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Beautiful day here today in central Texas, and full of work to clean all the furniture that has been stored in the dusty garage at 1050, then move it into the house. Moving furniture sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but actually the cleaning job is the bigger of the two. We have to make sure that all the spider nests we brought over from the gulf coast don't make it into the new house.

The 22000 gallon water tank is now full. Collecting your own water makes this common commodity a whole lot more valuable, so it seems. When the tank finally filled and all the subsequent rain flowed through the water tank and out the overflow, it seemed like it was too valuable to just "throw away", but that's what happens when the tank is full. Maybe we need a second tank, and then we could get into the business of selling water-------But probably not, as there must be a law against that---maybe something to that effect on page 891 of the 2000 page House Medical Bill.

Anyway, we are plodding along, wondering when the crazy congress will be brought to heel.

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Smithville, USA

If you are not observant while traveling northwest on Highway 71, Smithville will be in the rearview mirror and so then you will have missed it all. It's not on the main road but off to the south a block or so. We have driven past Smithville many times but this time, in order not to miss it, we decided to make that our destination. Smithville's main street runs parallel to the highway that runs north-south and therefore parallel to Highway 71. Highway 71 connecting Houston with Austin runs on the north side of the Colorado River and Smithville is on the south side of the river. This narrow separation from the main trunk line highway is what has spared Smithville from the ultimate doom of either death from isolation or ruin from big city influence. We often travel miles and miles for a new lunch experience and this trip was no different in that it was a 90-minute drive to reach our destination of the Old World Bakery and Cafe. The bakery part is ...

Cause and Effect

We have this great world atlas book published by the National Geographical Society, which by the way, we bought at the local library used book sale for $2. Probably this low price of the book pains the Society but it sure makes my reference to maps an easy task without having to wake up my computer. The book occupies a permanent spot on a book stand in our breakfast room, standing ready to supply map information on request. The book happened to be open to the page showing the whole of Antarctica featuring all the outposts and even some commentary of scientific significance. One such comment was on ice coring data of historic temperatures and carbon dioxide content. I can understand how the CO2 content of the ice can be preserved over many centuries at varying depths, but I am unsure how the prevailing temperature of some thousand years ago can be preserved in the ice cores--but that's another issue that we will not get into here. So here is the comment on the data of the ice...

Aermotor Windmill Lives

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