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but but, but he wrote at least two books on flies; Figuring out Flies (1990), All about Flies (2001), and (maybe revisions or change of publisher or more books/) All About Flies: Everything the Fly Fisher Needs to Know (2003) and All About Flies: Everything the Fly Fisher Needs to Know (2004)

They have put torsion suspension on cars, trucks and army tank with success for about a hundred years, generally for a smoother ride as I recall the propaganda. I think Chrysler used it on the front ends of their cars from 1951 up into the '90s. I think most all horse trailers use torsion. Got no experience with boats, but I'd think unless one was obviously broken that you will like them.

We all guess at what any corporation owns and at who owns them, it's a global shell game, wanta bet that Trump doesn't own part of the fake news company that always fed him lines? not that fake news company the other one that supposedly was out to get him. or that sorus doesn't have a piece of them all?

yup keepin it in the family for 350 years is just plain lucky

The website says they are already gone- I hate to see another old family USA business gone. Especially because I liked their product.

Did you find that with google? are they affiliated? Are they all in conspiracy together?

Isn't googtle programmed to only return results comparable with their agenda?

Is there enough lithium in the world to produce 1.8 billion cars (that would be close to full conversion) over the next 10-20 years? What is the total cost in other energies to mine. extract and refine that amount of lithium? and how much carbon fuel is now being used to produce each EV. (include all raw materials, and all the lights in the factories etc) ? How does that energy cost compare with f.ex a bio fueled car? Could it be economical to extract Li from seawater in the conversion to fresh water? Have we found a way to harness the worlds tidal energy to electricity?

What this country needs is a really good perpetual motion machine that even powers itself on startup.

Energy loss making electricity, energy loss transporting electricity, energy loss charging the battery, energy loss as battery sits between uses, all good ways to save energy and then we can start over. That just leaves the environmental impact of battery building and disposal. When they find a way to solar power EVs directly or use the tides to generate electricity so we aren't using fuels to create an energy loss in the saving of energy, it will make EVs more attractive. as it is they just shift the carbon fuel use from oil to coal in an already overloaded grid. Nuclear generation is sure cleaner in the present tense, but, what will we do with the billions of backyard reactors when they quit? Landfills? Shelf in the basement? ahh, if we could use the wind of motion at 70mph to power generators on the EV itself to go even faster making even more wind speed and creating even more electricity ...

Kids have picked up bushels of those, and more are everywhere in the dry ditch.

are brachiopods the one ones that are fan shaped like the Shell Oil emblem?

How do you find what those kind of fossils are from? Lots of that sort of thing in my yard, we just call them all 'fossils'.

The last time this country was energy independent was probably when wind power was king. We got enough windbag politicians to power the world, we'd do even better if we could convert bs to joules.

Not being a boater, the reports I read confused me, one said that the boat was "drifting downstream" at the time of accident and another said it was "unclear who was the driver" at the time of accident. So, if they were drifting, would that not mean there was no one "driving"? and if drifting would the boat build up enough speed that impact would eject the people? Is that a bad time to fish there or they were just joy riding?

Money is worth less, so anything that did cost $1 now costs more. Remember when journeyman wages were ~$2/hr? What's that worth now?

I think when dollar value is counted Carter sold the highest priced gas and we could only get it three days a week. When the wife and I go out for a burger it makes the gas seem cheap. Had a mechanic change the spark plugs on the car recently and it was more than the car payment was when it was new. Fuel is not that high priced yet, but the money is almost valueless. It's a money problem not a fuel problem.

Lots of pictures on the web, use what ever measurements you want.

It drains well, but it's hard to hoe. But with all the broken stuff I have, in all the years on this place I've only seen one nodule, that the grandson found and soon broke open. This chert doesn't flake well,

Dirty Chert

Tie any Gnats with black hackle over the plain herl body? I tied some "Griffiths Gnats" = woolly worms = Palmers with orange floss bodies and dun hackle that caught too many trout one time, so I quit using that dun hackle.

Definitely neither Mozarkite nor chert nor flint, I guess it could be a limestone, some of those are hard, but, I don't recall it having any sparkle like the hard limestone here, or variation of grain like usual granite. Definitely shaped by grinding/rubbing, then polished and perhaps tempered. In the first pic on the right side you can see a "flat" running most of the length and as I recall 1/2-3/4" wide, a reflection marks the corner of it. In the 3rd pic the flat running along the top edge is pretty obvious. The tan area near the "cutting edge" surrounded by the "bloodstain" is the way the rock looks without the darker ''polish". Almost the texture of something cast or molded from clay. I may have to dig it out of storage and revisit the University ID thing, may be new and better answers there now, geology or archeology.

So before ~1800 then?

Could be but it looks more like sandstone to me. I haven't seen it for a while but as I recall has kinda a cast iron texture. Pretty heavy and larger than those that were for sale. Maybe the professor was wrong and it was only 100yo early settler tool. I never figured out the use of it, a lot of labor went into a rather blunt edge and it doesn't fit well in my hand nor have any indication of hafting. The rounded end shows (last image) shows lots of "hammer" use, tiny pitting. I've never seen the hematite, I can't tell much from the pictures of it.

Do you know what rock it is, where it came from? It looks as though it has been ground to shape, I had wondered once if it was soft when fashioned and then fire hardened, but I know nothing about stone working. The UA guy back in '65 said it's Celt, which I'd never heard of-we called it an axe and over 6000 years old, but I don't know how he determined that.