Comments on: The Spirituality of Solar Panels

By: Emeq

Emeq — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:03:32 +0000

I was lucky enough to grow up north across the border in Trinidad, CO. Believe me the first things I learned about were rattlers and scorpions. Don’t go near any shady areas in the heat of the day and always, always shake your boots out before putting them on. A rattler is anything but slothful. The only time they can be considered slow is when they are cold. And, the garden hoe works very well. We used to fashion snake sticks with a loop on the end and catch them by the sackful. We got a dollar a foot from the reptile research facility. They milked them for their venom.

By: OrgoCowboy

OrgoCowboy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:08:28 +0000

Oh, you’ve got to check out the earlier postings about this stuff — the R.O.A.T. is the Ridiculously Oversized American Truck I’ve bought to replace my old reliable Subaru with a 4WD diesel. As for what I drive on, it’s straight waste vegetable oil, gathered from restaurants and filtered for goop and water.

By: RianLe

RianLe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:55:43 +0000

So what is a ROAT engine? Also what type of process do you use to manufacture the fuel you are burning in your diesel?

By: OrgoCowboy

OrgoCowboy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:36:11 +0000

You’re like Ghostbusters — Snakebusters. I dunno, man, so many people in the Southwest are cavalier about catching members of the most deadly reptile species in North America. I mean, even if there’s a fairly reliable method to catch ‘em, shouldn’t one be -careful-?

By: wes boyett

wes boyett — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:15:14 +0000

Dude! get a snake stick and catch em! I eat several rattlers each year and they make a great meal. I’ll tell ya what, you catch one, stuff him in a barrel or something and I’ll come down the next weekend and show ya how.

By: christy

christy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:34:38 +0000

Need to study, but this is more fun distraction..

If you didn’t know (no reason to know, I guess) the guy who owns the Crandall Canyon mine (disaster one) was also known as a bit of a bad guy safety/environment-wise in KY. Reminded me, in attitude, of an old baron of industry playing fast and loose with people, the land.

It’s not the yoga way to get personal though. I’m sure he has some inspirational Horatio Alger story, or something….

By: christy

christy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:26:05 +0000

Seems like country folk everywhere are pretty fatalist, or matter-of-fact about lots of things.

(Off the subject, I almost fell over dead when my Dad(dy), raised in rural KY said he thought it was great that Ky was now a big pot producing state! And he’d have loved to have gotten in on the ground floor….lol)

They are finally fighting some of the mining in Eastern KY despite the economic despair, et al.

Little different slant than the farmers around you becoming self-sufficient and finding something positive. Maybe it has a more war-like feel in KY, with the dynamite.

Of course, the global changes are worse…..just slow.

By: OrgoCowboy

OrgoCowboy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:42:57 +0000

The problem as I saw it was a Wiki one: one “How to deal with rattlesnakes” Web site told me “these slothful creatures move slowly — don’t worry about a thing.” A second said, “Beware: rattlesnakes are incredibly fast.” I thus don’t understand this “old ladies dueling rattlers with hoes” line of thinking. At least until I personally get a better sense of their habits, preferably via documentary footage.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:00:40 +0000

My great-aunt Dale was a regular weed-whacker with Rattlers in West Texas. She preferred to use her hoe as it was always nearby when she encountered one in the garden…