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Post by code on Sept 26, 2022 16:20:56 GMT
I found a deep deposit of #1 flagstone which is worth millions. That was fast and went without a hitch. It's like hitting a big gusher in the mining business. I can see the side of the bluff down to about 100', very good stone all the way down. And I always heard that there was no good stone left in the area. Got lease on first property, cutting mile long access road now. Next lease should be out of lawyers in 2 or 3 weeks. Creepy uncle Joe can't keep us down for long. As I was driving out from Regina, I was enjoying the farms and scenery and saw more than one home and barn made out of stone. Enterprising and smart farmers like the ancestors of the fellow below had constructed them using the ready available materials at hand on the Saskatchewan prairie.
and I would be happy to live in either of these two homes
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 26, 2022 16:45:12 GMT
I am trying to get a good grasp as to what is currently happening economically. It's hard to find good news. You have a war heating up in Ukraine that may go nuclear. You have the biggest economic bubble in the world popping in China. The worst inflation in 40 years, worldwide. Europe is in an energy crisis like no other that is really starting to spread into manufacturing. Stock markets worldwide are tumbling. And the number one reason we are nearing the apocalypse? We are even running short on beer due to a lack of CO2. I can live without power. Been there done that. I can grow food, hunt and fish. But that beer thing is keeping me awake at night. abc7chicago.com/beer-shortage-2022-carbon-dioxide-aluminum-can-supply-chain-issues/12264801/ |
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 29, 2022 13:14:22 GMT
It seems like all kinds of economic turmoil is going down in the UK. Pensions are underfunded, mortgages are not on a fixed rate and many are set to go up in the next 18 months. All at a time of skyrocketing energy costs, high inflation and war. The pound is getting closer to parity with the dollar.
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 29, 2022 14:07:03 GMT
I am trying to get a good grasp as to what is currently happening economically. It's hard to find good news. You have a war heating up in Ukraine that may go nuclear. You have the biggest economic bubble in the world popping in China. The worst inflation in 40 years, worldwide. Europe is in an energy crisis like no other that is really starting to spread into manufacturing. Stock markets worldwide are tumbling. And the number one reason we are nearing the apocalypse? We are even running short on beer due to a lack of CO2. I can live without power. Been there done that. I can grow food, hunt and fish. But that beer thing is keeping me awake at night. abc7chicago.com/beer-shortage-2022-carbon-dioxide-aluminum-can-supply-chain-issues/12264801/ Headline: Climate scientist discovers process for extracting and sequestering atmospheric CO2 in the brewing process. Biden administration demands that all citizens drink a six-pack a day to save the planet. |
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Post by glennkoks on Sept 29, 2022 17:56:16 GMT
I am trying to get a good grasp as to what is currently happening economically. It's hard to find good news. You have a war heating up in Ukraine that may go nuclear. You have the biggest economic bubble in the world popping in China. The worst inflation in 40 years, worldwide. Europe is in an energy crisis like no other that is really starting to spread into manufacturing. Stock markets worldwide are tumbling. And the number one reason we are nearing the apocalypse? We are even running short on beer due to a lack of CO2. I can live without power. Been there done that. I can grow food, hunt and fish. But that beer thing is keeping me awake at night. abc7chicago.com/beer-shortage-2022-carbon-dioxide-aluminum-can-supply-chain-issues/12264801/ Headline: Climate scientist discovers process for extracting and sequestering atmospheric CO2 in the brewing process. Biden administration demands that all citizens drink a six-pack a day to save the planet. I am doing my part to save the planet! |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 29, 2022 18:47:40 GMT
I am trying to get a good grasp as to what is currently happening economically. It's hard to find good news. You have a war heating up in Ukraine that may go nuclear. You have the biggest economic bubble in the world popping in China. The worst inflation in 40 years, worldwide. Europe is in an energy crisis like no other that is really starting to spread into manufacturing. Stock markets worldwide are tumbling. And the number one reason we are nearing the apocalypse? We are even running short on beer due to a lack of CO2. I can live without power. Been there done that. I can grow food, hunt and fish. But that beer thing is keeping me awake at night. abc7chicago.com/beer-shortage-2022-carbon-dioxide-aluminum-can-supply-chain-issues/12264801/ Headline: Climate scientist discovers process for extracting and sequestering atmospheric CO2 in the brewing process. Biden administration demands that all citizens drink a six-pack a day to save the planet. I want Carbon Credits!!! |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 29, 2022 18:55:16 GMT
Saving the Planet one beer at a time. Headline: Climate scientist discovers process for extracting and sequestering atmospheric CO2 in the brewing process. Biden administration demands that all citizens drink a six-pack a day to save the planet. I want Carbon Credits!!! Agreed. I want a payment for every tree on the farm that has been doing their job of sucking up and sequestering carbon for a very, very long time now. Direct deposit in my bank account will be fine. And my tall grass prairie too. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 29, 2022 19:53:35 GMT
Agreed. I want a payment for every tree on the farm that has been doing their job of sucking up and sequestering carbon for a very, very long time now. Direct deposit in my bank account will be fine. And my tall grass prairie too. I was referring to my participation efforts pertaining to beer consumption. But you make an excellent point…our property in The Catskills is a hardwood forest! |
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Post by missouriboy on Sept 29, 2022 20:34:58 GMT
Agreed. I want a payment for every tree on the farm that has been doing their job of sucking up and sequestering carbon for a very, very long time now. Direct deposit in my bank account will be fine. And my tall grass prairie too. I was referring to my participation efforts pertaining to beer consumption. But you make an excellent point…our property in The Catskills is a hardwood forest! How many credits per six-pack? You could open "the Carbon Credit Pub" upstate. What are the dominant hardwood species on your property? Ours are white oak and hickory ... with many other oak varieties mixed in. Two huge Burr oaks as well. I think that many of the old white oaks (Burr oaks too) are pre-settlement. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Sept 29, 2022 21:17:59 GMT
I was referring to my participation efforts pertaining to beer consumption. But you make an excellent point…our property in The Catskills is a hardwood forest! How many credits per six-pack? You could open "the Carbon Credit Pub" upstate. What are the dominant hardwood species on your property? Ours are white oak and hickory ... with many other oak varieties mixed in. Two huge Burr oaks as well. I think that many of the old white oaks (Burr oaks too) are pre-settlement. Maple, Ash, some Oak and Cherry, Lots of birch and beech. |
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Post by walnut on Oct 2, 2022 14:04:07 GMT
The world must survive this week without a major banking collapse in Europe. Maybe they will make it, maybe not? Investment banks have large leveraged bond positions which are close to failing.
All traceable to Bidens' helicopter cash drops in the name of covid stimulus. Fast inflation forced the US FED to raise rates very fast, which the weaker European economies/banks could not adjust to fast enough.
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Post by walnut on Oct 2, 2022 14:06:34 GMT
How many credits per six-pack? You could open "the Carbon Credit Pub" upstate. What are the dominant hardwood species on your property? Ours are white oak and hickory ... with many other oak varieties mixed in. Two huge Burr oaks as well. I think that many of the old white oaks (Burr oaks too) are pre-settlement. Maple, Ash, some Oak and Cherry, Lots of birch and beech. Ours is also mainly oak-hickory, quite a few cedars, ash and a few others mixed in. We had an ocean of white oaks but many were cut down (many for whiskey barrels in the 19th century). |
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 2, 2022 14:45:57 GMT
Maple, Ash, some Oak and Cherry, Lots of birch and beech. Ours is also mainly oak-hickory, quite a few cedars, ash and a few others mixed in. We had an ocean of white oaks but they were mostly cut down for whiskey barrels in the 19th century.Same story in our parts. The old-growth white oaks on the back twenty on our place are still there because (family story) My grandfather refused to sell them to the whiskey barrel makers. Reasons? Well ... he was a devout Southern Baptist and dead set against drinking. BUT, he was also Celtic, and the oak grove was sacred space to the ancient Celts. Now that is a stretch to invoke a genetic(??) ancestral resonance(??). He probably just liked the trees. But that may be the same thing carried across generations. None the less, they are still there ... and it is my job to ensure that they stay there for as long as I can. |
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Post by walnut on Oct 2, 2022 14:59:24 GMT
Ours is also mainly oak-hickory, quite a few cedars, ash and a few others mixed in. We had an ocean of white oaks but they were mostly cut down for whiskey barrels in the 19th century.Same story in our parts. The old-growth white oaks on the back twenty on our place are still there because (family story) My grandfather refused to sell them to the whiskey barrel makers. Reasons? Well ... he was a devout Southern Baptist and dead set against drinking. BUT, he was also Celtic, and the oak grove was sacred space to the ancient Celts. Now that is a stretch to invoke a genetic(??) ancestral resonance(??). He probably just liked the trees. But that may be the same thing carried across generations. None the less, they are still there ... and it is my job to ensure that they stay there for as long as I can. White oak is a very superior wood, lots of favorable qualities. But I don't blame you for resisting selling them off. |
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Post by walnut on Oct 2, 2022 15:36:00 GMT
I planted several black walnuts on my land from some seeds off our family's land in Arkansas, and they are growing. But the native pecan trees grow approximately twice as fast in that soil, so I have let the volunteers live and have several acres of trees coming up to replace the large old ones (which actually don't produce as well as you'd think). Black walnut trees do better in Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, and farther east Oklahoma, than they do around Verdigris Oklahoma, where I am at.
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