42 is the answer to the meaning of life according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I have a leather bound edition of that which looks like bible, that I like to carry around in airports. People don’t bother you if you look like you are reading the bible. 
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One of my favorite books. Now that you mentioned it I’m going to have to dig it out and brush up on it. Every time i pack i remember how a large towel is most important
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Shelves full of Bud (and other A-B products) down here in Chile. Not sure why anyone enjoys skim beer anyway, but to each their own. I guess go woke, go broke is international.
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Being a teetotaler I couldn’t care less if those exploitative companies go under. I feel sorry for the truck drivers that only get paid when their contract locked products don’t get sold. Maybe they should go into another line in CDL work. Lots of freight companies are desperate for experienced drivers.
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Today’s local news.
Ice on lakes non’t carry mich weight no more. This whitetail was lucky.
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Don’t tell me to take off my tin foil hat. I’m sure someone has a rational explanation. If so they probably go more lithium than the rest of us.
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Montana has 44 electricity generation facilities located across the state with generating capacity
of 5,500 megawatts. Coal fired generation makes up 64%, hydro facilities 34%, petroleum 1 %,
natural gas and wind the other 1%. Montana’s coal reserves are estimated at 11 9 billion tons,
roughly 25% of the total United States reserves.
-https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://leg.mt.gov/content/Committees/Interim/2009_2010/Energy_Telecommunications/Meeting_Documents/January10/SenatorJacksonPolicy.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjyhd2bpOH-AhVTjYkEHZuYAhkQFnoECBAQBg&usg=AOvVaw1NlkVIV5DGW9pu1l2eR-r_
It’s odd that I got there through a retracted paper written about chem trails…but… my first guess is these coal power plants aren’t as clean as the Montana government claims…
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I won’t rule out anything, but that looked more like volcanic ash which has a lot of iron in it and could have come from 100s of miles away.
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I totally agree. I failed to look up whether there was a volcanic eruption that may have coincided with the time of the filming.
The big question is how do aircraft spray chemicals, and what does the equipment look like. I didn’t see a coal ash sprayer in the latest Grainger catalogue.
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If coal fly ash is a problem, it ain’t the USA that’s causing it. China is a huge emitter of CO2, most by coal. It is double that of the US. And my wife who lived in China for a while, can tell you that China doesn’t give a crap about clean air. There are cities there where the sun is hidden all the time and not because of the weather.
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They have like 90% support for cleaner air amongst their people. But even for as many renewables as they have installed and as many evs they have on the road, their emissions are still going up.
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So I never actually paid any attention to the chem trail people. This is interesting, Nasa is really releasing strontium and barium in the upper atmosphere with rockets ( not Jets). Also Aluminium.
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Me neather. I always thought the trails come from radiation out of space with the exhaust particles. And if not, what can you do about it? Walk around with a alu hat and a mask?
We had some nice birds in the garden.
Goldfinch?
Really nice and there were a lot of them in the grass. Finally cut the grass ( not much grass anymore 
) with the scythe. Half hour work. Why dont I do this more often? Had my workout and meditation. Next week the veggie garden.
The rest will get mulched with mower.
How split is my personality? Love cnc and really love this too.
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Did about three cords of firewood yesterday and today, some of it to the workshop for next winters heating
and now it’s time to rivet on some new brakebands so the steeringbrake works on both sides again before the harrowing starts in the greenhouse
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With the hundred volcanoes erupting on the earth on land and under water and what man puts into the atmosphere it does not surprise me that this is happening in different parts of the earth. Ash, dirt, soot, drifts across continents and oceans.
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I googled HOW did the oceans get loaded with mercury- and it said by coal burning generators making our electricity- and fossil fuel- not wood gas fuel- fossil fuels. ITS a shame they the oil companys been dragging there feet getting switched over too solar electricity and better electric cars for decades.NOW we caint hardly eat the fish in the lakes and oceans due to air polution from the above falling into the waters.
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Does anybody have any recommendations for a thermostatic propane fridge. I like Dometic. Any others youse have experience with?
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Bruce, I got a Dometic without any electric controls some years ago. It has worked well for me–seems well built. It was bought for emergency use and therefore has not be used much.
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Every time I’ve been near a Dometic anything it stops working. Mom’s in her camper has a broken control board and we can’t find replacements, even when the camper was 1 year old. She got one season out of it.
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Dometic is about the only brand i think. I thought they bought out the competing brand.
If you are looking for SHTF. I would keep an eye on this project. They are using anhydrous ethanol and activated carbon plus solar to get down to 2-8C. And I assume they are going to open source it since they are aiming at 3rd world countries. And I don’t think ethanol eats through pipe like ammonia does.
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