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I don't know if you'd find this interesting, but I've enjoyed it in the past: http://www.lhf.org/ Living History Farms They've got several farms setup for different time periods, like homesteaders, mid-19th century, early-20th century.

Good for you and them! Hope everyone's healthy. I didn't picture you as a grandpa. This opens up a whole new avenue of sh*t-flippin'

Hold on there, tjulianc. Don't go getting all logical on us. If the folks watching in on TV are pretty sure somebody's guilty, we ought to skip the trial, sentencing and appeals and herd folks into the nearest gas chamber. Maybe get Nancy Grace's read on it first, just to be sure we don't execute too many folks in error.

No, I don't think there were brookies in NE. Their range covered upper midwest, east and along the Appalachian spine. They were down as far as IA, and included WI, MN, MI, etc. All the way down into GA. Closest thing to NE would be cutts, which ranged east of the divide. But, I don't recall hearing THAT far east.

Them brown trout down in AR have figured out how to do it.

No trout are native to MO or AR. Brown trout are native to Europe. Rainbows are native to the western US. Brook trout are native to Eastern/Upper Midwest of US. Cutthroats are native to Western US. All trout around here were introduced. But, there are self-sustaining populations of rainbows and browns in spring creeks and tailwaters around here.

Why the hell would you do that to some perfectly good Bushmill's?

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/21/3716400/floating-through-the-past.html Nice article, Kyle. Hope you get a ton of business -- you've got a cool idea there.

It just feels like the right time to trot out this little gem again:

An oldie, but goodie right there

Flat may mean standing water. No better time to fix that than when it's bare dirt.

Sorry, I lost my head.

YOU'RE WRONG A-HOLE.

If I was going deluxe, I'd bring in some good soil. The stuff around here is horrible, and it's made worse when they dig a big hole for the basement, then spread that subsoil over the top. Then I'd make dang sure it was graded correctly to move the water away -- a lesson learned the hard (expensive) way for me on that one. Finally, I'd sod it with a fine-bladed fescue (and, K31 is not fine-bladed, it's clumpy, pasture grass). They'll handle traffic, heat and drought better than a blue grass lawn will. The stuff I overseed with is called Overtime, and I get it from http://grasspad.com/. Sniff around their website -- they've got some good info, even though they're local KC only.

I've been trying to stay out of this, but figure what the hay... Here's the way I understand it. Global surface temperatures have increased about 0.74°C (plus or minus 0.18°C) since the late-19th century, and the linear trend for the past 50 years of 0.13°C (plus or minus 0.03°C) per decade is nearly twice that for the past 100 years. The warming has not been globally uniform. Some areas (including parts of the southeastern U.S. and parts of the North Atlantic) have, in fact, cooled slightly over the last century. The recent warmth has been greatest over North America and Eurasia between 40 and 70°N. Lastly, seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001 and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1995. Recent analyses of temperature trends in the lower and mid- troposphere (between about 2,500 and 26,000 ft.) using both satellite and radiosonde (weather balloon) data show warming rates that are similar to those observed for surface air temperatures. These warming rates are consistent with their uncertainties and these analyses reconcile a discrepancy between warming rates noted on the IPCC Third Assessment Report (U.S. Climate Change Science Plan Synthesis and Assessment Report 1.1). An enhanced greenhouse effect is expected to cause cooling in higher parts of the atmosphere because the increased "blanketing" effect in the lower atmosphere holds in more heat, allowing less to reach the upper atmosphere. Cooling of the lower stratosphere (about 49,000-79,500 ft.) since 1979 is shown by both satellite Microwave Sounding Unit and radiosonde data (see previous figure), but is larger in the radiosonde data likely due to uncorrected errors in the radiosonde data. Relatively cool surface and tropospheric temperatures, and a relatively warmer lower stratosphere, were observed in 1992 and 1993, following the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. The warming reappeared in 1994. A dramatic global warming, at least partly associated with the record El Niño, took place in 1998. This warming episode is reflected from the surface to the top of the troposphere. There has been a general, but not global, tendency toward reduced diurnal temperature range (DTR: the difference between daily high or maximum and daily low or minimum temperatures) over about 70% of the global land mass since the middle of the 20th century. However, for the period 1979-2005 the DTR shows no trend since the trend in both maximum and minimum temperatures for the same period are virtually identical; both showing a strong warming signal. A variety of factors likely contribute to this change in DTR, particularly on a regional and local basis, including changes in cloud cover, atmospheric water vapor, land use and urban effects. Indirect indicators of warming such as borehole temperatures, snow cover, and glacier recession data agree substantially with the more direct indicators of recent warmth. Evidence such as changes in glacial mass balance (the amount of snow and ice contained in a glacier) is useful since it not only provides qualitative support for existing meteorological data, but glaciers often exist in places too remote to support meteorological stations. The records of glacial advance and retreat often extend back further than weather station records, and glaciers are usually at much higher altitudes than weather stations, allowing scientists more insight into temperature changes higher in the atmosphere. Large-scale measurements of sea-ice have only been possible since the satellite era, but through looking at a number of different satellite estimates, it has been determined that September Arctic sea ice has decreased between 1973 and 2007 at a rate of about -10% +/- 0.3% per decade. Sea ice extent for September for 2007 was by far the lowest on record at 4.28 million square kilometers, eclipsing the previous record low sea ice extent by 23%. Sea ice in the Antarctic has shown very little trend over the same period, or even a slight increase since 1979. Though extending the Antarctic sea-ice record back in time is more difficult due to the lack of direct observations in this part of the world. OK, I didn't write that. It's from http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/FAQs.html#faq11 . There's a lot of good info there, and if you think it's propaganda, you're probably a lost cause. Where these and many other conversations go off the rails is when you stake out one extreme or the other and start name calling.

So, it's a push?

Drought this year -- turns out to be pretty bad. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57473163/u.s-drought-grows-to-cover-widest-area-since-1956/

Yep. But wait, there's more http://www.kctv5.com/story/19025894/police-3-year-old-shot-father

That's pretty cool, JD. I hope you'll keep posting about your progress on this. They're a pretty fascinating creature.

Alright MTB -- please take the post in the way it was written -- as a joke. Just pokin' ya.

Yeah, well Wayner said it better and didn't have paragraph after paragraph of other people's posts smack dab in the middle of it.

Pretty wild video. I really never gave it a lot of thought when I heard about this stuff out in California. I just figgered it was folks who built up in the mountains and knew the risk. Not so in Colorado Springs (and, probably not in CA either in reality). These were neighborhoods pretty much like the ones a lot of us live in -- backing up to undeveloped areas. Amazing how random some of the destruction was. In the aerial photos, you'd see several houses burne3d to the ground completely surrounded by homes that somehow got missed. My cousins ended up ok on this, but it was pretty touch-and-go for them for several days. Fire was within sight of the house and their business for the ones on the east side. Other cousin's cabin over near Cascade was fine too. They kept it contained on the other side of 24 from her.

That's 10!

Yeah, wasn't calling you out on the new law thing. Like you said -- get the complaint to the right people and things will happen.