Mokume-gane is a mixed-metal laminate with distinctive layered patterns.
This particular sample was my first attempt at it. It’s (in this case) made from a stack of US Quarters.
I plan to carve a little heart-shaped pendant out of it. Valentines Day is coming up!
More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters.
Good riddance.
Jackson County wasted tens of thousands of dollars trying to keep this useless dam intact.
Here’s what I did:
I took my existing angle iron anvil stand that was way too light and bouncy, plated all the sides with 12 gauge steel, and filled it with sand. That sucker’s not goin’ nowhere now!
I estimate 36 lineal feet of welding and 200 pounds of sand.
All politicians fudge on their promises. But this president manages to transcend the normal political exaggeration and dissimulation. Whereas past executives shaded the truth, Barack Obama trumps that: on almost every key issue, what Obama says he will do, and what he says is true, is a clear guide to what he will not do, and what is not true. It is as if “truth” is a mere problem of lesser mortals.
Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.”
The president’s statement is false.
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This is either blithering ignorance of the law or demagoguery of the worst kind.
Click here to read the whole thing.
It was not a referendum on Barack Obama, who in every poll remains one of the most popular politicians in America. It was not a rejection of universal health care… It was not a harbinger of a resurgent G.O.P., whose numbers remain in the toilet.
ref·er·en·dum: 1 a : the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative b : a vote on a measure so submitted
It’s been very cold here for the past two weeks. In fact, it stayed below freezing every day for about ten days straight. As you can imagine, ice has been building up.
Over Cowee mountain, looking towards Franklin
Heading up the Cullasaja gorge
Cullasaja Falls
Dry Falls
The trail down to the falls was a bit icy
Getting closer
Closer...
I don't think I'll go behind the falls today
Cold, cold, cold
Close enough
Trapped in the ice
We weren't the only nutballs
Bridal Veil Falls
Don't stand underneath
Bridal Veil Falls
No drive-thru today
That’s All Folks!
