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For the uninitiated, here is what my favorite go to fun dictionary has to say about "Wife Beaters". This is the first I've heard of the term. I don't get out much, lol.
Maybe you were building muscle which has better blood flow bringing warmth along with it idk. But think of the money you save on winter clothes. Or maybe you have a high set point, a high metabolism that keeps you warmer than most. Anyway, you could probably do a "Polar Bear Plunge" some cold places have in the middle of winter where they jump into a freezing cold pond to benefit charity, or something?
I've been out in the pickup with the plow for much of the day. All 3 dogs with me!
Although this webcam is south of us, it looks like what's happening here:
I've been out in the pickup with the plow for much of the day. All 3 dogs with me!
Although this webcam is south of us, it looks like what's happening here:
I enjoyed your post. Real estate promoters seem to be their own biggest clients. Whether they're selling town lots, farms, or factory sites they seem to get caught up in it. Lenders too: they were leading the charge in housing markets from 2000-2008 just as they were encouraging the purchase of Italian country estates almost exactly two thousand years earlier.
The more forgotten areas around Central City, Colorado are the home—or perhaps graveyard is a more accurate term—of some very odd-looking pieces of rusting machinery. These include many newly invented machines in the battle with refractory ores to get the gold out more easily. They never worked except in the minds of the inventors. The Central City District had easy ore near the surface. Simple milling removed most of the gold. However, as the mines went deeper, ll sorts of problems arose because of sulphides. That required smelting as well as shipping to Wales of copper matte for final refining. Marginal mines were closing. Dozens of promoters came out with their nutty but expensive gold extraction devices.
The early milling processes left far too much of the gold in the dump. I've actually smelted some stuff from the early days and pulled good values. There's still plenty of interesting stuff to see in that area as well as in other Colorado gold districts.
Promoters can often be swindlers, but my reading indicates that they were a happy bunch who generally believed their own tall tales. They weren't criminals; they were dreamers. I'd give anything to have been there.
Mining history around the inter-mountain west is a very interesting research topic. I was really pretty sad when the BLM came a few years back and blasted or capped so many of the old shafts--some of them very famous producers of the past. History gone. You have to look pretty hard to find one untouched these days around here. There are a few, though--most in really hard to get to areas.
For the uninitiated, here is what my favorite go to fun dictionary has to say about "Wife Beaters". This is the first I've heard of the term. I don't get out much, lol.
Maybe you were building muscle which has better blood flow bringing warmth along with it idk. But think of the money you save on winter clothes. Or maybe you have a high set point, a high metabolism that keeps you warmer than most. Anyway, you could probably do a "Polar Bear Plunge" some cold places have in the middle of winter where they jump into a freezing cold pond to benefit charity, or something?
It is interesting that some people just handle really cold or hot weather better than most. Those runners who compete in the Death Valley ultra-marathon, to me, are nutsoid. And some do actually collapse along the way and can't finish. But a few actually make it. I'd be dead as a door nail. I handle cold all right with the proper clothing, but really high temps? No way. Can't take that at all. Never could. At least not while trying to do anything physical. Even lying under the shade tree doesn't cut it. I just cook... misery at it's finest.
I've been out in the pickup with the plow for much of the day. All 3 dogs with me!
Although this webcam is south of us, it looks like what's happening here:
Mining history around the inter-mountain west is a very interesting research topic. I was really pretty sad when the BLM came a few years back and blasted or capped so many of the old shafts--some of them very famous producers of the past. History gone. You have to look pretty hard to find one untouched these days around here. There are a few, though--most in really hard to get to areas.
I can remember when they were all over Colorado. No one ever mentioned it, let alone complained.
I've been out in the pickup with the plow for much of the day. All 3 dogs with me!
Although this webcam is south of us, it looks like what's happening here:
Oh my gosh ! I've plumb forgotten what that was like.
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! I've plumb forgotten what that was like.
