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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.
Zerosum:
Did any of your trail cameras get a shot of the 7 point bull moose Michael recently bagged in Newfoundland? Michael has to settle for moose burgers since there are no deer in Newfoundland.
By-the-way what type of deer run in your neck of the woods? At least you can have deer burgers!
I have a new geen electric chain saw nick named Greta.
Unfortunately she has just crapped out on me.
So I can’t say she is looking very cute!Banks …… Never waste a good crisis!
King Charles …… King of the WEFs?
Yeah, the Ukraine is winning the progand war!
So it is covid, not the vaccines, that is causing excess deaths!
Phoenixvoice:
Amoung my friends, the ones who are the most adamant about vaccinations are the supposedly very bright and very well educated. I count 2 lawyers and 1 doctor.
Those not insanely over educated, are more likely to be open minded.
So your conclusion, about the level of education, is backed up by my observations too!
The difference between UK energy prices and EU energy prices boils down to one simple fact. The City of London. They knew ahead of time exactly what was going to happen in the UK and acted to capitalize on it. It was like shooting fish in a barrel!
However, Europe was a different kettle of fish. Since the consensus wasn’t so clear, it wasn’t like shooting fish in a barrel. Also the EU is more socialist, so capitalism wasn’t such a sure thing. But they still made a killing.
Europe has employed more floating gas storage and regassification units (GSRU) to help increase winter gas storage levels above 80%. These units help import more LNG.
The foot floor sanders. I have often wondered how wooden floors got sanded smppth in the good old days. I figured many rough saw cut flooring just got smooth by many feet over time. Modern wooden floors come already planed so require very machine sanding to make them smooth. Now you can even buy pre-stained and finished wood flooring.
I guess floor foot sanders simply and quietly disappeared into history, just like the blacksmiths.
Everyone knows NATO has it’s soldiers unofficially fighting in the Ukraine. Many of these NATO soldiers are being given “time credits” from their own militaries, while fighting in the Ukraine.
Notice however, that none of these NATO soldiers ever seem to get killed. In a war, this is simply not possible. So how are these deaths being hidden from their families and the public? One way is via helicopters crashes while training. A single helicopter crash can hide hundreds of deaths. Expect to see many more helicopter deaths.
Areas of the Ukraine that Russia intends to keep, can be easily distinguished, from the areas Russia doesn’t intend to keep. How? Simple. If Ukrainian 1road signs are replaced by Russian road signs. Local Ukrainian banks become Russian banks. Ukrainian money turns into Russian Rubles. Local infrastructure is being rebuilt. If none of these are happening in your neighborhood, then you are out of luck.
Contrary to public reports from the west, the Russians successfully staged an organized retreat starting 8 days before the Ukrainians attacked. The sleeping Russians didn’t leave behind 60 tanks nor any civilians who wanted to leave. In fact a Russian armored vehicle bravely sacrificed itself to protect the last of the leaving civilians.
Now we know why the Ukrainians were able to move forward 32 km so rapidly. They entered a vacuum.
Clearly the Russians laid out a nice welcome mat for the attacking Ukrainians, 4,000 killed, 8.000 wounded. However, the Ukrainian attack survivors still have to figure out a way to survive in their new salient.
One of the reasons Russia decided to retreat from this area is that it contains many wooded areas making it much harder to defend with only a few soldiers. A river is much easier to defend. This area isn’t without some significance. There is a damaged reservoir (slightly south?) on the river that controls water to the Donbas region.
Ukrainian Numbers Game:
Since the west wants to fight a forever war against Russia, the Russians are going to have to start cancelling more than 500 Ukrainians a day. A 1% Ukrainian birth rate can replace 500 cancelled male Ukrainians per day, forever. Th Ukraine’s birth rate is above 1% but below 2%.
Only if more than 1,000 Ukrainians are cancelled each day, will the Ukrainians start having problems replacing their losses.
It is tough to fight a war when your opponent doesn’t care how many Ukrainians he kills fighting you.
The water level in the St. Lawrence River is so low that you can now see the hunger stones! The New York State Department of Resources says the water is low to punish Putin.
Mr. Green Turtle, the president of the Association of Turtles, is very worried about the low water levels as their member’s winter homes will likely freeze. The Governor of New York State said this shouldn’t be a problem as she will ask the banks to print more money to help the turtles buy more water so they can stay warm this winter.
The Governor of New York State is now being called racist by the head of the Association of Fish, Mr. Black Fish.
This so called counter attack by the Ukraine serves only one purpose. Kill a bunch more Ukrainians to try and temporarily change the mood in the west’s unreal virtual world.
It does nothing to change the real world.
Imagine trying to sell Wall Street hype. It is what Wall Street does best, repeatedly selling hype, like IPOs, to unsuspecting suckers!
I can see Wall Street selling parts of the Ukraine it doesn’t own, to unsuspecting suckers. I can’t see Wall Street buying it’s own hype though!
The 5,100 Russian KIA is likely accurate. It is based upon the number of local death notices in Russia.
Bill7:
Hundreds of Ukrainians died today to gain a wee bit more time. The west is spending billions each day to hurt their own people, all just to punish Russia. Russia is waiting for old man winter to arrive. Then the Ukrainians will have no forests to hide in. Same game plan as always.
As for hillary the evil hunch back bow legged witch, notice all the cosmetics surgery done on that face that could never hide the evil within. That is why TPTB like her so much. There is no evil she wouldn’t gladly do for power. When in power her evil only grows more so.
Burning Candles instead of using light blubs.
Just one slight problem here. The paraffin used in candles consists of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons come mainly from oil. Beeswax can be used but there really aren’t enough bees in the world to light up Europe. There are also plant based waxes too. There are also glue factory horses too.
Candles have a brief advantage over electricity. In the beginning candles are priced at the old price before they too will sky rocket in price. But at least you cut out the hopelessly incompetant government monopoly on electricity generation.
Candles can also be very romantic but I don’t think TPTB would approve of more babies being produced. Oh, never mind this, I forgot TPTB have already covered this base with their vaccines providing automatic abortions (miscarrages) in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
If you put a candle inside an opened metal can, it does serve as a very nice hand warmer. And if you are not extremely careful, you can also very nicely burn down your dwelling.0
One interesting item of the Ukrainian war that seems to get little notice, is Russia’s consistent ability, day in and day out, is to intercept dozens of Ukrainian fired missiles, both ex-Soviet and US missiles. This of course proves the Ukrainians are winning hands down.
Russia is fighting this war in such a way that the US/NATO are being forced to spend billions of dollars every day to fight Russia. The Ukraine desperately keeps throwing poorly armed and trained cannon folder into the frontlines, just to buy a little more time. Russia is quite content to leave the eastern frontlines intact as long as fresh Ukrainian cannon fodder keeps arriving to replace yesterday’s dead cannon fodder.
Russia is quite happy to prolong this war for as long as the US/NATO wants the war to last.
Many are unaware of how the Russians are fighting this war in the Ukraine. For Russia the one commodity they are the most short of, is infantrymen. Yes, you read that correctly! However, Russia has plenty of very good artillery! So that is exactly how they are fighting!
The Russians put very few soldiers on their frontlines. Their mobile units are held back, mostly out of harms way. The Russians are letting their artillery do most, if not all of of the fighting.
If the Ukrainians attack in force, the Russian front forces simply fall back while the artillery does it’s deadly business. If the Ukrainians continue attacking in force, the Russians simply fall back some more as their artillery goes about it’s usual business.
Once the Ukrainians have exhausted themselves as cannon fodder, then the Russians hit them from both sides of the advance, cutting off any means of retreat. Then it becomes a simple&⁸ turkey shoot. Then the Russians reoccupie their previous frontline. Wash and Rinse.
Ukrainians lose hundreds of soldiers (but gain time). The Russians lose very few soldiers because there is very little man to man encounters because the Russians insist upon fighting the war from a safe distance.
If a Ukrainian frontline becomes mostly devoid of soldiers, only then will Russian mobile forces move in to mop up what’s left of the Ukrainians. Those still resisting inside fortifications, etc. get quickly roasted.
Russian military leaders have been told to take their sweet time. There is no hurry. Actually the slower the better.
Meanwhile the west is winning by going bankrupt!
Notice that our leaders are not backing down. Instead they are doubling down. Protests will not deter them.
The western created energy shortage and economic war against Russia, I suspect, is just cover for bringing in central bank digital currencies under the disguise of national security.
Creating an energy shortage will supposedly highlight the need for countries to greatly increased their investments in new energy systems.
If this investment is left to private investors, the government will have little control over what energy systems get built and how the money is spent to do so.
However, if the need for investments is nicely swept under the “national security” umbrella, as expected, then the government gets to control the types of energy systems that get built. To ensure the money only gets spent as desired by the government, this is where central bank digital currencies come into play.
Digital currencies would allow the government 100% control over who gets the money and who does not get this money. This self created energy crisis is just the perfect excuse needed to for the government to launch central bank currencies.
Conspiracy Theory:
The magnetic north pole moving from Canda/US to Russia is signifying a shift in world power from the new world to the old world. It is all about magnetic power! Putin is magnetic! Joe not so much.
The Mississippi River map:
Notice that the watershed area for the greatest amount of fresh water anywhere in the world, the 5 Great Lakes, all comes from Canada. Only the shoreline areas on the US side of the Great Lakes, drain into the lakes. Almost all of the continental US’s watershed area drains into the Mississippi. Chicago fills it’s toilets with Lake Michigan water and flushes it down the Mississippi!
2020 Election Poll:
Biden poll counts inflated by 13%. Each Biden vote worth 113%.
Trump poll counts defated by 13%. Each Trump vote worth 87%.
That and poll stuffing is how Biden won the 2020 poll!P.S. Power restored after 3 days! Ontario Hydro simply forgot about us!
In a zerohedge article, it shows US life expectancy has been falling in the last 2 years. On the graph shown, it looks like the average US life expectancy has fallen from above 78 years down to about 76 years. Or a fall over over 2 years in the last 2 years.
Ivermectin could have prevented that from happening but profits for a few people is much more important than deaths of millions of people.
Joseph Stalin: One death is a tragedy but the death of millions of people is just a statistic.
P.S. Ontario hydro finally restored power after 3 days!
