COLD DARK ROOM

Yvonne G

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That's interesting. I know where I live they gave been replacing poles. Some of them where leaning and old. The new ones that they put up are much heavier duity poles. Thicker and taller.
Most utility companies have an underground conversion program (changing aerial to underground), but it takes a lot of money, so it doesn't happen very fast.
 

Yvonne G

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Interesting job...you mean I should stop peeling off those metallic numbers neatly nailed into the telephone poles here? :)
Those are mainly just size identity. DF = douglas fir 35' = thirty five foot pole 1938 = the year they milled the pole (not necessarily the year it was placed in the ground) That's phone poles. The power companies actually put the pole's identity (number) on each pole.

So you're the culprit, huh? Good to know. I'll be keeping my eye on you.
 

CarolM

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G’day all. Like a broken record stuck in the same groove here in Maryland. Very cold....very dark.....very windy....and everything is all very frozen solid. Washington’s Potomac River is frozen, and tributaries to the great Chesapeake Bay..frozen too. Car batteries are dead, pipes are bursting, the only topic on the “news” is the weather. Hello Polar Vortex. Goodbye Global Warming?
Sounds dark and gloomy. [emoji26]
 

CarolM

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Hmm, I never tried to eat insects but it is said and I believe, that insects could feed a lot of starving people. Insects are mostly easy to breed and they are full ot protein. A cow needs 3 - 4 years getting to an adult and a lot of food and water in this time. Some maggots need only a few days to be full grown and need rarely food. It is an idea. Maybe in a few years we eat steaks made of maggots ???
Eatable insects can you buy but at present, but they are too expensive:
http://snackinsects.com/epages/a191...912e88-af41-44f3-a576-4706265b1d46/Products/S

and here is a book about cooking with insects:
http://snackinsects.com/epages/a191...912e88-af41-44f3-a576-4706265b1d46/Products/S
I think that would be an acquired taste.
 

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See you later
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Sounds dark and gloomy. [emoji26]

Sun is out...clear blue skies.....but still C O L D and windy. I did get out and put extra bird seed and suet for our feathered and bush tailed friends. Fresh drinking water toooooo. Even in sub freezing war, they all stop in for a drink of clean, fresh water.
 
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