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[RedPulletMama]

Some have snow. Others..................

jealous! That looks gorgeous and right where I need to be

 

[RedPulletMama]

Yesterday at 4:15 my mom lost her battle with cancer. I know she is not hurting and that my heart will heal with time thank you all for your prayers and help during my rough time.

I missed this somehow. Don't know if I overlooked it or maybe it was before I came on this this thread. Either way, I am truly sorry for your loss. Cancer is a terrible thing. I watched my grandmother and grandfather both die with it. My dad now has skin cancer, but due to watching what his parents went through, he wants no intervention whatsoever. It is sad. I wish it on no one ever. Your mother is now healthy and perfect in every way possible. I pray that comfort and peace surround you and your family during this time. The pain will never go away, just become easier to live with. Prayers, my friend.

 

[prairiehen74301]

Good Rain cool and overcast out side and wet of course. Washed the ragweed pollen down for awhile best air I've had in weeks. I have something I want you all to give me your opinion on. Wind Farms do you think they are bad for the environment noise pollution, bad effect on wildlife???? I would appreciate your honest opinion.This issue has come up out here on the prairie and I don't know any thing about it and need as much true information I can get.

Ok folks apparently this was a topic no one wanted to comment on. That's ok found another source for the info I needed, Sadly I' m starting to get the impression this is a priviate joke club I like a little silly but like to be able to get serious from time to time as well. ya ain't getting rid of me that easy who knows this old blue hair might not know what she's talking about.

 

[ronott1]

Ok folks apparently this was a topic no one wanted to comment on. That's ok found another source for the info I needed, Sadly I' m starting to get the impression this is a priviate joke club I like a little silly but like to be able to get serious from time to time as well. ya ain't getting rid of me that easy who knows this old blue hair might not know what she's talking about.

Wind Farms--Sorry to not respond to the topic.

There are some jokes but we are here to support and help each other and all topics are welcome.

I am kind of hot and cold to wind farms. They make sense for harnessing the wind to make electricity but they may kill a lot of birds. There was an article about Bald Eagles being killed but I did not read the article. The headline said 47 killed in two years.

There is a new version of wind mills that goes up above where the birds fly but they are years away from using those.

 

[Arielle]

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Sorry didn't mean to skip this-- guess I did. Sorry.

I'm all for increasing the use of non-oil sources of energy. We are mor invested with foreign oil now than the 1970's oil embargo. I use some solar here on the farm and I am investigating more uses.

Every source has it's pros and cons. THere is a plan to put a large wind farm off the coast of Mass and step by step the development is a go. My biggest concern is what the electricity in such a large dose does to the local populations of animals that have moved and migrated by the magnetic pull of the earth. I don't know a whole lot but I would prefer to produce my own electricity right here on the farm for use on the farm and avoid the damage to the natural world which I hghly value.

We aren't all jokesters all the time. We do tackle the tough things in life, and often with tears, and at times with laughter and smiles. THe silliness I value because it make the difficulties of life tolerable. If you go back you will find a bit of an arguement over . . well not so important. WE bring many perspectives to the thread.

Stay with us, and you will get the private jokes.

Make sure you join in on the TUrkey hatch a thon for 2014!!! Some of us nuts met way back then. . . . .. and MANY many more have joined in since. You ARE welcome here. Sorry I missed your post. I have an old computer and can miss a whole page.

 

[ozexpat]

Ok folks apparently this was a topic no one wanted to comment on. That's ok found another source for the info I needed, Sadly I' m starting to get the impression this is a priviate joke club I like a little silly but like to be able to get serious from time to time as well. ya ain't getting rid of me that easy who knows this old blue hair might not know what she's talking about.

I am sorry.

If I do not know anything about a subject (rare mind you, lol) I do not comment. I prefer to give out reliable info.

I am happy to engage in verbal (or typed) intercourse on almost any other subject.

I guess I better brush up on wind technology. After all...............

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ok folks apparently this was a topic no one wanted to comment on. That's ok found another source for the info I needed, Sadly I' m starting to get the impression this is a priviate joke club I like a little silly but like to be able to get serious from time to time as well. ya ain't getting rid of me that easy who knows this old blue hair might not know what she's talking about.

I don't know enough about them to comment intelligently but I'll go for it anyway, for the sake of discussion. A few years ago there was a wind project on Blue Hill up here and it was a lot of unsightly construction. Once finished they didn't look as bad as I had thought they would, but still "scarred" the mountains where they were and decreased the beauty of the view. That being said, I think it's better for the environment than many other options, and unfortunately, our reliance on electricity and the number of people requiring it continues to go up. Now I'm getting far from the original question of electricity, and although people have been saying this for decades, I don't know how much more of humans the Earth can take. I still think it's many decades off but we're barreling closer to unsustainability every day. In a petri dish the amount of bacteria multiples exponentially until the petri dish has not enough food resources and too much waste build up and the environment can no longer support that many bacteria and many die. I, like many of you, contribute to the excessive consumerism and waste on the planet. It makes me shameful and I do my best to personally reduce when I can. I know I can do more, and I'm afraid as a planet that we won't until it's too late.

Now where's the emoticon getting off their soapbox?

 

[Wisher1000]

I am sorry.

If I do not know anything about a subject (rare mind you, lol) I do not comment. I prefer to give out reliable info.

I am happy to engage in verbal (or typed) intercourse on almost any subject.

I guess I better brush up on wind technology.

My thought, EXACTLY! But I will be reading other's opinions with interest...........

 

[insanity]

I don't know much about the impact on wildlife but the environmentalist had a fit about the sage grouse nesting around the bases of the turbines south of here(they lost in court). We have some wind farms and several large dams out here.Even though the Rocky Mt area makes way more energy than we use it doesn't save us any cash.Most our hydro and wind power gets diverted to the west coast.At least the wind farms aren't an eyesore but only because there isn't any thing but sage brush and dirt out here in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Bunnylady]

Now, see, I haven't seen any "private" jokes yet. Everything alluded to has happened right here on this thread. Granted, it's become a long thread, but it's all right out there on a very public forum, so how can the jokes be private?

As for wind farms - they've been in the news a lot, for many years. I don't know that anybody thinks they are the answer to the meaning of life, but everything I've seen said has been said by somebody with an ax to grind, and having no actual experience with them, I have no idea what is true, and what just propaganda. Feeling that I really know nothing, I say just that - nothing.

I have noticed that an awful lot of people want to impose them on someone else, but scream, "not in my backyard!" when someone wants to build near them.