Bambies

Extinction

When the global warming devotees talk about species going extinct why don't they ever talk about these creatures?

New deer union

The deer have organized as the Amalgamated Venison Suppliers Union recently. Their first demand was Garbin Moraine have a series of Deer Safety Zones. GM management (weak-kneed that they are) knuckled under.

More service to humanity with carbon sequestration

Oak bowl is 9 1/2" x 4". (perhaps some time in the future we will be able to list the number of carbon atoms in our bowls also)

Why the environmentalists love CFLs

TWW recently made a discovery that explains why the political left loves CFLs. CFLs give off RF (radio frequency) interference that is in the old AM radio band. Of course by complete coincidence that radio band is where the vast majority of rightwing talk radio can be heard. This interference is similar to what was called jamming during the Cold War days when the communists broadcast noises on the same frequencies as the Voice of America so their populations could not hear the truth. Once again the environmentalists and the commies are marching together.

The 1% difference

What is the difference between a fanatic and a leading global warming scientist? It's 1%. A fanatic is 100% sure he is right and will harm you if you don't believe him. A famous global warming scientist is 99% sure CO2 is the cause of global warming and if you do not agree with him he wants you in jail. See this link : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange

A gift of sequestered carbon

This week the family asked TWW to drive the family pontoon off the trailer at the lake landing and bring it back to the family dock. Little did
TWW (who seldom uses the dang thing) know they gave him a key for the pontoon but not the safety lanyard needed to start the engine. TWW floated out in the lake unable to start the engine until being rescued by some neighbors who live on the lake. As a Thank You for their trouble TWW took some sequestered carbon and made a present to give them.








7" x 3" Maple bowl finished with mineral oil.

More evidence of a Carbon Dioxide Conspiracy

Why don't they call this a conspiracy of the scientists who want research grants and the media people who want ratings (and Al Gore who wants to have a purpose in life).

When you burn gasoline you get CO2 and dihydrogen monoxide.

This is a quote from an article showing how one gallon of gas makes 19 pounds of CO2 (this is accurate but remember it is parts per million in the atmosphere that counts in the CO2 conspiricy to control the economy) not how much the stuff weighs.

Source: http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/how-to-turn-8-p

"Let’s pretend that gas is entirely made up of octane (more properly referred to as 2,2,4-trimethylpentane). It’s not, but that also doesn’t really matter for our purposes. Octane contains 8 carbon atoms (hence the oct- prefix, like Dr. Octopus) and 18 hydrogen atoms. Carbon has a molecular weight of 12 and hydrogen has a molecular weight of 1, so octane has a total molecular weight of 114 (8 x 12 + 18 x 1). "

From this you can see you get 8 molecules of CO2 and 9 molecules (you need two hydrogen atoms) of dyhydrogen monoxide) from an octane molecule. Why don't the CO2 conspiracy people talk about how you get dihydrogen monoxide from gasoline as well as CO2? The simple reason is hydrogen monoxide does not promote their goals.

Racist blog?

TWW only uses English on this blog since his German and Spanish abilities are so bad. Does this mean the blog is racist? Some people might think so given the bumper sticker below.




Last thought: how can the illegal alien people understand the bumper sticker since it is in English?

campaign 2008 slogan

"It's the H20, stupid!"

another crackpot letter to the Editor of this blog

Editor:
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Here’s a global warming test for you: What is the most important greenhouse gas? (Hint: you get it when you burn a fossil fuel). Correct answer: dihydrogen monoxide.
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The loose conspiracy between Big Science with its quest for government grants and Nobel prizes and Big Media in search of ratings and Pulitzer prizes, has created an obsession with carbon dioxide in spite of the fact dihydrogen monoxide impacts the greenhouse effect more than CO2.
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If you believe the environmentalists, there are some scientists out there called deniers who have been bought off by Exxon. But the real people we should be looking at are the scientists who are on the take in the form of government grants. There is competition for research grant money. Getting your environmental scare into the media helps get more grants. The alliance between the media and the scientists has almost created a positive feedback loop (getting more of something causes getting even more of it) like the global warming people talk about.
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This controversy involves what science can really tell us, religious beliefs, mass communication and the politics and economics of how other people want to spend your money. A great book covering all aspects of the controversy is Climate Confusion by Roy Spencer (a UW Madison PhD in meteorology who is a denier with a sense of humor). By the way Spencer thinks the planet is warming .
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Finally, I should also add Big Oil has not paid me anything to write this. Instead, they want my money to increase their obscene profits just like they want yours.
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TWW

No way Jose

Latest from the Just Say No people:

source: http://shop.wnd.com/store/images/items/W0193.jpg

Emptiness coming in January for HBHs

Next January the Habitual Bush Haters are going to go to pull off yesterday's page on their No More Bush countdown calenders and find an empty space. How will they make up for not having Bush to blame for everything going wrong in the world? They have become so used to getting their dander up each morning they will have to find a way to fill the emptiness. Maybe someone will start selling Rush Limbough countdown calenders.

The drought shows its ugly head

The drought (you guessed it - it was caused by global warming) has raised the level of the lake so it is now over the walkway to the dock at the family cabin.

Need a Playmate?

This was found on shore north of the landing.

Weeds in the lake

We have no idea what this one is except you can't smoke it.



This is common waterweed (the only one we could match up with the book we had).

This might be some sort of pond weed.

All we can say for sure was we found nothing looking like any of the invasive kinds of plants or mussels.

Weed adventure

As a service to the community TWW spent the morning pulling weeds from the lake. No illegal aliens were found.


About 3 gallons of weeds were pulled up. Some people think this is more fun than cleaning fish but TWW disagrees.

New life enrichment activity

This summer we turn the furnace on and watch it run.

From Dick's for .......

TWW wants to thank the relatives who gave him the gift certificate for Dick's. He bought a couple of needed items.

New use for old SUVs

Now that gas prices have made SUVs obsolete you are probably wondering what to do with yours. The answer is simple. You just park it in your back yard and install an off-rode commode in the trailer hitch. This lets you pretend you are out in the woods communing with nature. This baby takes the place of your hitch which you don't need anyway since your new 4 cylinder rice burner can hardly pull its own weight let alone a trailer.

If you show me yours; I'll show you mine

TWW attended a breakfast up on 'da Range' today with some fellow retirees (due to security reasons none of the participants are shown in the picture above ). The group came up with a new life enrichment experience so we are passing it along here. It's really very simple. Everybody pulls out their driver's license and shows it to the other people. (note: this really happened - we are not making this up). People were comparing how flexible the cards were and how the licenses from the same state had different colors and of course all of the people said the photos on the licenses made them look older. We think the hidden agenda of some of the people in the group was to know if the other people still had licenses in case they had to ride with them.

Image courtesy: http://lblairenterprises.com/Pops%20Girl/SeniorCitizens.jpg

Life enrichment through rice

Some of the relatives over Memorial Day were interested in exploring life enrichment through rice so here is a link to where we bought the stuff:

http://www.producersrice.com/gifts/index.html

Another good picture of Hillary

"Well, if I can't be president I might as well be a drunk" (the glass has whikey in it)

Latest carbon sequestration product

This popple bowl may not sequestor CO2 for long since it came firepit-ready. The bowl is 10 1/2 " by 3 1/2 ". It was dyed red to make it look prettier but all that proved is one should never buy based on a picture on the Internet.

A new bowl in search of a good home

8" x 3" natural cherry end-grain bowl finished with walnut oil.

For life enrichment

we sometimes watch the Ludefisk thaw. Eating it does not count as a life enrichment experience.

Your help needed

One of the relatives who is the social chairperson of the Boundary Waters Trip Club sent us this photo from the annual trek last year and asked our help. The problem is she needs to know who is who so she can put the names in the annual newsletter. Can you help ID anyone?

BO has it wrong - part 2

In the earlier post about how BO got it wrong, we got it wrong ourselves. We forgot people have two hands. Some bitter country people may cling to their guns and Bibles and dislike people who are different (like politicians) but at night they give that all up and cling to their both their TV remotes and their TV beer cans.



Bloggers Note:
Since the readership of this blog is growing steadily (up to double digits now per month), we'd better have a little tutorial on TV beer for the new people. Everyone has probably seen the As Seen on TV logo where mediocre products are informercialed on TV. The same is true for beer. The big breweries spend mucho money advertising their bland, overpriced products on TV. At Garbin Moraine we disdainfully call this beer TV beer. Usually TV beer comes in an aluminum can (which may be link to Alzheimer's disease) and not a bottle.

Miscellaneous pictures as we await warm weather

Water wagon on the way to water the new Colorado blue spruce trees. It runs by remote control. The fire danger has been high up here and the new trees were getting thirsty.

A tree swallow telling TWW to buzz off.

Flowers from an unknown shrub about 15 feet tall.

Apple blossoms but no bees.

SS Weed getting ready for action

The Limnological Division of the Garbin Moraine Foundation will be conducting a study in the lake this summer searching for illegal alien plants or mussels. First the boat has to be made legal for use.

Action at the landing

The lake still seems down in spite of the rains.




Someone threw their worms out by the landing. Well at least they did not dump them out so they could be fruitful, multiply and increase the illegal alien population.

Action in the cabin

With the overwhelming response to the statistics entry on the wood pile we decided to seek life enrichment through statistics.
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The first floor bedroom on the west side has a door rough opening of 33 3/4".

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The door in the scuba bedroom has a 38" rough opening.

Our TV antenna

BO has it wrong

We are sure you head about the remark by Senator Obam about us bitter people in the country who cling to our guns and Bibles and think bad thoughts about people who are different than us. This remark shows he is well out of touch with people in the heartland. Sure at times we cling to our guns and Bibles but most of the time we cling to our our TV remotes. When the big change in February 2009 happens and many people in the country cannot get TV anymore there may be hell to pay for the next president whoever he or she may be.

A new group for global warming believers to join

The more liberals, environmentalists and global warming zealots join this group the better off the planet will be:) see link:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63755

Finally done with life enrichment experience

The firewood is finally done and drying for next year. Instead of merely watching it dry we decided to instead do some statistics. There are 82 individual stacks in the pile each containing 64 pieces of wood cut to less than 3" as the greatest measurement in any dimension as required by the masonry stove for the greatest emission of CO2 (less CO2 means more pollution of the other kinds). Just remember this is good CO2 since it came from living trees and not the bad kind that comes from fossil fuels. Anyway, with 82 stacks of 64 pieces we have 5,248 pieces of firewood cut from 8 foot logs into 16" pieces and then split to the 3" or less standard mention earlier. Since oak has 24 MBTUs per cord and we have 82 piles divided by 18 piles per cord we have 4 and 10/18 cords. This means we have around 97,000,000 BTUs to keep us warm next year. The fire department says not to stack wood by buildings so if the garage burns down we will be able to roast alot of hot dogs.


When we need to relax after numbercrunching we still can watch the new hedge grow but first we have to find the shrubs since they are still so small.

Helping to save the planet (again)

Mrs. TWW said we needed an air conditioner so when global warming happened we would be prepared and now we finally have one.

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This is a new concept in forestry - the microforest. This forest of about 180 red pines takes up much less space than the outdated concept of putting the trees 10 feet apart.

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We have found a seedy side to Garbin Moraine. TWW has been locking up his trees and shrubs in cages instead of letting them run free. People in People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees (PETT) are sure to be outraged at this newly-discovered scandal.

Frugal solution to broken glasses

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No it is not bubble gum. The white stuff is the top of a can that held powdered Gatorade. TWW used a soldier gun to bond the white plastic to the frame of the glasses to enhance the structural properties of the frame which had been damaged. So far it is holding pretty well. Next time he will find a plastic top that better matches the glass frame or else paint the frame white.

TWW has been having trouble with his piles

That is why this blog has not been updated too much recently. This pile was too big.

And this pile was too small. But with proper preparation it is getting bigger and the other one smaller.