This hot food craze
By: Stan Jordan
I know that I am going to get in trouble for writing this because it is one of our Civil Rights. But I have long entertained the idea of talking back to those hot pepper eaters.
Some of my friends start out with the mild stuff like Pepper Jack cheese, but you know one thing leads to another and they are soon on horseradish, onion tops, garlic and all.
Now I like chili soup, but not the hot variety, maybe even a touch of sugar. Nothing hot on my pizza either.
My neighbor, Kenny Hahn, says I am a wimp for the way I like my chili, you know, on the mild side.
To me, Pepper Jack cheese is hot, but those people eat that and Ghost Pepper cheese and even Scorpion cheese, and that is only the mild stuff. They soon start to eat those Jalapeno Pepper like carrots. They must have a brick lined stomach.
My boss makes his own hot sauce and Jalapeno Peppers is the mild stuff. He uses, Cayenne Pepper, Ghost Peppers, Chili Peppers and Sereno Peppers cut all up first, with gloves on, and vinegar and salt, you must use Apple Cider vinegar.
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Safety on the farm
By: Stan Jordan
This topic is older than old man John Deere’s first one bottom plow. Farming is considered one of the vocations that is loaded with accidents. What brings me to write this column on safety is the fact that most of this area farmers have one or two of these semi-trailers for hauling grain called 18 wheelers.
I talked to Kenny Hahn about these grain trailers and he said they run between 37 to 45 ft in length and about 8ft wide and about 70 inches in depth and as a rule you can haul about one thousand bushels of grain of the types that we grow here in the tri-state area.
All dump trucks and trailers have a hydraulic hoist to dump that load. This same vehicle may also be used to haul sand, gravel, wood or other similar materials.
This hydraulic dump is certainly a labor saving device in a number of ways, but it is dangerous to the operator in just as many ways.
A raised bed on a dump truck or trailer presents several accidents waiting to happen. Such as tipping over sideways, hitting electrical lines or the operator not using a block so the bed won’t come down, or when the ground is not level or flat, or falls from a loaded truck or even a heavy tailgate. Maybe an off center or shifting load can cause the raised bed to tip over.
There are a number of things that can go wrong with the hydraulic cylinders and that will let the bed back down on the operator. Again a block can be used, maybe that takes a little time, but that is time well spent.
Drivers should be trained on the specifics of maintenance and inspection of trucks and trailers.
Yes, a lot of this safety schooling is common sense and paying attention to what you are doing and remembering accidents can happen!
In talking with Kenny Hahn and Nick Bragg they have two semis and “Old Blue” that is an old farm truck they use only at harvesting time it is a 1981Chevy. “Old blue” will hold about 300 bushels and it will pull a trailer of about 300 more.
They also have a grain cart that will hold about 1000 bushels and they use it to dump the combine if they cannot make a complete round. These few pieces of equipment will usually keep the grain away from the combine.
Now most of the farmers in this area have these pieces of transportation but I used Kenny and Nick because I know what they have and how they operate the day and night hours.
In talking with Nick, he tells me that in the county there is a device that is a tube like affair, and it can be used if a person falls into a grain bin to get them out. That unit is available anywhere it is needed. This is a fine piece of equipment and all the county firemen have been shown how to use it.
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California and the death sentence
By: Stan Jordan
Let’s get right to the point on this topic. I think it is wrong to outlaw the death sentence in a blanket law. Some cases are so bad the felon should pay with their life at once.
Just today that killer Manson died in prison of natural causes. He engineered the death of seven people and he never showed any remorse. He should have been hung immediately from the nearest tree. He was not a good person in any way or never would have been a good citizen. His mind was to kill, kill, kill. But the tax payers in California was stuck with him by their own law.
Manson, himself, cost the state almost 700,000 just to keep him alive, that is just room and board. There are other people in prison over the killings also.
But the courts knew he killed these people, he was no good to society. Life meant nothing to him. He never would have been a credit to America.
To me, he should have gotten a long drop on a short rope with no ifs, ands or buts. He took a lot of lives and caused a lot of sorrow to other families. He should have died post haste.
I think California’s law about no death rule should be repealed. It is wrong, wrong, wrong to harbor a killer like that.
Times have changed.
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Something on the Eagles
By: Stan Jordan
This picture of the two adult eagles was given to me by Jarrison Steiner. His wife, Kim took the photo out the window up on the north side of 204. The eagles are quite common in that area.
This is November 14th and I am sorry to tell you that yesterday I went down to where the eagles nest was to be and there is nothing there…no nest.
The eagles built that nest in that tree twice, but not the third time. The leaves are gone now and you can see the area pretty good and I didn’t see any eagle’s nest. That female eagle figured three times was too many and moved to another tree.
During this past week I received two reports of Golden Eagles. I know both of these people and I think they did see one.
Both species of eagles are about the same size, big! The big difference is the color of the head. One is pretty white and the other is a brownish color called gold.
The one man was still excited about how large that bird was.
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