Weather: March 1 -- in like a lion? More like a kitten -- its cloudy, but warm and dry.

Wildlife: About a hundred Canada Geese set down at a time on the open water in our lake during the day. They raise their voices loudly when eagles swoop over the scene, and fly away in the late afternoon.

Charity Alert: I include these six sites on this blog to encourage everyone, including myself, to visit them and click -- The Rain Forest Site

Media Watch: Nope, didn't see the Academy Awards, although it looks like Joan Rivers and her daughter will re-run the "Red Carpet" all week on the TV Guide Channel. We are watching the Jeopardy tournament to see who'll get to face Ken Jennings at the end of it -- the questions are actually hard sometimes! Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has had some interesting shows -- including one pretty stubborn client.

In the Community: Tomorrow we start the Honors Symposium -- a series of lectures by people who know the world at large. Our first speaker is Dr. Scott Wheeler, who will introduce the concept of "Political Economy" to the audience. The "unseen hand of the marketplace" is a pickpocket. Governing institutions and individuals in a society have the greatest effects on that society's prosperity. Later on we'll have T.R. Ried talking about The United States of Europe. I'm stage-managing these events for the next two months.