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How do you forgive those people who deliberately set out to quickly destroy your relationships with family and friends built over a lifetime?
This not something that can ever be forgiven.
Here in Canada, Trudeau has subjected us all to a carbon tax on our natural gas and oil.
Guess what he used the tax revenue for?
Trudeau bought himself a new big fancy Airbus plane as the Canadian Challenger plane was too small for him.
There are many articles reporting on the recruitment woes of the Canadian army these days. Not one of them mentions the biggest problem; the continued mandatory vaccine policy of the army. They all skate around that issue. Trudeau is of course quite pleased with this woke state of affairs.
Have to wonder if the futile Ukrainian attacks will cease once the US November mid-term elections are over? It is bizarre that Russia is on the defensive and Ukraine is on the offensive. Only being a captive of the US’s all important “Ukraine is winning” narrative could cause this reversal of roles.
Happy Halloween! So far no sign of any trick or treaters here on the island. No opossum knocking on the door. Did see a dozen ghostly white swans on the river today.
Michael:
Thanks for the very good update! Enjoy the moose burgers!
I kind of forgot Newfoundland got hit by both a hurricane and a himicane. Probably didn’t do the rest of your outdoor garden any favors either.
Can you grow tomatoes in your green house?
Making rum are you? You are supposed to be making Newfie screech! Guess these days there are no good sources of empty wooden molasses barrels available to make the screech from! At least rum warms up your innards, especially on a long cold winter night, sitting by a woodstove. The rum can even be served in a nice hot drink too.
Reminds me of Newfoundland’s very colorful liquor smuggling folklore in the days of olde!
Redneck:
Good rant!
P.S. In 1983, I worked for 6 months in a Siberian coal mine building electric blast hole drills. The drills could punch a 14″ diameter hole through solid rock at the rate of a meter per minute. Far superior to the little 4″ churn drills the Russian had.
(A churn drill is like using an “X” pointed hand chisel and hitting it with a sledge hammer, then rotating the chisel and hitting it again! We in the west stop using churn drills in late 1940s early 1950s.)
Despite my best efforts to save the USSR, clearly I failed!
Hi Michael:
I was wondering how the special wood chopping/splitting tools you bought last year worked out in practice?
Also did you ever plant any flax seeds? If so how did you harvest them?
Did you cut enough wood this year to allow some wood a chance to dry for next winter?
I am still hanging tuff at the cottage. The river is very low giving me a chance to dig out some of the sand and muck inside the boathouse that the muskrats put there when digging their tunnels under the boathouse walls years ago. I had no idea when building the boathouse that I was actually creating a deep water access winter condo for muskrats! We now have a local mink to hopefully keep their numbers in check.
The wife left late September but my son is still living here at the cottage as he now works at the local marina as a booat mechanic. A big step from being a GE wind turbine maintenance mechanic. Things at GE have gone downhill since he left in early July.
AFKTT:
Sorry, but I don’t buy the climate scheme bullshit. The people behind it are very evil people. What they have been doing is lying without remorse. They are always right, and everybody else is always wrong. Just like Covid 19 and their vaccine.
Those promoting this shit have a future goal where we will all be controlled using our alloted carbon foot print.
Want to own a home? No, that exceeds your alloted car in foot print.
Want more food to eat to keep from starving? No, that would exceed your alloted carbin foot print.
Want to visit your family? No, that would exceed your carbon foot print.
Want to get married? No, that would exceed your alloted carbon foot print.
Want to have children? No, that would exceed your alloted carbon foot print.That is the evil end goal for the climate change crowd. Their rules will apply only to you but not to them. They jet around the world in their private planes. Their large carbon foot print means nothing to them.
Too bad my Father isn’t alive. He didn’t suffer academic fools very well. He would blow you out of the water using your own so called facts. The earth has warmed and cooled millions of times in it’s history.
I have noticed that the Ukraine Nazis no longer can afford to use any of their Nazi soldiers in front line roles as they are now being used solely to force non-Nazi Ukrainians soldiers to die on the front lines.
Ukrainians are no longer able to mobilize large army size armies but are now restricted to organizing only battalion or company size attacks.
Clearly the Ukrainians/Nato/US don’t have enough Nazis left to to be everywhere at once, along the 1,000 km battle front. Ukrainian daily casualties have dropped significantly as a result of a lack of Nazis enforcers. If there are 100,000 Nazis left, that means only 100 Nazis enforcers per kilometer.
This change in the war has allowed Russia to wage a successful static artillery war otherwise known as the meat grinder. Unfortunately they are no longer killing many Nazis, just ordinary Ukrainians.
General Mud is nicely providing the Russians the time they need to mobilize more troops.
Clearly Russia is still dictating how the Ukrainians are reacting.
General Winter comes after General Mud.
As for the the Ukrainian’s US handlers in the US, they are clearly going ever more bat crazy, slowly but surely losing touch with reality, and starting to believe in their own propaganda. They have kept loosening their previous levels of restraints by introducing more and more lethal weapons into the war. It seems they are sans adult supervision. This is the scary part. I doubt they will know when to stop.
This might be why Russia is mobilizing a larger army, to end the war quickly?
It is very hard to fight a war when you are stuck in Ukrainian/Russian mud! Ask the Germans!
I see there was a little dispute between Ukrainian Nazis sent in to discipline some Polish mercenaries who didn’t want to die. The Poles shot all of the Nazis dead. I am sure the Ukrainian Nazis came back with more Nazis to finish the job.
A bad day for the chiodren in the USA. They lost to corruption 15-0. Only in Demark are the non-vaxxed children now safe. Sadly Canada is still pushing for children to be vaxxed. Probably the same in the rest of the west.
So the lettuce won! Interestingly Liz Truss’s first budget tried to increase economic growth, the opposite of the Build Back Better agenda of reducing economic growth to reduce energy usage to transition to a greener dark world. She quickly paid the price for doing so. She was too conservative! Note the key role the Bank of England (on behalf of the City of London) played in her ouster.
Sad to say in the land, where the water goes down the toilet bowl clockwise, global cooling is currently winning. My little woodstove can’t put out enough green energy to hold global cooling at bay any longer.
Musk must be looking forward to firing the over paid fact checkers at twitter!
The Ukrainians need to keep making more successful suicide attacks every day, until the mid-term elections are over, so the Dems can win. The Nazis stand behind the hapless conscripted Ukrainian soldiers and shoot any that try to leave the battlefield. Looks more like a Lose-Lose situation for everyone except for the Nazis.
Electing more RINOs won’t change anything.
One thing about older chips is they are proven and likely more physically rugged than the newest and most complex chips (I.e. the less that can go wrong).
Also Russian programmers tend to write simpler and cleaner code so they don’t need the latest and most powerful chips.
Potato chips anybody?
That EU prosecutor had better watch out for a fatal bee sting.
Yesterday evening, just before dusk, as in the Hunger Games, I heard 10 loud cannon like booms of shotguns go off marking the liiely demise of 10 mallard ducks. It is duck hunting season here on the St. Lawrence River but it has been unusually quiet this fall, since I lost my hearing aid out of my tee shirt pocket.
Excess Deaths in Sweden
Dying from a bee sting this late in the fall in Sweden is high near impossible!
First there are no flowers left.
Second there are no bees out because there are no flowers out.
Clearly thecwork of a deep state bee.
Therefore Russia did it!The Canadian government has an open border with the US. So if you really want to come to Canada, just cross the Mexico/US border illegally. Repeat the same at the US/Canada border. Justine will welcome you with open arms and provide you with everything you want. You will never be deported.
Yes I am still being attacked by this clean virus pretending to be an approved Samsug clean your phone app. I have to quickly block and then I have to close TAE and then re-open. Sometimes several times too. Nasty!
Today’s art of a sunken trail very much reminds me of the island trail running behind my cottage. Fall provides added wonderful colors too.
Yesterday we had a brief day of Indian Summer such that I was able to run around in the early afternoon wearing just shorts for a few hours. Thank God no one was around to see such a sight!
While the term Indian Summer indirectly refers to short periods of warmer than normal fall weather, the original term was used by early settlers to refer to the increased risks of local natives staging some extra last minute raids on settlers, before heading off to their wintering grounds. Early settlers didn’t look forward to periods of extra warm fall weather due to the increased risks of native raids.
Some bored natives huddled around a fire at night.
Hey Chief, since it is still summer weather, and it is too early to move to our wintering grounds, and like we got nothing better to do while waiting, why don’t we say stage a other settler raid?
The settlers have got lots of food stored for the winter that we could easily take for ourselves.
We might not get better chance until next year!
What you say, Chief?My parents said know:
I too have experience something weird trying to get into TAE. Not sure if I have kiooed it or not.
Reading how Germany has sent so much stuff to the Ukraine that it is down to just a few days of supplies needed to fight a war, seems like real smart politics on Germany’s part.
Then there are further reports complaining that Germany still hasn’t gotten around to issuing new contracts to buy replacement weapons. Again real smart politics on Germany’s part.
If you are a serf under the US’s thumb, this type of incompetence behavior is the only action available. Yes multiple layers of Incompetence is even better!
Remember under Trump how European NATO members were not spending 2% of their GDP on their militaries? Yes, I wonder why?
See a pattern?
When I am at the cottage I burn trees and branches. When I am at home in Toronto, I burn kiln dried lumber.
Why? Because of what is locally available. At the cottage there are always plenty of trees and fallen branches available. In Toronto only kiln dried lumber is locally available, so that is what I burn. I am aware that burning kiln dried lumber is like communist Polish farmers feeding their pigs with bread instead of grain. The irony isn’t lost on me. I didn’t make the rules, I was just born here.
I remember years ago Resources Canada folks having to finally admit burning wood was a renewable “green” energy source, much to their total disqust!
You heard it here first! Canada’s CBC has a glowing report saying the Biden Democrats are going to win massively in the November midterms because the Supreme court’s abortion ruling has energized the Democrat’s grass roots like never before. The Democrats have so many grass roots that they can now go door to door.
I am still wondering how the Democrats are going to hide all the zUS casualties being experience in the Ukraine before the election. Today’s missile strikes did target US personnel besides energy infrastructure. The US’s dead must be starting to pile up. So much for no boots on the ground!
V.P.
Your “mouse plans” cartoon expresses exactly my future concern as I get closer and closer to having to close up the island cottage for the winter.
Yesterday I had my son buy a box of Bounce, the clothes dryer wrinkles and static sheets. I will place sheets of Bounce all around the cottage particularly the beds, couches, chairs, clothes, etc.
I know moth balls don’t work with the island mice other than to give them “the all clear” signal that it is safe for them to all move in for the winter!
The poor burning charcoal verses firewood:
From my African observations there is very little firewood to be had since your neighbors (people/termites) got there first! In African desert areas there is dried dung (sheep, donkey, camel, etc).
I don’t recall seeing many wooden houses. Something to do with termites, I think.
If you wait around for dry firewood, you would probably die first. But there maybe plenty of green trees around though in wetter parts of Africa. So creating charcoal does eliminate the wait time for dry firewood while eliminating your direct competition.
During the dry season, there was plenty of charcoal available roadside in large burlap sacks. I remember the never ending smokey haze everywhere. Nobody in Western countries would have tolerated this level of air pollution.
I don’t remember charcoal being made during the rainy season. Of course the multiple down pours everyday would have nicely scrubbed the smoke and haze from the air, so I wouldn’t have been aware of it’s continued production.
Zerosum:
Congratulations to your son. So your trail camera efforts paid off!
I know many city folks get upset about hunting but since I started life out up north, I fully understand the why in hunting culture.
Michael:
I remember last year you bought a number of different types of axes/wood splitters and possibly various wood splitter wedges to assist your wood splitting efforts.
I wonder what your take is on the different axes after using them?
Did they live up to your expectations?
Any surprises?I remember when I was building crawler mounted blast hole drills, part of the tool kit included a hydraulic hand pump and jack set. This item frequently disappeared and rumors had it that these were highly prized for making a home made wood spiller by welding a wood spillter wedge onto the hydraulic jack’s piston.
(But one needed to remember to put the weld ground on the piston head, not the hydraulic jack’s body, or you would fry the hydraulic piston seals!)
Michael’s rife tripod set up indicates that when hunting moose, it is very difficult to get close to a moose due to the wet marshy terrain that moose typically inhabit. So shots are often long distance. Being accurate is important to prevent unnecessary suffering for the moose.
The real hard work of moose hunting, is in accessing the kill area, dressing the kill, and then transporting it out to bring the meat back home. It sure helps to have multiple helping hands.
It almost seems like there are more moose living on the island of Newfound than there are people! And in Newfound there are no wolves, so the only way to keep the moose population under control is via hunting.
Bosco:
Today if I was buying a new bow, I would choose a compound bow over a recurve bow.
The problem with the recurve bow is that the draw weight increases quickly to max, tiring your arms out as you reach full draw and are trying to aim. For example, a 40 pound recurve bow reaches 40 pounds at full draw (the draw gets harder as you reach full draw). One can not take your time aiming because your arms start to get tired and can start shaking making further aiming efforts nearly impossible. Often you have to stop and rest before trying to shoot.
The nice thing about a compound bow is that as you start drawing the draw, the draw weight starts to fall when you reach full draw, allowing you more time to properly aim before releasing the arrow. Just an example, initial starting draw weight might be 60 pounds, then falling to 30 pounds mid-draw, and then finally falling to just 15 pounds at full draw.
The compound bow’s pullies basically reverse the experience of using a recurve bow.
Just my 2 cents.
Michael Reid:
Great pile of split wood! You have been extra busy being Paul Bunyan!
Hopefully this will allow you to get a head of the curve so that the some of the wood you cut this year isn’t burned until the following winter.
Not sure if you have been able to source some horse dewormer but if not let me know and I will try to get some in Brockville for you. Lots of horse lovers around here!
On my end I have just finished building a new 8′ x 20′ floating dock with 10 plastic barrels. Now it is onto other waiting cottage projects. More projects than energy!
Bishko:
Thank you for the refresher course in how and why solar heating panels (not to be confused with solar electric panels) work.
Light passes through the glass then hits a dark surface creating heat which the glass then prevents from escaping.
It is so cold up here in the land of ice and snow, I could really use more solar heating right now! 0The US must be sabotaging that too!
Still working on my new 8′ x 20′ floating dock.
Still trying to read all the great comments but with so many comments this week it has been tuff to keep up!But agree this war is aimed at us little people in the west. We are the loosers.
If you ever wonder why Bill Barr appointed Durham as special prosecutor, on his way out the door, now you see why! Nobody in power ever gets touched! So never ask for a special prosecutor!
Afew sure isn’t going to like the CO2 info chart! Dr. D take another victory lap!
Starting a week ago, I have been busy every day, building a 8 foot by 20 foot floating dock supported by ten 45 imperial gallon (55 US gallon) plastic barrels. This project has been keeping me occupied while the world goes to hell in a hand basket! Still trying to read all the TAE comments tho.
I noticed the Rino Republicans have been promising to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hunter Biden if they get a majority in the midterms elections. As Dr. D noted this promise is worthless! The whole point of appointing a special prosecutor is to ensure that nobody gets prosecuted! You see a special prosecutor has to report everything to congress! See the dirty trick being played on voters here?
So the Russians earlier pulled some troops out of the Kharkov region and sent them south in preparation for holding the referendums. Along with the newly raised and trained 3rd Volunteer Corp
.So the US dollar appears to be very strong these days. Well not quite so fast here. The US dollar index that everyone mentions is composed of a basket of foreign currencies. The Euro’s weight is about 57%. The Yen’s weight is about 13%. The pound’s weight is about 12%. These 3 currencies make up about 83% of the US dollar index. Sweden Switzerland, and Canada are also part of this index but amount to beans.
So with the US’s war on Europe it is no surprised the US dollar appears strong. Both the Euro and pound are tanking! So is the Yen! Trudeau is tanking badly too! Sweden and Switzerland too!
The US dollar index sort a works like this:
USD/Euro+Yen+Pound+Trudeau+Krone+CNY
So if you reduce the value of the denominator then the US dollar goes up. If you reduce the value of everyone of the denominators all at once, then the US dollar index shoots to da moon!
Now here is the $64 question. If I make everyone around me weaker, does that make me stronger? No, it does not! Actually it will probably, in the long run, make me weaker too!
This is happening because the US is waging an economic war against everyone else in the world. However this economic world war can not last forever. The US is hoping to use this temporarily boost in the USD to buy up other countries assets on the cheap. But many countries will not allow this to happen. Certainly not Russia and China. So the US may not be so successful this time around as it has been in the past.
I noticed that the Russians are only claiming 61,000 Ukrainians were killed and only 38,000 were wounded.
That claim only covers the original 200,000 Ukrainian Nazi army. This means half of the Ukraine’s original Nazi army has been destroyed.
Note also only 1,000 of the original 6,000 foreign mercenaries are left. Nice odds!
What is left out are the hundreds of thousand of Ukrainian territorial and other reservist troops. Their dead are not included in the Russian totals. The Ukrainian government isn’t including them either! Obviously they are the Ukrainian cannon fodder that don’t matter. I suspect killed and wounded number in the hundreds of thousands.
I suspect the Ukrainian Nazis are now conserving their remaining Nazi troops by only placing them behind the front lines. These Nazi troops are used to create the “thin line” that shoots anyone who retreats from the front lines, in true Nazi tradition.
Newfoundland:
I wonder how Michael Reid is doing after hurricane Fiona took the unusual path of passing on the west coast of the island instead of heading east?
P.S. Fiona might even hit northern Labrador/Quebec where I once called home until age 10.
About the Russia/Ukraine prisoners exchange.
One sage commenter noted that their were no happy smiling faces on any of the buses carrying the exchanged Ukrainian prisoners. Why?
The Ukrainian prisoners had thought they had safely survived the war’s slaughter, only to be suddenly awakened to the horror that they were going to be sent back into the war’s frontlines again!
Dr. D:
You are on a roll here! You are very much like my Father. You have the ability to cut through the academic bullshit of climate change idiots. Afew is one of these types. So self confident that they can’t see that they could ever be wrong!
My Father was a geological engineer. That means he studied rocks. There is much history written in these rocks that Afew chooses to ignore. The rocks confirm the earth has warmed and cooled millions of times in Earth’s history.
When I was a young boy, I remember seeing petrified rocks of tropical plants in my Father’s office, dug up in the local Iron ore mines, in northern Labrador/Quebec near the Artic’s tree line. So that bloody cold place once supported a tropical climate!
So the sun isn’t earth’s )main source of energy? Notice these jokers never mention the sun! That would be very a very inconvenient truth for them!
I know this climate warming, now climate change, is just a political hoax used to try and “control” us and to empower them. In academia, where Afew lives, it is used to control who gets jobs and money. When I was a boy their story was global cooling! Nothing but pure self serving bullshit! Them over us!
I once asked my Father if he ever regretted not completing his PHD. He said no. As my Father frequently noted, most academics, are people who can’t make it in the real world!
Today marks a very sad day.
The time of wearing shorts and crocs has come to an inglorious brutal uick end up here in the land of snow and igloos.My parents said know:
I suspect Aspnaz has probably has suffered power outages and loss of internet in Taiwan. Aren’t they also being hit by a typhoon too?
Thanks Red and Morongobill for vaccine detox links.
Germ: I have seen Sept 23/24 dates too but remain baffled as to what it mean!
Zerosum: The Rule of 72 was one of the first rules of investing I learned. But since ZIRP and NIRP the rule only showed how fast you were losing!
Tree Frog: I admit I had a good chuckle at your expense re- “I was an accident”. Probably the work of auto correct!
Bosco: Re-shoes. I had a Dutch teacher who said Dutch kids who couldn’t make it to the toilet (or too lazy) would pee into someone’s wooden shoes usually left outside by the door! Polder might verify the practice?
BDS: Spoiler Alert! They wouldn’t ask you the question because they didn’t want an answer! It was really important that the question remained unanswered. An answer would have spoiled the effect!
Zerossum:
Mule tail deer are what I saw out west from Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, down to New Mexico and Arizona. Man can those big deer jump! So more deer burgers!
We just have the little white tail deer here in Ontario. For moose, one has to travell to northern Ontario.
Somebody recently disked on the Sherman tank as Ronson-Shermans. This unfairly taints the Sherman tank.
Now I will be the first to admit the Sherman tank was indeed designed by committee. But a very knowledgeable committee.
The limitations imposed upon the Sherman tank designers were chiefly transportation limitations. It could only be so wide due to US railway shipping limits such as railway bridge and tunnel widths. Then it could only be so heavy due to the maximum lift capacity of on board cargo ship’s lifting cranes.
There was no point designing a tank that could not be shipped by railway to US ports, then loaded onto a cargo ship. An wide and heavy tank would need disassembly before shipping and then reassembly after shipping. Very inefficient and time consuming.
The US also faced the problem of designing a tank in 1942 that would still be suitable for use in 1944, then building it, then shipping 50,000 of them overseas. So a 2 years lead time.
On top of that the committee needed the tank to be reliable a d rugged since the tank was going to be used a long way from home where it would be difficult to fix any major problems.. Then the design needed to be something the US auto sector could mass produce. Since the tank was going to be produced in multiple different factories, it was specified that all parts had to be interchangeable between manufacturers.
Why was the Sherman tank so tall? The US wanted to use a large powerful engine (600 hp) so the tank was fast. They selected a rotary airplane engine that had been around for many years and had all of it’s bugs ironed out. One Russian Sherman tank crew went around a corner so fast that they tipped over! This saved them, as the four T-32 tanks following them, got knocked out by German gunners. By-the-way a Russian T-32 tank was only good for 800 km! That is why Riussia had to make so many of them!
To speed up production any changes or improvements had to be grouped together and implemented all at the same time in a controlled manner, not done one by one, slowing down production. Retrofits/improvements kits had to fit all previously produced tanks.
Since these tanks were likely going to get damaged, major components had to be easy to replace with new ones in the field. So many of the tank’s components were somewhat modular. Blow an engine, hit a mine, replace a damaged gun, replace tracks, suspension bogies, drive sprocket, gear box/transmission, etc. That meant lots of spare parts and major crew training too.
Yes early Sherman’s did tend to light up like Ronsons but that was solved by wet ammo storage and crews not leaving ammo lying around. Then German gunners were specifically told to pump in an extra round or two into the tank to ensure the knocked out/damaged Sherman tank could not be repaired! Most damaged Sherman tanks were quickly repaired in the field and put back into service. The average Sherman tank/crew lasted only 47 days in combat!
One thing you never hear of is any Sherman tanks breaking down like German or Russian tanks did! Sherman’s were very reliable tanks and if a commander had 50 tanks, then 50 tanks showed up when he needed them! Unlike the German or Russian tanks. You had 50 tanks and if over half were in working order you were very lucky! Spare parts? What parts! Easy to repair? You’re joking! German tank crews often had to destroy their own tank because it broke down.
In many ways the Sherman tank was ahead of it’s time. It could shoot it’s main gun fairly accurately while still moving, something no other tank could do at the time.
(Why did the US go into Normandy with only the 75 gun? Because the 75 gun had both armor priecing and high explosive rounds to support infantry. The 76 gun only had very good armor priecing rounds but a poor high explosive round so it could not support infantry.) ( in case you are wondering about the differences between the 75 and 76 guns, both are 3″ diameter caliber guns but the 76 cartridge is much bigger than a 75 gun cartridge thus higher shell velocity and armor penetrating power. The 76 was named such, to avoid confusion in the field about ammo types.)
Sherman tracks are still used in the latest Abraham tanks used today.
