Number 85 - To see a tree asmiling.

Wow...... an exclamation mark that smiles........!

Now, we need trees asmiling!!!

Thanks, Stradee

That is a worthwhile gadget. !

We just had a piss poor excuse for a shower. Maybe two minutes worth. I will be dragging the hose yet again, leaves are hanging down.

Was at Walmart and bought some early cabbage, Brussel sprouts, and broccoli plants. 9 packs for each. My broccoli seeds were so old that they failed to germinate.

Gadgets that work are a very good thing

One of my trees leafs are beginning to turn gold color, and i'm a tad sad seeing summer go. One of the best summers i can remember weatherwise.

Good luck with your garden, sue! I tried growing veggies, but the deer said "yum" and that was that. So, i'm praying to the Tuff gods for a new shed. What that has to do with gardening is anyones guess...although they do offer a hothouse type structure.

rain chanting for sue
home depot chanting for me
tree chanting for dan

Hello Beth!!! So glad you're home and posting on FB again!

A friend of mine sent the email - I don't know if it does all these things or not but, worth a try.

I've used the product for a lot of the stuff on the list, but not all.





GOOD ADVICE! GREAT PRODUCT!



A lady got up very early one morning and went outside to pickup the Sunday paper, she noticed someone had sprayed red paint all around the sides of the neighbors brand new beige truck. She went over and woke him up and gave him the bad news. He was, of course extremely upset.

And they stood there trying to figure out what could be done about the problem. They decided there wasn't much recourse but to wait until Monday, since nothing was open. Just then another neighbor came out of his house, surveyed the situation and immediately went to get his WD-40 out and cleaned the red paint off with it. Guess What! It cleaned up that paint without harming the original paint on the truck! I'm impressed!!

Water Displacement #40. The product began from a search for a rust preventative solvent and degreaser to protect Missile parts. WD-40 was created in 1953 by three Technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a 'water displac ement' compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40. The Corvair Company bought it in bulk to protect their atlas missile parts.

Ken East (one of the original founders) says there is nothing in WD-40 that would hurt you...' IT IS MADE FROM FISH OIL' When you read the 'shower door' part, try it. It's the first thing that has ever cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic, it works just as well as glass. It is a miracle! Then try it on your stovetop... It is now shinier than it has ever been before.

1) Protects silver from tarnishing.
2) Removes road tar and grime from cars.
< STRONG>3) Cleans and lubricates guitar strings.
4) Gives floors that `just-waxed` sheen without making it slippery.
5) Keeps flies off cows.
6) Restores and cleans chalkboards.
7) Removes lipstick stains.
8) Loosens stubborn zi ppers.
9) Untangles jewelry chains.
10) Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.
11) Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.
12) Keeps ceramic/terra cotta garden pot s from oxidizing.
13) Removes tomato stains from clothing.
14) Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.
15) Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.
16) Keeps scissors working smoothly.
17) Lubricates noisy door hinges on vehicles and doors in homes
18) It removes black scuff marks from the kitchen floor! Open some windows if you have a lot of marks.
19) Bug guts will eat away the finish on your car. Removed quickly, with WD-40!
20) Gives children's play gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.
21) Lubricates gear shift on lawn mowers.
22) Rids kids rocking chairs and swings of squeaky noises.
23) Lubricates tracks in sti ckin g home windows and makes them easier to open.
24) Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.
25) Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, well as vinyl bumpers..
26) Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.
27 ) Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans.
28) Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons, and bicycles for easy handling.
29) Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.
30) Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.
31) Removes splattered grease on stove.
32) Keeps bathroom mirror f rom fogging.
33) Lubricates prosthetic limbs.
34) Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).
35) Removes all traces of duct tape.
36) Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve arthritis pain
37) Florida's favorite use 'Cleans and removes love bugs from grills and bumpe rs.'
38) Protects the Statue of Liberty from the elements.
39) WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a LITTLE on live bait or lures and you will be catching the big one in no time.
40) Ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and stops the itch.

41) WD-40 is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray on the mark and wipe with a clean rag.
42) If you've washed and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the lipstick spots with WD-40 and Presto! Lipstick is gone!
43) If you spray WD-40 on the distributor cap, it will displace the moisture and allow the car to start.

Keep a can of WD-40 in your kitchen cabinet.. It is good for oven burns or any other type of burn. It takes the burned feeling away and heals with NO scarring.

Remember, the basic ingredient is FISH OIL

Can't wait to spray a cow..............

I keep a can in the house always.

That's interesting.

Try reading about Duck Tape - now there's some interesting things also.

Didn't know there were so many uses for the stuff, but spraying a cow??? silly

Oh, another unrelated fact. Avon Skin So Softs' bath oil keeps insects away. Apply to skin and voila! No gnats, or other pesky flying bugs, plus the stuff smells good too! Whatta deal and the cost is less expensive than store bought sprays.

I'm having a marvelous day! Shopped for kitty and me food, the trucks running like a champ and all ready for winter.

Hope you all have a good day filled with happy surprises.

Has gotten fantastic reviews! You might be interested in seeing the movie.


http://restrepothemovie.com/

August 19, 2010
Gulf Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Research Says
By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years.

The study, the most ambitious scientific paper to emerge so far from the Deepwater Horizon spill, casts some doubt on recent statements by the federal government that oil in the gulf appears to be dissipating at a brisk clip. However, the lead scientist in the research, Richard Camilli, cautioned that the samples were taken in June and circumstances could have changed in the last two months.

The paper, which is to appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, adds to a welter of recent, and to some extent conflicting, scientific claims about the status of the gulf. While scientists generally agree that the risk of additional harm at the surface and near shore has diminished since the well was capped a month ago, a sharp debate has arisen about the continuing risk from oil in the deep waters.

So far, scientific information about the gulf has emerged largely from government reports and statements issued by scientists. Many additional research papers are in the works, and it could be months before a clear scientific picture emerges.

The slow breakdown of deep oil that Dr. Camilli’s group found had a silver lining: it meant that the bacteria trying to eat the oil did not appear to have consumed an excessive amount of oxygen in the vicinity of the spill, alleviating concerns that the oxygen might have declined so much that it threatened sea life. On this point, Dr. Camilli’s research backs statements that the government has been making for weeks.

Dr. Camilli, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., said the plume, at the time he studied it, was dissipating so slowly that it could still be in the gulf many months from now. Assuming that the physics of the plume are still similar to what his team saw in June, “it’s going to persist for quite a while before it finally dissipates or dilutes away,” he said.

Concentrations of hydrocarbons in the plume were generally low and declined gradually as the plume traveled through the gulf, although Dr. Camilli’s team has not yet completed tests on how toxic the chemicals might be to sea life.

In a report on Aug. 4, a team of government and independent scientists organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimatedthat 74 percent of the oil from the leak had been captured directly from the wellhead; had been skimmed, burned, dispersed chemically or by natural processes; had evaporated from the ocean surface; or had dissolved into the water in microscopic droplets.

The report found the remaining 26 percent of the oil had mostly washed ashore or been collected there, was buried in sand and sediment, or was still on or below the water surface as sheen or tar balls.

While the government report expressed concern about the continuing impact of the spill, it was widely viewed as evidence that the risk of additional harm in the gulf was declining.

This week, scientists at the University of Georgia, who in May were among the first to report the existence of the large plume studied by Dr. Camilli’s team, sharply challenged the government’s assessment. They contended that the government had overestimated rates of evaporation and breakdown of the oil.

“The idea that 75 percent of the oil is gone and is of no further concern to the environment is just incorrect,” said Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. She has studied the spill extensively but has not yet published her results.

Responding to the University of Georgia criticism, Jane Lubchenco, the NOAA administrator, said that the government stood by its calculations. “Some of those numbers we can measure directly,” she said. “The others are the best estimates that are out there.”

Dr. Lubchenco has noted repeatedly that some of the remaining oil existed in the form of undersea plumes and cautioned that this subsurface oil could pose a threat to marine life.

In another report this week, researchers from the University of South Florida said they had found oil droplets scattered in sediment along the gulf floor and in the water column, where they could pose a threat to some of the gulf’s most important fisheries.

The dispersed oil appeared to be having a toxic effect on bacteria and on phytoplankton, a group of micro-organisms that serves as a vital food for fish and other marine life, the scientists said, although they cautioned that further testing was needed.

Dr. Camilli’s paper tends to support the view that considerable oil may be lingering below the surface of the gulf. He said he was not especially surprised by the slow rate of breakdown, considering that the deep waters of the gulf are cold, about 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the vicinity of the plume.

“In colder environments, microbes operate more slowly,” Dr. Camilli said. “That’s why we have refrigerators.”

For weeks, BP, the company that owned the out-of-control well, disputed claims from scientists that a huge plume of dispersed oil droplets had formed in the gulf, with its chief executive at the time, Tony Hayward, declaring at one point, “There aren’t any plumes.”

NOAA, while initially skeptical, ultimately confirmed the existence of such plumes in two reports. The new paper appears to dispel any lingering doubt, providing detailed evidence that one major plume and at least one minor plume existed and that they contained large quantities of hydrocarbons, albeit dispersed into tiny droplets.

Dr. Camilli’s team measured the main plume at roughly 3,600 feet below the surface; it extended for more than 20 miles southwest of the well. It was more than a mile wide in places and 600 feet thick, traveling at about four miles a day.

At the time his team studied it in June, the plume appeared to have narrowed from measurements reported early in the spill by a team that included Dr. Joye and Vernon Asper, a marine scientist from the University of Southern Mississippi, but Dr. Camilli’s results otherwise matched their report.

The slow breakdown of the plume, if verified by additional research, suggests that scientists may find themselves tracking the toxic compounds from BP’s well and trying to discern their impact on sea life for a long time.

“I expect the hydrocarbon imprint of the BP discharge will be detectable in the marine environment for the rest of my life,” Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, told Congress in prepared testimony on Thursday. “The oil is not gone and is not going away anytime soon.”

August 19, 2010
Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Study Says
By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
New research confirms the existence of a huge plume of dispersed oil deep in the Gulf of Mexico and suggests that it has not broken down rapidly, raising the possibility that it might pose a threat to wildlife for months or even years.

The study, the most ambitious scientific paper to emerge so far from the Deepwater Horizon spill, casts some doubt on recent statements by the federal government that oil in the gulf appears to be dissipating at a brisk clip. However, the lead scientist in the research, Richard Camilli, cautioned that the samples were taken in June and circumstances could have changed in the last two months.

The paper, which is to appear in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, adds to a welter of recent, and to some extent conflicting, scientific claims about the status of the gulf. While scientists generally agree that the risk of additional harm at the surface and near the shore has diminished since the well was capped a month ago, a sharp debate has arisen about the continuing risk from oil in the deep waters.

So far, scientific information about the gulf has emerged largely from government reports and statements issued by scientists. Many additional research papers are in the works, and it could be months before a clear scientific picture emerges.

The slow breakdown of deep oil that Dr. Camilli’s group found had a silver lining: it meant that the bacteria trying to eat the oil did not appear to have consumed an excessive amount of oxygen in the vicinity of the spill, alleviating concerns that the oxygen might have declined so much that it threatened sea life. On this point, Dr. Camilli’s research backs statements that the government has been making for weeks.

Dr. Camilli, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., said the plume, at the time he studied it, was dissipating so slowly that it could still be in the gulf many months from now. Assuming that the physics of the plume are still similar to what his team saw in June, “it’s going to persist for quite a while before it finally dissipates or dilutes away,” he said.

Concentrations of hydrocarbons in the plume were generally low and declined gradually as the plume traveled through the gulf, although Dr. Camilli’s team has not yet completed tests on how toxic the chemicals might be to sea life.

In a report on Aug. 4, a team of government and independent scientists organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimatedthat 74 percent of the oil from the leak had been captured directly from the wellhead; skimmed, burned, dispersed chemically or by natural processes; evaporated from the ocean surface; or dissolved into microscopic droplets.

The report found that the remaining 26 percent of the oil had mostly washed ashore or collected there, was buried in sand and sediment, or was still on or below the surface as sheen or tar balls.

While the government report expressed concern about the continuing impact of the spill, it was widely viewed as evidence that the risk of additional harm in the gulf was declining.

This week, scientists at the University of Georgia, who in May were among the first to report the existence of the large plume studied by Dr. Camilli’s team, sharply challenged the government’s assessment. They contended that the government had overestimated rates of evaporation and breakdown of the oil.

“The idea that 75 percent of the oil is gone and is of no further concern to the environment is just incorrect,” said Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. She has studied the spill extensively but has not yet published her results.

Responding to the criticism, Jane Lubchenco, the NOAA administrator, said the government stood by its calculations. “Some of those numbers we can measure directly,” she said. “The others are the best estimates that are out there.”

Dr. Lubchenco has noted repeatedly that some of the remaining oil existed in the form of undersea plumes and cautioned that this subsurface oil could pose a threat to marine life.

In another report this week, researchers from the University of South Florida said they had found oil droplets scattered in sediment along the gulf floor and in the water column, where they could pose a threat to some of the gulf’s most important fisheries.

The dispersed oil appeared to be having a toxic effect on bacteria and on phytoplankton, a group of micro-organisms that serves as a vital food for fish and other marine life, the scientists said, although they cautioned that further testing was needed.

Dr. Camilli’s paper tends to support the view that considerable oil may be lingering below the surface of the gulf. He said he was not especially surprised by the slow rate of breakdown, considering that the waters of the gulf are about 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the vicinity of the plume.

“In colder environments, microbes operate more slowly,” Dr. Camilli said. “That’s why we have refrigerators.”

For weeks, BP, the company that owned the out-of-control well, disputed claims from scientists that a huge plume of dispersed oil droplets had formed in the gulf, with its chief executive at the time, Tony Hayward, declaring at one point, “There aren’t any plumes.” (BP subsequently acknowledged the existence of dispersed oil and pledged $500 million for research on the environment of the gulf.)

NOAA, while initially skeptical, ultimately confirmed the existence of such plumes. The new paper appears to dispel any lingering doubt, providing detailed evidence that one major plume and at least one minor plume existed and contained large quantities of hydrocarbons, albeit dispersed into tiny droplets.

Dr. Camilli’s team measured the main plume at roughly 3,600 feet below the surface; it extended for more than 20 miles southwest of the well. It was more than a mile wide in places and 600 feet thick, traveling at about four miles a day.

At the time his team studied it in June, the plume appeared to have narrowed from measurements reported early in the spill by a team that included Dr. Joye and Vernon Asper, a marine scientist from the University of Southern Mississippi, but Dr. Camilli’s results otherwise matched their report.

The slow breakdown of the plume, if verified by additional research, suggests that scientists may find themselves tracking the toxic compounds from BP’s well and trying to discern their impact on sea life for a long time.

“I expect the hydrocarbon imprint of the BP discharge will be detectable in the marine environment for the rest of my life,” Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, told Congress in prepared testimony on Thursday. “The oil is not gone and is not going away anytime soon.”

Yeah, the oil just doesn't disappear - it's somewhere.

Stradee, nice link, thanks. Looks like a good movie and the real thing.

Yep, a documentary about Afghanistan.

Damned oil! What's next? What will the next war be about?

Iran's WMD...headed for Israel??? shitt

All clicked.

AUGUST 19, 2010, 6:31 PM
Atlantic Hurricane Season Set to Intensify

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Brian McNoldy, a meteorologist at Colorado State University who maintains a useful Web site on tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean, has distributed an alert about a particularly noteworthy wave of low pressure moving west from Africa that appears likely to become a hurricane within a week. His note also dispels any notions that this has been a sleepy Atlantic and Caribbean storm season:

Large easterly wave exits Africa…

A very large, broad, easterly wave is located just south of the Cape Verde islands, with a disorganized low-mid-level circulation at about 12N 25W (easy to spot from the 07:25Z WindSat and 10:55Z ASCAT microwave scatterometer overpasses). It exited the coast about a day ago, and already has a weak anticyclone positioned over it, greatly reducing the vertical shear and enhancing outflow.

Nearly every global model develops the system substantially, bringing it northeast of the Lesser Antilles (roughly 20N 55W) as a hurricane in about a week.

I’ve been asked by a few people why the season has been so quiet so far. In reality, it hasn’t been; it’s been on par with climatology… by this date, an average season has had 3 named storms, 1 hurricane, and 0 major hurricanes, which is exactly what 2010 has seen. Given the continued favorable environment across most of the basin though, once the heart of the season is upon us (very soon), people will be asking why there are so many storms! The bulk of a season’s activity typically comes in a relatively short timeframe.

Here’s more on projections for this hurricane season.

scary

was asking the same question....Where's the Hurricanes???

Hope our friends in the gulf and Florida stay safe.

Good morning wildclickers. 93 and low humidity here today. Almost finished painting in the kitchen. I'll do the walls some other time. I am sick of painting.

All clicked.

August 20, 2010
Looking for Trouble on ‘Highway’ for Manatees
By JOHN LELAND
For two sometime residents of Mobile Bay, Ala., the impact of the oil spill is still an unanswered question.

Bumpy and Bama are manatees who live in Florida most of the year but come to Alabama in late summer for reasons unknown. When oil first entered Mobile Bay in June, researchers feared it would contaminate the manatee habitats.

Though that has not come to pass, another danger is yet to come when the manatees return home in late fall, said Ruth Carmichael, who leads manatee research at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Dauphin Island, Ala. Researchers who model the spill’s progress expect subsurface oil to collect in the shipping channel, which the manatees use on their migration, Dr. Carmichael said.

“So far, they’ve been up to just being manatees, which is a good thing,” she said. “We’ve reported animals engaged in mating behaviors. We’re not seeing changes in behavior or habitat.”

“So we don’t have that level of anxiety that we had at the beginning of the spill,” she said. “But the reality is we just don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

In the past, researchers thought the manatees avoided the shipping channel.

But in spring, using data from a radio transmitter tag attached to Bama, they learned the manatees use the channel “like a highway,” Dr. Carmichael said.

Both animals are still in Florida, where Bama slipped her transmitter tag in July and has not been retagged. Bumpy, who still wears a tag, has teased the researchers, making a sharp push westward on Aug. 9, as if he were heading for Alabama, but then returning to Apalachicola Bay in Florida. So far, the late migration has been to his benefit, because some of the oil in Mobile Bay has dispersed.

“I’m less concerned about them popping up in a habitat that’s covered with surface oil,” Dr. Carmichael said. “But I’m more concerned with what we don’t know. We don’t know what’s in the oil. We don’t know what to sample for.”

One worry is that subsurface oil will remain in the grasses the manatees eat.

“For years, it’s likely to be in their food supply,” she said. “You don’t see it, so it’s easier for people to say it isn’t there.”

WOW!! sumac. You are an industrious person I have to say. At this EARLY hour in the morning you have painted ALL that stuff!!!!!!! Come on down and I have some painting that I'm just tooooooo lazy to do............

GOOD MORNING ALL WILDCLICKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! (hehehehe)

Never ends does it???????????????? !

Hi Stradee and all the best tree asmiling people in the world....... !

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It's a good day.

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Back again ---------- sumac, the entrance to Mobile Bay area is where the famous remark = "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!"
During The War of NORTHERN AGRESSION !!!

True story.

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Told you - Ya'll all - about my spelling !
I would have updated it - but, had already sealed the envelope.........
((From an OLD joke - Mama sending letter to son = I would have sent you a ten dollar bill except I had already sealed the envelope.......... BIG GRIN"

Not on your life, Danon! I am sick of painting and just put everything away. I am done. If I had done a perfect job, I would have taken the doors and drawers off, taken off the hinges, and used a lot of tape on all the edges. I did none of these things, but I persevered and got it done.

An editorial from today's NYT:

August 20, 2010
A Mountain in the Stream
It is now possible to imagine the beginning of the end of a ruinous form of mining called “mountaintop removal.” Local opposition is growing, and the Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules and threatening to veto one of the largest projects ever proposed.

Enormous harm has already been inflicted on Appalachia’s environment, most acutely in West Virginia. Mountaintop mining involves blasting the tops off mountains to expose subsurface coal seams. The coal is trucked away, but the debris is dumped over the side into the valleys, forests and streams below. As many as 2,000 miles of clear-running streams have been poisoned or buried in this fashion.

The dumping is a clear violation of the Clean Water Act. Regulators during the administration of President George W. Bush willfully looked the other way. The Obama administration is trying to turn things around. First it agreed to review about 80 existing permits. Then it raised the bar for new permits — tightening stream protections and promising a case-by-case analysis of new projects instead of the blanket approvals granted before.

Most important, in June, the E.P.A. and the Army Corps of Engineers announced that before granting any new permits they would insist on a robust scientific analysis of a proposed mine’s downstream impact on fish, salamanders and other aquatic life. If the agencies remain true to their word, this new guidance — required under the Clean Water Act, but ignored for years — could make mountaintop mining all but impossible.

The administration’s resolve will soon be tested. As part of its review of existing permits, the E.P.A. has said it is considering vetoing the 2,278-acre Spruce mine in Blair, W.Va. The project was approved in 2007, and limited construction has begun, but the agency said it would irrevocably damage streams and wildlife. It promised a final decision later this year.

Some local residents say a veto would doom West Virginia’s economy; others think it would save the state from environmental ruin. The E.P.A. should veto.

For their part, instead of preaching financial ruin, the coal companies need to develop ways to mine this coal without blasting the tops off mountains and fouling the waters below. If they can’t or won’t, the practice must be shut down.

More painting today! If i never see another paint can i'll be happy.

If i never see another mountain blown to hell by 'energy' companies? Yeah, lets wait and see what sort of 'restrictions' the epa lays down for coal companies.

Another long day...