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| The baby is still only about half-sized, waiting for a friend. | | | |
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With snow now falling at the higher altitudes, our barely noticeable autumn season has mostly disappeared. The foggy gloom complements a recent,
very good article on youth unemployment in Europe in the Times, which is of course not only a problem of youth,
or of Europe.
A professor
publicly lamented what many say privately; that only the well-connected are getting jobs, and merit is not as important. The Basque region had been shielded from the worst, but a
recent blow to a highly-respected
cooperative corporation has really hurt people's confidence. Fagor Electrodomesticos, a producer of inexpensive household appliances, is in its end times, probably in part because of unwise mergers, and probably because they were trying to reach a market that can only now be reached by racing to the bottom, which has never been an accepted philosophy for the movement that began the cooperative system. Naturally, the only decent response is to go outside between downpours.
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| The proprietors of this chicken coop/lambing shed have dressed it up with blue bottles. |
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| When you buy Iberian squash in the market, you buy it by the slice. I thought it was strange until I was given a whole one, which was roughly the size of an adult femur+1/2 a pelvic girdle. Buying by the slice saves freezer space and prevents bodysnatching. |
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| Cows and pigs like to chase the egrets who flock to their fields. Livestock tag? |
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| A txantxangorri (European robin) overlooks a foggy valley. |
