71.   A bottle of homemade raspberry vinegar and well water with sugar, lemon juice and ginger root is refreshing when chilled and mixed with seltzer.

72.   A drake in breeding plumage bobbing happily in near-freezing water with mating on his mind makes you reconsider the nature of winter.

73.   A day on the water with Captain Judy provides her clients with their own story-telling fodder.

74.   A local church is treating its baptismal water with chlorine for repeated use.

75.   A green home saves water with rainwater harvesting systems, low-flow fixtures and high- efficiency appliances such as front-loading washing machines.

76.   A paste of baking soda and water with a teaspoon of lemon juice may help.

77.   A sprinkler could do this job, but my plants get their water with drip irrigation, which slowly drips water right to plant roots.

78.   A small dugout, precariously low in the water with a cargo of bleating baby goats, delighted me.

79.   After that, water with a fine spray whenever the soil is dry to the touch.

80.   All around, tidal flats teemed with oysters and razor clams, and the waters with a majestic fish now known as the Chinook salmon.