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Nashville, Middle America, United States
Married, Kids, Grandkids

Monday, December 16, 2013

Winter will be Winter: Genesis 8:22

Winter usually goes easy in Indiana.  Little snow, little melt.  But global warming has caused old man Winter to snow and stay this year.  We've had snow and ice for three weeks with more to come.

Janie headed to the barn to care for animals
 
 
 Front
 
 
 Snow slides off the metal roof very slowly and tends to hang on.
 
 
 Our Street Road Lane
 
 
 Frosty
 
Please don't get the impression that I believe in global warming.
Not the type caused by mankind anyway.  No amount of bike riding
will save this plant from anything.
 
Perhaps you remember when "Science" taught us about the Ice Age
and how it once covered all of Canada and came as far down is Southern Indiana?
That was to have taken place long before humans were around. (According to Science)
 
 
 
So question:  What caused the ice to recede if mankind was not there to cause it?
And these ice ages occurred several times.  Why is it just this time that the polar caps
are receding, it's "Mans" fault?
 
 
Read this, you open minded person you!
 
While NASA climate alarmist James Hansen insists record summer heat and drought are caused by man-made global warming, leaked internal emails from just three summers ago reveal that he and his colleagues expressed alarm that the planet was inexplicably cooling.
Hansen, often called the “godfather of global warming,” asserted earlier this month that blistering heat across the United States is so rare that it can’t be anything but the man-made global warming he has been warning about for decades.


“This is not some scientific theory,” he told the Associated Press. “We are now experiencing scientific fact.”
But in 2009, as the thermometer hit record lows in America, he and other climate scientists panicked in a flurry of emails: “Skeptics will be all over us – the world is really cooling, the models are no good.”
They lamented that Mother Nature was not cooperating with their predictions that global temperatures would smash heat records last decade. They blamed their miscalculation on sulfate emission trajectories and revised their forecast to show a cooling trend lasting until 2020.
Then, they predicted, global warming would return with a vengeance.
In an Oct. 12, 2009, email to Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, fellow warming alarmist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., asked, “Where the heck is global warming?”
“We have been asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record,” he added. “The Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday[sic] and then played last night in below freezing weather.”
Then Trenberth dropped a bombshell: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
He ended by admitting the global warming “data are surely wrong.”
“Our observing system is inadequate,” he wrote.
The leaked emails were obtained from the computer server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain. Some of the scientists there were copied in the emails between Trenberth and Hansen.
Critics say the hacked messages show that climatologists in the U.S. and U.K. have engaged in a conspiracy to manufacture a case that global warming is occurring due to auto and factory and other emissions related to human activities.
Critics say Hansen, who has called for a worldwide tax on carbon emissions and advocated a ban on the construction of coal-fired power plants, is an activist with a political agenda.
Ignoring the record-breaking 2009 cooling period, Hansen recently argued that the evidence for human-made global warming is “overwhelming.”
“We can say with high confidence that such extreme anomalies would not have occurred in the absence of global warming,” he said.
Left unexplained, however, is the 2009 cooling anomaly.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/busted-leaked-emails-snag-global-warming-alarmists/#HHa3LbmQdsEC5hsw.99
 
 
Answer:
Bad science grounded in big government money give-aways at taxpayer's expense.
Political hand outs for propping up a presidential campaign.
 
I got off subject a little didn't I?
 
Don't be a small minded person.  Listen, ... really listen to the junk you're being fed.
Turn off NPR, PBS and CNBC and look outside.  It's called a window and
Microsoft didn't make it.
 
 
Perhaps next time I run off topic I'll write a little about the "Carbon footprint" lie.
 
Anyway .......................
 
 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

T. C. Steele Paint-out 2013

My Janie painted this little girl last month.  Janie is my favorite artist.
This took place at the T. C. Steele Pain-out event at the museum.
We didn't know her, but she was cute with her weird little hat on.
Perhaps she's a budding artist. 
 
                                                               Water color on paper.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Digging around

I was digging around in my back yard and found a tricycle.
Awesome I thought, so I kept digging wondering what else I may find.


 
Then I came upon a bicycle!  How cool was that?
What else could there be?

 
My next find was this motorcycle and a pattern began to present itself.
 
 
Over a little to the left I found this car and it was in fair shape too.
 
 
Not long after that, I uncovered this old truck!
 

 
and the  last thing I found today was this outstanding example of a semi.
 
 
When you line them all up like this, the evidence is clear: 
 
Semi trucks evolved from tricycles!
 
Any free thinker can see it. 
They all have wheels,
they're all made of the same materials,
they're all facing the same way.
What could be more clear?
 
Science proves it too.  Here's another example.
 
 
 
Didn't the artist who drew all this do a wonderful job of making this
all look so good?  He picked very nice colors, some with strips some without,
and they're all facing the same way!
 
Isn't science great?
 


I couldn't look away!

A couple of times in the last month, I have been detoured on my way in to work.
I travel a dark winding and lonely road, the only way, and with few options for turn offs.
Last moth is was a house fire, and as I was finding my way to work I could smell see and smell the smoke a couple of miles away.
 
Yesterday morning I came upon another cop sideways in the road.  Yesterday was moonless and out there where we live, a moonless night is a pitch black night.  It was clear that I had to detour again and I figured it may be another house on fire. 
 
The place where I was stopped didn't have an option that was known to me so I had to consult the map on my phone.  I'm so glad I had a map because my truck was on empty, and fooling around trying to find a way into Bloomington may have caused my to run out of gas.
 
Long story short, it was a train derailment.  Indiana 45 follows right along side of RxR tracks either to one side or the other the whole way to work.  the derailment happened to be at a spot right next to the road.
 
 
 
I stopped in the afternoon for pictures but of course, didn't get right up in the middle of it.
So, this angle was all I could get.

 
I'd never seen a train wreck before this.
(A train wreck in the literal since)

 
These guys were fiddling with heavy equipment, flipping cars that had coal in them.

 
Tore it up pretty good.

 
I thought just briefly, perhaps I could use my son-in-laws name as leverage to gain a little access, since he now works for the RxR in Washington, but I thought better of it and refrained.



Not much of a story really,  Just a train wreck.
 
 
I'm glad no one was hurt, and no personal property was lost.

 
Ok, what next?



Sunday, August 18, 2013

Mill Lake 2013

So, each year we are blessed to be given a week at the family cottage on Lake Mill in Michigan.
It's now owned by Jane's cousin Scott and they have been very good to us.  The Lake is just North of Paw Paw.
 
 
 
 
This was the first time we brought our own boat to the lake.  I've written about it before.
We arrived on Sunday afternoon, it rained Monday!
 
 
Tuesday faired much better weather-wise, but some what cool.
 
 
 
SD did a bit of skiing Tuesday morning, he and DR tubed around the lake a little.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Then the motor crapped out on us and would NOT be fixed!
 
 
So it sat there floating about, mocking me.
 
 
 
I had planned to do it anyway, so I left the boat to laze about while
 
 
 
 I painted the trailer a color that more closely matched the boat.


 
Wednesday was nicer and Janie sat outside to paint a little picture.
 
 
 
This is her work.
 
 
This was her subject.  I like it, she's good at it.
 
 
Thursday we visited Meijers Gardens in Grand Rapids.

 
All type of plant life and an outside sculpture garden as well.

 
I don't get modern art, but .............
 
 
I did like this work in red by East Jordan Foundry.

 
This is a large horse.
 
 
 
A very large horse
 
 
This is what our cats see.

 
There was this kids play area showing the five great lakes around Michigan.
You put little boats in it and they all float down to Niagara Falls.


 
and this kids play area about bugs and such 


 
 
This guy on Lake Mill flies his plane in and out for the weekend.
 
 
 
Sunset on Friday.  Going home to fix the  boat motor.