Gone Feral In Idaho

Many awful things happened on and around my birthday in April. 1st being born on Hitler's birthday. There are many more, such as Columbine, the Titanic was on the 15th, Oklahoma City was on the 15th, and Deep Water Horizon in the gulf was right on my birthday. The one that sticks with me most is the Chernobyl Disaster . photo courtesy of  check out his wonderful photos  It happened when I was a little kid. My dad worked in radiation safety and even did studies at 3 Mile Island .   photo  courtesy of The health effects of 3 Mile were nothing compared to Chernobyl.  Standing on that bridge like so many did to watch the explosion at Chernobyl, everyone was exposed to near lethal doses of invisible, no smell radiation. The folks that lived within close range of 3 Mile were exposed to doses similar to that of a routine chest X-Ray.   Now we have the Fukushima I nuclear accidents . Please click HERE for the link to an eye opening info-graphic. ...

I apparently earned one, I sure think I have dealing with the stuff we have to. I've had firemen run from some of my scenes. Does our office follow the tradition? I dunno. We don't spend much time together after work. After 3+ years doing the job, it was nice to be given one and not have to buy it.

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I bought a Nook Color and have been trying to hack it , resulting in a lot of lost time. We have been moving along on the gardens and the peas, radishes, lettuce, green onions, beets, and kale are coming up.  Things have gotten a bit out of control indoors with all the starts. This is light rig #2 with the "big plants" Last weekend I decided to bite the bullet and put two already flowering Black Krims out in the greenhouse fortified with homemade 2 liter bottle wall of waters, or solar insulators.  When I got home tonight it was 46 degrees outside and 60 in the greenhouse. It will drop to 31 tonight. I hope it will stay over 45 in there.   We pulled off the greenhouse to plant these monsters. I cut off the lower branches and planted them as deep as possible. Here they are all tucked away, the whole thing is closed up now to keep warm. And now, for something completely different: Here is the crazy-ass duck Kyle and I spotted "surfing" at the Barber Park dam. Thi...

The Black Krim seems to predictably form a megabloom on each plant. These result in fused tomatoes . I love garden freaks .

I finished mucking the pondtainer today. It was warm enough to get it done with out freezing myself and early enough in the year that I hope to maintain some clear water before the warmth really sets in.  Here is what I started with today after draining the big stock tank via siphoning. After bailing  a few inches of mucky water out I was able to tip the whole thing on the side and used the pressure wash setting on our water sprayer.  I blasted out the gravel a bunch and worked a lot of dead organic debris that made the water so black that you couldn't see beyond an inch in depth. During that time I found the last fish, deceased most likely due to lack of oxygen in the thick leaf litter that collected in the bottom. This fall I am putting covers on both to avoid the same amount of mess and to keep the water habitable for a few fish.  I also scrubbed out the sides to get the gunk off, and started refilling which promptly resulted in a ton more organic debris getting ...