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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Fred Enga wrote:

> Fred Enga wrote:
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> > A lone Norwegian living in BC, Canada here!
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> > Cheers
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> > Fred Enga
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> tvoivozhd---you must have done something terrible to get thrown off the
> longboat in BC. Where in BC?, used to get up to Nanaimo a lot.
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> Fred Enga: - I keep following the general discussions of Leif Ericson and his
> dad Eric the Red.  From Norway to England, many years there, to then live in
> various parts of Europe, then the long pull at the oars to Philadelphia for
> 6 years.  Then drawn to the snow and spent six years in North Ontario in
> Canada, and now 7 years in Mission BC.  As a specialist in the industrial
> production of fuel ethanol from wood waste, I am now in wood waste heaven
> (and it's a really great place to live).  Like all Nogs, when we find a
> place like Norway we are happy and settle down, forgetting completely the
> reasons we left Norway are because it looks like Norway.  We are experts at
> farming both sides of the acre and rock picking.
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> Cheers
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> Fred Enga
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tvoivozhd---I think a friend of mine originated and patented making of 
ethanol from wood waste in the U.S. He came out of the papermill 
business.  Because of cheap oil competition, he found it more profitable 
to stop the process at conversion of wood waste to quite sweet cattle 
feed from cellulose and hemicellulose, had a large number of licensees 
in Africa.  Think I still have his patents out in my West Barn, maybe 
pictures of his research operation in Oklahoma.  His was a batch process 
using big spherical cookers. 

My Uuf da ancestors first went to Normandy, thence to Scotland and 
Ireland, better known as Scots Irish in the United States
when they arrived here---my paternal grandfather went to Wisconsin from 
Philadelphia, but maintained a residence there, and in Atlantic City 
while he operated his mini-empire of cheese factories.in Wisconsin.  
Maternal great grandfather also went through Pennsylvania, became Amish 
and headed for Mid-Wisconsin hill country where his grandson and 
grandson's mother with axe and two-man crosscut saw(one middle-aged 
woman) hewed a log cabin, log dairy barn, log tobacco barn out of the 
wilderness. Nice place, good brook-trout fishing, my mother sent me 
there in summers when my oldest uncle was making the conversion from 
oxen to horses.

Speaking of oxen, I have a friend somewhere on the eastern BC shore who 
raises Devon cattle for beef, they were also used as a hardy, 
efficient,  eat-anything dairy breed, extremely popular with bulls 
converted to organic four-footed tractors.

Always had a soft place in my heart for fjords and one-man 
longboats---mine was a hermaphrodite-rigged 56-foot two-mast schooner, 
square sail on forward mast.  Had to avoid bad weather because of 
difficulty of one-man operation---should have converted it to Chinese 
battened lug-sails which can be easily and safely operated by 100 lb. 
Mama San in a blinding storm.
No fjords on Abaco Island in Bahamas, and none where I now live near 
Roanoke, Virginia having emigrated from Toxic-Sauna-Bath Houston in 
1988.  Some compensation in some huge springs, four creeks and our 
private lake forty feet above the valley floor---don't know any Uuf da 
that can stand water-free hot deserts.

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