 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
The Creston auction will be held Saturday, January 3, 2009, starting at 6 P. M. at the Creston Community Building.
The Creston area continues to have rain, snow, hot and cold weather and winter has now officially arrived.
The road crew has been putting up road and street signs in the Creston area. The Woodring Road sign was corrected and even Richardsonville Road now has its own sign. Talk about "upscale".
Jerry Harris was attending to business in Creston.
A local oilfield worker got his chariot hung up on a location in Calhoun County and was obliged to call the wrecker to make a retrieval. Another fellow was searching for a waterline in Grantsville. He found it 'before he was ready' so to speak.
Eva G. Pennington went in for her checkup and noted that she didn't feel very well. A quick test showed that she was low, low, low on Potassium so she got to spend a sojourn where they bring you breakfast in bed. Now she is feeling much better.
Carl & Donna Sue Ferrell have both been consulting their physicians while Charles Russell was consulting his podiatrist.
Rev. Carlos Nutter filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church.
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Webster and comely daughter Chrissy who is home on Christmas break, Charles & Euell Russell were all dining at a popular Spencer eatery. Charles & Euell were doing Christmas shopping while the comely Chrissy is working over the break at Holbert's Self Serve in Brooksville.
Nancy Engelke was consulting with an oral surgeon who had to, with great difficulty, remove a tooth, implant bone in the hole, etc.
Teddy Parsons who had been eating bear meat sandwiches shared some of the game with Black Magic who is the self-appointed office cat. After just a taste the feline lost all fear of canines and such.
Some have been wondering why the one who is "to bring change to Washington" needed to have an Internal Security Force" the size of the Army. It is now reported that the Denver Mint has been making Americo coins which will replace the Mexican Peso & the Canadian & American Dollars. Mrs. Pelosey & Mr. Reid the Nevada public lands developer & Senate Boss, gave the Treasury Secretary complete power over the economy so he can declare "Force Majure" and demonitize the dollar thus making it no longer legal tender. This would wipe out all savings, retirements, checking accounts and other dollar based items making almost everyone penniless. This may explain why there have been several multi million dollar sales of properties as some are taking cash abroad and others are acquiring precious metals, gold coins, etc. Biden, the hair transplant expert, has been saying that times would get real tough. He may be telling the truth.
The folks down at the Mouth of the Elk are running scared after Professor Chu, the Chinaman that the Big Eared One named as Energy Secretary, stated that "Coal was his worst nightmare." Before the election the slicksters had told "the rubes" that hostile things said during the campaign against oil, gas and coal were "Just words" implying that they were said just to impress "the tree huggers". Perhaps the 2 ½ million promised "green jobs" will be positions sitting on stationary bicycles turning hand generators or maybe pulling rickshaws through the streets to cut down on the use of gasolene, as using horses would offend PETA.
There seems to be a lot of talk about "hunger" throughout the country. Precious few bother to plant a garden and almost everyone in these parts can find a patch of ground. If there were truly hungry people all the walnuts along the road would have been gathered up and hulled out, either to eat or to sell. No one is going around gathering up down limbs for firewood but many want taxpayer help with utility bills. Apparently "those in need" are like the corpulent bankers, UAW leaders and others with connections and are waiting for a "bailout" at taxpayers' expense. Of course at sometime the money bin will be empty which may be why the new currency was minted.
The price of local Penn grade crude fell to $27.50/bbl. Obviously the prognosticator who said that oil would fall to $20/bbl knew what he was talking about. Of course many believe that the runup "was to make Bush & Cheney look bad as they were oilmen." Of course neither were in the oil business at the time but "if one is morally superior one can tell whoppers for 'a greater good'".
The aluminum plant in Ravenswood would appear to be well on its way to shutting down with the closing down of one pot line. The electric company made it clear that it would "not cooperate" to help keep the plant open. It seems that it costs 80 some cents to make aluminum that is worth 60 some cents/lb. Of course such does not require advanced mathematics to "figger out".
The EPA folks have come out with new rules on farming. Seems that if one spreads chicken manure, horse dumplings or other organic waste on land one must hire a technician and submit a "nutrient management plan" to some bureaucrat in Washington Dee Cee. Likely the fellow who will get to approve/reject the plan is one of those who said "We should get all our food from third world countries." It would seem that if there is no vegetative cover in one's pigpen or chicken lot then one would also be in violation unless one had one of the permits. Feeding cattle in the barn in winter could also be iffy. One farmer said, "I'll just sell my cattle!" but then he was told, "If you do that, all your pasture will be reclassified as development land for condominiums, strip malls, etc."
Chesapeake & Equitable have both permitted more horizontal wells in various parts of the state.
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