Posted on 07/03/2014 11:39:53 AM PDT by skeptoid
Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.
Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.
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I’ve been away. Is it too late for Isabeau, the Undead Thread Alarm Girl to announce the transition of the UT?
Morning! Just back from dropping Tom for his camp shuttle. He said he’s getting excellent reviews from the campers.
Why break with tradition? We haven’t had it for even a day, yet...
He’s going back to camp? Where have I been?
More rains yesterday. And more predicted for today. My barometer is very confused.
The batteries gave out on our weather station, and nobody has replaced them. Maybe I’ll give Bill an assignment to get it all working again this week.
I won’t be taking the truck in tomorrow, since I only have one service call left on AAA. If they can’t fix it for what little money I have, I will have to pay for the tow back home.
So I will resign myself to the fact that I will be without wheels for the month of July. It’s probably a simple fix, but I need someone to look at it and fix it here, without me having to pay for the tow.
I wish my barometer wasn’t so accurate. :o|
The cheapest, and most reliable, diagnostic tool for starting problems, is a can of starting fluid.
Simply introduce it into the vehicle’s throat, whether it is carbureted or fuel-injected, and try to start the vehicle.
If it “fires”, or tries to run, then you are getting spark, and need to find out what your fuel problem is.
If it does not “fire”, then you have an electrical or timing problem, and can focus your attention on that end.
Be sure to have someone assisting you, so that you can determine that things that are supposed to be rotating when the engine turns over, ate in fact rotating. A broken timing belt may not be visible, but things are supposed to move.
You may also need a battery charger to begin with.
The battery is good. AAA came out and tried to start it, but the reps aren’t equipped to deal with intricacies.
My daughter and son-in-law will be here some time today, and I’ll have him look at it, since he repaired cars for a living for a good many years.
But thanks, I will tell him what you said.
I don’t see why it would be too late.
Maybe she was delayed by muskox mayhem!
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Food for thought, Muddog’s line3.
WOW cool pics. Thanks for the name. I knew someone here would know it.
I looked up some info on that moth. The one I found was a female, only females of this species are attracted to light.
It's never too late for Isabeau. Anyway, the penguins aren't here yet. I've been busy.
Spider-goats, guys. I have to have some.
Talk to our Canadian FRiends. I think there are a few up that way.
I'm assuming you're talking about goats that have had the spider-silk gene grafted into them, so that the females produce milk with spider-silk protein in it. It has to be separated before giving it to the kids, because hairballs.
But then the separated protein can be spun out as silk, and made into devices and garments.
DC, darksheare, and I, will want some.
And I imagine passing by a pasture covered by a giant cobweb, people and various debris stuck to it.
A goat incongruously sitting nearby, watching.
I woke up depressed this morning. Why would I do that?
Looks like my daughter may not be over after all, so I will just plan on being without wheels for the duration. My AAA renewal is next month, so maybe I can take the truck then, since I’ll have four service calls available.
The china hutch is empty and awaiting its new owner, and I was going to go out and see if I could empty another couple of tubs, but lost whatever incentive I had. I think I just need some ibuprofen. I hope.
I went through some of the books this morning, and there are some really old ones that I thought of just taking to the thrift store. I need more boxes. (What a time to be without wheels...)
That thought seems to be making the rounds this morning in several variations...
So what do Spider goats feed on?
What do they need all the debris collected in their web for, what dark product of insanity do they produce?
Human cadavers sucked dry, swinging from the barbed wire in the breeze.
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