Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Every summer (for the last eight?!), we try to get down to the mid-Willamette Valley to take rides with Russell in “his” bale stacking outfit.
We almost missed it for this season.
But after lunch yesterday, Ruby and Andrew and I took off.
Here are eleven photos I took. Read it all
For quite a while, I’ve thought owning an LCD projector would be quite handy. So far, though, I’ve done just fine (thank you!) by borrowing the one from the Woodburn Public Library (in Woodburn, Oregon).
This morning, though, I spied one on sale for a penny (or was it a dollar) under $200:
No, I’m not in the market for one. No, I don’t want one for my birthday (even if it is my fiftieth). But that aside — and about the post’s title — I suppose I could be content with such a thing. But I doubt such contentment would last very long. Read it all
Police say Lindsey Baum, 11, of the small town of McCleary, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, vanished the night of June 26 while walking home from a friend’s house just four blocks away.
More than 100 searchers have used dogs, horses and helicopters seeking any trace of Lindsey, but investigators says they have little to go on, and they’re appealing to the public for help.
Lindsey’s father, Scott Baum, made an emotional appeal to anyone knowing her whereabouts, saying, “Please bring me my daughter home before I have to leave” for Iraq.
Source: CBS News
Another news item: Missing McCleary girl’s mom heading to NY
First, from yesterday’s Miami Herald:
An Orlando judge on Monday ordered the 17-year-old woman into the custody of the Department of Children and Families until another hearing next week.
The teenager, who is not a U.S. citizen, says she fears her family would hurt her, kill her or send her back to her native Sri Lanka. Her parents live in Franklin County, Ohio.
The teenager took a bus from Ohio to Orlando. She has been staying with a family she met through a Christian prayer group on Facebook.
And now from this morning’s Examiner:
Rifqa claims her father repeatedly threatened to kill her for abandoning her Muslim upbringing, so the teen fled to Florida to stay with Pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church in Orlando, whom she had met on Facebook. The Lorenz’s sought the advice of attorneys and alerted authorities that the missing girl was in Florida.
The girl’s father, Mohamed Bary, has denied the allegations and traveled to Florida to bring his daughter home. However, the Florida DCF wants to be sure the girl is safe before sending her back to Ohio, who likely has jurisdiction in the case.
WFTV in Orlando, FL reports that DCF attorney Karelene Cole-Palmer has said, “There are too many conflicting things that are going on with this child and it needs to be investigated thoroughly.”
But for now, the girl will remain in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families until her next hearing on August 21.
PS: I’m a slow dial-up connection. Is that an objectionable video?
Putting pertinent photos with a story adds impact and helps understanding.
So here’s a story about the US-Mexico border fence. And the story begins in Nogales, split between Arizona and Sonora.
Well, folks, I’ve been in Nogales lots of times in the course of fifty years or so. (Granted, some of those years I was too young to notice much.) The photo accompanying this paragraph is not Nogales!
I know, I know — the story makes no claim that it’s Nogales. But still.
So I let’s take this in a totally different direction.
Is the person in the photo a drug smuggler coming north or a gun runner going south?
Or is it an Islamic terrorist sneaking into the States or an illegal immigrant fleeing back to Mexico after murdering someone in the US?
Source: High Country News
Our son Russell drives stacker for 4-6 weeks each summer, using a custom built 12 500-pound bale stacker, designed and used-to-be manufactured right there on farm.
This year they’re going commercial with their Bale Chaser by NW Ag Equipment.
The Bale Chaser from NW Ag Equipment is built commercial farm tough for stacking big bales. This machine can handle the biggest jobs with ease. The machine in this video is driven by Russell of J&J Farms and has picked up and stacked over 2200 bales in one day with one Bale Chaser.
In the following commercial, he’s doing the driving in most of the video. Toward the end, someone else is driving.
It’s very interesting to ride with him.
Maybe sometime I’ll post some photos.
Oh, if the video doesn’t appear above, your version of Flash might be too old. Or you may need to try this link.
1709 — Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal.
1844 — The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1876 — Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908 — Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight (and it was at a racecourse at Le Mans, France — what’s with that!).
1911 — Francis Holton files a patent for a tubeless vehicle tire. Nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine patents had been filed before his, albeit not for tubeless tires.
1911 — Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435 (but it doesn’t go into effect until 1913).
1945 — The United States becomes the third signatory nation of the United Nations Charter.
1973 — US Vice President Spiro Agnew appears on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
1974 — US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
1990 — Iraq occupies Kuwait.
2009 — Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as the first Latina justice of the US Supreme Court — and she’s also the first Hispanic justice and the first Puerto Rican justice and the first woman justice (after Sandra and Ruth, of course).