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November 7, 2009 - Saturday 
Texan Wind Power Will the future of clean tech come from the U.S. or abroad?Leaflet/Wiki Commons
Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S.
The Shenyang Power Group has signed on to supply 240 of its massive 2.5-megawatt wind turbines to a 36,000-acre development in West Texas. The Wall Street Journal reports that the wind farm is also slated to receive $1.5 billion in financing from the Export-Import Bank of China.

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This comes as the U.S. has increasingly out-sourced much of its wind turbine development. Less than a quarter of wind turbine components installed in the U.S. came from domestic production, and Europe currently holds the lion's share of turbine manufacturing. A Norwegian firm launched the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine this September.
As a reflection of this, just 15 percent of the 2,800 new jobs from the new wind-turbine development will take the form of U.S. jobs. The U.S. government has tried to help the nation's renewable energy industry with $500 million in grants -- but it will likely take a while for U.S. wind power manufacturers to play catch-up after struggling with an uneven market.
Still, this doesn't mean U.S. companies and entrepreneurs have been complete laggards. General Electric has invested in gearless wind turbines with an eye on tapping the European market, and one of PopSci's previous Inventions Awards went to the inventor of small wind power rotors.

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Lehman's caters to homes with no electrical power.   Country or city where you want to cut back on power usage.  Lehmans.com

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Posted October 29th, 2009 by Karen Geiser
If you are a gardener and a cook, homegrown garDSCF3169lic is a must-do on your fall garden list. Nothing beats the taste of lovingly grown garlic and being a crop that grows well in many regions, there is no need to purchase imported garlic in the store (check labels!). Growing your own also opens up a whole new world of variety possibilities.
Pictured is the basket of labeled garlic I use for my Thursday demos at Lehman’s store and it’s interesting to hear folks who thought that “garlic was garlic” be amazed at the options. I am planting fifteen garlic varieties this fall, and one year a friend of ours (who is also a Lehman’s employee) planted fifty different kinds! Some are sturdy hard neck varieties like German Extra Hardy, the soft necks like Lorz Italian are great for braiding,  others like Georgian Fire have a more pungent flavor, while some are great for roasting like Chesnok Red. Our family favorite is Music, which is a Porcelain hard neck variety with large cloves and an excellent medium garlic flavor.
Fall is garlic planting time in Ohio along with many other regions in the US (except for the extreme south where they can do an early spring planDSCF3210ting). Some say you just need to remember two holidays to grow garlic; Columbus Day and the Fourth of July. The cloves can be planted anytime after Columbus Day till the ground freezes and July is generally harvest time.
The garlic used for planting is the same as the garlic you eat, you just want to be sure to have disease-free bulbs and select the biggest ones since large cloves will produce large bulbs. The little bulbil seeds produced at the tops of the plants can be planted too but will take two years to produce a regular bulb.
You can source your garlic from a seed catalog or simply head to the farmer’s market to pick up a variety that you know grows well in your area. Garlic likes loose, well drained soil that is rich in nutrients. We prepare beds, add compost and make four deep rows in each bed. Divide the cloves from the bulb and plant about 6 inches apart with the root side going down and pointy part up. We cover them with 2-3 inches of soil and add a thick layer of shredded leaves or straw to mulch the beds. The mulch  helps insulate the beds over the winter plus gives weed control in spring.
The garlic will send up a few onion-like shoots in the fall, then die back and take off growing again in spring. Come June you will see the curly flower heads appear  – these can be snapped off so more energy is sent to bulb production. These garlic scapes are delicious in stir-fry or chopped like onion scallions, plus I use them as a quirky addition to flower bouquets. When about a third of the garlic leaves have turned brown in July, it is time to start pulling the bulbs out of the ground. I lay them in the sun to dry for a few days and then bundle the entire plants in groups of 8 or 10 to hang from the ceiling of an airy shed. When fully dry, the most beautiful bulbs get saved for the fall planting, and I’ll clean the rest and store them in mes
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Garlic goes in just about everything we cook;  we especially love the richness it gives soups and broths this time of year. We also make use of garlic’s antibiotic properties by mincing cloves to eat raw to help knock out sore throats, colds and other winter nasties. Garlic has a host of other wonderful health giving qualities, so as you enjoy the robust flavor you are taking your “medicine “at the same time. So consider adding garlic planting to your fall garden list -  even if it’s just a few cloves in your flowerbed. Meanwhile, I’ll be heading out to plant my nearly 4000 cloves. (I forgot to warn you that garlic growing can be addictive….)

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September 23, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
About 20 years ago while driving to work at eleven at night.  I was listening to a Preacher.  He was talking about the "one world order."  He was saying no matter who you vote for or who you think is going in the direction of leading this country that they are all headed for the same thing.  A one world order.  

So be you Liberal or Conservative.  Its all headed in the same direction.

No matter what you hear in the political arena.  The outcome is all going to be the same.  All of it is run not by the president or the leaders that are visible in this world.  It is all run by "king makers"  who are behind the scenes.  They pull the strings of those in the office of leader.  They make the leaders of the countries dance to their tunes. 

So was the preacher right.  Are we all headed in the same direction no matter what?

I do enjoy posting what makes you think about what is happening. 

Reality is that we have no control over what is going to happen or what is going on.

What has affected our nation is NAFTA.  Sent all out jobs over seas.  Where was the AFL-CIO when that happened.  The unions who were suppose to guard our jobs. 

Now the dairy farmers are having problems.  Dry milk shipped from China and reconstituted as milk has cut the dairy farmers earnings in half and many are going out of business. 

Unless you have a farm and a milk cow you will be drinking imported reconstituted milk.

I remember the 1950's the test done where rats were  fed dry reconstituted milk and those fed real milks.  Let me tell you the rats fed reconstituted milk look really malnourished. 

Me.  I am for getting my own milk cow. 

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September 13, 2009 - Sunday 

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Genealogy is a bad addiction  
Like a drug.
It is always somewhere
in the recesses of my mind.
I can not shake it.
It is one of my past times.


I found a web site called findagrave. 

There I found the cemetery where my husbands family is buried at.  Its an old pioneer cemetery that sets on someones private land and hard to find. Directions are  up on a hill and around the corner past a hoop and a holler.  

I joined "find a grave" and started correcting and adding graves that have no tombstones.  The lady working that site transferred those graves over to my holding.  What a surprise.  I will do the best I can to put in the information I have. 

  I was married a year before I met my husbands family.  Sometimes I think I could have been fine not meeting them.  The tales I could tell.  My children suggest I write a book.  I guess I could call it "off takes."  I have worked on my husbands genealogy as well as mine.  All interesting people. 

If you have photos of grave stones or if  you like to take photos. Do check this web site out.  Those photos help a lot of researchers.  Some the people who do genealogy are shut ins.  Not able to get out of bed or leave the house.  It gives them something to do.  If you know some of the out of the way cemeteries.  Those are where our missing ancestors are buried. 

I have added to it my grandfathers grave.  It now sets in the middle of the National Forest.  At one time it was his ranch.  His son who was murdered is buried next to him with no stone on the grave.  The son, my uncle, left a widow and 6 very young children.  She sold the land and took the money and bought a boarding house for University students in Tucson, Arizona.  There  years later she married a engineering student who was 17 years younger than she. They were married until they died.  They died in old age not to many years from each other. 

Some of my husbands brothers do not have grave stones.  I made sure their information went to the appropriate cemetery.  Some day we may get together and put a stone on their grave that they may not be forgotten. 

If you have relatives buried in the USA.  Look to see if their stones are on there.  Maybe  you can contribute.

What I find is that when some people replace stones they remove the old stone.  Much the pity of it.  Many of the old stones are very ornate.  Enjoy the stones and I hope  you find the stone of some ancestor on the web site. 






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Brush up on your high school spanish and see how well you remember what you learned.
I know a little about Mexican history. Here is a story in Spanish that is not often told in English. Los ninos Heroes. The Hero Children. General Zacharia Taylor tried to over take a military school in Chapulltapec, Mexico where he met resistance. He did not know he was fighting against the cadets themselves. They did have a small force of soldiers that Taylor soon got the best of. It was up to the children to defend their school Six cadets lost their lives in doing so.

Santa Anna was suppose to have guarded the school but withdrew his men the day before the battle. The children had been told to go home to their parents. Many of them stayed.

When the battle was won General Taylor was surprised to find children defending the School. The school was like a small fortification on the hill. It was the last defense against Taylor getting to Mexico City. Taylor did make it all theway to Mexico city and the USA held the country for 9 months before withdrawing. Sept 13 the Mexican nation celebrates " the day of the children heroes."











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September 11, 2009 - Friday 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
It is an empty nest. 
Not total of my choosing.
I have gone through those phases of life
It is the place in life where I am at now

For I have been a child.
A young adult.
A parent
A working parent
A grandmother
A working grandmother. 
Now a mother of middle age children
They have their own burdens to carry

Even I, took life one step at a time
Some times stumbling, Falling
Making dumb mistakes
Getting up again to go on further

Because of  happenings of life
I live away from my children
One son  has followed
Two children have told me they will follow later
The other three
Very entrenched in the area where they live

Life is strange
Getting old is the pits

Every night I hate to go to sleep
At night I fight the pain
to wake up tired
from a sleepless night
To fight the pain during the day
Life goes on for me
It is my fate to feel the pain

First in the morning
are my prayers to God
He has helped me through another night
Then my plan of the day
Thinking what do I want to do today
What can I accomplish
 
My projects are

A genealogy book in the writing
For in this book of the past
I write of the unsung heroes
who were my ancestors
and those who were my kin
Who fought to accomplish
what they could in their lifetime

Tomorrow I scan
old documents
I touch them carefully
as like every thing that grows old
They crumble at the slightest unkind touch
In essence I am preserving their memory
For the generations to come
so that they may not forget.

Then there is my quilt to work on
A part of me that I will give to another
that I may be remembered by

Then again I may work 
The sheep fleece
to be washed, dried in frames and combed
To be dyed from common plant dyes
To make into blanket of many colors

I am going to design a Navajo loom
It will take up less room
in this over crowded house

On my list of things to do in the future
Is to go to the small quilting shop
To help her set up a website
so that she may succeed

A friend gave me a business card
of another home  business
Asking me what I can do for them

I am under no obligation

I think to myself
if my arm would stop hurting
if I had full use of my hand
If I did not have muscular pain and cramps
If I could sleep a full night through
I might accomplish much more today.
Then life is spelled with an "if" in the middle
One day I will only accomplish a little
Then I do accomplish
what God wants me too


Like the wind on the rock
Each day
The wind accomplishes only a little
Yet, with time
it wears away the rock

So let me get myself together
Take a shower,
throw something in the crock pot for dinner
Go face the world

Accomplish only one thing to completion
I will then feel like the day was worth
getting up for

Of my children, grandchildren
and great grand child
I love them all so very much
They area a little part of me
and a little part of Art

They are in my every thought
Life is just that
I have to give them
room to grow on their own

I do not always agree
 with what they do
Nor do they agree
with what I do
It is each ones life to live
to try their best
to raise and help the next generation

To love their children all they can
To fill each day with happiness
To enjoy each day to the fullest



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September 5, 2009 - Saturday 

Category: Life
If you are going to answer these its best to do while you are healthy.  If you were faced with making a decision when you are ill.   The decision becomes bias.
This booklet is on this web site.
http://www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf

I had to help make the life or death decision for my brother.  He was on life support. It was the advice I gave to my niece. Why they called me from the hospital? I do not know.  It was not my decision to make.  I called his oldest daughter.

Reasons behind my advice is that between the time his heart stopped and they started life support had been too long. They got his heart started but he had no brainwaves.  They waited for his children to get there and they made the final decision.  He was disconnected from life support.

This is from the booklet "health choices" an interesting booklet. 

There are four answers:
1. Difficult but acceptable
2. Worth living, but just barely
3. NOT worth Living
4. Can't answer now


I can no longer walk but get around in t wheel chair?
I can no longer get outside--I spend all day at home?
I can no longer contribute to my familys well being?
I am in severe pain most of the time?
I have severe discomfort most of the time (shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhea)?
I rely on a kidney dialysis machine to keep me alive?
I rely on a breathing machine to keep me alive?
I need someone to help take care of me all the time?
I can not longer control my bladder?
I can no longer control my bowels?
I live in a nursing home?
I can no longer think clearly-I am confused all the time?
I can not longer talk and be understood by others?
My situations cases severe emotional burden for my family (worry or stress)?
I am a severe financial burden on my family?
I can not seem to "shake the blues."?

My own mom was totally paralyzed for a year.  I do not care what stress or financial burden people thought she was.  She was cared for at home by the family.

So its different for everyone.
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