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Green roofs and historic houses
Sep. 20th, 2009 09:59 amLJ blogging has been pretty sedate here at lblanchard for the last week. In addition to the Swayze retrospective, we've enjoyed two very different building tours this week.
Wednesday night we went up on the green roof of PECO (the Philadelphia Electric Company) to see how they're keeping a million gallons of water out of our wastewater stream each year while lowering the temperature and extending the life of their roof. In one of the pictures, we can see our block if not our house. We also observed, although I don't think I photographed, bumblebees hard at work pollinating the penstemon. We hear that migratory birds also use it as a stopover.YouTube video about it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb3NWI-wzL0
Friday, as a reward for going to Trenton NJ to collect copies of our marriage license, we went to the Historic 1719 William Trent House, which is bizarrely situated amid state office buildings.
Yesterday I started Book 1 of the six CD series of Black and White, the 1980 TV drama with Patrick Swayze as the young plantation owner. It's longer than LOTR and pretty weird -- Swayze's hair and diction are almost identical to those of Dirty Dancing, although he has a bit of a southern accent, and I'm confidently expecting him to say at some point "Nobody puts the Confederacy in a corner."
Wednesday night we went up on the green roof of PECO (the Philadelphia Electric Company) to see how they're keeping a million gallons of water out of our wastewater stream each year while lowering the temperature and extending the life of their roof. In one of the pictures, we can see our block if not our house. We also observed, although I don't think I photographed, bumblebees hard at work pollinating the penstemon. We hear that migratory birds also use it as a stopover.YouTube video about it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb3NWI-wzL0
Friday, as a reward for going to Trenton NJ to collect copies of our marriage license, we went to the Historic 1719 William Trent House, which is bizarrely situated amid state office buildings.
Yesterday I started Book 1 of the six CD series of Black and White, the 1980 TV drama with Patrick Swayze as the young plantation owner. It's longer than LOTR and pretty weird -- Swayze's hair and diction are almost identical to those of Dirty Dancing, although he has a bit of a southern accent, and I'm confidently expecting him to say at some point "Nobody puts the Confederacy in a corner."
