WAZ Awards 2021 Winner Number 8 ‘The Noose’ (Tommy O) It being a nice night, meaning it wasn’t raining for a change, and our great forest was still gaining 3 minutes of daylight per day Tommy Obrien fired up the grill and produced a massive spread of barbequed venison steaks […]
WAZ Awards 2021 Winner Number 9 An educated lady (Sven) Having inherited a hefty streak of Lutheran masochism, Sven goes to sea for the black cod openings every year, and every year he and Ole get the stuffing beat out of them by weather. He swears about it but rich, […]
10) WAZ Awards 2021 Winner Number 10. Deniers (Roy Sequoia) It was June, just as Roy said it would be, when we finished up the Top Ten WAZ Awards for 2021. Tim and Sonny stoked up the grill, Roy wearing an Amish hat and stained apron with a picture of […]
Runners-up Tough luck you guys, but it was a formidable field in ’21. Dust yourselves off and try again. There’s always next year. John Blake who works for CNN wrote an article titled, ‘The Most Frightening Thing in America is Angry White Men.’ Guys like John are the reason guys […]
Three Giant Dams Destabilizing the World Food Supply. Depending on the farming region, between 70 and 92 percent of humanity’s fresh water goes to agriculture. And so, as humanity outruns it’s water supply the response has been to build ever larger water projects for agriculture and ever more complex distribution […]
3 Giant Dams affecting the World food supply Part 2 of 4 Dam Number 1 China’s 3 Gorges Dam, Continent: Asia. Completed in 2006. World’s largest hydro electric dam. 600 feet high. 1.5 miles across. Reservoir 370 miles long. Impounds Asia’s longest river the Yangtze. Raised water level in the […]
Dam Number Two. America’s Glen Canyon Dam Continent: North America Finished in 1963. 710 feet tall. One quarter mile wide. 10 million tons of concrete vs. over a billion tons of water and silt in the reservoir. Built on sandstone. Location: About due south of Salt Lake City, Utah, just […]
3 Dams on 3 continents in 3 minute reads Continent: Africa. Location: Due East of Djibouti, just inside Ethiopia’s border with Sudan. Impounds: The Blue Nile. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation identified the dam site in the 1950’s but it has just been built and is being filled in the […]
We welcome back the sun and say goodbye to some negative energy Being an old pagan bunch with roots all over the northern world, our crew here at the Woodshed Autonomous Zone has a bonfire every winter solstice. We do this to call the sunlight back just as our […]
Predator Control: Be strong, families. You can do this. Reasons to trap cats: Definition: “Stray” (noun) domestic animal that is wandering at large. There are over 60 million pet cats in the US many of which roam loose, plus there are 70 million feral cats that are all strays. Getting […]
Predator Control: Be Strong Families. You can do this. Get comfortable with the idea that this is not personal. Rather, it’s your yard. You pay the mortgage. You pay the taxes. You pay for the upkeep. You–not a stray cat, not an irresponsible cat owner. Some cat lovers online will […]
The Last Resort: “From the standpoint of abstract justice, the stray cat has just as much right to kill and eat the robin which builds in the vine on my porch as the robin has to pull and eat the earthworms from my lawn; but the place is mine, and […]