Posted on 01/28/2011 7:24:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You and me both, a cool V-8 before lunch is so nice. Takes the edge off without caffeine. Shake well, though. Don't want any 'chunks' passing by.
with lashing of tobasco.
And I will, of course, explain how the cow ate the cabbage and tell whomever to pound sand.
Having come back from the brink of death is a very empowering experience. Been there, done that, they cut up the T-shirt (and other bits) in the trauma ward.
I'll never sacrifice quality of life for quantity, if I have the ability. Full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes. ;)
/johnny
The big interglacials are usually about 10,000 years long. We are already 5,000 years OVERDUE for the next down turn into colder weather.
That could mean 1 of 3 things. (1) That the whole Ice Age thing is over after 20 some cycles, or (2) We somehow just skipped the end of the interglacial, schmoozed over through that to the first interstadial and are basking in a fool's paradise of undeserved warmth, or (3) we manage to gain control of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases and are keeping the old homestead warm despite nature's worst.
I think the Younger Dryas (an extra period of glaciation and cold in the Northern hemisphere that started a couple of thousand years into the interglacial) created a condition where we actually warmed up faster than normal and are just staying warmer longer, and that pushes back the start of the next glacial period a few thousand years.
Remember, a thousand years isn't even a blink of the eye in geological time!
Sometimes I slice up serranos in there.
You need to strain that.
/johnny
I enjoy the finer things in life, but sometimes those things are simple.
I wonder if a creeping ice age is more dangerous than a heat wave since more heat is reflected back into space from all the white sticking around and could build on itself rather quickly.
I have to replace two almond trees- they're over 20 years and hardly producing any almonds. I'll look for something in bare-root and start again. I'd love to grow pecans as that is my favorite pie. I hear they grow like weeds in Texas.
The grocery ad I will take with me shopping tomorrow has: 10 lbs. #1 Russet Potatoes for $1.99 1-gal. Milk for $2.00 Lettuce 2 heads for $1.00 3 lbs. Red Delicous apples for $1.00 Siroloin tip steak for $2.79 per lb. Round Roast for $2.99 per lb. 48 oz. Corn Oil for $1.50
Pork is up a little, but I bought a 10 lb. box of bacon last week for $20.00
Overall I don't see that much grocery inflation in basic food items here. And I cook very good meals from simple basic items.
Food would be more affordable to families if there were no divorce. http://considerandhearme.wordpress.com/
You mean we can’t just go to the store where they make it?
I am a sunspot watcher from way back. You blew the credibility for me when you mentioned greenhouse gasses. Don't buy any part of the globul warming bunk. I am not a climatologist, but my family has farmed in this county for 110+ years. Weather patterns are variable, but man will never predict them accurately (exception- very short term).
Could we have a global food crisis? Yes, especially if a bunch of greenie weinee tree huggers get control. The fools at the UN and the greenies could starve a bunch of us, but I choose to not participate. Country boys can survive, and I will feed my family. We could be 100% self sufficient again, but at this point it is not worth it.
Colorado apple crop is great! Washington state I’m not sure about (biggest producer of apples in the US.) Apple crop can recover next year, depends on the weather and the insects, including water supplies and the winter cold. Apple trees have to freeze to produce, and blossoms cannot freeze.
Absolutely nothing has improved since s0etoro.
Yep, lots of pecans here. Don’t get bumper crops every year, but more than I ever need. Have 3 huge trees in my yards and several more at the farm.
The almond trees, funny you should mention them. I just ordered 28 new trees for our orchard. (bare root) 2 were Texas Mission almonds. Almonds do not make that consistently in Texas, but that variety is the best for this state.
We had a great persimmon crop again this year. We have a 50 year old Hayachi Persimmon tree that delivers almost every year. I ate my fill, froze quite a bit of ripe pulp and dried them for the 1st time this year. Made a great Korean spice tea from some this week. (dried persimmon, fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks, sugar)
The plum crop was the best we ever had this year. But it was a very wet cold year until the early fall. It has turned dry now.
The phenomenon is well understood. The dispute over CO2 doesn't involve whether or not it can actually hold in heat but on the issue of "forcing", which is a bit more obscure and not well understood by anyone. In fact, "forcing", even if it exists, is probably overwhelmed by other forces of far greater power ~ e.g. variation in Sun's intensity (it blinks and winks eh), cosmic rays creating clouds, etc.
Now, regarding "farming in America", I've had ancestors engaged in that practice for thousands of years ~ although my European ancestors only got started in the game about 500 years ago, and then that was just a small minority of them. The most numerous category extended their "farming" beyond birch trees to corn and stuff within the last 360 years.
The family story passed down for centuries is that if you don't like the weather wait a while. it'll change.
As far as farming in ice age conditions is concerned, my Sa'ami forebears depended on Lingonberries. You don't want to eat the tiny birch shoots ~ they have too much cyanide for safe consumption. My entire digestive system pretty much recoils at the idea that wheat is good for you but I am prepared for a return to normal ~ where the Ice Sheets come sliding down the plain.....
Crop failures in foreign countries and increased demand for food outside the United States is driving up food prices here.
I can do it on 2 medium sized apples in fact.
I love that stuff! I have an almost 13 y.o. daughter who is addicted to the spicy V8. That’s what I get for eating so many hot wings and gallons of mind-numbing salsa when I was pregnant with her. LOL. Even when I was in the full brunt of gut-wrenching morning sickness (first 4+ months of that pregnancy—thankfully my other 3 pregnancies were easy by comparison), I could devour anything spicy that wasn’t tied down.
My youngest son brought our food bill way down when his doctor gave him orders regarding his triglyceride levels. He’s doing chicken curry like a pro now. He does everything but the spice mix from scratch.
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