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I think it's spelled without the c...but anyway, I ain't gonna be changing so you might want to put me on ignore.
It's also the truth, nothing else. Sometimes the truth ain't rainbows and butterflies.
About my electric bill, that was the highest one yet.
Nope, ain't got no intention of puttin' you on ignore. Don't want to. Nobody's asking you to change. Why would you suggest that, because we disagree about something? Can't handle it, eh? BTW, there's no such word as "ain't" or gonna...FYI
"It's also the truth, nothing else." Oh, loword, now you're repeating what I said? So, you repeat what people say and make silly, nonsensical generalizations. Oh, and you correct grammar, too. Well, enjoy, because I make a lot of grammatical errors.
You Might be a Snettisham Avalanche Victim if . . .
' You have asked family in the Lower 48 to mail you clothespins or clothesline.
' Your Coleman camp stove has become a fixture in your kitchen.
' Your family has instituted "Shower Night."
' You have attempted to make a cake or cookies on the barbeque.
' You have used compact fluorescent bulbs as bartering stock.
' Your family ate fish and venison for two weeks so you could unplug the freezer.
' You have driven your car onto your lawn and used the headlights to illuminate your house.
' You have held a flashlight so your children can do their math homework.
' You made your children use a newspaper to find a current news item instead of turning the computer on.
' Everyone in your family knows where the main power shut off is and which breaker is which.
' You know how to read your power meter and do it frequently.
' The sight of the meter spinning can make your stomach lurch.
' You have compared the cost of new socks and underwear for two months versus laundry costs.
' You are acutely aware that it has been a cold spring so far!
' You have to use a flashlight to go down the hall to the bathroom at work.
' You have researched the OSHA standards on the level of light required in an office.
' You are more frightened of the light than what might be in the dark.
' You charge your cell phone at work for obvious reasons.
' You turn off your digital alarm clock during the day.
' You know your mother would be proud of your survival skills.
' You say at least once a day "Thank goodness it didn't happen in January!"
Here's to looking on the bright side (as long as it's not incandescent)!
SeeBee, may I cut in for a moment.
Clear cut for you is not the same for us. Clear cut for the south is all the harvestable trees are taken, the land is cleaned up, the slash is mostly hauled off and used for something. and the remaining trash is piled up and burned or even sometimes buried to level off land that a plan was made for. Usually replanting of trees (i.e. tree farms, etc.)
Here it more like rape and pillage. A company comes in, cuts down everything in sight, leaves all the slash everywhere in the way of everything, and then leaves.
The slash is left everywhere because doing something with it cuts into their profit. Not all do, attempts at tree farming are being done, but for the most part it's just a devastated wasteland. You should see some of the erosion going on.
But anyway, who cares....it's just Alaska. Cut those dumb natives a check and you can do anything.......
I could go on and on but I gotta stop there....
As a employee of the USFS...you are wrong on so many levels here. The "corporations" that are the biggest rapers and pillagers are NOT the Forest Service (we couldn't if we wanted to, thanks to NEPA)...it is the Native corporations, and if you don't believe me, look at a Native corporation clearcut that's right next to a FS clearcut. The difference will be very obvious; we are required to leave trees, snags, buffer zones by streams; they are required to do NONE of that...and they don't either, because of course it means more money for their shareholders. Come on over to POW if you don't believe me on this one; I've got living proof.
Sooner or later, it might be more cost-effective to just burn our money for heat and light than to pay for power (electric or fuel)
LOL...yeah...I started thinking about just how much gas a 1/2 ton pickup takes to get around the other day; thinking about cutting/hauling wood for wood stove use. Problem here is, you have to go farther and farther these days to harvest legal firewood. So...if you think about filling up a 1/2 ton pickup (around $100.00) and making a 60-mile round trip, hauling about 1/2 a cord at the time...how many cords does it take to heat an average home for a winter? Probably 3 or 4 I guess (sorry, it's been a while since I saw a cord of wood so I might be WAY off here).
It's still cheaper to burn wood but wow...for how long? HEHE...just thinkin' out loud, I guess.
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gotta love this
