K. Triffet

The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker By Gary Kline Probably everyone has been bullied at some point in their life. Usually the physical stuff is preceded by some kind of name-calling meant to make you seem wimpy or freakish. Imagine being called a sap; someone dull and easily duped. Then imagine being called a sucker on top of that; someone duped more than once. Now imagine being called yellow-bellied, which adds scared, cowardly or “chicken”. This is the [...]

The Pain of Rain by Gary Kline   The pain of rain is mainly in the soil, but its effects are much further reaching.  Any place that gets more than 25 inches annually of precipitation suffers loss of soil fertility, unless there is an accompanying amount of summer heat to evaporate much of the precipitation.  The amount, kind and seasonal growth of the vegetation also figures into this.  Here in Olympia, we get around 50 inches, mostly in [...]

Here's another unconventional article on nutritional health by Gary Kline that will cause you to rethink what you've always been told about supplements. Supplements, The Wrong Road? by Gary Kline Don’t take vitamins! That’s the advice of Certified Clinical Nutritionist, Judith De Cava. What De Cava is referring to is synthetic vitamins, the kind that come out of bottles, generally as pills, and fall under the classification of supplements, but which are legally (and actually) [...]