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Comment by Laura on September 9, 2009 at 10:44am

The 13 Grandmothers will be at Thunderbird Camp Sept 27,28,29 on the Mimbres in NM. Look them up on YouTube. They have come together to heal the earth and it will be a very spiritual experience. here in NM and all around the world!!

Comment by Grandmother Elder Zeetche on August 22, 2009 at 9:17pm

http://www.winddaughterwestwinds.com/Bear_Tribe_Med_soc.html
then follow it through to west winds that is Winddaughters site there are planning a special event have a look

Comment by Tyann on August 22, 2009 at 8:54pm

Thank you Grandmother for the help. Could you please give me Sun Bears' site addy? I will be looking for the book and a couple of others that you talked about on Country of Friends/Wisdom Keeper. I love to read and learn so this gives me several more to add to my library at home.

If anyone lives in the Omaha, NE area and would like to get together for coffee and visit I would love to do that. I don't own a car and there is limited bus service in the evenings and weekends so my social life is limited.

Comment by Grandmother Elder Zeetche on August 21, 2009 at 8:22am

Hi if you go to sun bears site then follow it to Winddaughter she can help you She is a Pipe Carrier and a Medicine women . It might help just to understand what is attracting this type of creaters to you .
There is a good book and well worth the money called animals speak by a native writer . you can check with amozon books they have copies some even on sale used
Winddaughter is one of our Native Practioners and it be good if you connected with her . She is one of our directors for Sacred Nature Lodge. Also please join Sacred Nature Lodge we are here to work together on all aspics of life with nature and spiritually and joining hands as brothers and sisters. lol Grandmother Elder Zeetche

Comment by Tyann on August 20, 2009 at 9:40pm

I believe the source of my bites was from midges, a tiny two winged fly that bites. There are two elm trees outside my front windows that are hosts to them.

I have found a couple of spiders in my bedding in the past 6 weeks. One I was unable to catch and the last one I did catch and took outside to live in one of my flowerpots. I can't remember the last time that I lived someplace that didn't have a lot of spider inside and outside. Many years ago I lived in a basement apartment and one morning I woke up with a strange feeling that something was in my bed. When I turned on the light there was a large wolf spider sitting on the pillow next to where my head had been. He ran away from me before I could catch him.

The other creature that seems to be around me alot is the garter snake. In that same basement apartment I would find them in the shower or laundry room. When I could I would remove them from the house and put back outside. I have found them in a living room as well. I worked as a teleresearcher for a few months and while in training we found a baby garter in the training room. While most of the people in the room were freaking out one of the men and I caught it and I took it outside.

The one time I had an encounter with one of them I will never forget. I was walking up the hill at the back of my yard and was wearing sandles. All of a sudden I felt something between the top of my foot and the sandle. It scared me enough that I was running up the hill on one foot while shaking the other one trying to get the snake out of my sandle. Somewhere along the way the snake fell out of my sandle.

I know that by the Sun Bear astrological signs my totem animal is the otter. My question is wether or not the spider or snake is my guide animal since they both seem to be everywhere that I live, especailly the spider. If not then how do you know what is your guide animal?

Comment by DonnaV on August 7, 2009 at 9:52am

So far borax/powdered sugar mixed - keeps most ant out of the potting soil and the house. My house is high and dry so that is probably our best reason for not having big problem. Sorry about your neighbor - I have one who moved in and cut a swath of trees down along fence row - hearing the maching rip and tear sounded like bones gnashing. Otherwise, my neighbors are extremely polite.
Once a customer called the police on me - poor dear saw my gopher hose from the tail pipe of the car - carbon monoxide poison you pipe with hose to gopher holes - when police showed up, I had a hard time controlling my laughter. The one officer recognized the device and they left without an arrest for attempted suicide.

Comment by Grandmother Elder Zeetche on August 6, 2009 at 10:13pm

Hi re borax well the ants near our lake love that stuff and this year I am winning the battle . the stuff I get from the local co op it has borax in it but it also reaches the queen ant unless you get her it will get worse. We still have battle with carpenter ants . Out of despiration I have to use stuff to control it . Right now we had so much rain the mosiqutos are loving me heee
Then I have the stupid nieghbor worring about the ducks and now he has the whole lake involved in killing them and a guy down the lake is now got a black dog to kill them As it is off seson and the babies cannot fly they are all breaking the law . I am taking phots and will give them to the police to pass to th warden and I am going to file a report with the police so that if it continues they have more clout .
I did security for many years and people should know if you file a police report and do not press charges it will protect people Because then when something happens they then have a open file They keep your name confidential . food for thought.
Grandmother Elder Zeetche

Comment by DonnaV on August 6, 2009 at 5:20pm

I was wondering if it is really fleas - spiders seldom just bite a person repeatedly like fleas will - for fleas - put a night light over a shallow pan of soapy water - if you begin to see a lot of fleas it might be those. And fleas are way low on the food chain of good bugs - definately use a safe spray on your flooring.

Grandmother Zeetche - we use sugar mixed with borax soap to get rid of ants - and they won't generally cross orange oil.

Comment by Grandmother Elder Zeetche on August 6, 2009 at 11:37am

Re Spiders Well knowone wants to kills creatures but a little thing called poisen get enough bites and you be really sick and if you land lord does not help you then find the agent that helps renters . This could mean there is a much bigger source in the building and you can get ill . There is a spray that is good it for cracks and will help them retreat but I really think that you come first and your health . spiders also might be telling you something check your totem
I know I might sound harsh to getting rid of them but you come first and that is that . I had to have a war with ants and if one does not control the situaiton you can get ill . so in your heart you want to do good but common sence tells me my health comes first .With out good health we can not survive. and do good for our people
love you Grandmother Elder Zeetche

Comment by Grandmother Elder Zeetche on August 6, 2009 at 11:29am

Love Grandmother Elder Zeetche Quebec

Discovery
Permafrost Could Be Climate's Ticking Time Bomb

Researchers conduct fieldwork to track permafrost melting in Alaska and gain insight about the release of carbon into the atmosphere
Photo of Gregory Lehn and Matt Knhosh talking with co-principal investigator Jim McClelland.

Doctoral students Gregory Lehn and Matt Knhosh talk with co-principal investigator Jim McClelland.
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August 5, 2009

The terrain of the North Slope of Alaska is not steep, but Andrew Jacobson still has difficulty as he hikes along the spongy tundra, which is riddled with rocks and masks multitudes of mosquitoes.

Jacobson, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern University, extracts soil and water samples in search of clues to one of global warming's biggest ticking time bombs: the melting of permafrost.

Permafrost, or frozen ground, covers approximately 20 to 25 percent of the land-surface area in the northern hemisphere, and is estimated to contain up to 1,600 gigatons of carbon, primarily in the form of organic matter. (One gigaton is equivalent to 1 billion tons.)

By comparison, the atmosphere now contains around 850 gigatons of the element as carbon dioxide.

"Permafrost historically has served as a carbon sink, largely isolating carbon from participating in the carbon cycle," says Jacobson, whose research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. "However, global warming could transform the Arctic into a new carbon source by accelerating the rate of permafrost melting. This undoubtedly would have a dramatic effect on the global carbon cycle."

Jacobson says the key concern is that permafrost carbon will oxidize to carbon dioxide as melting accelerates, causing a positive feedback to global warming. A vicious cycle is created as a warmer climate facilitates more carbon release, which in turn favors more warming.

So Jacobson and his colleagues collect river water and soil samples near NSF's Toolik Long-Term Ecological Research station, approximately 250 kilometers (km)--155 miles--north of the Arctic Circle. The Dalton Highway--built as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System--provides the only access to the site.

"Planning constitutes a large part of our day--looking at maps, figuring out where to go and how to get there," he laughs. "Fieldwork is typically fraught with vehicle problems, poor roads and bad weather. One thing you can always count on is that every expedition is exciting."

While a logical first step for modeling global warming is quantifying carbon flow, unresolved complexities surrounding the Arctic carbon cycle make it difficult to create models for that element.

Jacobson and his team take a complementary approach by analyzing naturally occurring isotopes of other elements, such as calcium and strontium, which track permafrost melting and therefore provide insight into carbon release.

Initial data show that rivers and permafrost have distinctly different calcium and strontium isotope compositions.

When permafrost thaws during the summer and melts into rivers, the rivers show calcium and strontium isotope compositions that approach those for permafrost. Jacobson hypothesizes that in a warmer world, the permafrost signature in rivers will be more pronounced for longer periods of time.

Changes in the isotope composition of rivers can relate to changes in the release of carbon. So the calcium and strontium isotope composition of Arctic rivers can track the impact of warming on permafrost stability and carbon dioxide release.

"The ultimate goal is to establish a baseline to which future changes can be compared," Jacobson says. "Several years from now, we can compare real changes to model predictions and improve our understanding of how the system works."

The sampling season lasts for only a short time when permafrost thaws in the spring until it refreezes in the fall. Although he visited Alaska in May and will return in October, Jacobson has a team of colleagues and students who will conduct fieldwork throughout the season and again next year. Samples are shipped from the field to Jacobson's laboratory in Evanston, Ill., where he analyzes them in the off-season.

He received NSF funding in 2007 to acquire a multi-collector thermal ionization mass spectrometer for measuring isotopes of calcium, strontium and other elements. Northwestern currently is building a state-of-the-art "metal free" clean laboratory that will house the instrument and support Jacobson's research.

-- Amanda Morris, Northwestern University amandamo@northwestern.edu
More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115311&govDel=USNSF_1

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