There is one thought from the “Covid” time:
The fight against flu viruses, which we want to exterminate, is similar to trying to exterminate mosquitoes with a rifle.
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Just for a giggle, understand if you challenge an American redneck to anything with a gun you find out how many own full auto firearms and somehow have more ammunition then the government 
I recall a certain Texas group running through about 10,000rds of tracer ammo continuously to start a bonfire, to keep the mosquitoes down at a 4th of July celebration. I’m sure there were a few rednecks taking pot shots at the Chinese weather balloon too
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Wow that is the largest set of eye glasses I have seen must be 12" across, nice size fish in comparison.
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Well, power is out for the next three hours at work. Backup Generac kicked on but the computers are down. Can’t load trucks with no power because we can’t print bills of lading. We caught up with all orders too so there’s no busy work.
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Bob, you remember Marty Feldman? 
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They knew they had an issue 15 years before the crisis. And they kept spending the water money on things like the civic center and social programs. The water dept and roads crew were getting pissed. They would pave a road and then the main would break in the same spot and they had to tear up the road the just resurfaced and looked really nice. So They started replacing instead of patching the pipe because hauling in equipment to dig a hole, and repair the road is only incrementally more for 60ft then it is for the 10ft they had to dig up for the patch. The next year, they could spend the same amount of money and replace another section because they didn’t have to repair the sections they fixed the previous year. Then they were working with the road resurfacing to wholesale replace pipes under maintenance, when they already had the road torn up.
It all fell under maintenance which usually has less oversight then ‘new’.
They were spending all the ‘profits’ from the water to cover the maintenance costs. Which the city couldn’t figure out why they weren’t turning a profit, and they had budget shortfalls to deal with and were planning on spending the water profits for other stuff like lining their own pockets.
Because the city officials couldn’t figure out what was going on, and then had gone on for 10-15 years and flint was going bankrupt. The bean counter from the state switched the water supply from detroit back to flint which was more acidic and needed basically lime added to it, but he was pissed because they still didn’t turn a profit, so he cut the budget for the lime because he thought they were lying. The acidity of the water is really what eats the lead and puts it into the water, and it also causes more leaks in the pipes that need to be fixed. They also didn’t replace from the main to the house because that is hard to justify under maintenance when you are saying you are repairing a leak.
I have no idea how many of the water pipes were replaced, but it was a lot like i heard most of the lead mains had been replaced, and what was left was from the mains to the houses. Which means people had to let the water run for a minute to flush the lead out, and people didn’t do that and people were told to do that and not use it for drinking and had other bottled water for drinking.
Yet you see all these people that ignored the warnings and didn’t find an alternative source of water, and their kids supposedly got damaged from it… Is that completely the fault of the city? or were those people thinking they might get a million dollars from a lawsuit and were doing it intentionally? I don’t know.
Then you read an article like was posted having some lady say “we need to replace all the pipes” is ignoring the fact a lot of the pipes were already replaced. They have no idea what they are talking about and are just mouthing off.
Sorry for the rant, it is kind of a pet peeve.
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It seems like it finally is coming some rain tomorrow so it was about time to hook up the tanks I had lying around to collect rainwater from one of the barns for watering in the hoophouse/greenhouse.
They are 10m3 each (2750 gallons) and they are collecting from both sides of the barn roof, about 220m2 (2350sqft)
I know, it takes a lot of rain to fill those but the intention is to use them next year from early spring and if I dare I’ll start filling them with melting snow from the roofs, we’ll see.
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Hi Johan, that looks great, very nice way to collect water 
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Bigger fish than i use to catch, even my cat’s use to laugh at me 
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Me, wife and father-in-law took a evening-walk in the nice weather, i thought i could post some pic’s of the Swedish countryside.
There is some rain on it’s way.
A small birch growing in the split on a big pine, in the old times these was believed to have “magical” powers.
The “woodgas-damage” in my brain grows back again when the truck is up and running: i see FUEL standing everywhere
The news reported the smoke from the Canadian wildfires had reached Sweden, hard to see in this pic, the moon looks slightly orange.
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Smoke is so bad here that I thought I was getting glaucoma. It’s even worse down Don Mannes and Matt R’s way. Humidity is still high and the air just can’t move. Supposed to ease up some tomorrow. It’s about 120 ft drop down to my garden and the path is fairly steep. I had to stop on the way back up from working there today and rest a minute because there doesn’t seem to be enough O2.
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Finally some rain. I fired up a woodburner a ran some arrends. One of them being buying gasoline for tiny equipment.
While at the pump I noticed a couple road signs - perfecly normal signs for us Swedes - but could seem funny to English speakers 
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Haha, i’ve met a couple of tourists from the UK once, they couldn’t for their life realize how an “infart” could happen 
Well, they had the humor to see it
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That means Ingoing and Outgoing right?
Edit: if Sverige Fart is anything similar to Deutsch Fahrt it means travel or something, right?
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J.O. since the post COVID price increases most of us are calling the DOLLAR STORE, the dollar and a quarter store.
For this other: uncommon in English is Ingress and Egress. The joke is what kind of animals are these? Fur or feathered fowl? Then even less common: Ingo and Outgo. Nordic girls? Or trolls?
Inlet and Outlet. Mouth? And the other end?
S.U.
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Yeah, kinda Entrance and Exit.
Right, German: fahren. Swedish: fara = to go/travel - something like that.
But fart actually means speed in Swedish. Full fart = full speed
Almost any preposition can be added to fart and give it a different meaning.
Infart = entrance
Utfart = exit
Påfart = entrance “usually on a freeway”
Avfart = exit “usually on a freeway”
Uppfart = driveway
Tillfart = same but different - usually bigger - not to someones house.
Should be called dollar and a half store here. Our inflation has been even worse, since the Swedish krona isn’t tied to the Euro.
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I heard the krona was tied to stainless steel. 
It should be called the 10 bit store.
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Today i started my garden waste to compost project.
Got my mulcher up and running, a little overpowered it mulches everything, branches, twigs, stones(!) long grass cuttings, snakes.
I like this machine, a little shaky though, have to check nuts and bolts and pulleys every 1/2hour.
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Rock phosphate is a very good amendment Goran. You don’t really hear about snakes much in Northern Europe. We have a few varieties here. Only one type of rattlesnake that no one I know has ever seen and not real poisonous. I used to have a couple big garter snakes that patrolled my garden. Haven’t seen them this year. I appreciate the work they do but still give me palpitations when we cross paths. Not a fan.
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What the Canadian wild fires smoke is in Sweden? The wind must of blown the wrong way. We have very little this year in Washington State, USA.
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