What Hat Are You Wearing Today ?

[Mighty44]

Walking a couple of hats over to the Post Office in a no name Royal Stetson before it gets too hot for felt.

David

 

[hatophile]

Stetson

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Disney Twenty
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Holy smokes! That’s my idea of the perfect classic fedora. Love it, Dave!

 

[DaveProc]

Holy smokes! That’s my idea of the perfect classic fedora. Love it, Dave!

Thanks Brent!!

 

[dkstott]

Akubra Banjo Patterson hat was the choice for stacking a full cord of firewood today

The stack is just shy of 6ft tall and 18ft long. Nice days work for me and the hat.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Akubra Banjo Patterson hat was the choice for stacking a full cord of firewood today

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We heated exclusively with a wood stove for 15 years and my wife was ecstatic when we moved into a house with natural gas central heating. I miss cutting, splitting, and stacking wood…something deeply satisfying about it. Both you and the Akubra looked to have done a great job.

 

[Frunobulax]

Early morning errand in a Borsa.

Late afternoon doggie walk in a Peters Bros hemp Milan.

 

[dkstott]

We heated exclusively with a wood stove for 15 years and my wife was ecstatic when we moved into a house with natural gas central heating. I miss cutting, splitting, and stacking wood…something deeply satisfying about it. Both you and the Akubra looked to have done a great job.

Home heating oil costs are astronomical right now. My wood stove is going to be working a lot this winter.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Home heating oil costs are astronomical right now. My wood stove is going to be working a lot this winter.

Never heated with oil but it sounds expensive. Wood stoves and fireplaces have been outlawed in much of California, but some of the mountain counties still allow them. It’s a very uneven heat and it’s messy and not on-demand, but I love a wood fire. It’s also nice to have heat and be able to do a bit of cooking when the power is out.

 

[M Hatman]

Wood stoves and fireplaces have been outlawed in much of California, but some of the mountain counties still allow them.

You, really, really need to get away from there...........

 

[Rumad]

Never heated with oil but it sounds expensive. Wood stoves and fireplaces have been outlawed in much of California, but some of the mountain counties still allow them. It’s a very uneven heat and it’s messy and not on-demand, but I love a wood fire. It’s also nice to have heat and be able to do a bit of cooking when the power is out.

WTF?

 

[deadlyhandsome]

You, really, really need to get away from there...........

WTF?

Haven’t you heard? California is setting the example for the rest of the country: you’ll all be where we are in a couple years.

Three years and counting for me. This summer I’m taking another trip south scouting possible retirement locations.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Haven’t you heard? California is setting the example for the rest of the country: you’ll all be where we are in a couple years.

Three years and counting for me. This summer I’m taking another trip south scouting possible retirement locations.

And George Orwell wept.....

 

[deadlyhandsome]

And George Orwell wept.....

I was surprised how nice the people in the South were to us knowing we were from California. I kept feeling the need to explain I wasn’t one of “those Californians.”

 

[Blare]

Haven’t you heard? California is setting the example for the rest of the country: you’ll all be where we are in a couple years.

Three years and counting for me. This summer I’m taking another trip south scouting possible retirement locations.

I remember reading some time back about some significant air quality issues in areas of Alaska from wood burning for heat. I don’t remember all the details.. but Apparently there is a phenomenon where because of intense cold and the terrain, the smoke can get trapped in the town and essentially smoke people out. They were attempting to ban the wood burning… however not realizing it was the only heating option for a lot of lower income folks.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

I remember reading some time back about some significant air quality issues in areas of Alaska from wood burning for heat. I don’t remember all the details.. but Apparently there is a phenomenon where because of intense cold and the terrain, the smoke can get trapped in the town and essentially smoke people out. They were attempting to ban the wood burning… however not realizing it was the only heating option for a lot of lower income folks.

I remember going south on Interstate 5 over the Grapevine and dropping into the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles in the 1970s and ‘80s. The smog was terrible. You could taste it in the air and visibility was only a few miles and my eyes would sting. Regulations have cleaned up the air a great deal in the intervening decades. You need regulations when that many people live in close proximity; however, what works or is needed for Los Angeles doesn’t often work as well in rural areas where I live.

 

[dkstott]

Wood stoves have come a long way. They're very efficient and generate little or no smoke. My garden loves the ashes.

Our home heating oil furnace is one of the best at 85% efficiency.

We started out using the wood stove on cold winter nights for mood and during power outages.

But heating oil pricing have almost tripled this year. We plan on using my wood stove a lot more this year. '

California and NY are currently pushing laws to ban natural gas in all new construction. So much for clean, efficient and affordable. My hunch is that there's going to be significant push back from the restaurant industry.

I remember living in our condo that had electric heat. Our winter monthly electric bill approached $1,000. We had to move a monthly average for the year.

IMHO. There's a major push to strictly electric in homes & cars without much effort to build up the power companies infrastructure to support it. Rolling blackouts may become the norm.

Electric vehicles sound good until you look into the environmental problems with mining for the elements needed for the batteries and the cost to replace them with no current recycling process.

Add in the limited range for driving. Thinking of visiting family 5 hours away? Plan on stopping several times for hours to charge the batteries. Hybrid cars are a better option.

Solar power has its own problems in residential use related with the installation expense, same environmental issues associated with mining and disposal. Some solar companies insist on placing a lein on the house to cover the costs.

They used to say " we'll find a way to recycle the waste from nuclear power plants". They never did. I think there's a long way to go before those lithium batteries can be safely recycled.

There's a long way to go before any of the issues are resolved.

 

[Mighty44]

Somehow the $20 Open Road with the worm hole up front has become my favorite hat to wear this spring. Go figure.

 

[fabiovenhorst]

Cap day again

 

[M Hatman]

what works or is needed for Los Angeles doesn’t often work as well in rural areas where I live.

Or the whole rest of the country....the "All or Nothing" approach is ridiculous.....and none of the 'ideas" are well thought out at all....did no one learn from (or pay attention to) the Texas Winter power outages???

Much of this seems deliberately intended to isolate us, limit movement (travel) and regulate our entire existence....George Orwell indeed.