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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] nuclear waste and other science boondogles
  • Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:28:57 -0400

The disposal of nuclear waste is a boondoggle that could be solved by the advent of the space elevator. IMO, that should be the main reason for construction of such. We lift heavy or dangerous cargo, i.e. nuke waste, to orbit, where it is picked up by a shuttle or satellite and then rocketed into the sun.

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I had a moment to write. Things at work have been very demanding, and I haven't been doing anything homesteady at all. I got my garlic bulbs in the mail yesterday and it made me realize how little I have done this year to prepare for next. If next year is like this one, I may not have a garden at all.
Let's see...what have we done in the last six months??

We refloored the living area (kitchen, master bedroom and living room) of the house.
We re-roofed the greenhouse, removing the UV damaged polycarbonate and replacing it with metal barn roofing. I don't use the greenhouse in the summer-I use it mostly as a season extender from January to Spring, so I am hoping the extra heat from the roof will help warm it.

I had a garden, but not much of one due to the drought. We had weeks of 100+ degree heat, where usually we have maybe 4-7 days of such.
I had some tomatoes and peppers, a watermelon or two, and some butternut squashes, but that's about it for the summer garden. I planted some sorghum for the chickens and it worked so well that I will do that again. They love the stuff. I planted it outside the fence and when it bloomed/went to seed, I just bent the stalks over the fence to give the chickens some jumping exercise and entertainment.

We lost a few chickens a few weeks back to a raccoon, I think. Secured the fence and we haven't had any more problems. We had one hen go broody and she hatched out 8 chicks, 4 of which are still alive and almost grown now.

The turkeys, six mammoth bronzes, are almost ready for the freezer...

I replaced some rabbits so the first breeding will be in December...

We have somehow acquired 3 boats now..one is the woodstrip canoe Ron built, a co-worker gave me another canoe-1950's style Herters square stern- and we restored that and put a trolling motor on it for fishing. It is awesome. Also, one day my boss lost it and took his anger out on me, and the next day, like an apologetic abusive husband, gave me a boat to make up for it and to keep me from quitting. I'm not stupid, I took the boat.<g> It's a 1978 MFG fiberglass tri-hull bass boat with a 60hp Mercury on back. We are cleaning it up and fixing some stuff and haven't yet had a chance to put it on the lake. It's just as well, as all the reservoirs here are closed for boating.

The drought continues here in NW Georgia...we are classified as "exceptional", being the worst in 100 years. The ground has cracks with less than 1% soil moisture at times. I think the average is around 12%. Groundwater levels are dropping drastically so we are trying to conserve water even more and watch the well closely.
We usually get about 56 inches per year, and October is our driest month. As of today, we have 17 inches of accumulated rain since January 1, according to the UGA weather monitoring station about 12 nautical miles away, and we have 14 inches according to my own personal monitoring. Several times, it rained in town, but not at home. It's hard to garden in such. We collect rainwater for the animals and garden, but when there is no rain....

We have about 1 week of wood, and fire season starts mid October. We have yet to repair the woodstove(needs new flue), so we are really grasshoppers this year. I may have to take a paycheck and buy wood. That sucks.

Anyway, that's the update from EarthNSky..just wanted y'all to know that I am still here...

Bev


VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
I learned about that from an article about grandious
schemes that never made it, for obvious reasons. The
only other one I remember was the mohole.
Van Dell


--- Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

At 9/22/2007, you wrote:
Someone once proposed putting nuclear waste in a
rocket and sending it to the sun. Might work?
until a
rocket blew up on takeoff.
And how much fossil energy would that take?

--
Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.







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