The Fate of Fleas, 1894
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TGIF Yall!
wakey wakey
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Good morning Hamsters. Downright chilly 50 at 6:30 and clear with a gorgeous full Moon on her way to bed. The rain left .70″ at our place, from which the pastures will greatly benefit.
David Paul at Ch. 11 gleefully announced the first polar outbreak comes our way later next week, so I guess we will get frost on our pumpkins out here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond. Looking forward to it and happy to have the pansies planted in place of the begonias that would have wilted in the cold. Time to get the winter blankets out.
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Slept late, got up @ 6:00 and started the coffee pot, I’m on my third cup so I can now communicate. I’m loading up and heading up to the woods for a nice cool weekend the fire will feel good in this weather.
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Good morning. Sounds like Hubby is improving. Rains have stopped out here, but we got enough to cause the fire ants to move to the surface, so those rascals will be treated today. I don’t think there is a way to eradicate them, so controlling them seems to be about the best I can hope for. It’s supposed to get cold tonight.
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Does the article above have any hint of relation to the current political situation that did a tsunami shift on Tuesday? As in the Dems pulling ads in LA? 🙂
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Good morning all.
This my rant of the week:
Yesterday at Home Depot I bought some cedar lumber for a project. This lumber was advertised to be 8″ wide X 3\4″ thick. In reality it was only 7 1\8″ wide and barely over 1/2″ thick. A 2×4 is 1 1\2″ × 3 1/2 and shrinking. I view this as false advertising and using “unequal weights and measures” (OT scholars like Texpat will understand that reference). Why can’t a board that is advertised as 8″ × 3\4″ actually measure up to that instead of lacking so much? -
From last night.
” I detest the smell of beer, and thus have never let it pass my lips, either.”
What unspeakable crime must you have committed in a previous life to suffer so?
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#6 bone
Finished/surfaced lumber has always been smaller than the stated dimensions. A rough 2×4 is actually 2″ thick and 4″ wide, but a surfaced one is (IIRC) 1 3/4 x 3 1/2.LDL is actual dimensions, I believe.
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I thought there were no chemical weapons in The Iraq?
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#8 Pyro: The lumber in question was only finished on one side, so that sucks on the thickness issue. As far as the width, I will grant 1/4″ to true up the edges 7/8″ is thievery”
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Did anybody get to witness the beauty of the sunrise this morning? I did and it was spectacular.
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#10 – Unless you can get lumber trees to grow with no bark……..it is what it is
I worked in a Victorian Gingerbgread wood shop back in the 80s……..the lumber of choice was Poplar and was purchased ‘S2S’ (aka pre-surface trimmed on the 2 flat sides)……..we still had to trim the bark off of the edges before the lumber was useful for building the beautiful trim works – I can tell you from my own experience running thousands of board feet through a straight line rip saw that it was a rare occurrence to get both edges clean with a 1/4″ or less removed…………
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The dimensions listed are pre-finished dimensions. What we get, finished, is always less.
That had me flummoxed, too, until I read the reasoning somewhere. It does make calculating lumber needs more difficult, though.
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This is a damning statistic: 27 senators who voted for ObolaCare will not be in the new 2015 Senate.
http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/27-senators-who-voted-for-obamacare-wont-be-part-of-new-senate/article/2555721That should be incentive enough for the weak – kneed rinos to do the right thing and repeal the thing “root and branch. “
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#11 Boney
Did anybody get to witness the beauty of the sunrise this morning? I did and it was spectacular.
After I finished visiting Hubby yesterday, I still had chores and payroll to do, so I got to bed late. If I had been able to drag my butt out of bed, it probably would have been a good reason to get a cuppa coffee, wrap myself in a blanket, and enjoy God’s beauty from my large porch. That’s why I insisted on large porches.
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#16 TT: One of the benefits of having to be on the job at the obnoxiously early hour of 7 am is that I get to see the sun rise almost every day.
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Vladi-PooPoo is not even the slightest bit intimidated by Obola after the latest smack down he got from the American voters.
http://news.yahoo.com/tank-column-crosses-russia-ukraine-kiev-military-115026097.html
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#5 Adee
As in the Dems pulling ads in LA?
Mary Landrieu getting scrunched, heh. There are so many national pols that don’t really live in their districts, they are just tourists.
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Bones, I thought you were an experienced woodworker and craftsman. How could you not have known that lumber isn’t quite the size it is labeled? It’s been decades since I made or repaired anything requiring lumber purchase, but if I needed to know the exact dimensions of anything, I always took a tape measure. Whatever you were fixin’ to do, is this the first time that the exact size mattered?
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I understand that finished dimensions are smaller than advertised, the issue is that they are shrinking while saw blades are getting thinner and saw mills even more efficient.
I am building an octagonal umbrella stand from a design which only exists in my head. I am flexible on dimensions a bit, I don’t like getting less than what I pay for.
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#17 Bones
I get to see the sun rise almost every day.
Wow, that took me back to my miserable commute to Sugar Land, where I aimed to be at my keyboard by 7 in the morning. I saw lots of sunrises during part of the year. Maybe it was soon after we went off DST. Driving outbound I-59, it was spectacular to reach the massive overpass of Beltway 8/Sam Houston Parkway over the Southwest Freeway, when all that pale cement was lit up pink and gold by the dawn light. It looked like The Magic Kingdom! That was the only pleasant memory I have of that commute.
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Those peaceful protesters in Ferguson added an item to the already packed agenda for their meeting at a church to chase down and beat someone for the “crime” of live-streaming their meeting.
Note the richness of the irony.
o The protesters are protesting what they see as an overreaction by a police officer.
o By beating a fellow protester.
o One of the people involved in the “scuffle” is a locally-prominent Hamas supporter who was charged with assaulting a police officer in a separate incident related to the protests.
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#22: Ifn itwernt for the sunrises I get to see most of the year (mid summer and mid winter being the only times the commute is outside the viewing window) I would be an even more disagreeable curmudgeonous SOB. As it is, they tend to have a tonic effects on my psyche.
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Lumber used in my house is danged near sized as advertised. Makes it hard to do remodeling. It’s also mostly pine from when pine was a hardwood.
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I think pine gets harder as it ages if it hasn’t been kiln dried. Mayhaps the sap undergoes a transformation with a slow dry that doesn’t happen in a kiln. This is speculation on my part.
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Lumber used in my house is danged near sized as advertised.
This illustrates the point I was making.
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Well I’m pole-vaulting up US 59, Ridding shotgun in the copilot’s seat of my huntin’ buddy’s Silverado, pulling a couple of 4-wheelers on a trailer and heading for the deer camp! Yup, life is good! Doncha’ just love modern technology? That said, our little cabin in the woods is at about 1890’s technology and that’s even better for a change. 😉
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Religion Of Peace And Idolatry mob kills a Christian couple and burns them in a kiln because they “insulted their religion” by “damaging” a koran.
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FWIW; The beams under the old farm house and rough cut 4X12’s the floor joist’s are 2X12’s, longleaf pine cut on the place in the 1850’s. As mentioned the finished 2X4’s have always been smaller than advertised but I think, like coffee, and everything else, they’re getting smaller still. Do they still price lumber in board feet?
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This is a public service announcement: “There are more cops on US 59 today than on opening day, and that’s saying a lot”.
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It was indeed a gorgeous Sunrise. We have high clouds out here now making filtered light here and there. Leaves fly and acorns and pecans rain in the northerly breeze that’s getting stronger as morning progresses. Acorn thumps on the garden room roof increase.
Switched out the summer blanket for the down-filled blanket in anticipation of colder weather on the doorstep. The comforter will shortly replace the bedspread. Winter clothes are out of summer storage, so I guess we’re pretty much ready. Had the heat on this morning in the garden room.
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Well, now we know why Lois Lerner’s emails were never found.
The IRS never looked for them!
Today’s banana republic update comes to us from the exasperated watchdogs at Judicial Watch, which has a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit pending in the IRS targeting scandal. Some months ago, we learned that former Tax Exempt Organizations honcho Lois Lerner generates an intense bio-electric field that causes every hard drive that comes anywhere hear her to crash and lose all its data, something that never seems to happen to hard drives outside the government any more, but verily the Age of Obama is an age of wonders. Lerner’s mutant hard-drive crashing powers supposedly wiped out a ton of electronic correspondence relevant to the scandal.
Judicial Watch lawyers reviewed the latest batch of IRS court filings and discovered a remarkable admission: they haven’t even tried looking for the missing emails yet.
Judicial Watch lawyers reviewed the IRS court filings and concluded that the agency “did not undertake any significant efforts to obtain the emails.”
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This is speculation on my part.
I don’t know how it works either. I know if you use a Maclura pomifera for a corner post, eventually it becomes darn near as hard as concrete and you can’t pull out an old staple or put a new one in.
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Hamous
Your home was prolly built when dimension lumber really was quarter sawn lumber.
Bonez
Welcome to the real world of dimensional lumber. Here is an explanation of why. And it is not false advertising. Humans are lazy. The various sizes of lumber are named 2x or 4x for brevity and have been accepted terms for ages. But just to help you get your panties in a bigger wad plywood is not 4X8X1 either.
And the reason cedar lumber is finished on one side only is is to provide an all in one choice for the builders. Rough side or finished side out.
But if you really want your 2 X 4 there are sawmills still in operation that will be more than happy to cut your lumber for a premium. A really steep premium.
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Ohh yeah and the sizes cut for lumber actually decrease the cost of lumber to the consumer. More yield from any given tree aids in keeping prices down.
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#35 Squawk: 4 X 8 sheets of plywood are within .5 inches of spec and the last time I bought, was sold at advertised thickness.
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I know if you use a
Maclura pomiferaHedge Apple for a corner post, eventually it becomes darn near as hard as concrete and you can’t pull out an old staple or put a new one in.
That’s the dang truth and if you cut the “apple” with a pocket knife the oily residue will stay on the blade for at least 2 years NOTHING will take it off. We had those in Kansas, after the dust bowl the Dept of Agriculture planted them in straight rows, NS/EW every mile to help break the wind. -
Welp, signing off see y’all Sunday evening.
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I don’t think 3/4″ inch plywood has been 3/4 in a very long time.
There are two different thickness definitions we need to keep in mind when talking about plywood; that of nominal thickness and actual thickness. Just like dimensional lumber, most plywood is rated at a nominal thickness; that is the thickness before it is sanded. The actual thickness is just like it sounds, the actual thickness of the plywood panels you buy, after sanding. Typically, the actual thickness of plywood is 1/32 inch less than the nominal thickness. The table represents the comparison between nominal and actual softwood plywood thickness:
Nominal Thickness / Actual Thickness
1/4” 1/4”
3/8” 11/32”
1/2” 15/32”
5/8” 19/32”
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Never heard it called Hedge Apple. It’s bois d’arc ’round here.
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The wood is also called Osage Orange. It may just be what I use when I attempt to build an arrow launcher.
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Good luck, Bones. It’s nasty to work with. Guaranteed to ruin a chainsaw chain.
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#40 Shannon: I can easily live with a 1/32 variance in plywood. One needs to be clear as to the source of the plywood as foreign countries have different specs. European plywood is sold in 5×5 size or something like that.
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There is a source for OO on 34th street between Mangum and 290. So I don’t have to cut it from scratch. It costs about $10/bd ft
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We called them Deer Apples or Bodark (bastardization of bois d’arc) in Crackerland.
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European plywood is sold in 5×5 size or something like that.
2m x 2m?
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Abortion Barbie lost because of Teh Ebola.
The hump on her chin prolly played a part as well.
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bunsonburner
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was steamrolled in her bid to become the state’s next governor, and it appears that her staff believes
EbolaGeorge W Bush has something to do with the failure of her campaign. -
Bushitlercheneyburton
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Meh.
All the “obvious frontrunners” will flame out in the first few primaries.
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They are going to shorten the primary season and limit debates (thank The Lord). These moves could work in favor of the chosen establishment puke.
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My favorite gutterslug is beside himself:
And we shouldn’t forget the most important wrongness of all, on climate change.
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#55
The man either lies or is delusional.Then there’s health reform, where Republicans were very clear about what was supposed to happen: minimal enrollments, more people losing insurance than gaining it, soaring costs. Reality, so far, has begged to differ, delivering above-predicted sign-ups, a sharp drop in the number of Americans without health insurance, premiums well below expectations, and a sharp slowdown in overall health spending.
What about all those sign-ups that were dropped because they didn’t prove they were citizens? What about all the reports of 40-60% premium increases? What about the 2015 rates being withheld until after the election?
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#56 Mharper
Now, now, dear, just calm down and drink your pretty Kool-Aid….
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Wunner when he’s gonna start blowing snot bubbles?
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I saw the Krugtron article but decided I didn’t have the brain cells to waste on reading it.
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I’m still thinking about those trained fleas. Performed their little hearts out for that guy, and when they got old, he just scrunched ’em.
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I thought mocha jesus was dead set against sending actual military people into The Iraq?
I guess those nice ISI(S/L) fellows are just trying to be difficult.
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Lots of global warming happening in Siberia.
All the caterpillars I’ve seen recently were not very hairy. I thought that meant a warm(er) winter?
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Talk about an artic blast. It is predicted to bew -15F on Monday night.
Feel sorry for the female flea, she knows her offspring will all be going to the dogs.
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A co-worker’s son plays starting defensive end for Navasota.
They stuck Navasota in a district that includes 4 Houston high schools (Furr, Wheatley, Yates, Sterling) and Sealy. They have to travel to some stadium on Telephone Road to play those Houston schools.
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Navasota has typically beaten these once great Houston powerhouses by 50 or more points. Friend says they can’t field decent teams anymore because of the drop outs and flunk outs.
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Navasota has been so good the last few years that they had trouble scheduling non-district games – nobody wanted to take them on. They have had schools from out of state (!) come to play them.
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Correction: they play Booker T Washington, not Yates.
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I see Langham Creek has done well again this year.
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Bravissimo Galileo !
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#63 Texanadian
Brr, Polar Vortex is striking early. Old Farmer’s Almanac says this fall/winter will be colder than the last one and long lasting. Looks like it is right again after the cooler than average summer with PV outbreaks.
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What the hell was that beast. A chupacabra?
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Clintons seek to avoid a tax they once supported
The Clintons are employing a series of financial planning strategies that will help reduce the tax burden on future recipients, which can be as high as 40%, Bloomberg News reported.
The steps are common among multimillionaires and include creating a residence trust, a type of tax advantaged set-up that allows any appreciation in real estate value to build outside of the taxable estate.
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Some old Lonely Boys.
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69: Great demonstration
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#74 – NICE!!!!!!!!
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When the Amazon is right there, I find this hard to believe.
HEADLINE:Sao Paulo desperate for water as drought hits millions in Brazil
I read somewhere that there is so much fargin fresh water in the Amazon that a passing ship can fill up with fresh water while more than 20 miles out at sea from the mouth.
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When the Amazon is right there, I find this hard to believe.
You are kidding right? Have you looked at a map where Sau Paulo is and where the Amazon is? The Amazon is 1700 MILES north of Sao Paulo.
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BBBBBB but its only a coupla inches on the map fer cryin out loud?!?
If the situation is as dire as they say, a few trips with a cleaned super tanker would make a big dent in it.
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BBBBBB but its only a coupla inches on the map fer cryin out loud?!?
Muhwahahahahaha 🙂
Yeah I guess it could be a bit deceptive.
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Need some feel good no nonsense from me news?
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I was just thinking/remembering way back to the beginning of the national disaster known as the Obola Administration. Remember when the Macando well blew out of the coast of La? There were skimmer boats available and ready to go, but the admin would not allow them to be used. Why one may ask? Because they would discharge water that still contained some oil and that would be considered pollution. The fact that the boats would remove 90% of the oil from the sea that the encountered was not relevant to the eco-wackos that infest this regime. A perfect example of letting the perfect be the mortal enemy of the darned good.
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Shabbat Shalom, Y’all!
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#71, #72
What kinda flake keeps a hairless pink cat living in a garage, and tries to scare it to death by wearing a wolf head? -
#81 Squawk
That’s why I took CPR classes 30 years ago. David has a bad family history of heart disease. Since he had bypass surgery about 12 yrs ago, and annual cardiology checkups, I don’t worry about it so much. And I had annual refresher courses on CPR and other first aid before I retired. -
That was a hairless cat? That thing needs to put out of its misery. A horrid lucking beast.
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Yo Squawkster – you got mail (from my bidness address)
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I took CPR classes 30 years ago
You need to take a refresher. They’ve changed a few things.
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