We have snow this year I plowed out about 6 inches yesterday and it is probably here to stay. Last night was 5 degrees F that is -15C for the rest of the world. And windy. Tonight looks on track for more of the same. It takes alot of wood to keep this old drafty farm house warm on nights like this. It might be an old fashioned winter this year. That is long cold and lots of snow for those who are not from around here.
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Mission Ridge Ski/Snowboarding Resort opens tomorrow. It is all man made snow making. One run from the top of the mountain to the bottom at the lodge. I think is the first to open in Washington State. I better strap my snow board and skiis to my cooling rails and make a trek to the mountain.
Bob
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Bob your a braver man then me. I have never wanted to try to slide down a mountain on two boards…
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No, it is even worse, Bob does it on one
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2 degree F last night and what do I find this morning but a new baby calf up and about looking nice and healthy. That is one tough littl bugger.
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Haha, no fun arriving to this world in those temps, all wet and dizzy 
Not much better here. About the same temps but still no snow on the ground.
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It snowed yesterday, but the snow is retreating up into the mountains today. Temperature is up to 43*f and rising. My Dana is under the weather and we have two of the grandchildren here today while mom at work. I hope everyone had a wonderful day with family and friends yesterday and hopefully many more to come this coming seasons.
Bob
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Same up north here
55 parallel…
Alberta . Canada.
We’ve had snow on and off since September 10th…the pertinent stuff came on the 5 th of this month and dropped to -20 c
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Thanks, Bob, many happy returns, as they say. What’s the body of water
in the picture?
Hi Pepe, that is the Columbia River just below the place.
Bob
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Wow it is all the way up to 32F or 0C for the rest of the world today. Feels like a heat wave after the last few days. I will be spending the entire day outside enjoying this no telling how much more of it we will get this time of the year.
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Turkey is best slow cooked in a solar oven. Well…ok, frying them in peanut oil is better I guess…But then, what isn’t.
I’ve had trouble with free range turkeys being tough if they get excited when you kill them. If you cut the arteries and veins in the neck and put them in a place where they can’t flop around (like a cone or bucket), and let them bleed out a little slower, they seem to just kind of go to sleep and die more peacefully than the whole chopping off the head thing where they flop around. They seem to get tougher that way than chickens, ducks or geese do. Not sure why.
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I thought they were too big to cook all the way through in a solar oven. but I never really thought about it. 
Probably depends on how big the solar oven is…
Man these Galloway calves alway amaze me. 2 days old and she is followed her mom to where I fed them in the yard and started nibbling on the hay right beside mommy.
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Billy, Re: your work in Africa. The problem with Africa is; they were / are at the end of the procession of areas / economies who entered the Industrial Revolution. If they want to raise their standard of living, they have to import stuff that is beyond their home manufacturing capacity. Since they can’t produce and sell manufactured goods, they are limited to selling resources and labor. Automation has severely reduced the demand for unskilled labor. That leaves them with selling natural resources. The bribery system will ensure that the common man will not benefit from the transfer of resources. I’m sure that China won’t stop digging and cutting until everything is gone. China itself will be collapsing into revolution before long but, that is a story for another day.
Here are a couple of vids on producing roof tiles.
57 million views and, the guy doesn’t speak a word
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I’m just doing the same old thing. I write every day on my blog about economic collapse. Visitors outnumber members about 6 to 1. I’m sure that big-brother is keeping an eye on me. I’m working steady on my latest truck aquisition. It’s a 1955 Ford F-900 Big Job Marmon- Herrington 4 wd dump truck. I took the bed off in Oregon and, brought ithe cab & chassis down to L.A. It has air brakes and a 5-speed. The drive train is good but, I had to get a new crankshaft and pistons and cam. This is one tall truck. Even with running boards, it still has a handle on the side of the cab. I’m painting it now, piece by piece. It’s a big toy. Even taller than my Chevy C-50 NAPCO truck. It makes my D-250 look like a mini-truck.
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William, like you choice of rolling stock! I do not want to work on newish type pickumup trucks, nor do I identify with them. Not to mention that pickup size, old and new, seem fragile to me. However I would like to, some day, retire from the rat race life, reduce my driving as much as possible but have a vintage machine to use from time to time. The sky high cost of vintage pickup size machines has pushed me out of that market. The last frontier in affordable truck transportation is in the over one ton class. Something like a 1600 Loadstar with a short wheel base. That is where my heart is set now of course it doesn’t have to be a Cornbinder. There is a nice 1955 Ford in Ohio but too early for investing in this project.
Is that a swinging draw bar on the Green Chevrolet?
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Believe it or not, that '55 Frd cost me $2000 with a 4 yd Heil dump bed on it. It has about a 10 inch cylinder and will handle a LOT. I just got real lucky on price. The chevy cost me $4000 and, I drove it on the trailer (non-op). It runs like a sewing machine. The girl got it from her father and, had no idea what a NAPCO truck is worth.
It’s common to see a jacked up truck with a huge drop in the hitch. They get hung up every time that they drive off a bank. That draw bar pivots on a 2 in. solid bar stock. The mount is 5/8 plate and the 2 in. tube is 3/4 wall.
The West coast has a lot fewer old trucks but, they tend to have minimal rust. I found a really nice loadstar 1600? for sale in Idlwild but, I couldn’t find anybody interested in it. It was 4 wd. There are tons of cornbinders for sale in Ca. because the new smog laws don’t allow you to run them. Course, they call them Navistar now.
$2500
https://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/d/international-harvester/6743214051.html
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You guys make me feel sick. My 2005 Chevy 2500 duramax doesn’t look that good. Rust just kills everything up here.
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