Sunday, June 17, 2007

19th century bomb found in whale

19th century bomb found in whale
Time delay bomb fragment
The time delay bomb was patented in 1879
Scientists have retrieved a weapon fragment from a whale that suggests it may have swum its first strokes not long after the American Civil War.

The fragment is part of a time delay bomb that was introduced in 1879 and manufactured until 1885.

Scientists say it is rare to find a whale over 100 years old but believe some may reach 200.

The bowhead whale was killed by indigenous hunters off Alaska as part of their subsistence quota.

Experts think the wound was inflicted in about 1890.

Bowhead whale

But the BBC's Catherine Utley says that 19th Century hunters would not have been bothered with a young whale, so it could have already been around for some time before that date.

She says having the weapon lodged in its shoulder might have been uncomfortable for the whale, but it must have got used to it.

The conical fragment, about 9cm (3.5 in) long, was embedded in the shoulder blade.

Indigenous hunters have been able to kill a quota of whales as an exemption to the commercial whaling moratorium that has been in place for more than 20 years.


Found Here:: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751175.stm

9 month Anniversary







































Red and Jonny have been married 9 months now.
On this day to celebrate, we went to the Haggersville town wide garage sale. We bought some art books, some wader boots and then we participated in an auction. It took most of the day for them to get to the things we wanted. Which were old photgraphs. Jonny really wanted a box of old photo albums. ( jonny collects old photographs ) When the auctioneer came to them....He announced they were not going to sell them, and if anyone wanted them, they could have them. Jonny took the whole box. In it was the entire life of the Brown family, from the early twenties, when Helen margret Nickoles was a little girl, to when she met Donald Brown...the were both in the service, Donald was in the airforce, Helen played in the USO in an all girl jazz band called the Starlettes. After the war they opened a grocery store in Haggersville and had a son named Kirk. Helen continued to play her jazz trumpet with the Starlettes They took lots of pictures of their life...had lots of friends and loved to have parties, dress up in costumes. They traveled alot. Kirk grew up and had 3 redheaded girls . Donald health was deteriating, he road around on a skooter chair, then wore an oxygen mask...the last photo album ends with a picture of Donalds grave. I guess Helen didnt want to take anymore photos after Don passed. A beautiful couple with a wonderful life who stayed together their whole lives.

So we have all their photos, of their whole life. We be framing some of them to put on our walls.
We also bought Helens wedding dress, in its orriginal box. in it the a news paper of the day they were married.....

As Jonny was putting the box of photo-albums in the car ( it was a very large box... ) He heard that a beautiful old underwood typer writer was going up for auction that Jonny had his eye on... He could hear the auctioneer start at 20$....then he went down to 10$...
Jonny wanted to run back to tell red to bid on it...but he was struggling with the box the keys in his hands and the truck. Then he heard the auctioneeer say 5$.... Jonny was cursing himself for not running back in time as he heard it sell for 5 dollars.
As he got back to the auction, Jonny saw red smiling and laughing,jumping up and Down...saying I BOUGHT SOMETHING THAT NO ONE WANTED!!!...FOR FIVE DOLLARS! Jonny grabbed Red, hugged her and spun her around saying "GOD I love you baby!"

Old typerwriter 5$
My beautiful witchy wife: PRICELESS.


After the auction ....
we came home.
had a nap.
and then went out with Momma to see Joel plaskett at the Burlington festival down by the waterfront.... We had a great time and took some of our typical redandjonny photos... We also ran into our cousin Jeanie down there. She was walking along the waterfront with her boyfriend, whenapparently.... he turned to Jeanie and said...

"That girl back there was wearing a stormtrooper mask
."
( Jonny was at Jeanies the work just the other week telling her about how that was their new thing to do)...So she knew
exactly who it was and came back to say hi. They are such a cute couple. Jeanies an angel...and her boyfriend is a really great guy.

The next day, red and I went out for some groceries...came home and made food for the week.
A great week end. and wonderful anniversary.

Friday, June 15, 2007

SICKO



Tonight Red and I watched Michael Moores new film..

SICKO.


EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS FILM.
The torrent can be found here:

http://www.rlslog.net/sicko-dvdscr-xvid-canalstreet/




Vive la France.
Rule Britania
thank god I'm Canadian.
Go See SICKO.