Nuts!

As my reader keeps reminding me, I haven't done an update for a while.

So I'll start with a random update I though of back a couple of months ago..........

If you'll remember back last year a bunch of the "we-are-all-going-to-die-because-of-global-warming" crowd was proclaiming immanent disaster because there seemed to be a lack of acorns on the oak trees.

To them I have but one word: NUTS!

Gallons and gallons and gallons and gallons of nuts. Acorns to be more specific. Pin Oak acorns to be more precise. About 14 gallons on this particular cleaning of the patio.

These are shots from 28-0ct-2010 of my patio. This was the second time I'd cleaned it off. I had to clean it off a third time and got even more acorns.

I only bothered to clean off the patio because I was hauling and stacking firewood and had to walk across the patio. I learned when I first moved in that walking on a layer of Pin Oak acorns over brick is pretty close to walking on a layer of marbles over brick...with pretty predictable results.

Oh, and for all you global-warming fans:

• We know a lot less than we think we know; especially about how climate works.
• Mass hysteria that turns out to be nothing discredits the proclaimers (e.g. the boy who cried wolf)
• Water is more of a greenhouse gas than CO₂ is; but it's pretty hard to convince Joe Average that water is a threat.
• Without the CO₂ scare Al Gore would be known for what he really is: a failed politician.