It is rainy season in Senegal.  The puddles in low areas are perfect breeding areas for mosquitos.  Our house is not tight and some of the screens on the windows need attention.  There are plenty of mosquitos in the house.  Each morning we spray the areas where they like to spend the day.
        On our 2^nd day here we went shopping and insecticide was on our list.  The insecticide of choice in Congo is called Rambo.  We couldn’t find it here in Thies so we had to choose between Co...

The Moss Lawn: a Suburban Solution to Global Warming
        When Diane and I arrived at my mom's house in southern NH in April we were stunned to see that she had a glacier in her back yard.  The snow had melted in the woods and the neighbor’s yards, but she still had 2 feet of snow pack in her back yard.  Right away I knew this was significant because of the headlines we read from time to time, "Glaciers Receding Everywhere."  In Europe they put blankets on glaciers to keep them from mel...