Not Permafrost
12/13/07 - 5th Day - After Breakfast. Permafrost. Well... It's not permafrost because this is Central Texas and that would be ridiculous. Permafrost is ground (soil) that is frozen at or below the freezing point of water for more than two years. I don't believe our soil has been frozen for more than half a day. But it is kind of cool for southerners to see what Yankee folk have to put up with all the time. We missed the ice storms that ravaged the Midwest, but we had rain for several days, then - last night - it got down to 27 and we woke up with a thin layer of frost on the ground and for a few hours the mud was frozen. Made me think of permafrost and how the Germans got bogged down in Russia during WWII when the ground began to thaw out. It happened earlier to Napolean in Russia. I like to put links to the tidbits of trivia I throw into my posts because I know at least one of you out there will follow the rabbit trail into Wikipedia oblivion. It happens to me every day. Wikipedia oblivion is when you search something in the Wikipedia encyclopedia and then you find a dozen other links in that article to things that interest you, and you follow those... and so on... and so on... and then a couple of hours later you remember what you were originally doing. I did the same thing when I was small with the Encylopedia (for you new generation folks, an encyclopedia was like Wikipedia but in books, and no random joe could hack into them and change the information or put propaganda in there). Anytime I asked my Dad a question, he would say "go look it up"... and he meant it. I wasn't allowed to just walk off and act like he didn't care if I got the answer. He actually expected me to go look it up. So I would do so, and then I would get sidetracked and I would always end up spending 4-5 hours reading the Encyclopedia; which is why I know that Zimbabwe used to be Rhodesia, and dozens of other useless and inane facts.
So anyway, it is supposed to warm up and be sunny today (up to 61 degrees) and it has already warmed up to above freezing and the sun is shining brightly.
Not much work to be done around here in the muck, so I hope to get some work done on part 5 of the Off-Grid living series before going to Abilene with Elder David later today.
I am sorry for those of you in the deep freeze up there in the Midwest. Some of you probably will not read this until the government gets the power back up. But, this is ridiculous:
Families Flee Freezing, Powerless Homes....
An entire society and culture addicted and dependent on questionable grid power, and they cannot see their own slavery. People fleeing perfectly good homes to go to a "shelter". Well, at least these shelters aren't like the New Orleans Superdome after Katrina. Anyway, I pray that no one who reads this blog regularly is so colonized that they cannot survive something like... winter. I am continuously surprised by what surprises people. I am constantly teaching Tracy to remember her obligations and to always be prepared. She always has trouble remembering to fill the kerosene lanterns before it gets dark. I always say, "How long can you be surprised by DARK? It gets dark every day, and so long as God doesn't sovereignly intervene, it is going to get dark every day. You can count on it. You should not be surprised by things like "dark" or "supper" (I'm always having to get on to the family for not planning supper beforehand. I mean, we all eat supper every day - how can you be surprised by "supper"?), just as people who live north of say THE RIO GRANDE should not be surprised by WINTER. Here is my preparedness tip for the day... IT GETS COLD IN DECEMBER! THERE COULD BE ICE AND SNOW! Here is a bonus tip... THE POWER COULD GO OUT!
It reminds me of the old joke of the football coach who gets so frustrated at his teams poor play, that he gathers them together in practice and tells them that they are going back to the fundamentals. He holds up a football and says, "THIS IS A FOOTBALL". One of the players replies.. "Not so fast coach".
Wow, I almost went on a rant. Don't get me started.
Gotta go move a turkey back onto the smoker.
Michael
So anyway, it is supposed to warm up and be sunny today (up to 61 degrees) and it has already warmed up to above freezing and the sun is shining brightly.
Not much work to be done around here in the muck, so I hope to get some work done on part 5 of the Off-Grid living series before going to Abilene with Elder David later today.
I am sorry for those of you in the deep freeze up there in the Midwest. Some of you probably will not read this until the government gets the power back up. But, this is ridiculous:
Families Flee Freezing, Powerless Homes....
An entire society and culture addicted and dependent on questionable grid power, and they cannot see their own slavery. People fleeing perfectly good homes to go to a "shelter". Well, at least these shelters aren't like the New Orleans Superdome after Katrina. Anyway, I pray that no one who reads this blog regularly is so colonized that they cannot survive something like... winter. I am continuously surprised by what surprises people. I am constantly teaching Tracy to remember her obligations and to always be prepared. She always has trouble remembering to fill the kerosene lanterns before it gets dark. I always say, "How long can you be surprised by DARK? It gets dark every day, and so long as God doesn't sovereignly intervene, it is going to get dark every day. You can count on it. You should not be surprised by things like "dark" or "supper" (I'm always having to get on to the family for not planning supper beforehand. I mean, we all eat supper every day - how can you be surprised by "supper"?), just as people who live north of say THE RIO GRANDE should not be surprised by WINTER. Here is my preparedness tip for the day... IT GETS COLD IN DECEMBER! THERE COULD BE ICE AND SNOW! Here is a bonus tip... THE POWER COULD GO OUT!
It reminds me of the old joke of the football coach who gets so frustrated at his teams poor play, that he gathers them together in practice and tells them that they are going back to the fundamentals. He holds up a football and says, "THIS IS A FOOTBALL". One of the players replies.. "Not so fast coach".
Wow, I almost went on a rant. Don't get me started.
Gotta go move a turkey back onto the smoker.
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 12/13/2007 06:24:00 AM
1 Comments:
LOL! I get lost in cyber-space all the time. Then I find something I really like and forgot how I got there...
We used to live in Florida and thought that 50 degrees was freezing. Living in Ohio, now we know better. LOL!
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