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The world is new to us every morning--this is the Holy One's gift and every person should believe they are reborn each day.- Baal Shem Tov

A question about your experience navigating this web site:

I would appreciate some feedback on your experience navigating around this web site. 

  • How effective are the main menus such as the one on top of this page?
  • Are the sections linked in a logical manner, and can you make relatively easy decisions on how to get to a section of interest to you?
  • If you found yourself getting mixed up / lost and weren't sure how to get back to where you had been, in what part of the site did this happen?
  • Are the thumbnail images large enough to get a good idea of the full size images before you download the full image?  Are they too large and does their size make the page too slow to load for you. (This would be a question for dial up modem users especially.)
  • How do you find the type size and font?  Although this is in large part a function of the resolution you have set on your browser preferences, it is also impacted by the font size I have used in the creation of the page.

If you have the time, please  send me a quick email so I can continue to make improvements to the site.    Gerald at Friendly Forest / Hoop Boy  Please type this address into your address line:

By doing so you will be helping me avoid the tons of spam that arrive if I actually post my address on this site.

Check here and here to see some images of recent work.

 

I have been using Macromedia's Dreamweaver Studio MX to do work on this and the other site.  If the visitor has web site development experience and is willing to look at my work and offer me advice, I would appreciate such.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Waluta, the symbol of values to be lived.

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Friendly Forest Happenings

January 13. 2012 My friend who had been in hospital since last week lost his battle and passed to the other side today. For the loss this is to his family and to his friends, it is a sad day. For his Spirit I am sure it is a day of release and fulfillment as only the full experience of our Creator's love can bring to a creature.

I mourn his passing.

January 8, 2012 I have just archived previous entries from this page. If you wish, click the link below to go to the latest archive page which also contains an index to earlier archived pages.

Our winter has been incredibly mild with record-breaking high temperatures for this time of year. While it clearly has its plus side, we do not know what the negative impacts are or even what it might be telling us in terms of longer-term climate change patterns. In this part of Saskatchewan we rely on long periods of very cold weather to slow down or destry various forest pathogens or parasitic insects. Without such severe conditions we do not know what will be the result.

We have had relatively little snow cover here, and further south the ground is bare. That too has its consequences for the survival of certain sensitive plant root systems.

I have been taking forest hikes and recently have been going along the inside of the pond. I now trust that the ice is thick enough to be safe to walk on. In doing so I have been walking between the dead trunks of trees that have drowned out over the past years of excessively high water. I took some tobacco to make an offering before harvesting some birch fungus growths that I use for varius purposes. While doing this I noticed another type of fungal growth that I had not noticed before. I am trying toi investigate the nature and potential uses of this discovery. Checking out my plant medicine books I have not found much to help me so I turned to the internet. There I have found quite a series of reference sites that I believe are about the fungal growth that I have harvested.

This is a link to one of those pages:

http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/the-chaga-natures-medicinal-mushroom

A good friend and mentor is seriously ill in hospital right now and each time the phone rings I get anxious as to what I might hear when I pick it up.

Tomorrow is Full Moon and my regular Inipi day. Forecast is for continued warm weather and going out there will be a strong contrast to last year at this time with temperatures approaching minus 30 Degrees C.

Archived entries can be viewed by clicking here
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