[puma-news] map of USFS parcels for sale

Neighbors --

I've tried to put together some maps that show the
parcels for sale in ways that may help you better
visualize where they are.

www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/magngoo.jpg

is an aerial image of our neighborhood from Google
Earth, stretching from Barker Reservoir on the left
to the intersection of CR-68 and Aspen Way on the
right. To the top are sections along Ridge Road
north of Boulder Canyon Rd. To the lower left are
regions around Tungsten Mountain, southwest of
Giggey pond. The darker areas are forested.

www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/magnsale.jpg

is from the official government web site, showing
a crude map of the roads. Light green areas are
existing USFS lands. Hatched regions bordered in
dark green are suggested for sale. The individual
squares are a quarter-mile on a side.

www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/magnmrg.jpg

is a merger of the two previous views. The overlap
isn't perfect, but it can help you compare the
land-sale sites with natural features.

The rightmost box is the portion that the Pine Glade
neighborhood surrounds. To its left is a portion
that includes the northern slopes of the high
point reached, for instance, from Boy Scout Trails
that has a glorious view of the Divide.

The 3 contiguous parcels to the south of the last
two are just east of Deadman's Curve and just south
of Scott Reuman's, a section of forest that PUMA
volunteers helped to document as part of the
Winiger Ridge Project. Two more parcels abut
the intersection of Lazy Z and Magnolia. West of
them is a block that contains the high hill
surrounded by hiking/mountain bike trails (and
an unused USFS road) that is very popular.

Many more for-sale parcels are in the Tungsten
Mountain vicinity, and northeast of Nederland
in the vicinity of Ridge Road. Of course, many
other large parcels of interest are off the
map, such as enormous parcels between St. Mary's
glacier and James Peak.

Most of these parcels are, in fact, contiguous
with large stretches of existing USFS lands.

Clark Chapman

For all those train buffs out there

Two years ago, I struck up a conversation with a guy that was loaded down with video cameras. He was standing next to the Moffat tunnel, which was built about about 100 years ago to allow trains to get under the continental divide after leaving west out of Denver. At the time, it was a massive and expensive undertaking, but it has paid for itself many times over since.
Anyway, it turns out that he had taveled all the way from Italy (if memory serves) just to take video of trains.
Well, this is for all those train buffs out there.


Yes it was snowing and my friend walking by on her maiden snowshoe walk was an interesting sideline.

BTW, a minor gripe I have with Google videos is that they don't seem to tell you when your video has been approved. You just have to go back and check and at some point it just shows up. Still, its a great service since they take care of all the details about putting video on the web.

Always keep good notes

There's a chinese saying that goes
"The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory"

This certainly applies to keeping track of what you might be doing on the internet.

Just today, I found a domain that had slipped through the cracks after the ordeal detailed at
So if you aren't just on the internet for pure entertainment, keep notes!

Note: keep notes.

Google hosts my video for free

I had to try this out. I heard that Google will host (store and stream) videos for free. Google gave me a utility to upload it with. I had to format the video as a wmv because it did not accept the asf format from my camera. It took a about a day to get it aproved.

Google also provides code that you can paste right into a site, or even this blog. So here it goes...



Cool! It works! Now you can enjoy the same view of the snow dragons that I get to see out my widow. "Snow Dragons" are my name for the huge waves of blowing snow that we get as the wind blows the snow of the trees after a snow fall.

PS. I admit, I added the blowing wind sound track. It just "looks" better with the sound of the wind!

Top 10 uses for paper bags

My fifth and final installment of the paper bag series. I hope you share my sense of humor.

Top 10 uses for paper bags

A variation on the paper bag them

Here's a slightly different perspective of the paper bag vs plastic bag controversy.

Paper Bags vs ___

Paper Bag crafts

Heres a fun use for paper bags.

Use them in crafts projects.

You'd be amazed at all the different animal shapes you can make out of paper bags

Check out Paper Bag Crafts

Paper or plastic?

Now I'm off contemplating the lowly paper bag.


http://www.paperbagsfyi.com/

And I'm not done yet. More soon.

Cats and Bags

Sometimes, its good to have a little fun. A friend of mine asked me to write up something about Paper Bags

. Take a look. Can you tell I like cats?

Now I know what ssh-scan does

I'm still trying to get a handle on the situation detailed in http://www.canaca-sucks.com

I finally found out from a friend of mine that goes by the handle "tech guru" what ssh-scan does. It is a tool used for DOS attacks. What this means in plain English is that it is used to send a lot of requests to a targeted website. The targeted website becomes overwhelmed and basically stops working.
Evidently, hackers use ssh-scan to shut down a trageted website for "fun" or profit.

[puma-news] Crutches to borrow

Hi All,

Does anyone out there have a pair of crutches for a person about 5'7"
that we could borrow for about six weeks?

Jennifer

Warning about hosting with Canaca

Sometimes, the impersonal nature of the internet leads to some strange interactions. Somehow, I think that the kind of "you are guilty just because I say so" treatment that I got with a former hosting provider just would be less likely in person.
Come to think of it, I did have that kind of interaction once in person. However, it was also a special case in that the individual did not speak english very well. And perhaps my german accent got in the way too.
Any way, you can read my experience and my fair warning at http://www.canaca-sucks.com

- Mike

[puma-news] Oh Dear

Has this happened to you?

You go out to get in your shiney vehicle to go to town, and what
awaits? Good grief, have Christmas elves been turned loose with finger
paints? Did we upset any local teenagers? Does our truck have a
secret life?

Try explaining it to your town friends --- it's elk, licking mag-chlor
which gets all over everything, especially when the roads are wet. And
it's too cold to wash your car, unless you go to the Piddle in Boulder.
Heck, I don't go to Boulder that often! So I live with the shame and
embarrassment of elk-lick, taking back roads and alleys whenever possible.

Jennifer

[puma-news] Magnoila raw milk co-op

Hi all,

we are a small co-op formed in April of '05, currently of 7 members in
the Magnolia area who have bought "shares" of a dairy cow, (legally
approved of in Colorado) through Guidestone Farm, (also associated
with Sunrise Ranch) and Ebert Farms, located near Loveland and Byers.
They have a small herd of about 12? cows or thereabouts. We are
looking for an additional 2 or 3 people who would also like to join us
and share in the benefits of raw milk and other produce the farm
offers.

This requires that you be a
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFB</param>responsible</color> person able to
commit to the picking up of your share/s of milk at our Magnolia
location every weekend, and be able to happily do your share of the
driving to the farm, (1 time per X number of weeks depending on number
of current members) We would like to have 9 or 10 total members, as
this would allow each of us to drive to the Loveland farm location
only once every 9 or 10 weeks and keeps the number of coolers
necessary to about three. The drive is 1 hour and 15 min. one way from
Magnolia.

In addition to this there is a rotation of small jobs that help our
group to function as a co-op, such as making a driving schedule once
every 3 -4 months, being the e-mail point person, keeping the order
sheet up to date, hosting the pick-up site, helping get the monthly
milk payments in, etc.

Costs involved: there is a <color><param>0000,0000,FFFC</param>one
time </color>buy-in fee, you legally own a share of the cow,
"<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><x-tad-bigger>the cost of a cow share
is $50.00.  One cow can accomodate about 25 shareholders, and we think
it makes sense to have the shares reflect the cost of a cow.  The
current market for a Jersey cow is between $1400 and $1750.00" Julie
Ebert.

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current member wishes to sell you one of their shares which they
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monthly cost of the milk</color>; if you own 1/2 share (1 jar per
week) is $17.00 if you own a whole share (2 jars per week) is $34.00
if you own 1 1/2 share (3 jars per week) is $51.00, more quantities
available if want the figures.

If you desire to learn more about the benefits of raw milk first there
are a couple of good resources you can check out, the web site:
realmilk.org and two books; The Milk Book by William Douglass MD. (at
Boulder's library) and The Untold Story of Milk, by Ron Schmid ND. The
web site has even more resources.

Paperwork detailing operating standards of the farm have been provided
to the co-op and is available to read.

They keep us informed about their testing of the milk here is the
latest count.

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the most recent results of the bulk tank milk sample.  The standard
plate count was 570 cfu/g (colony forming units/ gram).  The coliform
count was less than one.  To remind you, the standard in the raw milk
community is for the standard plate count to be 10,000 cfu/g or less
and coliforms 50 or less.  After milk is pasteurized the standard
plate count is required to be 20,000 cfu/g or less"</fontfamily>

Other benefits of going to the farm;

The farm has their own store and also offers raw skim milk, their own
honey, eggs from their free range hens, various meats, fresh breads,
raw cream and colostrum when available, raw yogurt, cheese and some
non food items.

Kids enjoy going to the farm to see all the various animals, the
people are very kid friendly there.

If you have any question about joining please respond via this email
or call Yvonne or George @ 303-938-9658

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[puma-news] PUMA Meeting Wed, Nov 16

Pumites,

There will be a PUMA Meeting Wednesday November 16. The meeting will
take place at Terry Greenberg's house on Pine Glade at 7pm.

We have several agenda items, including:
Car-pool oranization
Winniger Ridge Project
Planning for Holiday Party

This will be the only meeting this fall, so make it a point to try to be
there!

Dan

[puma-news] PUMA Meeting in Nov

Pumites,

There will be a PUMA Meeting Wednesday November 16. The meeting will
take place at Terry Greenberg's house on Pine Glade at 7pm.

We have several agenda items, including Car-pool oranization and
Winniger Ridge Project. If you have any items, please send them to:
puma@magnoliaroad.net

This will be the only meeting this fall, so make it a point to try to be
there!

Dan

[puma-news] Missing Red Gas (Plastic) Can

Hello All

I am asking anybody who used the lawnmower over the summer and early fall
to check if they still have the gas can that was with it. I am missing
it. It should be a one gallon plastic red gas can. Please check as it is
mine.

Terry Greenberg
303-443-1409

[puma-news] PUMA Meeting in Nov

Pumites,

There will be a PUMA Meeting Wednesday November 16. The meeting will
take place at Terry Greenberg's house on Pine Glade at 7pm.

We have agenda items, including Car-pool oranization and Winniger Ridge
Project. If you have any items, please send them to: puma@magnoliaroad.net

This will be the only meeting this fall, so make it a point to try to be
there!

Dan

[puma-news] 4 WD Toyota Truck 4 Sale

Dear Pumites,

I am selling my 1987 Toyota truck, 4 wheel drive (with low gear), extend
cab.
Very good little truck. 192,000 miles. Like-new BF Goodrich all terrain
tires.
Dependable. All maintenance records for last 14 years.
$2,150.00

Please pass along to anyone you think might be interested.

Call (303)-449-1789

Thank you,

Sharon Ticehurst

[puma-news] office furniture, stove, wall oven

Does anyone need a nice large beige desk or table with
hutch? All the Hon office style.

Kitchen remodel. 30" slide-in range, and 27" wall
oven--seldom used. Both are Jenn-air, black with
stainless. Timer doesn't work on the range.

No reasonable offer refused.

Lisa Gilliss

303-818-3614 cell
303-442-1425 office
303-541-0645 home

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