On Thu, 13 May 2004 07:25:22 -0500, Conan the Librarian
brought forth from the murky depths:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On 12 May 2004 05:00:09 -0700, (Conan The Librarian)
brought forth from the murky depths:
As in "black sheep"?
Bingo, after only HOW MANY tries? 
OK, so I'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. :-)
So ScaryGingko(tmLJ) it, eh?
Vertigo, pineygo, whatever. I've never seen someone with such a
prejudice against a particular wood. (Well, except for O'Deener and
zebrawood, but that's another story.)
Pine has a long and noble history
in furniture-making and building.
My prejudice is from several things. First, it being so cheap, so
many dumb things being made from it. Pukey ducks, bird houses, etc.
Second, I lived in a house with badly stained (naughty) pine in it
for 26 years and never did pull up the carpet and strip/refinish it.
You know how it goes. A bad stain job lives forever (until paint).
(I'd like to hamstring the person who "finished" the interior of my
last house. He may have puked into the shellac before applying it.)
From the looks of the current, I doubt that would help much. :-o
He was in the slower stream, too. About 10' further and he would have
been in 25mph faster rapids.
You mentioned a
hatchery; I would have expected that to be a mostly wild fishery
there. Do they just grow rainbows or brown trout to supplement the
natives?
Mostly steelhead and salmon but trout are included in the 85 species.
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/ODFWhtml/...cheryFacts.pdf
Amazing, wot?
Interesting. So they raise and plant fish to benefit commercial
fisheries as well as sportfishing? I'd be curious to see what sorts of
policies they have on harvesting these fish. Catch and release doesn't
really seem to jive with commercial harvesting.
Salmon are overfished/endangered, so farming is necessary. BTW, there
is no fishing permitted within the hatcheries, so forget about it.
(No C&R either.)
Ah, so you don't need gills to live there?
No, it's like a chillier, less-smoggy, friendlier, less-crowded LoCal.
Summers get to 100F (with nice, cool nights.) There is no rain for 5+
months, just like LoCal. Winters are colder and wetter, down to 20F
(with m+aybe an inch or two of shortlived snow) but not bad. I've
almost adjusted to it now, after only 2 years here.
Neener: you don't have a redwood tree in your back yard like I do.
Er, no ... that I don't. Just a couple of giant oaks.
Are you as adverse to cutting them as I am mine? All i had in LoCal
were poplars which I had planted myself. No, I take that back. I
sorely miss my old pepper tree which graced the northeast corner of
the lot. Beautiful! I don't think they grow up here but I really
should check with the local Master Gardener's extension. My tree
wasn't quite as large or full as this one, but close.
http://ag.arizona.edu/pima/gardening...nus_molle.html
Thanks for reminding me.
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