am not much of a bible reader, but i am told-- somebody predicts lust to be the destruction of the world..- i could be wrong... as i said.. i wasn't the one who read that first hand.... but--- i look at all the people packed into skyscrapers or tents-- and wonder why no one has explained to these people that they no longer need to have 12 children to help til the fields and milk cows as their parents age.
**that is not one of those problems that should take up my time-- far better i try and figure out what sort of internship program to have for these kids.. they need to learn useful things... most notabley how to stop water from pouring out of a copper pipe all over the fllooor in the feed room... as happened the other day...
it was a management problem.... i had not cemented myself with a local plumber who would give us 24 hour coverage in a disaster...-- therefore 8 of us sat around helpless--- with the water shut off to the entire property all because of a 1/2 inch slice in a pipe that we did not know how to fix...
disgraceful !!-- so that is one thing on my list for summer education... get david down here and give lessons on pipe gluing (aka soldering) i have a blowtorch.. right here on my desk-- left over from cooking lamb- bergers to try for a gyro- i would have done better to learn to mend pipe...... i know we have a bin of copper pieces left over from alot of things.. good practice...
***splicing-- is another not useless endeavour ( enjoy the double negative) splicing was something that helped start SDP..... i was standing in a fancy barn in hamilton and teh cross ties were a shambles of knots and striings-- so as i was standing around doing nothing . i just spliced the ends.... which was so impressive that a person there who had a family charity fund.. gave me $7500 by way of encouragement...--
i have a long list... that is not a list of "why should tey learn that?????" but more "why should they not learn to xxxxxx" i could even order a truck full of 40 tons of 8"rocks and see if they could build a stone wall in our "loading area" before the landscape timbers give out....
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this morning another "inspection " crew is due here from cummings -- they have said they want to see normal activity-- so i have made no special plans except to maybe clean my desk and wash the golf cart.. there is not alot we can change... prego is still prego and basil is recovering in the kitchen from surgery...
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FOR LACK OF A BETTER TOPIC..... i found this interesting from a CP.....
The real random numbers are with flood irrigating. We order so many cubic feet of water for so much time for so many acres. Example: 15 cu. ft. for an hour to cover 5 acres. Then some guy goes to the control gate that he opens only so far to let in the water which rushes down the ditch to open portals to our field. You order it a week before and they give you an hour notice...day or middle of the night...to accept delivery. It takes 7-10 min. for the water to reach my portals. Then you have to guess if there's too much water coming because there may be run off if you're the last one or a field change to your neighbor. We each order independently. If there's too much water (you might have to guess 40 minutes into your hour), you have to send it somewhere or pay the damages for flooding driveways, homes or broken (washed out) ditch banks. All because some guy looks for a pencil mark on a post to see how high he should set the main gate. Very random!
and we in new england thought snow was confusing.....
