Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Evidently I can't either; I left out a line

I didn't catch it so obviously I have forgotten most of it...

 

[perchie.girl]

Well, I'm sure some trendy, upscale shops would love to sell "fresh rainwater washed" towels - you may be on to some entrepreneurial gold mine!

I saw someone selling Stumps on line ... all polished and varnished.... for 250 some time back... so Yeah a decorators dream... pththth

deb

 

[kwhites634]

I saw someone selling Stumps on line ... all polished and varnished.... for 250 some time back... so Yeah a decorators dream... pththth

deb

We were cutting wood last weekend where the house number was inside a fake mushroom

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan -thought you might find this "interesting"


EPA wants people to stop burning wood in Alaska
Posted on February 28, 2018 by Daniel
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The EPA may tell people in parts of Alaska to stop heating their homes with wood burning stoves because they are causing the region to violate the Clean Air Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with enforcing the federal Clean Air Act, may declare Fairbanks and North Pole, Alaska, towns with a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance with the law early in 2017.

Wood-burning stoves emit small-particle matter (PM 2.5), which can settle in low-lying areas and can contribute to respiratory problems, according to EPA. EPA monitors show from 2013 through 2015, North Pole, Alaska, a town south of Fairbanks, had the highest average level for PM 2.5 in the nation. Absent quick action to reduce these emissions, Tim Hamlin, the director of the office of air and waste at EPA’s Region 10, says the agency could issue a noncompliance designation in early 2017, according to a report by The New York Times. A non-compliance designation could result in a loss of federal transportation funding for the state.

Hamlin notes the 1970 Clean Air Act sets a nationwide standard for air quality, which EPA was charged with enforcing.

“We don’t want to be telling people what to do, but the standard is what it is, and we want to work with you to be able to get there,” Hamlin told the Times.
http://www.alittlemorefreedom.com/epa-people-stop-burning-wood-alaska/

That has popped up a time or two, and I always am amazed that those office workers can be THAT ignorant.

It isn't a matter of "telling people what to do". There are a lot of poor people in Alaska... no way do they have the money to go out and buy a fancy new EPA approved stove, and no way do they have enough money to heat in any other way.

So you are telling them to 1. freeze to death and DIE (it gets insanely cold in that area), or 2. sell everything that they have for peanuts and move someplace else with no money to move and no job prospects.



And also those areas mentioned have such bad air quality not only because of the fires.... they also often NEVER turn off their cars (because then they can't restart since it is too cold) and those 2 spots are like bowls.... all of the pollution just sits there....

 

[perchie.girl]

@Alaskan -thought you might find this "interesting"


EPA wants people to stop burning wood in Alaska
Posted on February 28, 2018 by Daniel
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The EPA may tell people in parts of Alaska to stop heating their homes with wood burning stoves because they are causing the region to violate the Clean Air Act.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with enforcing the federal Clean Air Act, may declare Fairbanks and North Pole, Alaska, towns with a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance with the law early in 2017.

Wood-burning stoves emit small-particle matter (PM 2.5), which can settle in low-lying areas and can contribute to respiratory problems, according to EPA. EPA monitors show from 2013 through 2015, North Pole, Alaska, a town south of Fairbanks, had the highest average level for PM 2.5 in the nation. Absent quick action to reduce these emissions, Tim Hamlin, the director of the office of air and waste at EPA’s Region 10, says the agency could issue a noncompliance designation in early 2017, according to a report by The New York Times. A non-compliance designation could result in a loss of federal transportation funding for the state.

Hamlin notes the 1970 Clean Air Act sets a nationwide standard for air quality, which EPA was charged with enforcing.

“We don’t want to be telling people what to do, but the standard is what it is, and we want to work with you to be able to get there,” Hamlin told the Times.
http://www.alittlemorefreedom.com/epa-people-stop-burning-wood-alaska/

they are doing that in Calfornia up in around San FranCisco. Only on certain days ... High emission days as they read their meters.

deb

 

[BYC910]

Sorry all. I'm severely depressed. With any luck I'll be hit by a train or something just as lovely. Take care

are you better now ????????? It's ok I just can't stand perky people

I wish I'd have seen the revolution......

Which one you know we lost right

 

[kwhites634]

That has popped up a time or two, and I always am amazed that those office workers can be THAT ignorant.

It isn't a matter of "telling people what to do". There are a lot of poor people in Alaska... no way do they have the money to go out and buy a fancy new EPA approved stove, and no way do they have enough money to heat in any other way.

So you are telling them to 1. freeze to death and DIE (it gets insanely cold in that area), or 2. sell everything that they have for peanuts and move someplace else with no money to move and no job prospects.



And also those areas mentioned have such bad air quality not only because of the fires.... they also often NEVER turn off their cars (because then they can't restart since it is too cold) and those 2 spots are like bowls.... all of the pollution just sits there....

Alaska; the last frontier

 

[Debs Flock]

are you better now ????????? It's ok I just can't stand perky people

Which one you know we lost right

can't thank you enough!

 

[BYC910]

Well I've managed to fall down the stairs with a bucket of water .I'm OK . So I cleaned that up and then spilled the mop bucket on the living room carpet So I came here cause all I can do is cause trouble here . If you spill something you clean it up .I ain't gonna Can't stay nohow .

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Well I've managed to fall down the stairs with a bucket of water .I'm OK . So I cleaned that up and then spilled the mop bucket on the living room carpet So I came here cause all I can do is cause trouble here . If you spill something you clean it up .I ain't gonna Can't stay nohow .

I'm glad you're ok!
Please be careful!