Donna and Philip, i clean out and reuse ziplocs, but only once or twice, depending on what they were holding...
Although it does make me feel abnormal sometimes...
Hi Orhan! I would have thought being so close to oil producing countries gas would have been less a gallon in Turkey.
I just noticed last night coming back home from a holiday dinner that gas has gone back up over $3 a gallon. Since i hardly drive and thus gas up maybe once a month i hadn't noticed before...
my MIL reuses the bags to the point where they look like they've been sandblasted... also, her "good" tupperware is the cheap stuff that is supposed to be disposable...
nam, i know what you mean about gas... i just pumped gas for the first time in something like 6-9 months yesterday... (we don't have a car and only use a carshare car once or twice a month, which we only have to fill up if it drops below 1/4 tank)... it cost almost $30 to fill up the tiny tank of a prius...
hey techno... are you on the island? or are you in ohio for the holidays? i'm headed to ohio tomorrow through the weekend to visit my parents who have just moved to akron...
Growing up, we had new wrapping paper for guests but reused wrappings for family. In fact, some of the gifts I got from my parents this year are in the same paper that was used to wrap my gifts as a little kid. Although I used to be embarrassed it was kinda neat as the wrappings themselves had so many stories within them. People that live in rural areas don't have trash pickup where waste just disappears!
We burned our trash when we lived in the country. Once a year or so, we haul the barrel full of ashes away to a wash-out or some whole that we wanted to fill.
Strawbeary, reusing wrappings for that long does seem neat, but I'd agree that getting to that point where there is history would be strange. I want to start some sort of annual tradition, but don't know what it should be. It's hard to find something when you can't be at the same place every year. Divorce has made the holidays more difficult.
Oh, did you know that the Loft offers a 10% discount to teachers? Even better, they add it to sales too! I got 50% off my total purchase the other day. Yay! I know you male professors can't wear anything there, but you could use your discount for you lady friends.
Sarah, we burned our trash too when living out in the country. It was my favorite chore - playing with fire. We never hauled out the ashes but we hauled the non-burnables to the recycling center once or twice a year. That was before recycling was cool. Many rural areas have trash pick-up now, which is wierd to me.
Being that I'm not a public school teacher, I don't always qualify for teacher discounts, but there are lots of discounts out there so I have learned to always ask! I get a discount on my cell phone service which is nice.
Need some advise. Simple stuff, really. I've gotten the go ahead to finally decorate the guest/Abram's bathroom. I know that I'm going to paint the walls grey, and the trim white, but what I can't decide is whether to go woodsy/nature with white painted branch hooks, animal heads, and a modern, nature themed curtain from ikea's fabric selection, or if I should use the door themed fabric from Ikea, and use vintage door knobs for towel hooks instead. Both could be cool.
Would the nature/woodsy one be more appropriate for Abram? What would you do?
Nature/woodsy for the bot, Sarah. I've always wanted a twig towel rod - my husband thinks it's to hippie, but obviously it could also be very Japanese.
aw, c'mon beta. don't be a hater. it's based on sketches from staff, it says, and it really doesn't look like the production of the thing should have been too expensive. ncarb folks like to have a little fun at work just like the rest of us. think of all the postage they saved by not sending out cards!
This sounds like a cute idea but pretty impractical in practice. (I can never for the life of me get towels to hang on doorknobs without constantly sliding off - plus if it did stay on the knob, it would be too clumped together to dry properly.) I love the woodsy theme - sounds like fun. Does Abram like nature / outdoors?
beta I totally see through NCARB: they clearly made the card pink because pink is known to sooth aggression - and NCARB knows we tend to get crazy angry adrenaline bursts whenever their name is mentioned.
University of Hawaii associate head coach George Lumkin was a member of the 1991 staff that saw visitor locker rooms at Iowa and Colorado State painted pink in the belief that the color made players passive. Now the WAC has a rule that a visiting team's locker room can not be painted a different color than the home team's. In other words, it can be pink, black or any color of the rainbow, as long as both locker rooms are the same color.
never seen twig towel hangers in japan, but why not...
japanese garbage system is different than in canada at least. we recycle everything that can be at several collection sites within walking distance of our flat. anything with metal and such goes into a big bin for non-burnable materials, and the rest is burned to produce local lectricity. I am not so happy with the burning, but the govt claims to scrub the dioxin quite thoroughly. my answer is to just not buy stuff, but even then it is impossible to have no garbage at all. our bananas are shrink wrapped individually for heaven's sake !
$9-10 bucks a gallon orhan? wow. does that stop people from driving at all...?
jump, as i checked today, the price of a gallon of gasoline in turkey is $10.09..!!
it is 60% special tax designed in conjunction with EU regulations (turkey is not an official member of EU but has adopted and continuously adopting EU regulations since 2001 via the acquis chapters.) the purpose of this tax is to encourage less use of environmentally damaging chemically enhanced mixtures like 'benzine' which we call 'gas' here. but i think they went little too far. thankfully the public transportation is widely common and used.
gas is most expensive in turkey followed by greece, germany, france. all above $6 a gallon.. how much is it in japan?
in south eastern turkey, people line up to cross border to syria, iraq and iran to get cheap gas everyday, sometimes waiting for hours in their cars and trucks in miles long lines.
US's axis of evil is their axis of affordable gas..
Totally. For my whole life, gas in France has been 4x the cost here - right now it's about $9/gallon I believe. And you better believe it makes people drive less, absolutely. Cars are also way more expensive, financing is hard to find (no cheap auto loans anywhere), and driver's licenses are very difficult and expensive to get. (I have a friend in her late 20s who has failed the test something like 8 times.) All this makes for a great localized economy, with minimal roads scarring the landscape, and plenty of cheap mass transit. I would LOVE it if we could do the same...but then, France is the size of Texas, so it's not very realistic to imagine that suddenly the vast US will become a network of linked local transit systems. But maybe someday in the future, after the oil crash and a really horrible period of adjustment...
ending the year as a bit of a pessimist. I've been reading too many environmental/energy/climate predictions to know that we're in for a tough slog as the best case scenario.
folks gotta get ready for the end of cheap gas. the world has peaked at producing about 87 million barrels of oil a day for most of the last 5 years. with increased demand from china and india (let alone from anywhere else) oil prices are gonna rise because we can't 'drill baby drill' our way outta that mess - even if we maxed out synthetic fuel production from tar sands and coal, that would maybe produce 10% more petrol. considering that americans use energy equivalent to 11,000 calories per day (the same as a blue whale), our worlds are gonna shrink. so if you want travel around the world, better do it soon, before it's too expensive.
next topic: the biggest source of dioxins in the US of A are all those backyard trash burning country folks. gee thanks 'beary and sarah. municipal incinerators can control dioxin production via altering the temperature in the furnace and flues, but there is still some nasty chemicals that escape no mater how much scrubbing and emission controls they install. As we've pursued cleaner air, the efficiency of our power plants has significantly dropped due to the power consumed by all the filtration equipment and because of the lower temperatures required to control NOx and SOx. Mercury control scrapes another 5-10% or so off the output and costs $$$ for capturing just a few pounds a year.
one bit of cheer, the Sea Shepherd claims to be winning.
Come on, tk, don't be snarkin' on Sarah and ms. beary for trash burning - it used to be one of those things everyone did. Neither of them do it now, right? Except occasionally for fun, I imagine, because yeah, flames are fun!
We did it at my grandma's when I was growing up, too.
What's everyone doing for New Year's Eve? I haven't lined anything up yet.
Lets see, burning now? Well, I live in the city, so I can't, but when I go home to my Dad's? We like to have a bon fire, if there isn't a burn ban in effect due to drought conditions. But then, it's mostly trees, leaves, scrap wood, or cardboard - with the occasional beer bottle tossed in when empty.
Nothin' like your clothes and hair smelling of smoke for the next week, or having to do the rotisserie because your face gets hot, but your backside is ice cold.
Pittsburgh was a bust - the weather here and there became a little tricky and most suggested against it so we watched movies all day then tried out a fantastic restaurant called AMP 150 which is very very oddly located in the lobby of a Marriot Hotel cheesy decor and all. It has received very high ratings by those in the know and is a finalist for the best new restaurant in the city. The food I kid you not was the best I've had in a long time. Food it's what the holidays are really about.
burning garbage seems such a silly way to make energy to my mind, but tokyo ran out of room to put the junk so i guess it is as much a garbage control tool as anything.
in the rural japanese town i lived in for years they have banned plastic grocery bags to keep them out of the dump etc etc. if tokyo did that and told the grocers not to shrinkwrap tomatoes and bananas i bet there would be an energy shortgage.
gasoline is about $6.00/gallon here. cheap. it has no effect on car use that i can tell. the only reason we don't use a car in tokyo is because there are so many cars on the road that a train is plain faster.
the rest of the country is the same as usa as far as i can tell. big houses two cars and suburban life dominates. BUT unlike the usa most suburbs have train lines running through them and mixed land use is the norm, so when gas gets too expensive people could just take the train instead of the car and continue on as they are right now. It is amazing how having access to a train and walkable neighbourhoods does not actually equate to the imagined lifestyle.
honestly if gas gets more expensive i see more hybrids on the road all the time and expect that will be the future rather than an outright collapse of car culture.
do you have any ideas on how usa will get out of its dependence on imported oil TK?
I'm just waiting for electric cars to become ubiquitous or everybody will be walking. We will find ourselves living in a more haves/haves not society. For the US, it's not a matter of how to shake the monkey off our backs, but when we have no choice. There is some new data showing that the worst case IPCC scenario of 550ppm CO2 isn't possible even if we burn all the carbon in the ground. But that doesn't consider any positive feedbacks like methane from the tundras.
For a really dystopic read, there is a new report about how to survive a nuclear bomb attack.
Moving on to cheerier topics, recently saw a chart (now I'll have to go find it) comparing the embedded energy versus energy given off when that material is burned, ie incinerated. most materials have 25 to 50% more embedded energy then what you can get by burning (without considering if it's sopping wet or not).
there was a story on morning edition earlier this week about Dioxin and Time Beach, Missouri... burning paper and wood isn't the problem, but the plastics and other products that contain chlorine (or salt). 'beary & SH, I know you DON'T burn stuff now...
regarding the metrodome, first there was the 35W bridge collapse. So what's next to fall down in Minneapolis? the Mall of America?
It would be a terrible loss, if the mall of America fell, I'm sure, but think how incredible that would be, on both a building porn sort of way, and then as a critique on the consumer society.
many in our rural areas still burn trash, though with the rise of plastic usage most don't bother - because they know it's caustic. Inside it gets thrown about usually clogging some waterway. I've been trying to boycott the domestic use of plastic bottles, since about 90% of it is imported, but it's getting increasingly difficult to do so. There's some company that claims to recycle them but so far they haven't responded to my many emails as how they are able to do it. I suspect they are chipping it and exporting to a country that can - can anyone say double jeopardy.
another chicken!? weren't you talking about putting up fishing line to keep the birds away, donah?
that's amazing orhan. how high would gas have to be before it really had an effect i wonder?
somehow i would not be surprised if in the future cars were sold like printers. the gas/ink more expensive than the car/printer. cars could be handed out for free by the companies even and all the real profit would still roll in from massively expensive fuel. which we would still be running out of and still ignoring ;-)
what we really need is something totally different that is so compelling only a fool would not use it. sure do wish i could imagine what that might be.
jump, here is my Backyard Chickens dot com profile that shows the coop with the fishing line strung around. The hawk came back this morning - chickens were safely in coop. My husband saw the same thing this morning that I saw last night (minus the dead chicken on the ground) - as soon as the hawk saw us, it took off but bounced against the underside of the fishing wire web back to the ground and had to try again to find a bigger hole it could fit through.
I've ordered what is basically a soccer goal net to cover the yard with.
Donna sorry about your chicken, I'm worried that you may have to wire it up further with bells and mirrors too. By the time you are done it will look like a border crossing fence or worse Gitmo. What little knowledge of hawks is that they are smart and adjust to their conditions - most at home are known to hop on the electric wire to find the right point to take off
Since I've been in Cleveland I've seen the gas prices raise 40c in 10 days. Sadly at home we have no idea how much we are paying for gas anymore.... we switched to metric and have no clue how much per gallon we are paying. But after a little math it looks like we are paying the equivalent of $4.50 per. I'm ready for my electric truck powered by pv feed... we have the technology why the f*** are we waiting??
Yay! Finished painting. I will of course update the blog tomorrow with photos, but I'm so happy to be done. My hand hurts. Anyone else get tendinitis really easily? I don't know if it's the guitar playing, or years of cadding - maybe both.
Donna, take advantage of the need to build that net by planting hops! too bad kale/collards doesn't need the support or grow that tall, but I like the idea of 'chicken beer' from the hops that protect your girls.
does it bother you at all to have string hung up all round your back yard donna?
my step father has fish-wire strung up to keep birds from the plants. kinda works. but his yard is a couple of acres big so it doesn't matter if the planting area is covered with wire and mirrors.
mum-in-law sent us boxes of osechi ryori for the new years dinner since we are staying at home this year. it is really quite beautiful, though i have to admit i prefer my food hot. wife was shocked since she thought she would make it herself this year. If you can imagine its a bit like your mum sending a turkey in the mail because she is worried that you can't do it yourself. my girls are happy though. gramma is a good cook.
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Donna and Philip, i clean out and reuse ziplocs, but only once or twice, depending on what they were holding...
Although it does make me feel abnormal sometimes...
Hi Orhan! I would have thought being so close to oil producing countries gas would have been less a gallon in Turkey.
I just noticed last night coming back home from a holiday dinner that gas has gone back up over $3 a gallon. Since i hardly drive and thus gas up maybe once a month i hadn't noticed before...
my MIL reuses the bags to the point where they look like they've been sandblasted... also, her "good" tupperware is the cheap stuff that is supposed to be disposable...
nam, i know what you mean about gas... i just pumped gas for the first time in something like 6-9 months yesterday... (we don't have a car and only use a carshare car once or twice a month, which we only have to fill up if it drops below 1/4 tank)... it cost almost $30 to fill up the tiny tank of a prius...
hey techno... are you on the island? or are you in ohio for the holidays? i'm headed to ohio tomorrow through the weekend to visit my parents who have just moved to akron...
Growing up, we had new wrapping paper for guests but reused wrappings for family. In fact, some of the gifts I got from my parents this year are in the same paper that was used to wrap my gifts as a little kid. Although I used to be embarrassed it was kinda neat as the wrappings themselves had so many stories within them. People that live in rural areas don't have trash pickup where waste just disappears!
We burned our trash when we lived in the country. Once a year or so, we haul the barrel full of ashes away to a wash-out or some whole that we wanted to fill.
Strawbeary, reusing wrappings for that long does seem neat, but I'd agree that getting to that point where there is history would be strange. I want to start some sort of annual tradition, but don't know what it should be. It's hard to find something when you can't be at the same place every year. Divorce has made the holidays more difficult.
Oh, did you know that the Loft offers a 10% discount to teachers? Even better, they add it to sales too! I got 50% off my total purchase the other day. Yay! I know you male professors can't wear anything there, but you could use your discount for you lady friends.
Sarah, we burned our trash too when living out in the country. It was my favorite chore - playing with fire. We never hauled out the ashes but we hauled the non-burnables to the recycling center once or twice a year. That was before recycling was cool. Many rural areas have trash pick-up now, which is wierd to me.
Being that I'm not a public school teacher, I don't always qualify for teacher discounts, but there are lots of discounts out there so I have learned to always ask! I get a discount on my cell phone service which is nice.
Really? I'll have to check that one out. I love discounts, especially secret ones. They make me feel so exclusive; like I'm part of a secret club.
God, it's cold and rainy today. Not as bad as that east coast mess, but I still dont want to go outside.
The Kaden Tower! Yes! Thanks for the information, SW.
I've only had quick day trips to Louisville and have always left with a desire to see more of the city.
Need some advise. Simple stuff, really. I've gotten the go ahead to finally decorate the guest/Abram's bathroom. I know that I'm going to paint the walls grey, and the trim white, but what I can't decide is whether to go woodsy/nature with white painted branch hooks, animal heads, and a modern, nature themed curtain from ikea's fabric selection, or if I should use the door themed fabric from Ikea, and use vintage door knobs for towel hooks instead. Both could be cool.
Would the nature/woodsy one be more appropriate for Abram? What would you do?
correction;
make that 9-10 $ a gallon for 97 octane gasoline. a lot of it is tax.
Nature/woodsy for the bot, Sarah. I've always wanted a twig towel rod - my husband thinks it's to hippie, but obviously it could also be very Japanese.
Happy holidays everyone!
so, how much of your money, do you think went to pay for this idiocy?
NCARB aren't We Cool?
aw, c'mon beta. don't be a hater. it's based on sketches from staff, it says, and it really doesn't look like the production of the thing should have been too expensive. ncarb folks like to have a little fun at work just like the rest of us. think of all the postage they saved by not sending out cards!
That was pretty lame, Beta.
This sounds like a cute idea but pretty impractical in practice. (I can never for the life of me get towels to hang on doorknobs without constantly sliding off - plus if it did stay on the knob, it would be too clumped together to dry properly.) I love the woodsy theme - sounds like fun. Does Abram like nature / outdoors?
beta I totally see through NCARB: they clearly made the card pink because pink is known to sooth aggression - and NCARB knows we tend to get crazy angry adrenaline bursts whenever their name is mentioned.
University of Hawaii associate head coach George Lumkin was a member of the 1991 staff that saw visitor locker rooms at Iowa and Colorado State painted pink in the belief that the color made players passive. Now the WAC has a rule that a visiting team's locker room can not be painted a different color than the home team's. In other words, it can be pink, black or any color of the rainbow, as long as both locker rooms are the same color.
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Glad to hear everyone had a great weekend/Xmas festivities.
Atechno - I thought of you and the missus when I watched Love Actually on Xmas.
Donna - I thought of you when I watched Elf last evening.
snook - glad to hear you're hanging in there. I've been thinking about you too.
Oh, and....
I'm still alive.
Glad to hear everyone had a great weekend/Xmas festivities.
Atechno - I thought of you and the missus when I watched Love Actually on Xmas.
Donna - I thought of you when I watched Elf last evening.
snook - glad to hear you're hanging in there. I've been thinking about you too.
Oh, and....
I'm still alive.
never seen twig towel hangers in japan, but why not...
japanese garbage system is different than in canada at least. we recycle everything that can be at several collection sites within walking distance of our flat. anything with metal and such goes into a big bin for non-burnable materials, and the rest is burned to produce local lectricity. I am not so happy with the burning, but the govt claims to scrub the dioxin quite thoroughly. my answer is to just not buy stuff, but even then it is impossible to have no garbage at all. our bananas are shrink wrapped individually for heaven's sake !
$9-10 bucks a gallon orhan? wow. does that stop people from driving at all...?
a simple but profound observations about uma.
jump, as i checked today, the price of a gallon of gasoline in turkey is $10.09..!!
it is 60% special tax designed in conjunction with EU regulations (turkey is not an official member of EU but has adopted and continuously adopting EU regulations since 2001 via the acquis chapters.) the purpose of this tax is to encourage less use of environmentally damaging chemically enhanced mixtures like 'benzine' which we call 'gas' here. but i think they went little too far. thankfully the public transportation is widely common and used.
gas is most expensive in turkey followed by greece, germany, france. all above $6 a gallon.. how much is it in japan?
in south eastern turkey, people line up to cross border to syria, iraq and iran to get cheap gas everyday, sometimes waiting for hours in their cars and trucks in miles long lines.
US's axis of evil is their axis of affordable gas..
Totally. For my whole life, gas in France has been 4x the cost here - right now it's about $9/gallon I believe. And you better believe it makes people drive less, absolutely. Cars are also way more expensive, financing is hard to find (no cheap auto loans anywhere), and driver's licenses are very difficult and expensive to get. (I have a friend in her late 20s who has failed the test something like 8 times.) All this makes for a great localized economy, with minimal roads scarring the landscape, and plenty of cheap mass transit. I would LOVE it if we could do the same...but then, France is the size of Texas, so it's not very realistic to imagine that suddenly the vast US will become a network of linked local transit systems. But maybe someday in the future, after the oil crash and a really horrible period of adjustment...
Hey Philip I'm in Cleveland until Friday morning. We leave from Akron on Friday morning back to Jamaica
ending the year as a bit of a pessimist. I've been reading too many environmental/energy/climate predictions to know that we're in for a tough slog as the best case scenario.
folks gotta get ready for the end of cheap gas. the world has peaked at producing about 87 million barrels of oil a day for most of the last 5 years. with increased demand from china and india (let alone from anywhere else) oil prices are gonna rise because we can't 'drill baby drill' our way outta that mess - even if we maxed out synthetic fuel production from tar sands and coal, that would maybe produce 10% more petrol. considering that americans use energy equivalent to 11,000 calories per day (the same as a blue whale), our worlds are gonna shrink. so if you want travel around the world, better do it soon, before it's too expensive.
next topic: the biggest source of dioxins in the US of A are all those backyard trash burning country folks. gee thanks 'beary and sarah. municipal incinerators can control dioxin production via altering the temperature in the furnace and flues, but there is still some nasty chemicals that escape no mater how much scrubbing and emission controls they install. As we've pursued cleaner air, the efficiency of our power plants has significantly dropped due to the power consumed by all the filtration equipment and because of the lower temperatures required to control NOx and SOx. Mercury control scrapes another 5-10% or so off the output and costs $$$ for capturing just a few pounds a year.
one bit of cheer, the Sea Shepherd claims to be winning.
Come on, tk, don't be snarkin' on Sarah and ms. beary for trash burning - it used to be one of those things everyone did. Neither of them do it now, right? Except occasionally for fun, I imagine, because yeah, flames are fun!
We did it at my grandma's when I was growing up, too.
What's everyone doing for New Year's Eve? I haven't lined anything up yet.
tk,
yeah were fucked... or not if we get are shit together... who knows.
the tone of your post makes me think of Bruce Sterling's essay on Assange and Wikileaks here
Which left me feeling the same way you seem to be but for slightly different if related reasons.
Donna, i don't yet... but likely will end up with small gathering at my ladies around a fire...
Lets see, burning now? Well, I live in the city, so I can't, but when I go home to my Dad's? We like to have a bon fire, if there isn't a burn ban in effect due to drought conditions. But then, it's mostly trees, leaves, scrap wood, or cardboard - with the occasional beer bottle tossed in when empty.
Nothin' like your clothes and hair smelling of smoke for the next week, or having to do the rotisserie because your face gets hot, but your backside is ice cold.
Pittsburgh was a bust - the weather here and there became a little tricky and most suggested against it so we watched movies all day then tried out a fantastic restaurant called AMP 150 which is very very oddly located in the lobby of a Marriot Hotel cheesy decor and all. It has received very high ratings by those in the know and is a finalist for the best new restaurant in the city. The food I kid you not was the best I've had in a long time. Food it's what the holidays are really about.
burning garbage seems such a silly way to make energy to my mind, but tokyo ran out of room to put the junk so i guess it is as much a garbage control tool as anything.
in the rural japanese town i lived in for years they have banned plastic grocery bags to keep them out of the dump etc etc. if tokyo did that and told the grocers not to shrinkwrap tomatoes and bananas i bet there would be an energy shortgage.
gasoline is about $6.00/gallon here. cheap. it has no effect on car use that i can tell. the only reason we don't use a car in tokyo is because there are so many cars on the road that a train is plain faster.
the rest of the country is the same as usa as far as i can tell. big houses two cars and suburban life dominates. BUT unlike the usa most suburbs have train lines running through them and mixed land use is the norm, so when gas gets too expensive people could just take the train instead of the car and continue on as they are right now. It is amazing how having access to a train and walkable neighbourhoods does not actually equate to the imagined lifestyle.
honestly if gas gets more expensive i see more hybrids on the road all the time and expect that will be the future rather than an outright collapse of car culture.
do you have any ideas on how usa will get out of its dependence on imported oil TK?
$10 a gallon doesn't seem to keep people from driving in turkish cities either. this is a typical istanbul street on a given day.
jump, i know how;
kick the can down the road, beta?
archi Food it's what the holidays are really about. couldn't agree more. I am still making my way through a tray of manicotti from christmas dinner.
My county/city has a burn ban in effect currently, cause of dry conditions.
i took tomorrow off last minute to go canoeing with my father. Should be a nice day been 20s at night but 70s during day.
I'm just waiting for electric cars to become ubiquitous or everybody will be walking. We will find ourselves living in a more haves/haves not society. For the US, it's not a matter of how to shake the monkey off our backs, but when we have no choice. There is some new data showing that the worst case IPCC scenario of 550ppm CO2 isn't possible even if we burn all the carbon in the ground. But that doesn't consider any positive feedbacks like methane from the tundras.
For a really dystopic read, there is a new report about how to survive a nuclear bomb attack.
Moving on to cheerier topics, recently saw a chart (now I'll have to go find it) comparing the embedded energy versus energy given off when that material is burned, ie incinerated. most materials have 25 to 50% more embedded energy then what you can get by burning (without considering if it's sopping wet or not).
there was a story on morning edition earlier this week about Dioxin and Time Beach, Missouri... burning paper and wood isn't the problem, but the plastics and other products that contain chlorine (or salt). 'beary & SH, I know you DON'T burn stuff now...
regarding the metrodome, first there was the 35W bridge collapse. So what's next to fall down in Minneapolis? the Mall of America?
It would be a terrible loss, if the mall of America fell, I'm sure, but think how incredible that would be, on both a building porn sort of way, and then as a critique on the consumer society.
many in our rural areas still burn trash, though with the rise of plastic usage most don't bother - because they know it's caustic. Inside it gets thrown about usually clogging some waterway. I've been trying to boycott the domestic use of plastic bottles, since about 90% of it is imported, but it's getting increasingly difficult to do so. There's some company that claims to recycle them but so far they haven't responded to my many emails as how they are able to do it. I suspect they are chipping it and exporting to a country that can - can anyone say double jeopardy.
Argh just posted a long post about the earthquake here and how I lost another of my lovely chickens to a hawk last night but I lost it, ugh.
Oh, and it sounds so exciting, Donna!
I posted to my blog about the new bathroom redo. I'm so excited about it. Better get to painting!
nam that sounds great.
another chicken!? weren't you talking about putting up fishing line to keep the birds away, donah?
that's amazing orhan. how high would gas have to be before it really had an effect i wonder?
somehow i would not be surprised if in the future cars were sold like printers. the gas/ink more expensive than the car/printer. cars could be handed out for free by the companies even and all the real profit would still roll in from massively expensive fuel. which we would still be running out of and still ignoring ;-)
what we really need is something totally different that is so compelling only a fool would not use it. sure do wish i could imagine what that might be.
jump, here is my Backyard Chickens dot com profile that shows the coop with the fishing line strung around. The hawk came back this morning - chickens were safely in coop. My husband saw the same thing this morning that I saw last night (minus the dead chicken on the ground) - as soon as the hawk saw us, it took off but bounced against the underside of the fishing wire web back to the ground and had to try again to find a bigger hole it could fit through.
I've ordered what is basically a soccer goal net to cover the yard with.
Sarah, I don't see the bathroom on your blog?
finally made it back to the east coast... my bags haven't, though...
I read recently that US peaked in oil consumption about 4 or 5 years ago and has been very slowly moving down ever since.
Sorry to hear that you lost another chicken to the hawk. How many do you have left? Damn hawk.
Donna, I love your coop! How does it mesh with the design of your house? You have some sort of '50s "rancher" don't you?
I don't know why the bathroom isn't showing. Try this.
Or not. I forgot the Ws. Try in now.
Donna sorry about your chicken, I'm worried that you may have to wire it up further with bells and mirrors too. By the time you are done it will look like a border crossing fence or worse Gitmo. What little knowledge of hawks is that they are smart and adjust to their conditions - most at home are known to hop on the electric wire to find the right point to take off
Since I've been in Cleveland I've seen the gas prices raise 40c in 10 days. Sadly at home we have no idea how much we are paying for gas anymore.... we switched to metric and have no clue how much per gallon we are paying. But after a little math it looks like we are paying the equivalent of $4.50 per. I'm ready for my electric truck powered by pv feed... we have the technology why the f*** are we waiting??
Yay! Finished painting. I will of course update the blog tomorrow with photos, but I'm so happy to be done. My hand hurts. Anyone else get tendinitis really easily? I don't know if it's the guitar playing, or years of cadding - maybe both.
Donna, take advantage of the need to build that net by planting hops! too bad kale/collards doesn't need the support or grow that tall, but I like the idea of 'chicken beer' from the hops that protect your girls.
donna i can't believe you lost another. I second barry's suggestion though re: growing hops and brewing beer.
saw tons of hawk, vulture, turtle and a family of 3 deer today whilst canoing.
now drinking tea trying to do some writing.
does it bother you at all to have string hung up all round your back yard donna?
since we are staying at home this year. it is really quite beautiful, though i have to admit i prefer my food hot. wife was shocked since she thought she would make it herself this year. If you can imagine its a bit like your mum sending a turkey in the mail because she is worried that you can't do it yourself. my girls are happy though. gramma is a good cook.
my step father has fish-wire strung up to keep birds from the plants. kinda works. but his yard is a couple of acres big so it doesn't matter if the planting area is covered with wire and mirrors.
mum-in-law sent us boxes of osechi ryori for the new years dinner
happy new year everyone. chickens too!
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