[TheForge] [YAK] Weather; mussels (Was Re: power hammer)

Thu Jan 15 08:15:00 2004

I'm jealous.......

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Tull" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] [YAK] Weather; mussels (Was Re: power hammer)


> 60 here today w/ low of 48
> dan tull
> georgia
> abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:11 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] [YAK] Weather; mussels (Was Re: power hammer)
>
>
> >
> > Ralph> That -20 gets old quick..........but Frosty's probably just
> > Ralph> laughing at us wishing he'd get a warm spell like that.  :-)
> >
> > I remember that.  I've gotten spoiled here in Balmy Nova Scotia.  It's
> > normally only zero when New England is 20 below.  This year is kinda
> > spoiling the record: we're just into our second spell of 5 below.
> >
> > Frosty> Of course we all know a mere Alaskan can't hold a candle to a
> > Frosty> tough old north easterner like YOU when it comes to cold, COLD
> > Frosty> weather.
> >
> > When I lived in Monatgue, Mass., it got so cold one January that the
> > fire froze up in the stove and we hadda break it up with a cold chisel
> > and pry it out with crowbars.  Put it out in the barn and dang if the
> > barn didn't burn down when spring thaw came.
> >
> > But wait: If it's so mild in Alaska, why does Steve Sayer, my long
> > time buddy from College AK, spend his winters in the hills of Western
> > Mass where it's "warm"?
> >
> > ObIronwork: Blue mussels use iron extracted from sea water to catalyse
> > the conversion of goop into the stuff they use to stick themselves
> > down.  Purdue chemist that discovered this speculates that this may
> > lead to new rust-proofing technology among other things.
> >
> >     http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2004/040112.Wilker.mussels.html
> >
> > - Mike
> >
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