G'day to all! A Chamber of Commerce day here in central Georgia. Been out in the workshop building a table for a farmer friend of mine and starting to get in the short rows with it. The same table on the internet sells for $549 with shipping. Just a token of appreciation for all the help that my life long friends do for me and my family. I am chomping at the bit to get started planting. Corn will probably be the first thing I plant as it can handle a frost and keep on ticking. Yall mentioned earlier about planting cowpeas in the corn. I tried it, but didn't care for it as corn loves nitrogen and peas don't need much of it or you get a lot of vines and not many peas. Plus, my favorite cowpea is Red Rippers and they make a heck of a bush with runners. It gets too 'snakey' to harvest either of them! I live near Eastman, Georgia (Home of Stuckey's candies) and buy my seed at a local home garden center (Chas Mar) as they have a good selection and are reasonably priced compared to ordering from the internet. Soon I will be taking my wife down there to choose the peas and beans she wants me to plant this season. My wife was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, but loves the country. It does my heart good to see her so pleased at looking at the different kinds and making choices. Getting all sloppy now... lol Mr. Brown, I have a friend that lives in Avon Park, Florida (below Orlando) that loves gardening too and wonder if your 'winter home' is near there? George, we should keep quiet about the country life... hee hee We might not be in the country long if the word gets out... Shot

Excellent - you have it, Bobbie and Annette. TM got Thresher - also Scorpion? Cyn? Sorry I left you yesterday for so long - our annual purse sale for Big Brothers and Sisters - lots of fun and good deals for every budget!! lol. In the summer of 1985, Ballard was aboard the French research ship Le Suroît, which was using the side scan sonar SAR to search for Titanic's wreck. When the French ship was recalled, Ballard transferred onto a ship from Woods Hole, the R/V Knorr. Unbeknownst to some, this trip was financed by the U.S. Navy for secret reconnaissance of the wreckage of two Navy nuclear powered attack submarines, the USS Scorpion and the USS Thresher, which sank in the 1960s, and not for Titanic. Back in 1982, Ballard approached the Navy about his new deep sea underwater robot craft, the Argo, and his search for Titanic. The Navy was not interested in financing the search for the large ocean liner. However, they were interested in finding out what happened to their missing submarines and ultimately concluded that Argo was their best chance to do so. The Navy agreed it would finance Ballard's Titanic search only if he first searched for and investigated the two sunken submarines, and found out the state of their nuclear reactors after being submerged for such a long time, and whether their radioactivity was impacting the environment. Ballard was placed on temporary active duty in the Navy, in charge of finding and investigating the wrecks. After the two missions were completed, time and funding permitting, Ballard was free to use resources to hunt for Titanic. The second USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea in the North Atlantic during deep-diving tests approximately 220 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1963 was a watershed event for the U.S. Navy, leading to the implementation of a rigorous submarine safety program known as SUBSAFE. Measured by lives lost, historic context and significance, the sinking of Thresher was then, and remains today, the world's worst submarine disaster. As the first nuclear submarine lost at sea, its disappearance generated international shock and sympathy. As the lead vessel, the class name should have been Thresher-class. However, when the Thresher was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on April 16, 1963, out of respect for naval tradition its name was retired and the class name was changed to that of the second boat, USS Permit (SSN-594): thus, despite being the lead boat, the Thresher is, officially, referrred to as a Permit-class submarine. Having been "lost at sea", Thresher was not decommissioned by the U.S. Navy and remains on “Eternal Patrol.” USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy, and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was declared lost on 5 June 1968 with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. On 1 February 1967 Scorpion entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for another extended overhaul. However, instead of the much-needed complete overhaul, she received only emergency repairs to get her back on duty as soon as possible. Operational pressures and complex and unforeseen problems created by the Submarine Safety Program (SUBSAFE) that was initiated after the 1963 loss of Thresher, meant that submarine overhauls went from nine months in length to 36 months. Intensive vetting of submarine component quality required by the SUBSAFE program coupled with various improvements and intensified structural inspections - particularly hull welding inspections using ultrasonic testing - were issues that reduced the availability of critical parts such as seawater piping. Cold War pressures prompted U.S. Submarine Fleet Atlantic (SUBLANT) officers to hunt for ways to reduce overhaul durations. The U.S. Navy has acknowledged that it periodically visits the site to conduct testing for the release of nuclear materials from the nuclear reactor or the two nuclear weapons aboard her, and to determine whether the wreckage has been disturbed. The Navy has not released any information about the status of the wreckage, except for a few photographs taken of the wreckage in 1968, and again in 1985 by deep water submersibles. So, for Bobbie, Thin Man and Annette: Thanks for playing. Interesting history, and finding the Titanic made it all plausible!! See you next week. Nancy.

The antarctic ice shelfs are cracking, receding and breaking away. How long are people going to bury their heads in the sand and deny global warming and climate change (its not just about a constant warming - the global climates are already being seriously disrupted across the planet). The worlds scientific community who have published their studies unanimously agree that co2 levels have increased at an astounding rate since the industrial revolution, and this also coincides with dramatic rising temperatures particularly ocean temperatures. Ice core samples have been studied going back about 600 000 years, these are like a time capsule which clearly show the evidence of rising co2 levels and temperature. the last ice age was about 11 000 years ago and did not show anything near what has been seen in the ice samples of the recent 100 or so years. For people who still doubt this is going on, look around you at what is happening in the world. Ice caps are receding at an astounding rate, ice shelfs are cracking, ocean temperatures are rising, there are shifting weather patterns such as droughts in one area, and flooding nearby (this is all related to temperature and ocean temperature) When will enough people wake up and start putting pressure on governments to do something and stop lying and fearmongering that action will cause some economic catastrophe? We need change at a massive global government level NOW and while people continue to buy into the misinformation being put out in the media, there is going to continue to be a lack of pressure on governments to act.

Thanks, Grainlady. That's fab! They've been calling Zep heavy metal since the term was invented, and they're mentioned in every definition I've seen. I get it why you don't get it, but there it is. A lot of their work wasn't that heavy, but they were among the first. Though speaking of drums, I always expected it was Keith Moon whom Bill Graham was referring to in his story about the self indulgent drum solo. :) People still talk about them playing Whole Lotta Love at Winterland.