Dreamin' Eagles
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniA couple of fast things while I wait for the coffee to brew.
I don't usually remember my dreams, but this morning while I was drowsing on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kinzel's shoulder, the brain kicked up the following rules for "Woodchuckin'," represented as a Traditional Maine Sport.
Sides choose up, no more than six, no less than three per, each team-member to chose three woodchucks from those available in the field pen. No ringers, no privately owned 'chucks.
Woodchucks are rolled up and bowled gently along the green. No lofting. Points off and a turn missed for hurting a 'chuck. Five hundred points off for killing a 'chuck.
Scoring is cumulative throughout the season.
Sounds like fun. Ayuh.
*****
Maine is in a Dams Are Evil phase. The hydroelectric dam at Augusta was removed six or seven years ago in order to make way for the alewives and other sea-run fish (I want to say salmon, since the Kennebec is tidal to Hallowell, just below Augusta, but that may not be so).
In any case about two years ago, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) determined that the Halifax Dam on the Sebasticook River in Winslow was required to produce -- at great cost -- a "fish stair" so that sea-run fish could negotiate the passage or the dam would be demolished.
It's worth noting here that there has been a dam at the location of the Halifax Hydroelectric Dam on the Sebasticook for at least a century.
Making a long story short, the owners of the dam couldn't absorb the cost of the stair, meetings were held, protests were made, it looked like a solution that would allow the dam to remain in place had been found -- and then DEP announced that it was going forth with the removal.
Yesterday, a concerned group of citizens filed a stop order against DEP, to block removal of the Halifax Dam. The group claims that removal of the dam would endanger Bald Eagle nesting areas, and jeopardize wild habitats which have been stable for a hundred years.
This is the same thing that the Town of Winslow and the dam owners have been saying for several years now, mind you, which the state has been ignoring. Pity it had to come to a lawsuit in order to get someone to pay attention.
Coffee's done...
I don't usually remember my dreams, but this morning while I was drowsing on
kinzel's shoulder, the brain kicked up the following rules for "Woodchuckin'," represented as a Traditional Maine Sport.Sides choose up, no more than six, no less than three per, each team-member to chose three woodchucks from those available in the field pen. No ringers, no privately owned 'chucks.
Woodchucks are rolled up and bowled gently along the green. No lofting. Points off and a turn missed for hurting a 'chuck. Five hundred points off for killing a 'chuck.
Scoring is cumulative throughout the season.
Sounds like fun. Ayuh.
*****
Maine is in a Dams Are Evil phase. The hydroelectric dam at Augusta was removed six or seven years ago in order to make way for the alewives and other sea-run fish (I want to say salmon, since the Kennebec is tidal to Hallowell, just below Augusta, but that may not be so).
In any case about two years ago, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) determined that the Halifax Dam on the Sebasticook River in Winslow was required to produce -- at great cost -- a "fish stair" so that sea-run fish could negotiate the passage or the dam would be demolished.
It's worth noting here that there has been a dam at the location of the Halifax Hydroelectric Dam on the Sebasticook for at least a century.
Making a long story short, the owners of the dam couldn't absorb the cost of the stair, meetings were held, protests were made, it looked like a solution that would allow the dam to remain in place had been found -- and then DEP announced that it was going forth with the removal.
Yesterday, a concerned group of citizens filed a stop order against DEP, to block removal of the Halifax Dam. The group claims that removal of the dam would endanger Bald Eagle nesting areas, and jeopardize wild habitats which have been stable for a hundred years.
This is the same thing that the Town of Winslow and the dam owners have been saying for several years now, mind you, which the state has been ignoring. Pity it had to come to a lawsuit in order to get someone to pay attention.
Coffee's done...
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Date: 2004-08-17 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-18 05:45 am (UTC)...and probably neatly explains why I so seldom remember my dreams *g*
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Date: 2004-08-18 07:00 am (UTC)...and probably neatly explains why I so seldom remember my dreams *g*
Are you suggesting that Maine folks are too practical for an SF/F con, or too disorganized? *g* And what is ferret-legging? I'm a cat girl, myself.
I'd rank this dream right up with the one where my HS Biology professor was teaching about floating pretzels...and after the diagrams and discussion, we all got up and floated out the door with the pretzels. I woke up as we were all going down the hall, the teacher explaining what we were seeing...I don't know if we were going out to draw them in their natural habitat, race them, harvest them, or what...
He was rather anal-retentive, but a nice guy... *g*
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Date: 2004-08-18 03:38 pm (UTC)With SF/F cons, as with so many things -- including its baseball team -- Maine looks to Massachusetts. I think population density, lack of, has the most to do with it. Also lack of affordable, accessible facilities, even in /N/o/r/t/h /B/o/s/t/o/n Portland. The anime con did draw down a good couple hundred folks, but I'm not sure that this year's attempt to graft "traditional print" onto programming was a rousing success.
And what is ferret-legging?
You never heard of ferret-legging? Here: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~mcm/ferret.html
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Date: 2004-08-19 07:15 am (UTC)You never heard of ferret-legging? Here: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~mcm/ferret.html
Part of my brain says "you MUST be kidding." And part of my brain says, "there are entire FAMILIES of people down here who dance with rattlesnakes--what's a few ferrets between friends?"
I hope this is a joke, because if it isn't, men are even more stupid than I imagined. Does clean out the gene pool, though...