http://norcalpublicnews.com Health, Happiness, Home, Outdoors, Chickens and the Garden. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:35:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Take just 10 minutes to watch/read this video. You will remember it. It's what will happen in 4 years. We can make it happen. http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/10/31/ron-paul-the-revolution-in-10-minutes/ Conclusion: Use your Paper Ballot. Why are voting computer so hard to get right? Computers are being used for banking, FBI data, confidential company information, ect, ect, ect... So why are these voting machines miss-counting votes? I have heard a few different things. Democracy now had an interview ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/10/24/computer-voting-machines-dont-work/ Causation or a Correlation?     This is a great graph that really explains global warming. Carbon Dioxide INCREASES with higher temperatures. Just do some experiments with a soda can in the sun.    credit for graph: FreePublic http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/10/21/global-warming-causation-or-a-correlation-ask-al-gore/   I love that slide guitar. It's like putting soft butter on toast... you know, creamy :) http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/10/18/for-your-viewing-pleasure/ This year was great for pears. We picked a little over 300 lbs in 2 evenings. They have been in the house now for a little over 2 weeks, and have ripened up just perfectly. This year we've decided to dehydrate many of them, as time has ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/10/10/processing-plums-and-pears-is-pretty-pleasing/ Haven't said much in the past few weeks, so I thought I would share one of my favorite home and garden items. The No Spill Gas Can. This is the best gas can anyone can own. You will never spill gas again. My mom got it for me as a ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/09/06/the-best-gas-can-ever-no-spill/ I thought I would just post that we've been busy. Right now we are tearing apart the mudroom and turning it into the washroom /(slash)/ nice entry way to the house. I only have 2x6's in the ceiling area, and I would like to put in some fancy recessed lighting... ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/08/24/busy-times/ Since December we have had a plan to head up to Alaska during the running of the reds (Sockeye). My buddy owns a cabin near Soldotna on the Kenia river. It is the spot! 7 out of the 9 days it rained. Which was a nice change from our east ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/08/11/went-to-alaska/ Everything in the garden is beginning to really grow. It seemed like a slow start this year. We still feel the squash and cukes are a bit behind, but we're working with it. We tried a few new items this year. Cabbage seems to grow extremely well here, as does ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/07/17/july-garden-progression-at-4500-feet/ If you are looking for a beautiful, early summer, late spring, fragrant flowering shrub, the Mock Orange is hard to beat. It is one of my favorite flowering shrubs. The fragrance is fairly strong, similar to the strength of lilacs. The smell is pungent and sort of sweet. We ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/29/mock-orange-philadelphus-coronarius-i-think/ First we get the Lilacs in white and purple. The fragrance is amazing! You get nice wiffs of it through the house on the warmer days. After the Lilac flowers are beginning to die back the Plum Tree's white blossoms show. They don't last too long. After the Plum blossoms, ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/18/yellow-rose-bush/ I was sent a nice read from the New York Times Freakonomics section by a friend of mine. So I thought I would share it. Made my brain twist a little bit more about law in our country. Unintended Consequences By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT "One year from today, ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/12/nintended_consequences/ After a few weeks of working on the "secure" area for the chickens, it's finally done. It is about 30x15 feet in size, so the chickens get a bigger area than our bedroom. They seem to like it well enough. I built it out of 50% reused materials from around the ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/12/chicken_enclosure_finished_empire_growing/ This is a picture of our pet and egg provider Hen-a-C, the Australorp Chicken. We have 2 Australorp hens. They are Great Chickens! Read more about Australorps. http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/07/one-fine-chicken-you-are/ Click on image for a very large image. http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/07/pretty-columbine-flower-picture/ We have a lot of Iris' around our place. This past fall we disturbed the majority of them in order to get some flowers to show. The majority of Iris' we have are the perennial Bearded Iris (Iris Germanica). Iris are a rhizome, so cutting the roots is OK, and ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/07/easy-to-grow-iris-bloom-in-june/ We Weed the Other Half. We did this little experiment to see if the chickens take care of weeds better than we can. All last winter we left the chickens in half the garden. We did this for two reasons, one to keep them fenced in a safe spot when ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/06/01/chickens-weed-half-the-garden/ We were blessed with a beautiful double rainbow over our garden area this evening. It was so vibrant the pictures really don't show it as it is... but really, can a photo capture what your eyes see? I've been to one place in Jackson Wyoming that had some 6' x ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/05/30/double-rainbow-on-a-sunny-thursday-evening/ Lake Almanor, during the Memorial Day holiday, is hit or miss. Two out of the 3 years I have gone with the family, has been rainy. This year it was rainy, but we still got enough breaks in the weather to catch some nice Bass. After about 60% total water ... http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/05/26/overcast-and-rainy-memorial-day-at-lake-almanor/ My sister took a digger on her mountain bike. She's not afraid. She'll be back at it next week. UPDATE! She's way better. Has some big metal brace in her mouth, but the scars are almost all healed up. Black eye is just about gone. It's cause she eat's her greens! http://norcalpublicnews.com/2008/05/19/ouch/