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These are the books I finished reading, for the first time, in 2021.1 The list has more literature than I had been reading, and some great practical books. I’ve included a few notes.

You may have noticed that I’ve been working on a few more video projects recently. And I’ve spun a couple of those into podcasts. The idea behind this new video and audio content is to share ATC’s turfgrass information in ways that people can easily get.

One morning a few months ago I went for a run on roads and paths through southern Thailand and passed one fighting bull, then another, then another … In all, I passed six fighting bulls that morning.

You’ve seen me make a lot of birdies on zoysia putting greens. This is a fascinating grass, and the ball roll on zoysia is different than what you see on bentgrass or bermudagrass.

I haven’t been eating at nearly as many restaurants as I used to. Yesterday, however, I happened to be out for lunch and had a terrific bowl of duck noodles.

It’s fruit season in Thailand. One can get fruit at any time of year, but a check of orchards and markets shows that mango season starts in April; after that come durian and rambutan, and mangosteens mark the end of it.

The excitement of having elephants in town is tempered by rumors of a lion. Let me explain. You’ll recall when the elephants arrived. At that time, there had been a lot of rain, and some flooding, and I speculated that these elephants had been moved to avoid floods.

I worked through some longstanding software and hardware problems and put together a series of three short videos about total organic matter testing. This was meant to be a single video of 4 to 7 minutes in duration, but I talked a bit longer than that so I split this up into three shorter ones.

Swensen’s Ice Cream has a salted watermelon flavor this summer. The salted watermelon ice cream is superb. It pairs especially well with a scoop of coconut milk ice cream.1

Yeah. I’m not sure which is worse: waking up to find a rat has escaped the trap, or waking up to find two rats caught in a trap. I’ve been learning a lot about rats.