Mrs. TWW's new deck finally painted

Question: Is it genetic or cultural?  Whenever a woman gets new spaces she immediately wants the space filled with new furniture. 

Stairs going north needs a new railing too. 

Coming up to the  house.

Going down to the lower level. The welding magician will come over this week to help with 

fixing the rail TWW cut off and make a new railing for  the other side of the stairs. 

The TWWs need to figure out how to keep the assessor from seeing this picture so the

 taxes do not go up too much.  

Less fun than going to the Prime Bar

A trip to the middle of nowhere

On Saturday TWW went to a  bird banding demonstration in the middle of nowhere.  The pictures below illustrate how bird banders capture, record information on a bird, band the bird and then release it back to the wild.  The bird in this picture could not fly up side down so did not fly away until it was uprighted.  

No picture available

Yesterday TWW  went to a new clinic in Hayward and got a physical from two female nurses. Anyway,  as part of the physical the nurse practicioner gave him a  hospital gown,  left the room and then came back with a witness (a second female nurse).  When they came back TWW remembering family tradition made a flippant comment on always wanting to moon someone.  One of the nurses panicked and ran over to the window since he  was already unknowingly mooning the parking lot since  the window was not covered ....unfortunately there is no picture available but maybe that is more fortunate than not. 

When will the boycotts of Garbin Moraine begin?

All visitors to Garbin Moraine who wish to be served adult beverages and are not on Social Security will be required to show one of the following IDs to prove they are old enough:

•  A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE.
•  A VALID ARIZONA NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE. 
•  A VALID TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD OR OTHER FORM OF TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION.
•  IF THE ENTITY REQUIRES PROOF OF LEGAL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE ISSUANCE, ANY VALID UNITED STATES FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION.

Note: this is a list of what shows one is a citizen in Arizona so Garbin Moraine wants to be looked at as a progressive operation too.

TWW expects to see many soldiers get this award posthumously

"Hold fire, earn a medal

By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 12, 2010 15:51:31 EDT

U.S. troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something, a precedent-setting award that would be given for “courageous restraint” for holding fire to save civilian lives."

see:http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/05/military_restraint_medal_051110mar

Next Cheesehead in Chief??

see: http://www.brownbagmovement.com/

Course on wining

The Teaching Company (TWW has taken many courses from them since they do not have final tests) has a new course on wines. See  details at:   http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=9123
Now if they ever have a course on beer then TWW will bite. 

Bowl being sent out for rehab

TWW called in a tree surgeon who did a crackectomy on the plumber's bowl seen below.  The next step is to send the recovering bowl to Sven & Son's Crystal Rehab Center so it can be rehabilitated.  It  has some bad insides. 

Book Report for School Blog

TWW is sure you know the federal government has spent millions paying climate scientists to build complicated computer models running on high-priced supercomputers resulting in information common people are too ignorant to understand so we just are supposed to take the Al Gores of the world at their word that the science is all settled and we need to do as they tell us especially when they tell us we need to spend more tax dollars on research on a subject they say is all settled.  But did you know one climate scientist the Al Gores of the world call a ‘denier’ built a  computer model on his desktop computer that does a reasonable job of explaining warming at a fraction of the price of all the others? Remember the peasant boy on the side of the road who said “the emperor is not wearing any clothes”?  Is history repeating itself or will this one scientist only be a footnote when the climate change chapter in the history of science is written? The guy’s name is Roy Spencer and his new book is The Great Global Warming Blunder.  Here is a brief review of what is in the book. 


You should know Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who works with temperature data measured by satellite sensors. There is only about a decade’s worth of good data so that limits his access to nature and may influence how he sees things but the data is probably better than measuring tree rings or ice cores. Only time will tell.


Spencer says his analysis of satellite temperatures tells him the climate is relatively insensitive to warming influences and more clouds form because of warming and they reflect  more energy back into space than the warming alarmists will tell you. The alarmists say the earth is fragile and sensitive because warming gets amplified (the positive feedback you hear about in the pricey computer models). 


Spencer uses a great analogy in his book.  Warming is like what you experience  when you sit in a car parked in the sun with the windows open part of the way. The car warms up (a forcing in climate lingo).  When you open the car windows to cool off  you are negative feedback  personified and the car cools down.  The climate alarmists think the earth would roll the windows up instead so the car gets even warmer (positive feedback in climate lingo).  You should remember there may not be some intelligent force rolling the window up or down. It just happens in nature. 


Positive feedback to the alarmists means a warming influence creates skies with fewer clouds (positive feedback).  Spencer thinks the alarmists have it backwards.  He thinks natural mechanisms can create warming by making fewer clouds.  He says the alarmists have mixed up cause and effect.  (This is not the first time this has happened in science by the way.)  Spencer thinks about 75% of the warming in the last century comes from the way the Pacific Ocean stores and releases energy which in turn creates or does not create more clouds. The other 25% comes from other both natural and human causes like burning fossil fuels.

If you want more details on what this guy is up to see: http://www.drroyspencer.com/

Tulip bowl becomes a plumber's bowl

with a 2" crack. Must be due to being latheless too long.

Same old; same old -- snow in May

Snow on the new deck/ramp

Snow on the valley

Snow on the driveway (look close)

Snow on the stairs

Snow on the deck furniture

Aussie grill  (trade mark?) has become a wood cart

Mrs. TWW enjoying her morning fire (look close) 

Same old; same old - day 3

It is raining and no sun.  The snow is supposed to arrive this afternoon and turn things white.  The other colors are sure to demand fairness.

Same old; same old - day 2

please note: this page had captions and the pictures were evenly spaced in the 'editor' used to create pages but when they displayed things were all messed-up so captions were dropped but the extra spaces remain.    @#$^$%^&#^%&   

You are on Candid Camera

Same old; same old

The lathe is working and TWW pawned-off a birch bowl on the excellent repair guy.

Given the weather forecast for Friday TWW is going to try and make some ice cream in his solar oven.

Quote for the day?

"If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land. 

The problem: The federal government did not have a single fire boom on hand. "


source:http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html

Watching the wood dry

for 2010-2011 heating season  (and maybe some of 2011-2012 wood) 

8 foot lengths for rest of  2011-2012,  2012-2013 and maybe even some of 2013-2014

note: this wood may outlast the current regime and there may even be some for the first years of whoever takes over next claiming to be able to clean up the current mess

Mrs. TWW's new deck - day 3

 Mrs. TWW's deck is done for now.  The railings on the ramp will be done next year and TWW will paint the deck when he gets to it (ie. when Mrs. TWW gives him enough grief to get it done -- well,  really they only sell the paint needed in the Cities). 

Q and D's site rep drilling home the last screw  of the day. 

The done deck. Note the use of recycled spindles saved from the previous front porch to insure an environmentally-friendly deck. That is Mrs. TWW surveying her new empire. 

Mrs. TWW (right hand side) and relatives enjoying the new deck.