The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Never trust a kid with baggy clothes

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Monday, August 29, 2011

link of the day


Baked cellafon recipe




MAMA (formerly known as Duped in Douglas) has kindly given us her recipe for baked cellafon.
  1. Since cellafons are bottom feeders you need wash them thoroughy.  If you cannot spare the time you can use your washing machine on gentle cycle. 
  2. Next dry the cellafon with a paper towel
  3. Fill a baking container with sliced almonds and put cellafon on top 
  4. Next season with lemon pepper of chile powder
  5. Heat your oven to 400 degrees F.
  6. Bake on the lower rack for 30 minutes
  7. Check to see if the skin is soft yet and if not return to the oven. 
  8. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving
  9. One cellafon serves two people

Friday, August 26, 2011

another one of the neighbors is at it

There is a news story in the Hayward paper about a man charged with shooting his neighbor’s house when the neighbors were in it. The Sawyer County district attorney is charging him with recklessly endangering safety for supposedly firing three shots from a .44 magnum handgun. He reportedly was upset the neighbors had built a house there. He also is charged with obstructing an officer by saying he was an Illinois state senator and people should call the White House in Washington, D.C. to confirm it. He pretended to be paralyzed and had to be lifted from the home in a stretcher. The irony of the story is he lives on Loon Lane over by Round Lake.

source: http://www.haywardwi.com/articles/2011/08/26/news/doc4e551da77d7d9227713425.txt

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Grossosity of the day - do not view while eating



note to local bears: this could happen to you if you mess with our trash again

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Hummingbird wars





New life enrichment activity

Watching the Italian sausage thaw



Fog in the valley


Not much other life enrichment for the time being.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Miscellaneous pictures

Cascade hops must be getting ripe


Wood pile finally gone so TWW gets his life back

Wood for 2013/2014 winter drying out

Deer,  maybe bears and selected humans got the lower ones so picking is getting harder 

State Fair variety ready at state fair time (animals willing)

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Your tax dollars at work

"It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim." (the scientists are paid with your money if you pay taxes in the US)


see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations

Bachmann makes a pitch for Obama supporters (people who will believe anything)

"Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,"

source: http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news/economy/bachmann_gas_prices/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

Beware of caucasean terrorists

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Big Mac's causing global warming

see: http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/news/article-info/2617/scots-researchers-suggest-link-between-obesity-and-global-warming.aspx

quote: "The academics suggest that global weight loss would result in a drop in the production of the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO(2))."




And Mrs. TWW's cinnamon fingers also contribute to global warming. (just baked today)




Tuesday, August 16, 2011

33% left on the journey to life enrichment


At least the bears are did not eat the garbage last night

TWW is getting a SuperSoaker to fight back at Walmart today.


More animal control opportunities

Red squirrels are eating the garage again. 


Try some peanutbutter rather than the garage for lunch you little .........s 




Thursday, August 11, 2011

Riots in Europe spread to WI

see:  http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20110808-fair-mob-reports,0,1285413.story

" The suspects have been described as African Americans. The victims were either Caucasian or Hispanic."


Where are the calls for the hate crimes being investigated? :) 

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Multi-sensory life enrichment

Watching the septic get pumped. You guess what other sense was enriched. 





More life enrichment

Watching the faucet leak.






What the locals are up to -- Ed Who?


"Stone Lake man kept mother's corpse in home for years after her death

Officials found body after man's death

by Kathy Hanson
Staff reporter
Published: Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:43 PM CDT
Washburn County Sheriff's Office Investigator Austin Parenteau has confirmed that Michael J. Egan, 67, now deceased, had kept the corpse of his mother, Elizabeth Egan, on the couch in his home long after her death. She is estimated to have died sometime in 2008, at an approximate age of 97. According to Sawyer County probate records, Michael and Elizabeth lived at N6183 Lake Road, Stone Lake.

Michael Egan himself died at the residence in early June, but his body wasn't found until approximately two weeks later when officials removed it from the floor of a bedroom."

source: 
http://www.haywardwi.com/articles/2011/08/09/news/doc4e3c37746b98f173080106.txt
 

Monday, August 08, 2011

Time to retire them



These knee pads served TWW well in his working days but time to retire them since there will be no more promotions. 

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TWW has not had much time to devote to this blog or making premiums lately.







Friday, August 05, 2011

More Teapartying Warped Warmongering Misinformation


"What Salby found though, was nothing like what was expected

The largest increases year-to-year occurred when the world warmed fastest due to El Nino conditions. The smallest increases correlated with volcanoes which pump dust up into the atmosphere and keep the world cooler for a while. In other words, temperature controls CO2 levels on a yearly time-scale, and according to Salby, man-made emissions have little effect.
The climate models assume that most of the rise in CO2 (from 280 ppmv in1780 to 392 ppmv today) was due to industrialization and fossil fuel use. But the globe has been warming during that period (in fact since the depths of the Little Ice Age around 1680), so warmer conditions could be the reason that CO2 has been rising.
Salby does not dispute that some of the rise in CO2 levels is due to man-made emissions, but found that temperature alone explains about 80% of the variation in CO2 levels.
The up and coming paper with all the graphs will be released in about six weeks. It has passed peer review, and sounds like it has been a long time coming. Salby says he sat on the results for six months wondering if there was any other interpretation he could arrive at, and then, when he invited scientists he trusted and admired to comment on the paper, they also sat on it for half a year. His speech created waves at the IUGG conference, and word is spreading." 


see the source:  http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/05/the-emily-litella-moment-for-climate-science-and-co2/#more-44593
source:  

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Bear baiting

Bear baiting season is upon us so TWW decided to start baiting the bears too.





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