When Installing a gate remeber this: Gates open into the field so that animals can not push against and open them. And if you come a callin’ don’t forget to close it. Thanks.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
How Long Does It Take To Work Up One Acre Of Land?
One acre of land takes one person 3 weeks to turn over. A horse and plow – one day. A tractor – 4 hours. Food For Thought.
How To Save Hydro
Tip on how to save some money and the rewards are to many to name. Give up on your clothes dryer if you want to cut down your hydro bill by about 20%. Hang clothes outside, or dry on a wood hanger inside in the winter.
Every Country Home Should Have A Couple
Rocking chairs are a must as they are the ultimate country comfort chair. You will need at least two, one for you, and the other for your spouse or company.
Spring Garden Tip
Plan for a little herb garden by the kitchen door. Once you start cooking with fresh basil, thyme, rosemary, chives, you will sure be glad you did. My wife uses ours all summer long.
Smart Meter Price List Hmmm
And some folks think it will be cheaper. Not Really!!
Weekdays
7 am to 11 am 8.8¢/kWh
11 am to 5 pm 7.2¢/kWh
5 pm to 8 pm 8.8¢/kWh
8 pm to 10 pm 7.2¢/kWh
10 pm to 7 am 4.0¢/kWh
Weekends 4.0¢/kWh
Homeowners with smart meters (i.e. meters that track how much electricity is used and when) will pay different rates throughout the day. The rates are set and regularly adjusted by the OEB to reflect pricing trends in the wholesale electricity market – when demand is higher, prices tend to be higher and vice-versa.
Weather Forecast For Port Loring Ontario
Forecast
Issued: 11.30 AM EST Wednesday 21 January 2009
Today:
Periods of snow ending early this afternoon then cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Risk of freezing drizzle near noon. High minus 8.
Tonight:
Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Periods of light snow beginning overnight. Wind becoming west 20 km/h near midnight. Low minus 10.
Thursday:
Periods of light snow ending in the morning then cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Becoming cloudy periods late in the day. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light in the morning. High minus 5.
Friday:
Snow. Low minus 17. High minus 7.
Saturday:
Sunny. Low minus 26. High minus 21.
Sunday:
Sunny. Low minus 28. High minus 19.
Honey Bees
Air pollution is making it harder for bees and other pollinating insects to find food, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia.
Pollutants such as ozone (smog) and nitrate radicals, formed mostly as a consequence of car exhaust, are binding with the volatile scent molecules given off by flowers, the scientists found. This chemically alters the molecules so that they no longer carry a sweet scent, and do not attract pollinating insects to plants.
I would say it probably has something to do with it but pesticides and things like that in my mind would be the worse culprit. And remember this: Honeybees are the primary pollinators for 80 percent of the world’s food crops. Bottom line is this. If the Bees Parish so do we.
Put A Smile On My Face
A minister was completing a temperance sermon.
With great emphasis he said,
‘If I had all the beer in
The world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.’
With even greater emphasis he said,
‘And if I had
All the wine in the world, I’d take it and
Pour it into the river.’
And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he Said,
‘And if I had all the whiskey in the world,
I’d take it and pour it into the river.’
Sermon complete, he sat down.
The hymn-leader stood very cautiously and announced
With a smile, nearly laughing,
‘For our closing hymn, let us sing
Hymn No.365,
‘Shall We Gather at the River.’
Smile, life is too short not to !!
New Solar Dish
Kind of think this is the way to go.
A successful test has been carried out of a new prototype solar dish that concentrates solar rays by 1,000 times, creating what inventor Doug Wood has called “the most efficient solar collector in existence.”
The device is a 12-foot-wide dish made from thin, mirrored aluminum tubing and strips of mirrored glass. Water runs through the center of the dish in a coil of tubing, which is painted black for maximum heat absorption.
The collector is so effective at focusing light that when it is pointed directly at the sun, the water in the middle instantly vaporizes into steam. The prototype has also been used to set a plank of wood on fire, and researchers believe that it should be able to generate enough heat to melt steel.
Wood has signed over the rights to the device’s design to a team of MIT students, who built the prototype and have launched a company to mass produce the devices. The company, Raw Solar, hopes to use heat generated by the collector to produce steam for electricity generation, industrial processing, or heating or cooling buildings.
Wood spoke approvingly of the changes that the students had made to his design
“They really have simplified this and made it user-friendly, so anybody can build it,” he said.
Unlike with many alternative energy sources, large-scale production is not required to make the solar dishes cost-efficient, Wood said. Because the materials to make the device are so cheap and because larger dishes require a larger, more expensive support structure, small dishes actually costs only one-third as much as large ones for every unit of collecting area.
“I’ve looked for years at a variety of solar approaches, and this is the cheapest I’ve seen,” said David Pelly of MIT. “And the key thing in scaling it globally is that all of the materials are inexpensive and accessible anywhere in the world.”
Cleaning Your Coffe Machine
We don’t have a newer model we perk ours on the burner on the stove. Just like it better for some reason. Old School I guess.
Your coffee machine begs for a rinse . . .
Pour a quart of white vinegar into the water chamber, put in a filter, and run the machine through its brewing cycle. Put the vinegar in again, but this time let it sit for half an hour. Run through the brewing cycle again. Then run a pot of fresh water through the entire cycle. Repeat with a second pot of fresh water.Should be like brand new after that. Talk Soon
Clothesline Tips for Summer
Clothesline Tips for Summer
Hanging clothes on the line: THE AVERAGE LOAD of wash uses about 35 feet of line; your clothesline should accommodate at least that. Unless the height of a pulley-style line is significant, the clothesline shouldn’t be a lot longer than that, as the sag factor increases with length.
A load of wet wash weighs about 15 to 18 pounds (assuming it is spin-dried). It will shed about a third of that weight as it dries. This may not seem like much weight, but it won’t take long for your new clothesline to get stretched out a bit. By leaving a little “tail” when you tie your knot for either style of clothesline, you’ll be able to undo it, pull the line tight, and retie it as often as you need to.
There are three common clothesline types to choose from:
Basic plastic clothesline has the advantage of being waterproof and cleanable (you can wipe off the inevitable mildew). With wire and fiber reinforcement, it is stretch-resistant — and it’s cheap. You can find a 100-foot roll for less than $4. However, it is thin, which means that it will be harder for you to grip, and the clothespin is not going to hold as tightly as on a thicker line.
Multi filament polypropylene (nylon) is tempting because it is lightweight, water- and mildew-resistant, and strong (our sample was 640-pound test). However, its slippery texture deters a firm clothespin grip, and it doesn’t tie well.
My choice is basic cotton clothesline. It’s about the same price as nylon, which is about $7 to $8 per 100 feet. In theory, it is weaker (only 280-pound test in our sample), but unless you’re hanging out pots and pans to dry, it should hold up fine.
Best Times For Fishing
Best Times for Fishing
* One hour before and one hour after high tides, and one hour before and one hour after low tides. Inland, the times for high tides correspond with the times when the Moon is due south. Low tides are halfway between high tides.
* During the “morning rise” (after sunup for a spell) and the “evening rise” (just before sundown and the hour or so after).
* When the barometer is steady or on the rise. (But even during stormy periods, the fish aren’t going to give up feeding. The smart fisherman will find just the right bait.)
* When there is a hatch of flies — caddis flies or mayflies, commonly. (The fisherman will have to match his fly with the hatching flies or go fishless.)
* When the breeze is from a westerly quarter rather than from the north or east.
* When the water is still or rippled, rather than during a wind.
The Best Fishing Days for 2009
The Best Fishing Days for 2009, when the Moon is between new and full:
* January 1-10
* January 26-February 9
* February 24-March 10
* March 26-April 9
* April 24-May 9
* May 24-June 7
* June 22-July 7
* July 21-August 5
* August 20-September 4
* September 18-October 4
* October 18-November 2
* November 16-December 2
* December 16-31
Alzheimer’s & Coffee
Something to think about. Hope they are right.
Drinking coffee in moderate amounts during middle age may reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly, according to a new study.
Researchers in Finland and Sweden examined the records of 1,409 people whose coffee drinking habits had been recorded when they were at midlife.
Those who drank three to five cups of coffee per day in midlife were much less likely to have developed dementia or Alzheimer’s in follow-up checks two decades or more later, the researchers say in the January issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Highway 522, Ontario Road Conditions, Port Loring Ontario
| Segment | Surface | Visibility | Observed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cranberry to 7 km W. of Fleming’s Landing | Snow Packed | Good | 2009/01/18 02:03 PM |
| 7 km W. of Fleming’s Landing to Trout Creek | Center Bare | Good | 2009/01/18 02:03 PM |
Milk We Drink.
Interesting!
Consuming dairy products significantly boosts the risk of Parkinson’s disease in men, concludes a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. A study surveying the dietary habits of 57,689 men found that those who consumed the most dairy products showed a 60 percent increase in the risk of Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative nervous system disorder that affects motor skills and speech.
Processed milk accounted for most of the dairy consumed by study subjects. “Processed” means the milk is pasteurized and homogenized rather than being consumed in its raw, natural state. These manufacturing processes impact the molecular structure of milk and may help explain why milk products have been found to promote Parkinson’s disease.
The pasteurization of milk kills harmful microorganisms that may be living in the milk, but it also “cooks” the milk and destroys many beneficial microorganisms that enhance digestive health. Homogenization is a process that splits fat molecules into tiny pieces, allowing the fat to stay in suspension in the milk liquid and preventing separation of the fat. While it makes the milk appear more cosmetically acceptable to consumers, homogenization is an unnatural process and it is widely suspected to be the primary reason why processed milk products have been linked to heart disease and other cardiovascular problems.
Raw, unprocessed milk is rapidly gaining popularity among health-conscious consumers. Many states are attempting to outlaw the sales of raw milk, saying it poses a health hazard to consumers with weak immune systems, but demand persists — especially among members of the raw foods community who use raw milk and active cultures to make their own kefir (fermented raw milk) at home. Kefir offers numerous health benefits and is a “living” food teeming with beneficial microorganisms.
Researchers are not yet sure why processed milk products increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease in men. No mechanism for the increase in the disease risk has been identified, and the fact that dairy products seem to increase the risk among men — but not women — remains a mystery. Epidemiologists do have theories on the link, however. Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D., professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health is also author of the book, “What’s In Your Milk?” — a recently-published expose of how industry has covered up the dangers of drinking milk from cows treated with genetically-engineered recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), a chemical that has been banned for use in dairy cows in many other countries.
Milk from rBGH-treated cows, according to Dr. Epstein, poses a significant health risk to humans and appears to be linked to breast, colon and prostate cancers.
Maybe Some Help For Alzheimer’s
If for nothing else I think folks should be eating more fresh chemical free veggies and fruits.
Fruits rich in polyphenols may help protect against the oxidative stress that has been linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study conducted by researchers from three Korean universities and published in the Journal of Food Science.
“Our study demonstrated that antioxidants in the major fresh fruits consumed in the United States protected neuronal cells from oxidative stress,” the researchers wrote. “Therefore, additional consumption of fresh fruits such as apples, bananas, and oranges may be beneficial to ameliorate chemopreventive effects in neurodegenerative disease.”
Smuggling Honey Into Different Countries. Mixed Up World For Sure.
Here is an intersting article on how honey being smuggled into different countries is being done and what effects it has on us humans or what could happen to us humans. Kind of makes one think. just click on the link below.
Might Pay To Have A Cup Of Black Tea Once And Awhile. Hmmm
Natural chemicals contained in black tea might mimic insulin’s effects in the body and help protect against diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers from Dundee University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute, and published in the journal Aging Cell.