From the old squirrel to all Merry Christmas

The late traditional Chief David Salmon conducts and referees the game he brought back from the past to play at the Powwow.  The Powwow is dedicated to his memory this year.  It’s a game of strength between two players.

Fall has finally arrived in the deep south of the Coastal Bend of Texas…with the change of color…   Now compared to Alaska and other parts of the nation it is kind of tame.  Nonetheless, while everyone at the old Permafrost Ranch is experiencing very mild weather and freezing rain.  We are still reaching the 80 degrees or better mark here.  So, to all my friends and family in the Great Land.  I’m sorry but that sheet of ice is liable to be with you for the rest of winter until spring.  Thank goodness, I’m not driving on those roads anymore.  My hair is white enough.

I sure wish I could see this many humming birds on my feeders, I would try to get them to feed out of my hands.

Ode to an Oosik

Strange things have been done in the Midnight Sun
and the story books are full
But the strangest tale concerns the male,
magnificent walrus bull!

I know it’s rude, quite common and crude,
Perhaps it is grossly unkind;
But with first glance at least, this bewhiskered beast,
is as ugly in front as behind.

Look once again, take a second look — then
you’ll see he’s not ugly or vile
There’s a hint of a grin in that blubbery chin
and the eyes have a sly, secret smile.

How can this be, this clandestine glee,
that extrudes from the walrus like music?
He knows, there inside, beneath blubber and hide
lies a splendid contrivance — the Oosik!

“Oosik?” you say — and quite well you may,
I’ll explain if you keep it between us;
In the simplest truth, though rather uncouth,
Oosik is, in fact, his penis!

Now the size alone of this walrus bone
would indeed arouse envious thinking —
It is also a fact, documented and backed,
there is never a softening or shrinking!

This, then, is why the smile is so sly,
the walrus is rightfully proud,
though the climate is frigid, the walrus is rigid,
Pray, why is not man so endowed?

Added to this is a smile you might miss,
(though the bull is entitled to bow)
The one to out-smile our bull by a mile
is the satisfied walrus cow!

ANWR:  First Sarah dear, I think you are a little confused, the oil set aside was NPR-A , not ANWR .  NPR- A , Eskimos and trappers reported oil seeps.  The US  government  drilled during WWII  at Umiat;  found oil but not much.   NPR-A  has had several oil lease sales. Marginally successful but less so on the discovery end.

The amount oil and gas in ANWR has been hyped out of reason and changes with political pressure.  The oil  estimates are at given  95% certainty level, the mean and the 5% possibility.  Those that hyped it use the one chance in twenty as if it were a certainty.

ANWR’s  recoverable oil is between zero and 6 billion barrels.  DOE figured it would take something like 30 to 35  production sites to produce that ANWR oil. Please Note,  I said production sites not exploration drilling sites; the two would only be the same if every drill site were successful.  Not much chance of that.

So Sarah, you would be very lucky to make one find of a billion barrels which could justify a pipeline to get the oil out.  The rest would be a lot smaller. Sarah, you will need roads,  oil lines, gaslines, water lines, gas injection , water injection, production and disposal pits, camps and the list goes on.  That kind of infrastructure costs a lot of money for not much return.  The oil business is not a poor man’s game like Senator Lisa Murkowski thinks it is.

Sarah,  if what oil there may be in ANWR  were around Prudhoe Bay then it would most certainly be worth going after, but ANWR is not, ANWR is too far from the North Slope oil production to be seriously considered by the thinking person.

The oil companies may lie, cheat, steal, deceive and buy politicians, the press and whoever else they may need,  but the oil companies are not stupid, with exception of BP.

Now Sarah, because of the above the oil companies quit giving funds to Arctic Gas for lobbing Congress to open ANWR long before Arctic Gas finally collapsed.

Sarah,  if you think you can ride a dead horse,  go for it.   But please move carcass to Lake Lucile for it is beginning to smell.  Maybe you can palm it off on that guy living next to you.  Sarah, you were correct in not baking him a batch of cookies for you will both make more money out of a spat .

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Here in the land of the Midnight Sun, this picture was taken just shortly after midnight tonight.  For those who are always wanting to know, how do I sleep.  Not much this time of the year I’m afraid.

Asking if there is any nuts and there isn’t.  Maybe I will pick some up at the store today for the feeder