay. "Unless you want to work in a restaurant for the rest of your life," said Jacoba Coggins, a Concrete High School senior. The town a few years ago drew up plans for a park on the old plant site but hasn't the money in its $1 million budget to get it going. "The only revenue-generating thing they've got up here is a cop," said Mike Patricelli of Glacier Northwest, referring to the police radar on the highway's 35 mph zone. Glacier Northwest, which now owns the Lone Star property, figures half a billion tons of limestone are in the old quarry, but it can more easily barge cement from Canada to Seattle. It has sold off all but two of the 61 homes it once owned in town. In the early '90s, a letter in the Skagit Valley Herald complained about dead flies in Concrete restaurant windows. It spawned a Dead Fly Festival, complete with a parade and a funeral. The town has reinvented itself in more wholesome terms with an annual Bald Eagle Festival, held each February as the birds gather by the hundreds along the Skagit. Anne Bussiere, a festival founder, said it brings 3,000 to 4,000 people through town. Then there's the water. About once a day, a CC Beverage Corporation tanker truck drives up from Burlington, taps into a fire hydrant by the town office building, and draws water from a city spring set deep within Burpee Hill. Back in Burlington, it is bottled as Cascade Clear. The water is so pure a local lab uses it as a standard by which it can test its equipment for contaminants. "It's just terrific water," said Mike Finn, CC Beverage's quality assurance manager. "Really a fluke of nature." In the bargain, Concrete receives a penny a gallon. Eric Sorensen is The Seattle Times' science reporter. Benjamin Benschneider is a staff photographer for Pacific Northwest magazine. |
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Kim, It does look similar, but I think not. What do the roots look like? Clivia grow on a pseudo bulb as opposed to having roots per se. Healthy ones look like a mass of light colored earthworms. Gail |
A friend advised that it could be an orchid in need of TLC. |
I agree. It looks like a phalaenopsis. The potting mix looks like it might be spent orchid bark. You might want to repot it in fresh bark. |
Thank you! Unfortunately, the person who gave it to me doesn't 'speak plant'. He is a gifted animal breeder and can keep pretty much any plant alive. He just isn't tuned into them enough to remember much about them. Here are a few photos taken a little while ago. Hopefully, they'll help answer some questions about it. The thing appears to be bulbous to me. The foliage isn't striated underneath, nor variegated on their surfaces. There is a sort of embossed texture to the upper surfaces, but not heavily. I was originally concerned it might be a phalaenopsis, which would be impossible to maintain in this house. Fortunately, it's in potting soil with real roots, so that isn't an issue. Thanks! Kim |
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Hi, Absolutely not a phalaenopsis. I grow them; they are different. What comes to my mind is some sort of Haemanthus. Not the Heamanthus coccineus, though. |
It looks much like my Haemanthus albiflos. That's my guess. John |
I agree c H. albiflo. |
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Just chiming in to say that this thread is fabulous, so interesting. Off to learn more about haemanthus albiflos. |
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If you're the sort of person for whom wiping is just too much of a hassle in the bathroom, the Comfort Wipe is here to solve your troubles. This infomercial is marketed at the supremely lazy and morbidly obese; either way, it's viral comedy gold.
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Way to go, Meghan! An excellent opportunity. Safe travels, and I'm sure you'll have a great following on your blog, as many are quite interested in what will happen throughout the discussions. Way to be a debbie downer, Darren. It's an awesome chance to help make a difference b'y.
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Best of luck, Meghan! You'll make Newfoundland and Labrador very proud. I'll be reading your blog to stay up to date on your adventures in South Africa. Darren, you're right. An airplane trip would produce a lot of carbon. Perhaps she could take a canoe to London, a train to Egypt and then take a camel to Durban?
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I wish you all the best and make sure you get all those carbon offsets for that long airplane trip and all the other consumption of energy this trip will produce.


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A flight to Liverpool transports you to the home of the legendary Beatles. The city's maritime heritage is evident in monumental waterfront buildings and revitalised docks now buzzing with stylish shops and glamorous bars.
Things to do
On the Magical Mystery Tour you'll travel to Liverpool sights famously associated with the Beatles. A Liverpool city break can also include the International Slavery Museum, a legacy of the city's slave trade, and the celebrated collections at the Walker Art Gallery.
City centre shopping includes high-street favourites and handmade crafts to take on your homeward flights. Liverpool ONE is an architecturally adventurous shopping quarter spreading towards the restored Albert Dock, where designer boutiques look out over the water.
On Liverpool city breaks you'll find the city's best modern European restaurants in the fine Georgian terraces on Hope Street, near the cathedrals and theatres. Liverpool's Chinese community is one of the biggest in the country, so head to the Chinatown for crispy duck pancakes.
Fashionable Albert Dock is the place to be seen, with glitzy waterfront bars and clubs. In the city centre, you can see new bands at the legendary Cavern Club or buy tickets for Liverpool theatres like the Playhouse.
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KLM has frequent flights to Liverpool. Why not travel to Liverpool for the UK's most famous horserace, the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in April, or International Beatle Week in August?


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Why did Egyptians live in sun-dried brick homes? Step back in time to make this replica of a dwelling that was energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
For thousands of years, homes in Egypt were built with sun-dried bricks. Mud taken from the bottom of the Nile River and grain husks were mixed and shaped. Bricks were dried in the sun until they became rock hard. Learn about these energy-efficient buildings and then create a replica (without the mud!).
Students measure, mark, and cut four pieces of cardboard for the sides of the house using a ruler, Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils, and Crayola Scissors. Cut another larger piece of cardboard for a base and outdoor area.
Flatten brown Crayola Model Magic to form the brick sides. If you have white Model Magic, create brown rubbing in dye from a Crayola Washable Marker. Knead and add more marker color until you get the shade you want.
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Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2009
Hugely entertaining, this is a fully envisaged fantasy adventure, which makes serious points about the importance of the past from the master storyteller and author of the hugely popular Discworld series. Survival! Mau's world is bowled over and swept away by a towering Tsunami. His past life has vanished and he must build a new life with the scraps he has left. Luckily, someone else has survived too and soon Daphne, or Trouser-Man as Mau calls her, are creating a new Nation building on the bits of knowledge from the past which won't die away. The novel has been adapted for the stage – Olivier Theatre at The National Theatre in London - by the controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill. Nation will be the National's family show opening in November 2009, following the success of previous family-friendly productions, His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse. Described by National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner as "a wonderful book and, I suspect, perfect for an Olivier adaptation", Nation is set on a desert island following a tsunami which wiped out most of the population.
When a giant wave destroys his entire Nation - his family and everyone he has ever known - Mau finds himself totally alone. Until he meets Daphne, daughter of a colonial Governor and the sole survivor from a shipwreck. They have no common language, no common culture - but together they discover some remarkable things - like how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good idea - and must try and forge a new kind of Nation. Then other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island, and not all of them are friendly. In Nation , Pratchett brings us a novel that is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of death and nationhood, while also being extremely funny.
'An enchanting novel... Terry Pratchett is one of the most interesting and critically under-rated novelists we have.' The Times'Terry Pratchett is an indisputable one-off...Nothing he writes is ever predictable - except that it will always be gloriously readable.' The Independent 'Nation has profound, subtle and original things to say about the interplay between tradition and knowledge, faith and questioning...It's funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious.' The Guardian
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998 and in 2009 was knighted for his services to literature. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. In December 2007 he announced that he had been diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare variant of Alzheimer's disease.
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All around our preschool are pine trees and each year during the holiday season, we like to spend time discovering and exploring with pinecones and pine needles. Today, I am sharing six of our favorite pine ideas and at the end of the post, you are invited to check out or add your own favorite holiday ideas to our Discover and Explore Linky…
Pine Wreath
The children made simple but beautiful pine wreaths last year with a paper plate, pine needles, pinecones, and a touch of red paint for the berries. You can see the entire Pine Wreath post by clicking here or on the photo below…
Pine Discovery Bottles
Another favorite way to explore pine needles in my classroom is by making a pine needle discovery bottle. You can view the entire post on Pine Needle Discovery Bottles by clicking here or click the photo below…
Pine in a Shadow Box
Our shadow boxes wouldn't be complete without adding a few pinecones or pine needles. You can view the entire Nature Shadow Box post by clicking here or click on the photo below…
Pinecone Painting
If you haven't ever tried painting on pinecones, then I must say you are missing out! You can view our entire pinecone painting experience and ornaments by clicking here or click on the photo below…
Pine Needle Paint Brushes
I haven't written a post about painting with pine needles paint brushes but it is fairly simple. Just attach a few limbs with pine needles to a stick or craft stick using a length of tape and set them out with paint and paper for the children to explore…
As you can see, we set out pine needle paint brushes out at the easel. Pine needle paint brushes create a beautiful textured painting and is an interesting process for the children to explore…
Penguin and Pinecone book
And if you are looking for an excellent book to read aloud to your children then I highly recommend the book Penguin and Pinecone by Salina Yoon. You can read more about this book by clicking here or click the photo below…
This is only the beginning of things to do with pinecones and pine needles and soon my current class will be coming up with new ways we can explore and discover the season with pine. Now be sure to check out the wonderful December holiday ideas being shared in our Holiday Linky just below…
PS. Some children may be allergic to pine. Some allergies are mild and a good handwashing can help but others are stronger so find out by checking with parents first!
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Graduation from a 4-year college or university with major course work in a discipline related to the requirements of the position is preferred. Will consider the equivalent combination of job experience & education that demonstrates the ability to perform the essential functions of this job.
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Responsible for performing telephone sales of mortgage products within established underwriting guidelines.
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I had to say goodbye to an old friend recently, and the loss has been weighing on my mind a bit. As I sit here typing this post I can still picture the last few moments we shared together…..
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Archbishop Demetrios Appoints Bishop Andonios of Phasiane New Chancellor of the ArchdioceseOctober 7, 2009 Archbishop Demetrios of America, in consultation with the Holy Eparchial Synod, has appointed His Grace, Bishop Andonios of Phasiane to be the Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, effective October 1, 2009.
NEW YORK - Archbishop Demetrios of America, in consultation with the Holy Eparchial Synod, has appointed His Grace, Bishop Andonios of Phasiane to be the Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, effective October 1, 2009.
On the occasion of this appointment, His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America offered the following remarks: "We are very glad to have His Grace Bishop Andonios of Phasiane as the new Chancellor of the Archdiocese. In all the positions that he has held within the Archdiocese, as a lay theologian, a deacon, a presbyter and a Bishop, His Grace has served with remarkable zeal and diligence. We are confident that with the help of God and the blessings of our Holy Eparchial Synod Bishop Andonios will execute his new and responsible duties as Chancellor with exemplary dedication, care and effectiveness."
Bishop Andonios was elected on December 11, 2001 by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He was given the title of Bishop of Phasiane, an ancient Diocese in Pontos, the birthplace of his grandparents. His episcopal ordination took place at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York on Saturday, February 23, 2002.
Born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, the middle child of Steven and Despina Poulos (Paropoulos), he grew up in the local St. Demetrios parish. In 1976, he entered Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Mass., graduating in 1979 receiving a M. Div with Distinction and as President of the graduating class. After serving at various Archdiocesan institutions for five years in a lay capacity, he was ordained a Deacon on August 18, 1985 at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity by the late Archbishop Iakovos. He served for almost 4½ years as Deacon to the Archbishop until December 3, 1989, when he was ordained to the Holy Priesthood.
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Whitman vs. Whitworth: Why DIII athletics is big time, too
Pamela London is a graduate of Shorewood High School in Shoreline and a three-year student-athlete on the Whitman College women's soccer team. She is an aspiring journalist who has worked as a sports writer and sports editor at The Pioneer, Whitman's student newspaper.
WALLA WALLA – When I first came to Whitman, I thought being a Division III athlete meant school first, sport later. And I was right.
I thought being a DIII athlete meant long bus rides with lots of people and little space to move around. And I was right.
I thought being a DIII athlete meant I would be immersed in a campus-centric mindset when it came to sport, deprived of the packed basketball gyms and fierce rivalries that seem to permeate intercollegiate athletics at the DI or DII level. And I could not have been more wrong.
I went to high school at Shorewood in Shoreline. For four years, no matter what sport, early season or playoffs, boys or girls my school always got amped up when we faced Shorecrest. As much as I was ready for college in the fall of 2010, I did not want to leave that sense of rivalry behind.
I soon learned that Whitman did have an intense rivalry – with Whitworth University.
Separated by only 150 miles, Walla Walla's Whitman and Spokane's Whitworth have a natural geographic rivalry. We are travel partners in the Northwest Conference and often stay at the same hotels, which causes inevitable run-ins between teams in hallways, in restaurants and – most awkwardly – in elevators.
Like many intercollegiate rivals, the "Battle of the Whits," as it affectionately is known, has a long and storied history. Both schools were established in the late 19th century and are two of only 31 liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. Whitman and Whitworth have been competing against each other regularly in the NWC since Whitworth joined the league in 1970.
I have never witnessed or participated in a rivalry as intense as Whitman and Whitworth. The rivalry has amped up in recent years, as Whitman has committed more to improving its athletics. One moment stands out. In February 2011, the Whitman men's basketball team faced Whitworth in our home finale. Since a blowout loss earlier in the season in Spokane, Whitman was on a seven game winning streak and could clinch the second seed in the NWC tournament with a win. Students, faculty, staff, parents and community members packed Sherwood Center to watch the Missionaries try to knock off unbeaten and No. 1-ranked Whitworth.
And knock them off we did. Trailing by 18 points midway through the second half, Whitman held Whitworth scoreless from the field the rest of the way, ending the game on a 17-0 run to win, 82-79. When the final buzzer sounded, hundreds of students rushed the court, a quintessential college experience in which I never thought I would participate.
That night, I didn't feel like I had missed out on anything by going to a DIII school. Watching a game like that, and playing in all the soccer games I have against Whitworth, has proved that I can get the DI athletic experience without being a DI athlete.
We may not have 20,000-seat arenas and 60,000-seat football stadiums, but the Whitman-Whitworth rivalry challenges any rivalry I have seen. Give me a soccer ball, two goals and my teammates around me facing off against Whitworth any time. When Whitman plays Whitworth, it does not matter to me that I play at a really small school with a nonrevenue-based athletic department in virtually the middle of nowhere. I don't care that we do not play our games on national television or have thousands of people clamoring for tickets.
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This is my first year gardening. I've got Onions, Potatoes and Garlic in the ground, and I just trench-planted some Asparagus. I've got pretty much everything going into 2000 sq feet, plus a separate strawberry patch. Yes, a lot to bite off year one but I need the exercise.
So weeding is not my favorite activity, and plastic/newspapers don't really appeal to me. So I got some Home Depot uncolored shredded Cypress Mulch. I just mulched my onions and around the strawed patch of potatoes, and the path between those and the next stuff thats going in (lettuce/cabbage/beets/carrots in a couple days). I'm planning on mulching that stuff too. It says this mulch is safe for kids playgrounds, etc. and there are no warnings on it. It doesn't say untreated, but it looks plain. Is it safe for my veggies? I'm thinking of 'tiny' farming a couple acres organic next year, so I try to keep it natural as possible. |
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You'll find lots of discussions on various mulches over on the Soil & Mulch forum here and you might want to review them as well for better ideas. Just search 'mulch' there for many discussions on it. Meanwhile - JMO. ;) All the politically incorrect arguments against it aside, cypress isn't an ideal mulch for a vegetable garden. It is primarily a decorative mulch best used in flower beds and landscaped areas. It isn't considered an effective weed control unless applied quite thickly and using 4-5" of it can get quite expensive. It provides little benefit to the soil or the plants as other organic muclhes do as they decompose, and it tends to shed water. But since you have already applied it, those are moot points and it isn't going to hurt anything as long as it remains on the surface and away from direct contact with the base of the plants. Otherwise it can bind up, temporarily, the nitrogen needed by the plants. Monitor the plants closely for signs of nitrogen depletion and supplement as needed. Preferred organic mulches are straw, old hay, compost, grass clippings, etc. as they are more effective weed suppressants, benefit the soil nutrient levels and tilth as they decompose, and can easily be tilled in at season's end. Good luck with your garden. Dave |
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http://static.camura.com/media/images/o/d6463dbacc19753906585101f9fcc843.jpg That is what I used. Thanks for your reply. I don't really get it, though... compost won't stop weeds, it will encourage it, won't it? And won't cypress till in easily as well and then decompose over the winter? And 2" of this stuff really won't stop weeds? I thought it would. Arg. |
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This is the mulch applied. I suppose pine straw would have been better. Maybe I'll get bales of that from now on and add a little lime so it doesn't push my soil below 6 ph. |
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Mulch prevents weeds from sprouting by blocking sunlight so any thick layer - the thicker the better - will accomplish that - even compost. The added benefit of compost is that it also improves the soil in the process and feeds the plants. Weeds also prefer alkaline soil so compost retards weed germination by maintaining soil around a neutral pH. As to the pine straw - it too works ok though oat or wheat straw if you can get them are better - and there is little evidence that pine straw will alter the soil pH except very briefly. The pine straw itself is slightly acidic but as it decomposes, it reverts back toward a neutral pH. This too is discussed in more detail on the Soil & Mulch forum here. On the tilling question, cypress mulch often contains larger chunks and tough fibrous strands which don't always sit well with a tiller. ;) I'm not advocating that you rip up all you have applied or already spent $$ on. Just pointing out that as the bag says, cypress mulch is "decorative" and that there are much better (and cheaper) mulches to use in a vegetable garden. One option often used by others that happen to have a bunch of wood chip mulch to use up is to first lay down several overlapping layers of wet newspaper and then spread the mulch on top of that. It doesn't eliminate the other problems with wood mulches but it does add to weed suppression and lets you stretch the wood mulch out further. Just something to consider. Dave |
- Posted by clumsygrdner 6 Central Kentucky (My Page) on Wed, Mar 18, 09 at 6:43
I don't see why it would, since there are no dyes or other additives! Pile away and don't stress about it. I use grass clippings snatched from the side of the road trash day morning. In fact it's about time I started seeding the brown bags... |
Thanks for the replies. Having read the mulch forum, I'll probably go with something non-cypress in the future. There's plenty of pine straw to be had and I don't want too much wood in the soil for when I till it. Thanks! Oh, as to nitrogen shortage from the rotting wood... I spread 600lbs of 0.5-0.5-0.5 Black Kow and 10lbs of 10-10-10 on this 600 sq feet of garden which was at about 2.5% organic matter, so I'm not too concerned about that but I will monitor it. |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 18, 09 at 15:05
If you're going to be working in the garden with bare hands, don't forget to consider the texture. The cypress mulch that I've bought in the past has lots of stiff pointy pieces, like toothpicks only rougher. There was a playground near me that used cypress mulch around the play equipment and it was downright dangerous especially when they first layed it down. I don't care how organic it was. It a kid fell down in it, they would stand up with sticks poking out of their knees. Maybe there is a "shredded" kind that is more smooth than what they used though. |
I would think that cypress would like to "never" decay. As Dave said, this stuff is better for decoration. If tilled in it would be woody. |
Sounds like I'll be raking it up before tilling next round, and using pine straw from now on. Might leave it on the path at the end of the rows, actually. |
I would think that the cypress mulch would be very useful as paths, but a pain in the veggie bed itself. I'd recommend that you go with your idea to rake the mulch to the edges before tilling, and then reset it as the walkways in your garden. Putting 10 layers of wet newspaper down and then putting the wood mulch on top of that makes for a very effective weed barrier, even with 2" of mulch. I use wood mulch in my walkways and compost, ground pine bark fines, pine needles, and grass clippings in the veggie beds themselves. Once or twice a year I rake back the bigger stuff from the paths, scrape out the compost that developed underneath and put that on the garden. I then put down new layers of newspaper (or cardboard) and add the mulch back on top. I get my wood mulch free from a guy that has a tree trimming business AND from my son taking his truck to the landfill for free mulch. The landfill stuff has been aged, and I'll put that directly in the flower beds or the paths. The raw stuff I let sit in a pile OR I use it along the fenceline where I don't have plants growing, its just a groundcover area. |
Ive been using newspaper/cardboard in the paths. With a thick layer of mixed leaves and grass clippings. It works fantastic to prevent weeds and hold in the moisture. Plus garden worms love the newspaper for some reason. They flock to it. By the end of the season its pretty shredded and just gets tilled in. Every years my soil gets better and better. Last year I only supplemented with fert once eraly in the season. This year I think I do without any at all. |
I really do like it as mulch on the path parallel to the rows. I get less muddy when I water. The wood is not a very effective weed preventer on the edges of the garden where the Bermuda incroaches, but it is working quite well in a one inch layer around the onions and garlic and between those and the other rows. |
- Posted by ajax_wv_zone6b (My Page) on Thu, Mar 26, 09 at 9:46
Hello I tried using cypress mulch on my garden once. It was ok for some - however- it stunted my tomato growth. after researching I discovered this: cypress mulch is wood - and if you understand the theory of composting, wood depletes (consumes) nitrogen levels during the decomposition stage. in long term situations it will slowly return the nitrogen back to the soil - especially accomponied with green type manures. so in short - you have already purchased the mulch and if your determined to use it then i recommend using weekly doses of a nitrogen rich fertilizer during the growing season to alleviate the offset. hope this helps! |
I put 800 lbs of manure in a 650 sq foot plot plus some 10-10-10, so I'm not too worried about nitrogen leaching, but after learning about that I fertilized my onions/garlic, and will again later in the season. They should be fine, I think. They're growing very well. |
- Posted by promethean_spark 9b (My Page) on Fri, Mar 27, 09 at 0:33
I used redwood mulch in my garden last year and I suspect it also stunted my plants. Things grow much better now that I've raked it off the beds. This year it's going on the paths only and the beds will be mulched with grass clippings. It is pretty good about detering weeds though, and is good around shrubs and other deep rooted things that don't care if the top couple inches of soil is devoid of nitrogen. |
I put 800 lbs of manure in a 650 sq foot plot plus some 10-10-10 WOW!! I wouldn't be worried about nitrogen leaching either then. But I'd sure would be worried about several other problems. I hope this was well-aged and composted manure and not fresh stuff!!! Dave |
Dave, it was Black Kow well composted manure, 0.5-0.5-0.5. I had about 3" of silty topsoil, under that was pure georgia red clay. Its tilled down to about a foot. I just did what the soil test told me :) |
Interesting discussion here. I will be most likely using the cypress blend on my tomatoes (it's $2.50 per bag). Under the mulch around the tomatoes I'll put on a couple inches of Black Kow. With the size of my garden, and the fact that I don't want a super-thick layer of mulch, I think I will only need about 3 bags of mulch and 3-4 bags of Black Kow composted manure. I hope it all goes well. Our soil has a lot of clay and without mulch, water sits on top of the soil for a while and spatters mud onto the plants. |
Don't use cypress!! I put around my dogwood tree. It did okay the first year, no grass got through the bark. The next year it looked compacted. I was hand watering the tree. So I went to loosen up the mulch after I watered. Much to my surprise as I dug down, no water went though the mulch to the tree roots. I dug it out then and there. I replaced it with mini nugget pine bark. I will never buy cypress if I want my plants to get water. PS, under the tomatoes I use "Weed Block". I put down a new layer every year. At the end of the season I pull out the vines and leave the weed block until spring. I recycled last years under my new blueberries. I put pine needles over it to hold it down. I saw it at Big Lots for $5 a roll, 3' X 50' . |
If you do have plenty pine straw, it will serve you fine. Just mix in some wood ash or lime to keep the pH to a decent level. |
After buying 6 bags of finer cypress mulch to hold me until the mulch truck comes with my 5 yards from hardwood, I happened to be reading "The Holistic Orchard" by Michael Phillips, who gives super detailed explanations about why one would not want to use a softwood mulch for fruit trees or garden plants. He's done many experiments and has concluded that ramial mulch from the upper branches and outer/newer growth is incomparable in the way it promotes soil fertility - especially with miccorhizal fungi and such. Here's an excerpt from p. 9: "The arrays of familiar choices at the home and garden center generally do not cut it from a biological perspective. Bark mulch comes from softwood logs for the most part, and therefore comes rich in tannic compounds that once protected standing evergreens from decay.. ..Tannins will suppress healthy growth in garden and orchard alike.....Bulk wood chips in a bag....are a brown rot phenomenon.... Let [it] rot for a few years and it's a whole different story.. -Michael Phillips, "The Holistic Orchard" He then goes on to discuss why you never want to use landscape cloth under your mulch if your long-term goal is healthy, fertile soil. Wet newspapers or cardboard are fine, as many have already mentioned here. The former creates a crust of inhospitable hardpan. Despite the problems with these mulches, they shouldn't impede water flow, as mentioned by nhardy above. I almost wonder if your problem was due to the "weed block". |
- Posted by Raci570 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, May 18, 12 at 18:32
If I've got a thin layer of wood chips at the base of my veggies to suppress weed growth and keep the moisture in, and I put granular fertilizer on, how do I mix it into the top few inches of the soil? Is it ok to leave it laying on the top of the mulch and either water it in with a hose or wait for the rain to come to get it to the roots? |
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- Posted by RyseRyse_2004 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 9:33
I mulch heavily in the fall with hay (not straw - no nutritional value) to smother my garden bed. Then in spring, I pull it away just enough to plant the tomato plants and other seedlings/seeds. No weeding necessary and your bed gets fed constantly. Good old Ruth Stout taught me everything I need to know about gardening with little work. |
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