On 2014-05-04 21:55:10 +0000, Alan Browne
said:

On 2014.05.04, 17:41 , Savageduck wrote:
On 2014-05-04 21:26:13 +0000, Eric Stevens sai
d:

On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:35:52 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-05-04 15:19:14 +0000, PeterN sa
id:

On 5/4/2014 1:51 AM, Robert Coe wrote:
On Sat, 03 May 2014 20:57:50 -0400, Mort wrote:
: Excuse my language, but I recently saw a bumper sticker that sums
up
: many of life's problems, including this post about prints: "shi
t
: happens". My philosophy is simply this: when I see doggie
droppings on
: the sidewalk, I do not get angry, I do not yell and scream at the

owner;
: I just walk around it and go on my way. Perhaps that is merely th
e
: serenity of old age.

Being about Mort's age, I can confirm his recollection. When we
were kids, it
was assumed that dogs would do what they did wherever they were and

that it
was your fault if you stepped in it. (I believe the operative
slogan, covering
this and other ambulatory hazards, was "Watch your step".) If the
worst
happened, you cleaned off your shoes and moved on. The idea that a
sane person
would follow his dog around picking up the latter's **** was, quite

simply,
ludicrous.


I think that geese are outright liars. I made a deal that I would no
t
crap on the grass where they walked and ate, if they would not crap
on
the sidewalk. I kept my part of the deal, but they didn't keep their
s.
Any thoughts on appropriate retaliation?

http://www.thespecialistsltd.com/fil...70_express.jpg

This may be less trouble
http://www.todayshomeowner.com/telev...718-improving-
great-outdoors-3.jpg

or

http://tinyurl.com/q9hsfbo

With our drought we have strict & financially punitive water restrictions.

If only the farmers in the valley did. They're at the point of sucking
so much ground water that the aquifers are collapsing - they will never
fill with water again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/op...l-returns.html
QUOTE
Pumping from aquifers is so intense that the ground in parts of the
valley is sinking about a foot a year. Once aquifers compress, they can
never fill with water again. It’s no surprise Tom Willey wakes ev ery
morning with a lump in his throat. When we ask which farmers will
survive the summer, he responds quite simply: those who dig the deepest
and pump the hardest.
ENDQUOTE

The Central Valley Farmers are blaming everybody but themselves. The
farms which are a big part of agri-business conglomerates have bought
out most of the family farmers and their Federal water allocations. The
Feds in turn are delivering a *Zero allocation* this year as there is
no water to deliver.

Agri-business farms have sowed on untenable land after taking out
Federal crop insurance with the full knowledge those crops will fail.
Once again the tax payer takes it in the wallet.

It seems this year all those salad fixings are going to be coming from
Chile and Central America.

We have local issues with vineyard developers East of Hwy 101 who have
depleted the aquifer so much that local well-dependent non-farming
homeowners are having to drill new deeper wells.

I am fortunate that I live West of Paso Robles where we don’t have that
problem.

--
Regards,

Savageduck