Deb,

An afterthought concerning chinking choices.   The purpose is insulation.
Cement mortar is a lousy insulator.   Fibrous manure is a fine insulator.
In winter, one often sees snow laying happily on top of dried cow pies while
the snow on the ground diminishes due to earth warmth.

I have always wondered where the word "chinking" came from.   Out here in
Pacifica, "chink" was/is a rude word for a Chinaman.   There certainly is no
tradition of the Chinese as log builders.   We always used the term
"chinking" as a boat building term, meaning the stuffing of oakum between
planks for waterproofing.

At the old style coastal fish canneries the Chinese were the traditional
fish gutters (gut removers), standing in great numbers along troughs to
perform the task with knives.   Eventually a mechanical gut remover was
invented, automating the process and displacing hundreds of workers.  The
mechanical marvel was called The Iron Chink.   The name was cast prominently
right into the iron frame for all to see.   In the recent years of literary
political delicacy, the display about historic fish processing at our
Provincial Museum experienced a problem with the name.   The machine is
still on view, but the display lighting has been arranged to put the name in
deep shadow, and the text panel has been changed to read, simplistically,
"Mechanical fish gut remover."

cp in bc

PS:   the best time to chink your logs is not in the summer when flies of
all sorts love to congregate on the fresh warm cow-provided insulation
material, even after towelling and before lunch.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Bledsoe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: [BP] cow crap or bull,,,, errrr ummmm...


> Hi cp! Thanks for the reply to my question on the chinking - I will show
> it to my property committee and see what they say - although I am pretty
> sure they will say no. It's hard enough for me to find ppl who will work
> on projects for free as it is, much less they have to smear cow poop
> around on some old rotten logs.   ;)   If we use cement, at least when
> they all complain that the new chinking is falling out, I can say I told
> them so. (The guy down the road told me to mix damp sawdust into the
> cement; next someone will advise using waxed screens as a base, I bet.)
>
> As for your unknown attachment, it is possible that it is some new
> variant of the SirCam worm. (COD take note: the executable attachment
> still resides in the archives!) That worm used to generate its own email
> to your contacts and take a file from your computer, infect it with
> itself,  attach it with an .lnk extension to the email, and send itself.
> Maybe it is now just attaching to regular emails that you are sending.
>
> deb
>
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