We took advantage yesterday of a sudden day of warm sunshine on the southwest Oregon coast to restore order to our flock of two dozen chickens. We had too many roosters and they were beating up on the hens. Today the rain returned and so did order to the chicken yard.

We’ve been taking advantage of a free food source just outside Gold Beach by harvesting mussels off the sea stacks that uncover at low tide. John Silveira and I had a great time harvesting our allotted 72 mussels each per day yesterday, then we steamed and ate them like clams after John made a delicious curry/apple juice dip.

The dip was a copy of that served at Barnacle Bistro, one of Gold Beach’s newest and best small restaurants. I have a mussel lunch there about twice a week.

Global warming is always a good humorous story. This article from the CNN website is at least heartening because it states that more Americians believe that global warming is a natural event, and indeed it is.

Global warming is natural, as is global cooling. The earth is always either warming, as it is now, or cooling. It’s how the earth has worked since its incepton four and a half billion years ago. The evidence for man-caused global warming has NEVER been there. But most of the people of the world don’t understand science so politicians — especially commie and socialist politicians — can convince them that we need a massive redistribution of the world’s wealth to stop global warming. Thank God some Americans are catching on to what is actually occurring.

I allude to this problem of commies becoming environmentalists in my Issue No. 120 article:

“One needs to understand the politics of the day. As BHM was being born, communism around the world was collapsing. Gorbachev was about to dissolve the Soviet Union, and the Berlin Wall was set to come down. It was an extraordinary worldwide repudiation of communism, and diehard communists and socialists were fleeing their sinking ship and hopping aboard its new horse, the worldwide environmental movement. They injected themselves into the movement, giving it tremendous momentum but distorting its altruistic goals with their socialist philosophy.”

Global warming is a fact that few scientists would dispute. But most scientists who are not dependent upon government funding to say otherwise would say that global warming is a natural cycle of the earth. I’ve talked about this before in this blog, but I can’t find the damn post. Suffice it to say that we have more to fear from global cooling than global warming.