Open Thread – Home Sweet Homer
Shannyn is spending this glorious sunny weekend at the end of the road – Happy Homer, Alaska. She sends this picture from paradise…
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Shannyn is spending this glorious sunny weekend at the end of the road – Happy Homer, Alaska. She sends this picture from paradise…
Late breaking news I just received. Scientists believe they have discovered how “moai” statues found on Easter Island got from the quarry to their stone emplacements eleven miles away. They apparently were walked there with heavy ropes. Upon receiving a tip from Fake Noise, rwnj Darrell Issa,the rwnj grand inquisistor of the Obama Justice Dept; immediately filed contempt charges against A.G. Eric Holder accusing Holder of deliberately stonewalling scientists for centuries about staue-walking.Statue walking is the process where statues were intentionally sold to Easter Island Natives so the statues could be tracked and Native higher-ups could be arrested for no reason at all. This program was started during the previous administration and no federal agents were killed by these statues. Like operation fast and furious(gun walking),Issa only wants documents that pertain after the previous administration left office. Film at eleven-if you’re lucky.
Maybe you could solve the mystery of how this statue was stolen in Appanoose County a few days ago.
Authorities in southern Iowa are asking for help in finding a large solid bronze deer statue missing from some property near Moravia.
The Daily Iowegian newspaper in Centerville says the Appanoose County sheriff’s office says the statue was stolen late Wednesday or early Thursday.
The statue, called “Swamp Jumpers,” depicts a large buck and doe. It’s 6-feet tall and 8 feet wide and weighs about 1,500 pounds.
It was created by a Montana artist for the owner of a management group who owns property in the area.
1,500 pounds …yikes! Somebody must have eaten their Wheaties that morning!
I am wondering what Brass is worth a pound.
According to answers.com brass prices from June 2011 were $1.95/lb for red brass and $1.80/lb for yellow brass. As for solving the theft,I can do anything better than anyone else as long as I don’t HAVE to do it.
Enjoy home(r), Shannyn. Everyone, please visit Daily Kos to petition Harry Reid so that corporations will have to get the consent of their shareholders to give out political donations (the not-so-Supremes made that rule for unions):
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101964/-Activist-Supreme-Court-makes-separate-rules-for-corporations-and-unions-of-course
I posted this on the Oyster Roundup, but said I’d post it on the next open thread, so here it is. Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
Alaska Pi- I wuz reading an old Sports Afield magazine-circa 1973-a story by Russell Annabel on moose hunting. He claims he was on the Dog Fork of the Kuskokwim River, five days ride West of civilization. Now I am aware that Texans ‘xagerate but do Alaskans fib as well? BTW Annabel is one of my favorite writers from my days of wanting to be a trapper.
Mikey-
Of course Alaskans fib too! With all this space and so few people you can get away with a fair amount too
🙂
By many accounts Mr Annabel was a brilliant writer but did a fair amount of fibbing, also too.
The Kuskokwim IS way west of ” civilization ” though Yupik peoples have lived on or near it for forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuskokwimrivermap.png
I am wondering about the 5 day ride dealie- how/what was the character/Mr Ananbel riding and when was it supposed to be happening?
Interesting map of the river. Appears that nearly all tributaries flow Northward to the big river. Dog Fork must have a different name now as opposed to then. Annabel was writing about a hunt by horseback with a pack-train to haul meat. The month was September,no year given. He was guiding some guy name of Hank Peters.. You have my undying gratitude for your wisdom and historical/geographical help. Let me know when ot gets plenty deep,okay?
It’s always plenty deep when folks ignore the peoples who have been here for thousands of years when they talk of “civilization” so always watch that one with a wary eye 🙂
There was a biography written about Annabel called something like the Return to Toonaklut by an Alaskan named Jeff Davis in the early 2000s.
Annabel also worked as a war reporter during WWII. Lots of folks don’t know much about the Aleutian campaign and his stuff was supposed to be good though I’ve not read any of it.
If you want to see a goofy river path find a map of the Yukon- which dumps into the ocean a bit north of the Kuskokwim. The headwaters of the Yukon are near to me in Southeast Alaska – it winds north quite a bit and then waaaayyyy west and and a bit south.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/slideshow/photos-alaskas-kuskokwim-river-flooding-may-2012
Is a huge river and communities are prone to flooding at breakup.
If you search king salmon closures in alaska this year, you will find many many communities on the Kuskokwim and Yukon are in dire starits as re getting subsistence fish . I am very worried.