Elvis sighting north of the lake

Two reliable sources recently saw Elvis the Pig running around where pigs should not be (about a mile north of the lake). The picture above is from the WI DNR web site (and is copyrighted so we are using a hot link to point at it).
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See http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/PUBL/wlnotebook/Pig.htm

Napkin holder release 1.0 - implemented in oak

Joe the plumber before he became famous

Candy bowl of red oak

Napkin holder beta release

Made from poppel board and finished with mineral oil.

Financial statements

The next time you read a financial statement pretend you are Conway Twitty. In the make believe world of accounting you need to assign a value to something to make the balance sheet balance. The accounts pretend the value of an asset like a stock or property is the current market value of the asset. It's only make believe (ever hear about supply and demand? The current value depends on who is buying and selling and why)
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So copy and paste this link and sing along with Conway at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZL10oxPwY as you read the bad news this quarter. It's the same when the asset value is high or when it is low. You only get the lower value when you sell it just like the higher value.

Why would anyone grow Jerusalem artichokes?

They look like sunflowers (since they are related) and if you pull out the roots you find tubers. You use the tubers to make soup: http://homecooking.about.com/od/soups/r/blss36.htm (copy and past to follow link) We are trying to learn if it is true you can smoke the roots too.

Some fall colors

Only a day outside for turkeys

It is raining today. The turkeys are in the bottom and middle of the picture.

Mr. BANANA's house status

Waiting for the house shell in the rain

Salvation is near

Cabin joins the 1st world

Fall colors on a cheap camera

We need to get rid of this pile to order another pile

Cuting firewood part 2

Little banded bird released

Family pics

When we run out of interesting things to put on the blog the family always helps out.

'sorry for the lake of interesting material

We have been experiencing a lack of life enrichment experiences lately. The dipstick on the electric log splitter came unscrewed and fell into the log splitter and we had to wait for the company to send another one. That was not life enriching. We also have been cutting up logs so we can order more for splitting next spring for the 2009/2010 winter. Not much else exciting to report. Will try to get out on the lake with the camera this weekend when the relatives come up and we put the pontoon away for the season.

Now even CNN is telling the truth

A Harvard economist speaks "This bailout was a terrible idea. Here's why.

The current mess would never have occurred in the absence of ill-conceived federal policies. The federal government chartered Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970; these two mortgage lending institutions are at the center of the crisis. The government implicitly promised these institutions that it would make good on their debts, so Fannie and Freddie took on huge amounts of excessive risk.

Worse, beginning in 1977 and even more in the 1990s and the early part of this century, Congress pushed mortgage lenders and Fannie/Freddie to expand subprime lending. The industry was happy to oblige, given the implicit promise of federal backing, and subprime lending soared.

This subprime lending was more than a minor relaxation of existing credit guidelines. This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle."

source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview