\nToday I was out working on the car in the driveway. It was a dry day, yet I noticed, when I would come inside, that my boots were muddy. How was this happening?<\/p>\n
It turned out that that the rain had created a fan of silt around the drain in front of the garage. The silt had dried to a moist mud.<\/p>\n
\nSilt was an important contributor to the fertility of Egypt and Mesopotamia. To my knowledge, it’s a resource to be appreciated when it comes your way. With a plastic shovel I lightly scraped the silt from the driveway and deposited it in one of the landscape patches.<\/p>\n
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fao.org<\/a><\/p>\n lee.k12.nc.us<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about weather effects during west coast winter: the tutor mentions an interesting side effect of much rain. Today I was out working on the car in the driveway. It was a dry day, yet I noticed, when I would …<\/p>\n