Darryl's Blog
Two good podcasts
We have a big backyard for the city, which gives me tons of raking to do. I couldn't avoid the job any longer, so I spend the afternoon raking and listening to some good podcasts. A couple noteworthy ones that I listened to today:
Dr. Sean McDonough has an excellent message at Gordon-Conwell on some of the dangers of our online life, with some good warnings about blogging. I was challenged by some of what he said. You can download the MP3 here.
Bruxy Cavey is teaching pastor of The Meeting House. He's an outstanding teacher and it turns out that he's also a good interviewer. The last Roundtable Podcast is an interview with Denis Lamoureux on Evolutionary Creation. This is a controversial topic, but a lot of what Lamoureux says is excellent. I'll be curious to read his upcoming book, also called Evolutionary Creation: An Evangelical Approach to Evolution. You can download the MP3 here.
You shouldn't be raking. Just mulch all of it with your mower. We have a massive double lot and we mow the leaves a couple of times and leave the organic material on the lawn. Depending on how much mulch we have in the compost bin, we may leave it in there.
Yeah, I was attempting to do this on Friday when the wheel of my mower fell off. It's plastic so I think it's toast. I've wanted a new mower for a while, but try buying one now. They have some pretty nice snow blowers but none of them mulch.
The city had a yard waste pickup scheduled for next week but canceled it due to budget constraints. They've told residents to store the leaves all winter, which means I have a shed full of 15 yard waste bags. Bleh.