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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Aargh! Aloha, ES!

Geiger cartoons

oooh, sat morning cartoons fri nite.. thanks for that eg

Digg is now open Pups!
Hey ES how are ya doing tonight? Hope your nice and warm!

No crash of US Market…Treasury will cut a deal with GM and Chrysler…Gm will cut ptoduction by 30% first quarter as buyers disapear. China and India economy slow but still grow…Thai PM steps down…25 US banks have gone under this year

I Dugg yer Digg, nahant.

my, aren’t you fast tonight. first comment and Digg too!

DIGG

OOPS forgot the linky…..

Just luck Neuro… Did ya check out the youtube I left ya before our dinner??

Good evening firepups.

Pedal Bastille… remember you read it here first. I bet there will be a band by that name someday.

I left you some detailed thought about freezers a couple of threads ago. Wasn’t sure if they got EPUd. Did you see them?
http://firedoglake.com/2008/12…..nt-1757458

Tumbrels ho! Pedal Bastille is one of my favorite instruments.

No I missed it.. thanks

I like ‘The Molotov’

When I was a pre-teen we’d lob molotovs into the college parking lot during summer break :D

You’re welcome.

On that bright and revolutionary note, I do believe I will turn in. Take care all.

Gnite DrDick.

Left you a comment back at 61. Must learn to type faster..

I didn’t know that about frost free. Interesting.

We always had giant chest freezers. Every fall, just before the new pecans and hunting season, was the time to flip all the goods. Would be nice to have an upright.

Radical German Attorney Kurt Groenewold on Representing the Baader-Meinhof and Being Tried Himself
Wednesday, December Democracy Now today
While I was rowing pedal to the metal across the bay today I listened to her broadcast from Germany…they are pissed about sraging attacks from their soil…a violation of their constitution. US has more bases there…60,000 permanent troops Attorney Kurt Groenewold calls it an occupation and they also want NATO dismantled as the cols war is over.

ES – I like the tunes!

I like how they used a strong style of music and words yet managed to stay out of your face with it.

I missed that, what thread was it on? got a link? :)

That’s my recommendation. And, supposing it’s an extra hundred dollars, and you use it for a decade, it’s extra cost/year is deminimus.

TY, kind sir…)

sucks about your bookmarks. i use firefox and the foxmarks add on which stores a copy of my bookmarks on their server and and can be used to sync multiple computers (like work and home). its free

i’ve lost bookmarks before – totally sux

Agreed, energy efficiency will be key, but it will pay for itself in both the quantity purchases I will be able to make and the quality of the foods in my kitchen year round. I like to hunt and fish… can’t do much these days due to no freezer space.

Ah yes, my deer hunter friend has quite a large standing freezer. The ones that aren’t frost free are much more energy efficient. And mine is in my basement which varies between 60 in the winter to 70 in the summer, so it is in a cool place.

The Molotov “In The RED” solid sound and good message. Hows about a prison release work program to open the jails andf reduce the prison population…as part of the stimulus package.
And waht’s wrong with me not a MF thang jack.
Good evening ES and Fire dawgs…lets rock the nets.

yeah, i lke things you can listening to that lets the message slowly sink in. I usually play t00bz in the bg and don’t typically watch the vid.

WE have to quit placing non violent offenders and casual drug violations in prison…

And end for profit prisons and for profit prison labor once and for all.

I use Firefox, but had not heard about the add on..sigh..better late than never. At least I can prevent that from happening, again. Thanks for the info.

I just discovered Vuze… tons of great music and videos there.

Here ya go Neuro took me a moment to remember which thread it was on. It was one the one where I had stepped on your Digg… enjoy..

I have a positive view of the future while the global warming conferece in Poland had some setback but many governments committed to substanstial reductions…US leader not there…the message here in California from Arnold and the Dem legislature is full speed ahead with green infrastructure. he will cooperate with the Obama administration in rolling us back to 1990 carbon levels.
Over all most folks wilo wait til Greenland slides into the Atlantic which ahs already started. Economy shrinkage is small compared to the end of the biosphere the cost of doing biz is going up.
Tango the dance of Love can’t be done alone!

What was that yippee group that had monikers containing Mother Fucker so than when they were quoted in the press they had to have their names censored?

amen. our prison stats are disgraceful.

they have a buncha good add on. check out their staff recommended ones – if ya don’t like it, the add ons are easy to delete via the ff toolbar, tools then add-ons.

cool, i’ll check it when i have more cpu cycles to spare.

May I call you Daniel Boone…your are living as a pioneer in ther backwoods of AR. TY very much

heh, that frog icon is from an old mac torrent client ;)

solid Friday night tunes, ES.

I took a stroll down memory lane the other night:

Yes – Long Distance Runaround and South Side of the Sky (from Fragile)

Genesis – Cuckoo Cocoon (from the Lamb/Broadway)

Don’t know but rollin on the floor

Speaking of GREEN we finnaly are officially a Solar Power generating station!! The PG&E guy came today and installed the hew Digital meter.Of course now we have to make sure we use most of our power in the off time time part of the day and not during the peak time from from 10AM till 6PM. But it is best to run the big hogs after 10PM and before 8AM. Will update the diary tomorrow on the Solar Installation!

Long Distance Runaround

Chris Squire, best bass in the business, this as proof. Nice one.

WHy do you need to change you usage patterns?

Time for me to turn in. Good night all.

bah, i can’t find in now :(

Read it while reading about Pigasus!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigasus_(politics)

I was trying to find a suitable candidate to vote for.

i r tw3k Mother Fucker!

Heh. I can’t listen to that song without anticpating the clicking sound of an 8 track player….)

Californi9a ARB (air pollution control board just handed down diesel emmission standards that require polluters to retrofit their ineficient equipment..trucking companies are complaining…but health official say it has been delayed so much that the cost of treating those impacted with lung diseases outweighd the cost…medical is $40 billion a year in California alone. Our major population center residents are the highest risk. That is progess yoy can believe in from the 9th largest economy on the planet. Take it to the environmental bank baby.

nite eCAHN!

Many, many a night in our old ‘64 and a half 3-speed manual Mustang. Been right there.
We were big Relayer fans, too.

Never mind looking forward to how much lung disease could be prevented, sheesh.

Good evening tw3k, radiofreewill and punaise good hearin from you. The Molotov vid is a great combination of visual arts. The other reminds me that broadway may come back with some really creative productions. Should be an interesting four years.
Hello to everyone else that is always here too.

Under the new billing plan the rates vary with the time of day and during peak hours we get the most payback for the extra electricity we generate during the day. With solar power the system generates most of the power from about 10AM till about 3PM. Although that changes with the time of year, the longer the day the more is generated! And of course if we use more power during peak times our costs go up. It will be a learning time for us but it should be pretty straight forward.

y0!

I’m currently pissed that adobe ‘flash’ seems to be the big player currently eating all my cpu cycles. Do I really need a new machine just to view flash based sites?

Live performances, OTOH, would be a refreshing change.

OK, I had to leave for the last hour — dressing new bedrooms. Did I miss anything?

Ah! Nice, congrats. Yeah usage patterns are important.

Did you inquire about solar hot water heaters? If so, were they expensive or worthwhile?

What do you mean by anything?! ;)

What about thermal mass? Do you store heat in the mass of you house?

Yes, especially in Summer. /s

Thought I should go to bed, and then signed off. It seems that an hour passed by, and I thought to ask, anything?

lol, you need a big sun umbrella for the house!

Nite all. Be well..

thanks for the vid, nahant, it was really…something…

did not appreciate the redneck racist symbol on the roof of her car, which we got only a brief glimpse of…

anyway, I believe Paris Hilton does a better job of washing a car than Jessica…

If you describe your favorite Yes album to play while cruising around in your high school ride, you’ll be up to speed.

hey chris

anyway anything?

re: my 67–I am running way behind here–don’t know if nahant is still around, if so good nite and the same to all you pups…:)

I do, I really do! I live in the middle of a forrest and the folks who built this place cleared just enough trees to insure no Summer shade. Will never understand it. Must say I have a huge souther facing roof, would be perfect for solar if solar ever gets within my budget.

all my 64 chevelle had was am :/

‘64. ooooooooo
I had a Chevy II for about 15 minutes one summer. Had a 4-track. I didn’t know it was possible.

You might be able to get some good ideas from:
http://www.arcosanti.org/
on how to incorporate shade into your structural environment.

Kind of hard when the structure you are in was designed with a different mind set but I don’t doubt so modifications could be made with materials gleaned from the surrounding land.

Friend of mine tweeked out a ‘64 Chevelle in the late 70’s… His parents owned an Ambulance company… and those mechanics souped it up! When the automatic tranny shifted into third at about 85 mph, tires scratched loud and still, the acceleration set your head back in the seat.

tw3k…Steinbeck says…”Steinbeck’s increasing concern over the loss of integrity amongst members of society and the subsequent moral decay; … wow how prophetic in the 60s that decay has led to the corporate corruption of the world financial markets.
It an earlier post the debate between Jane and the Heritage Foundation representative on values… “conserative values” vs. “progressive values” ties in nicely with what you bring up. The corporate cultural was allowed by the decline in human empathy that Steinbeck points out as the ugly underside of capitalism.
The Senate throws labor to the dogs…the robotic daily momement of these workers to keep the assembl line moving produces all kinds of chronic health side effects…

erg, i’m still pissed at myself for being young and dumb and letting that body go to the scrap heap :(

No I didn’t and I don’t think my company offers them. I was more interested in the electric side as our natural gas bill never breaks $35.00 while our Electric bill in the winter was pushing over $800.00 in the winter… I know crazy but we heat our second floor with electric as the second floor is and add on and the old radiant system (which is failing badly, pipes leaking)couldn’t be extended up there anyway. After looking into replacing with a forced hot air system it was more cost effective to go Solar Electric.
Check out this Google search page ES.
There are many companies listed. That is how I started my research on our electric system.

lol! nice :) yeah, loved that car.

The one describe reminds my of a friends pinto that he droped a v8 into. needles to say that car didn’t last long.

Thanks

Mine leaked a quart of oil a week. It let go of me before I had the chance… In a Safeway parking lot. While trying to get some ‘audible traction’ on a speed bump. Puked the motor. Lots of smoke.

solar water makes a lot of sense. bonus if you can use it for a radiant floor.

When you said ‘old radiant system’ was that a heated floor or radiant heat from thermal mass?

bah, i blew a rod driving non-stop, without oil :/, from florida to pa.

I know that feeling(:>(( My ex mother-inlaw Junked my 65 Austin Healy Sprite on me (I still haven’t forgiven her even though she passed). I had it in the drive way because I was driving a company car, it needed a bit of work and I was saving up to fix it. I came home after work and it was gone, she had called a junk yard and had them take it. she said that she didn’t want that in HER driveway. We lived on the first floor of a triple decker! One driveway. The kicker was she didn’t drive at all… never did… We moved out of there as fast as we could!

Todays economic meltdown and large populatuon of permanently unemployed is a perfect setting to bring back John Steinbeck’s work out of the depression.
Also the migrant worker issues theat Lou Dobbs wrongly frames. La Raza. the United Farm Workers and know thw Mexican refugees are a reflection of a much larger forced migration that Al Gore spoke to at the Poland climate conference this week
As the Oceans become more acidic and rise the huge coastal population will have to retreat much like the movement caused by the Tsumanis earlier.
A massive human effort to save these folks and our own will be mounted or billions will die horrible deaths. All preventable.
On a brighter note Franken gort the nod fron the elections bosrd and 1600 absentee ballots will be counted. It is mathmatically psssible to have a filibuster proof majority in the senate. Why waste that on the present leadership.

Oh man… tears. Did you try to call the folks who towed it away?

My personal and heartfelt condolences.

It was piping in the slab, they used galvanized pipes in 1954 when this place was built… Some of the other Eichler owners still have theirs running while most have had to replace theirs. It is a great way to heat but if the pipes leak you have to jack hammer the floor open or raise the floor and put new piping in on the whole floor 1250 sq feet, oh and move out for months… Very expensive around $10 grand just for the piping!!

Fuck bipartisanism!!!

Payback’s a bitch, and I’d like Richard Shelby, jeff Sessions, David Vitters, Jim Demint, and Bob Corker to come to understand that concept.

It turns out that their states get way more money from the federal government than they kick in from taxes. It turns out that taxfoundation.org keeps track of such things:

2004: per-state ratios of federal spending per dollar of federal tax paid: http://www.taxfoundation.org/f…..060316.pdf

06: Alabama 1.71 (Richard Shelby, Jeff Sessions)
13: Louisana 1.45 (David Vitters)
17: South Carolina 1.38 (Jim Demint)
18: Tennessee 1.30 (Bob Corker)
38: Michigan 0.85

That’s right, per federal tax dollar, Shelby’s state gets back $1.71 while Michigan gets back less than half as much! These southern dandies are feeding at the public trough. Worse yet, they are slopping their feed over to their Asian masters at Toyota, Nissan, Kia, etc.

That’s right, these southern gentry are commiting economic treason. They are giving hard-earned American money to their foreign masters and are screwing Americans, both capital and labor. Fuck ‘em. I want a federal bill that requires that all states get back their fair share of federal revenue. Until there is revenue pairity, fuck Richard Shelby, Jeff Sessions, David Vitters, Jim DeMint, and Bob Corker. They are economic traitors to the United States of America, and we need to get scum like them out of our government.

B**ch would tell me which junk yard she called, we were living just outside of Boston so no freaking way to find out…

B**ch would wouldn’t tell me which junk yard she called, we were living just outside of Boston so no freaking way to find out…

Yeah, ouch! At least the next generation of radiant floors are better now :)

Should be fun to watch old joe cast his vote!

I’ve had two friends who lived in Eichlers in CA and loved them. I never heard of this problem but one moved out after a relatively brief stan and I lost contact with the other after a relatively brief acquaintance. But, both loved their Eichlers, and the appearances of the places impressed me.

But, the devil lurks in the details, and the need to jack-hammer the floors to fix the heating is flat bad engineering!

Or

Why not unionize the southern/foreign auto manufacturers?

And I bet they new minority party will have a much more difficult time siphoning federal funds to their home states.

The Car Graveyard…do I hear violins for you broken hearted oversized piston club? G)

All big polluters..we have a car club that meest Saturdays you would love they bring down the cherryed Mustangs among other classic cars. Thr 2nd street coffee shop at the parking lot by the bay. You all could really get maudlin as these folks really reminice to goog ol days from the early Fords on. Saturday 2-4 PM.
If you did not make it newtonsr to Pismo yet add that into your schedule.

I’m all for it. These tough economic times are a ripe opportunity to unionize the southern workers.

Frankly, I would like to see all autos (and everyone else under single payer.. And I would love to see Wal Mart unionized. it would be taking the fight to the most egregious BIG offender.

I didn’t make it down, and am no longer qualified to be a member of the “oversized piston club,” as I drive a fuel-efficient Japanese model. And my Stang was anything but cherry. What a POS. I am certain it cost me no more that $300, and that was a scalding.
The floorboards were rusted through, and what carpet there was in the back seat floor has plants growing in it.

Industrial straw bales could be an intering industry. Has to be a better idea than Bush’ biofuels and shitrock construction.

The first day I learned how to , drive, got drunk, and drove to the bootleggers (Chicken George), oh and my first wreck, all on the same day in a ‘64 mustang convertible.

I loved that car.

What? You don’t like braking with your feet?!

What do you mean, industrial straw bale sized buildings? I know folks who have SB homes and have helped build straw bale homes. Very nice.

I always loved the movie “Throw Momma From The Train” for that one line by DeVito, while they are driving out of control through some bushes: “This is like a Flintstones car wash!”

*reluctant smile*

Will start learning new stuff…where there is life…there is hope!

Sorry for the delay in responding; had to go shovel some very wet and heavy snow.

Grow thw straw from wastewater plants in greenbelts to have building materials that are sustainable using on site soils to plaster them. Low energy exchange. The green archetecture site has some nice work’
For Nahants radiant heating problem there are noe space heaters powered by heat exchange from hot water solar panels…the water is piped through a forced air excahnger..I have asked for the data from a local contractor will pass it along.
I had a small solar hot water business in the 80’s in So Cal for pools as well…50 % tax credit with low finance fees and interest. USA is ready…warm air is better than gas heated.
I am at 62 degrees…with warmer clothing…heat will not be turned on in this house.

Something like where you industrialize the production of straw bales for construction.

A standardized compression, weight and dimension for use in construction. IIRC straw bales have a R8 or better insulation. It is also great thermal mass for passive solar design.

Basically straw bale design are simple and efficient and if that basic building block was industrialized I imagine it’d blow the socks off the prefab particle board/two-by-four in regard to cost of production.

heh, you must live near me! Lake Effect in effect here.

Using on-site sol makes sense. I’m not sure how you’d standardize/industrialize that resource unless it was an additive to product like spraycrete.

hmm..Lake Effect would be back East? I live in BC and the whole province is getting lots of that white stuff tonight.

I forget what the R factor is, but I can tell you it’s so good it deserves a letter of its own. And as far as manufacturing straw bales… there is no problem in that department. Kansas alone could rebuild the entire country.

Baling in any size is easy.. it’s wrapping chicken wire around the structure which is no fun.

Oh and using a chain saw to cut away fancy shaped doors and windows is a breeze.

yup, below the great lakes.

chicken wire wouldn’t be as bad as hanging sheetrock, imho.

I’m sure other innovative techniques, such as carving doors, would quickly be developed :)

I like this website:
http://mha-net.org/html/sblinks.htm

What you can’t easily do is use SB in interior walls.. to wide.

As for spray crete.. it’s the only way I’ve seen it done in this part of the country. NM has excellent adobe mud. I guess it would just depend on where you are building.

yeah, classic :)

Living near the Lakes means that you are aware of their problems. So, thought I would tell you that Obama plans on working on ‘fixing’ some of the problems if he can find the money. First, I would imagine he will have to make some major changes to the EPA.

http://www.freep.com/article/2…..50361/1058

Greenwald is good on Moyer tonight:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

All good points. I think simply getting the SB shells as an industry standard would be a great savings in terms of resources and efficiency.

I dunno, it was just a passing thought. I really dislike the crap prefab shit the construction industry is using now. The way houses are build now they are design to suck energy off the grid.

Like Nathan was saying earlier, he turned his house into a node on the grid. To really rethink houseing as nodes on the grid rather than things which consume from the grid. A lot of very smart people have been thinking along these lines for a while now. Enough that some of these system designs could be driven into the mainstream.

I’ll believe it when i see it :P

checking in, pups.

Just posted an oxdown gazette diary as prep for Dr. Riki Ott’s Sunday fdl book salon appearance.

He did a great job on Rachel the other night too. A voice more people who watch teevee should hear.

Nice!

“28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that would mandate separation of corporation and state”

I’m sold!

Yeah..let us hope it happens. At least he is aware and knows major cleanup is needed. Bush just keeps allowing more nasty stuff. It will take many years of work to try and repair the damage his policies have done to the land, water, and air.

ET, that is going to be a good one.
You excited?

yeah, get in line. where to start? imho government need to be fixed first and foremost. Without the proper checks and balances, a well informed and engaged citizenry and a level playing field any action will just be a half measure, a bandaid, a patch to a broken system.

I’m exhausted! Finals week. I had two 115-person and one 35-person lecture classes this semester, my heaviest load since 2003.

But I’m excited about this. And tw3k’s excitement about somebody taking the separation of corporation and state seriously has a lot of other people pumped too. Riki told me that as her tour progressed through the fall, more and more people were cheering that concept.

awesome :D

Few can relate to that better than Alaskans I suppose… But if I were to presume too much about ties to Exxon, I guess I will be disabused of that on Sunday.

Something like: “Oil remains. fundamentally a government business.”

Greenwald;;”George Bush is not tragic he is culpable.” His legacy is tragic as he had great opportunity which he chose to ignore…instesd he tortured, rendered and proceeded into two illegal wars that did irreparable damage to the victims and the USA.
What makes America unique is the rule of law from which our leaders have exampted themselves.

Most of her stops on the book tour were in the lower 48. She’s been on the road since early October, made her first appearances in Alaska beginning last week.

I’m gunna hit the hay. Made a note to stop the book salon!

Be excellent, all.

Happy TGIF

nite tw3k

A long and winding road, but don’t give up. That would make corporations very happy. Win some, lose some, sites like this have an important role to fulfil by attempting to influence Obama after he is in charge.

If there was some magic way to force MSM to tell the truth, things could improve very rapidly. I started using a computer a year and a bit ago. It was a shock to the system to learn that most of what I watched on CNN etc. was crapo. It isn’t that the people don’t care what is going on; they just don’t know..because they are fed lies 24/7. Change that and change everything.

It is great that Pulitzer prizes will now be awarded to online news. That proves that online is now respected. I am sure that MSM is scared of lost revenue. Are they scared enough to stop lying and misleading the public? Maybe.

http://www.pulitzer.org/

GMAC Extends Debt Swap, Sweetens Terms to Boost Participation
Credit default swaps in action…the bettor on failure keeps collecting more bonuses as the creditors position gets weaker.
The execs go GMAC, GM and Chrysler are doing what Trump did with his casinao and real estate loans…making deals with the bankers…take this or nothing only not quite the same. With CDS the holder has the borrower in a position of weakness. It is a game of predator versus vulture.
What is interesting…the company that owns Chysler bought 1/2 of GMAC so there is a big takeover game going on behind the scenes whwere the arm twisting is going on with congress the white house and the investor/bettors.
It is really nasty SEC should we hung out to dry with Bushco…a full investigation by an independent council with full subpeona powers. How they let large pension funds, University endowment funds and state and local government retirement funds get taken to the cleaners with 50% losses need vetting to the people that took the losses.

GMAC Extends Debt Swap, Sweetens Terms to Boost Participation
Link for 138

Morning, folks; it’s 12 degrees F in Upstate NY. We’ve got a little snow falling. I’m all set up with my oatmeal and my hot tea. Hey, Marion..what’s up for breakfast at your house?

Good morning, pups. It’s Blow and Collins today, since Bob Herbert is off. Charles Blow discusses “The Demise of Dating,” and says there are now more high school seniors saying that they never date than seniors who say that they date frequently. Apparently, it’s all about the hookup. Hmmph. In my day my mother used to have several disparaging terms for behavior like that. Ms. Collins addresses “The Dreaded Fairness Doctrine.” She says any mammal can obsess about fairness. The real human trick is to get past the quid pro quo and try to focus on the common good.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got lemon poppy seed muffins this morning. While we’re watching the American automobile industry sink slowly into the tar pits this review in the NYT seems to come at a particularly inopportune time. Have a great day.

Morning, Marion – I see you are holding up the baked goods end of things!!
“The Hookup” – After putting 3 kids through college, I can say firmly that someone needs to ‘inject’(sorry) some romance into the life at the high school level. Kids do NOT know what they are missing.

Good morning Toby, Marion, everyone.

It’s up to 25 in mid-Hudson, but hit 15 overnight. Gonna go out today to see the extent of the flooding from Wed-Thurs 3″ of rain. Any that hadn’t receded before last night will be an ice skating rink and it’s supposed to stay below freezing today. They closed one of the bridges over the Wallkill because the “flats” were flooded. If that froze, the bridge will continue to be closed today. Adds 15 miles to the 5 mile trip into town to go around by the other bridge.

Is is too early to have some of Marion’s cookies for breakfast?

eCAHN, it’s NEVER too early for cookies for breakfast!! We got 2.5 inches of half frozen slush…not the rain that you guys did.

Good Morning! It’s 28 in Roswell, GA…brrr. Toby, Your post on making chili was informative and your recipe sounds good. I just found out that I am having company tomorrow night so today will be busy shopping and preparing a menu. Chili does sound like a possibility.

That must have made your roads a mess. It was a freezing rain here, but the temp was always above 32 at my house, so it didn’t stick on surfaces like roads. Some trees got ice covering, pulling them or limbs down and putting out electricty, but again, not right near me.

TobyWollin is right! Cookies, as a major food group, are appropriate at any time of the day or night. We had a bit of frost this morning, which is plenty of winter for us down here.

That’s pretty cold for GA!

Chili for the crowd is a good deal – I always have cans of beans on the shelf just in case the kids bring along ‘a couple extra’ and I have to stretch the pot. Cornbread and a salad and some fruit for desert and you are all set.

It’s a beautiful sunny day and the temperature is suppose to climb to 50. As you folks know the climate has been unusual this fall.

I make chili with ground venison that I get from my hunter friend. He’s given me some other cuts so far this year, but not that. Wonder if he’s got enough to go around. It’s still the last of the season: mussle loading/2nd archery. I’ll wait & see what he brings.

Minus six in Montreal f., got a few shots of the sunrise. My hot chocolate, topped with fresh whipped cream is quite satisfying.

Good morning pups, Ecahn, Toby and all.

Do you put extra fat in when you cook up the meat? I find game meats to need that when I’ve cooked them.

Mornin’, gang…

50 sounds reasonable. How are the drought conditions? I know you got some rain, but enough to make up the deficit?

The water table was a bit low before our latest rain, but is right up there now. I know because I have a dirt floor in the basement and the water table comes up thru the floor in a heavy rain. Puddles are gone now, and floor is drying out.

A friend made venison chile and it is “surprisingly” good. Venison has never been one of my favorites but in chili it is tasty. Gotta go and get some chores done. I had put up a French Doors to separate my bedroom from the vanity and they still need a coat of paint.

Well, brrrrr, but you folks are used to it, I guess.

Good morning.

Why not mocha? All the basic food groups except cookies: chocolate, caffein, sugar.

hahaha, eCAHN – the DH always says that ‘the basic four’ are: Grits, Gravy, Greens…and RC Cola(but then again, he’s from Florida and his family is originally from North Carolina).

Just a little oil to brown the meat. In past years, when he’s been more generous, I’ve used some of the ground venison to make “hamburgers” by just sauteeing it in a hot no-stick pan with no oil. Works for me!

It will take more than a few inches of rain to relieve the drought down here. I lost several old azaleas because of restrictions on when we can water outside. I used my one day a week for twenty minutes to make sure that my tomatoes were nourished.

Have a good day all.

Good painting and I hope you get more rain in the not too distant future.

My basic 4 varies according to time of day and other circumstances. Breakfast often includes cholesterol. At a family reunion breakfast once, the cook was enquiring as to quantities to shop the night before. I told him to just buy a 10 pound slab of cholesterol, slice it finely, sprinkle with salt and saute in butter.

After the cocktail hour, my basic 4 includes alcohol.

Used to it, as long as you dress properly. I started using Gore-Tex as soon as it was available in the early eighties. What you have to manage with this kind of cold is your perspiration, and the technical clothing that breathe makes that possible.

I try to drink little or no caffeine. Maybe if I’m at a shoot, to tough out the evening, and I know I’ll have problems falling to sleep, even six hours after the coffee.

I hope that the river will go down a bit.

I’m a skier, so I know all about managing persperation. In addition to the right clothing, I find manipulating my neck zipper is amazingly effective. So I zip it down while skiing to let the body heat escape, and once I’m cooled off on the lift, zip it back up to keep my core warm.

When I ride my bike to work in the wintertime(I’ll be going back to that after the new year), I find my issue is that I always dress for the temperature when I START, not after about five min. So I always end up getting to work completely wet and have to clean up and change before going into the office. It’s a hard thing for me to gauge – easy to over dress when it’s 15 degrees outside and the inside of my nose is freezing.

Hey – the sun just came out!! We’ve got a shot at some decent temps now.

You are so right, my comfort depends on my neck being warm. I never understood those tv reporters, showing skin, during a cold spell. A scarf is to be worn around your neck, not down your lapel…

Layers and a backpack, undress as you pedal…

Depends on how quickly your body warms to the exercise. Mine heats up quickly, but I once hiked with a friend in October in the Adirondacks. 15 minutes out in the morning, temp being a bit below freezing, I was down to a turtle neck, but it took her about an hour before she took off her down jacket.

Regardless, the key is to layer. And when you start getting hot, stop and take off a layer. Today’s warm garments are thin enough you should be able to get stuff that will fit in a backpack when they are shed. Also, many jackets now have zipper vents in the armpits, and sometimes even fancier, so all you need to do is unzip. And remember about venting at your neck as soon as you start feeling warm.

hahaha..I had this image of myself doing a strip-tease out there at a red light…ooo dangerous image. I do dress in a lot of layers; I just never stop to take anything off! Big problem I could probably wear less on top for sure, though the best thing I ever did for myself was make a pair of tights out of polar fleece(hard surface outside) – those are very snuggly.

Well, I’m off to shower, and a visit to Jean-Talon market. Have a great day folks.

Morning all,
I never thought of exposing my neck when it is cold but the coldest I have ever been has been if my feet sweat and then get cold.
Here in CO snow today and tomorrow, high tomorrow in the teens.

Have a good day — stay warm!

Good morning. So some snow angels for me. It’s one of those very silly things that is more fun than it should be.

christy is upstairs, folks…bring your coffee cups.

Problem for me doing snow angels is that if I get down the dog wants to play kissy face and I can’t tell if he has left a surprise under the snow.

Well, then, forget about it. *g* Don’t eat any yellow snow.

Sorry for the driveby, but if you didn’t see Moyers’ Journal tonight, please go to their website and watch the interview with Glenn Greenwald, and the companion page on the Rule of Law! And recommend it to all of your friends! This is the best TV segment of the week, IMHO. I hope Obama’s transition team watched it.

Bob in HI