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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Silver is money too.
 
You might be interested in these - lots of history.  
 
It has been a few years since I read them - and I don't retain details, but I 
remember the 5 part series was good, as were other series he wrote.
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver1.html
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver2.html
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver3.html
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver4.html
 
http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/gnazzo/2005/silver5.html

 
 

--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

The first use of gold as money goes back to the Greek colony of Lydia and 
dates from the mid 600's BCE.  



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Bev posted about her creek a few days ago.  Unless you live in a place where
you expect to get rain and then don't get it for a couple of years, you can't
understand the utter fascination with seeing water there on the ground right
in front of God and everybody.

Last year Bev and I were both in 'Extreme Drought' areas.  This year her area
was upgraded to "Sand, dust, dead cow skulls, and buzzards circling
overhead".  My area was not and remained for a second year in the extreme 
drought zone.

And it was.  Usually during a late summer dry spell the water comes back by
mid September.  This year for the second year running the ides of December 
came
and went with no measurable rainfall since June.

Then the gods relented.  It took four or five good three day rains storms for
the springs to begin flowing again.  Then another and the creeks began to
come back beyond an ooze.  Finally this last round resulted in freshets 
springing
up in the road.

The world is a very different place with water!

Yet with all this rain the creeks are just now up to their average normal
level.  Here are some pictures of our creeks I took today, if they don't open
it's because the freebie site they are on has maxed out its transfer quota, 
just
wait a bit and try again.

The back of the property, the south border, is the middle of Big Jacob's
Creek.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/bigjacob.jpg

The view is downstream.  To the right is a 15' bluff and at the top of that
is back pasture.  To the left is the Cherokee National Forest.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/bj2.jpg

This is Big Jacob's seen from the pasture and looking upstream.  To the right
is the Mirkwood.

At the north line of the property  is Harper's Creek.  Prophetic, that,
considering my trade.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/harpers1.jpg

This is near the eastern line of the property.  In the upper right of the
picture you see a board wired to a tree.  This was the fenceline of some 
previous
owner.  This creek is entirely on our property and parallels the county road
30' away.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/harpers2.jpg

And here it is exiting on the western side.  The debris you see to the right
are old bee hives.  The creek winds nearly to the road (that's where the
bridge is) and then angles off into our holding making wedge on the NW corner 
of
the property 150' long and 40' wide at the base.  This is a auxilliary orchard
and beeyard.

For the first ten years here there was no bridge, we had to ford this creek
to get onto the place.  If you didn't plan for the creek rising, you didn't go
anywhere.  If you did plan and parked the vehicles on the road side of the
creek, you then ported everything up the ridge on your back.

There is a third and much smaller creek on the place, Bee Suck Creek (no I
don't know).

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/bee.jpg

Ours is the first privately held land that this creek and Big Jacob's Creek
flow through.  Harper's creek goes by a number of houses before flowing by our
front.  Bee Suck Creek is by far and away the longest of the three creeks and
it never dries up nor much changes level in wet or dry weather.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/join.jpg

Here is where the Bee Suck Creek empties into Harper's Creek.

www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/pump.jpg

And here is a where a small basin is empounded on Bee Suck Creek to provide
water for the garden.  The pipe goes up hte 20' bluff to the shoulder where 
the
main vegetable garden is located.  In the center of the garden is a pitcher
pump.  You can't see it from this angle but the pipe under water is held
verticle by large stones and has a foot valve.



James