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Breaking the law can pay off
Today I violated a law, my first violation of American law, but it was well worth it.
I took a long walkabout, keeping a steady eye on the mountains to the west. I walked for 10 miles or so, and reached a nice big meadow, filled with various flowers. A sign told me it was private property and to stay away..but something made me violate this and walk into the high grass.
For all my moomin-loving friends on LJ, you all know that the character of Snufkin just hates signs about private property, he firmly thinks you should be able to walk anywhere. This is very Scandinavian I tell you (and Snufkin is sort of Scandinavian I guess..). Now, I know about protecting the landscape and such matters, and I can assure that I treaded carefully and did not pick or bend a straw, and I will probably not do it again...but it was SO well worth it.
I walked for a little while and admired the many flowers some of the rainy days had enabled to live in the high summer sun...and then I stopped dead, because there they were!
At first I thought they were just another pair of the lovely big ass dragonflies that inhabit this State..but these were just a bit rounder in their body shape, and the wings had a slightly different moving pattern, and when they came closer I saw.
So shimmering beautiful, but small in an almost freakish way... association patterns head towards insects instead of birds sometimes when you see them far away.
I was completely still and was graced with their presence a while longer, the pair of Hummingbirds, and my whole chest area was just filled with this moment.
It was pure magic.
I took a long walkabout, keeping a steady eye on the mountains to the west. I walked for 10 miles or so, and reached a nice big meadow, filled with various flowers. A sign told me it was private property and to stay away..but something made me violate this and walk into the high grass.
For all my moomin-loving friends on LJ, you all know that the character of Snufkin just hates signs about private property, he firmly thinks you should be able to walk anywhere. This is very Scandinavian I tell you (and Snufkin is sort of Scandinavian I guess..). Now, I know about protecting the landscape and such matters, and I can assure that I treaded carefully and did not pick or bend a straw, and I will probably not do it again...but it was SO well worth it.
I walked for a little while and admired the many flowers some of the rainy days had enabled to live in the high summer sun...and then I stopped dead, because there they were!
At first I thought they were just another pair of the lovely big ass dragonflies that inhabit this State..but these were just a bit rounder in their body shape, and the wings had a slightly different moving pattern, and when they came closer I saw.
So shimmering beautiful, but small in an almost freakish way... association patterns head towards insects instead of birds sometimes when you see them far away.
I was completely still and was graced with their presence a while longer, the pair of Hummingbirds, and my whole chest area was just filled with this moment.
It was pure magic.
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Lead testing is simple, you can order a do-it-yourself kit online for about $10.
Asbestos testing kits are also available in do-it-yerself varieties from $10-$20.
Bear in mind that most do it yourself kits will charge you a laboratory processing fee too though - probably between another $10-50.
Connie Hockema; (512) 972-6653 or Olga Hernadez; (512) 972-6688 manage the LeadSmart program in Austin, you could probably call them at least concerning lead testing, and they might be able to forward you to a knowledgeable source re: asbestos & mold.