Attic Ventilation

Attic Ventilation: "ATTIC VENTILATION FOR HOMES"

Improving Attic Ventilation

Improving Attic Ventilation | Heating & Cooling | THIS OLD HOUSE

Step-by-Step Strip-Vent Installation

Might need to install six of these if they are not already there.

Attic Ventilation Primer

Ventilation Primer - How Much is Needed?

Probably less than 3 percent of the homes standing today (new and existing) have proper attic ventilation. Those that do can achieve this goal in several different ways.

The houses that have proper ventilation do so in the following way. Continuous or ample singular vents are placed at or near the top of the roof. A similar system of vents is then placed at the bottom or under side of the roof. This system works like a forced air heating or cooling system in your home. The air that leaves the upper vents is replaced by the same amount of air at the lower vents.

It is extremely important to have both upper and lower vents. This is what produces the flow through and continuous air flow in your attic. Furthermore, the vents should be installed in a specific fashion. Sixty percent of your venting area should be in the lower vents, while the remaining 40 percent should be at the top of your roof.

New Date Set for Florida Folk Festival: Veterans Day Weekend, November 9-11 - 05/25/07

Might be nice to attend in cool weather

New Date Set for Florida Folk Festival: Veterans Day Weekend, November 9-11 - 05/25/07

2007 AFI list of top 100 movies

2007 AFI list of top 100 movies - USATODAY.com:

Hoover Beware!

Marine Officials Warn Of Biting Dolphins - Local News Story - WKMG Orlando

Climate change: The Deniers

Climate change: The Deniers

A Summer Project for Eric

DIY Ping Pong Gun

Newest Member of the Fleet

Key West Boats Inc.

Key West Boats 1520 cc is a center cockpit unsinkable boat with a Mercury 50 EFI 4-Stroke engine. We will use her to trailer to Florida lakes and rivers, to the Keys, and as a super tender for Pelican where we can occasionally tow her behind our sailboat to local anchorages.

Length: 15'2"
Beam: 6'10"
Transom: 20"
Approx. Weight: 950 Lbs.
Fuel Capacity: 20 Gals.
Maximum HP: 80 HP
Recommended HP: 50-70 HP
Dead Rise: 10°
Draft: 7"

The boat came with a bimini, live bait well, lights, seat cushions, a cooler, and compass.

* No Wood-No Rot Construction
* Ten (10) Year Hull Warranty
* Self-Bailing Cockpit
* Foam Injected Fiberglass Stringer System
* Built-In Fuel Tank
* Bench Seat with Cushion and Backrest
* Anchor Locker with Anchor
* 48 Qt. Cooler Seat with Cushion
* 13 Gallon Aerated Live Well
* Large Bow and Rear Casting Deck
* Console Rod Holders
* 4 Stainless Steel Rod Holders with Drain
* Padded Stainless Steel Wheel with Anti-Feedback Steering
* Tinted Windshield and Grab Rails
* Bilge Pump with Auto Switch
* Large Storage Compartment in Bow
* Molded Non-Skid Inner Liner
* Stainless Steel Hardware and Rails
* Power Outlet Plug on Dash
* Trolling Motor Plug
* Courtesy Lights
* Folding Stern Light
* Horn
* Raw Water Wash Down System
* Pull-Up Cleats

More tomorrow when we take her on her maiden voyage on the Butler chain of lakes here in Orlando.

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious

lugubrious

metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
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vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat

Thoughts for the day

From Don Surber » Blog Archive » I don’t mean to disillusion you, but …

Your car is not silver; it’s gray.

Your spouse’s car is not champagne; it’s beige.

Global warming isn’t science; it’s paganism.

Drug companies aren’t the enemy; bacteria are.

Food stamps are a subsidy, not a ration.

No one questions your patriotism; it’s your sanity we wonder about.

We can deport 12 million people; it’s the will that’s lacking.

Polar bears aren’t endangered; they’re thriving.

Self-esteem isn’t the problem in schools; ignorance is.

Barbie dolls don’t give girls poor body images; other girls do.

Minimum wage was never meant to pay for a new car, a computer, a cellphone, an iPod, and food and shelter for a family of four.

God doesn’t need the government’s help; it’s the other way around.

Bush didn’t kill Kyoto; Clinton did.

The stupid Republicans answer to Bush and the RNC

Michelle Malkin: suggests you offer one of these to the RNC the next time they call:

Bush working hard towards 0% approval rate

For Bush, fight over immigration bill is personal | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

President Bush sounded like he hoped to sever ties with the remaining 30 percent who like him when he went after critics in his party this week over opposition to his latest immigration plan.

"If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill's an amnesty bill," Bush said during a stop in Glynco, Ga. "That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens."

Interesting point of view from POTUS. The immigration bill is absolutely an amnesty bill and it doesn't address what will happen as more illegals poor across the borders over the next decade. He signed and then did not fund the wall. Now he is attacking what is left of his base that believes in enforcing laws and borders.

I guess this is why Al Gore is running around telling everyone not to impeach Bush. With Bush running around with Ted Kennedy and attacking conservatives for their core beliefs he's become one of them.

Republicans vote with wallets:

The Bush White House is destroying its own party...

RNC faces donor falloff, fires solicitors - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper:

"The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, The Washington Times has learned.

Faced with an estimated 40 percent falloff in small-donor contributions, Anne Hathaway, the committee's chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, fired staff members told The Times.
Several of the solicitors fired at the May 24 meeting reported declining contributions and a donor backlash against the immigration proposals now being pushed by Mr. Bush and Senate Republicans.

'Every donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue,' said a fired phone bank employee who said the severance pay the RNC agreed to pay him was contingent on his not criticizing the national committee. "

According to the White House, all these former donors must be a group of un-patriotic and stupid racists.

Update from townhall.com here:

Ring, Ring

Emily: "Hello?'

Caller: "Hi, ma'am, this is the Republican National Committee calling."

Emily (aside to me, with a big grin on her face): "It's the RNC."

Caller: "We're just calling to see at what level you'd be comfortable renewing your contribution. Would $75 be all right?"

Emily: "How about nothing?"

Caller: "Oh, why's that?"

Emily: "I'm not real happy with the immigration bill."

Caller: "Well, that's not Republicans. Just the President loves that immigration bill."

Emily: "The President is head of the Republican Party."

Caller: "Not for long."

Emily: "And, Republican senators are supporting the bill. Why would I give you guys money to get them re-elected?"

Caller: "That's ridiculous."

Emily: "Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna give you any money. You just called me ridiculous."

The Bush administration spins off into oblivion

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

Maybe it's the conservatives that should be pushing for impeachment. Peggy Noonan lists some of the sins of the Bush administration.

Among the quotes:

"This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place."

"You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad."

"The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--they "don't want to do what's right for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said, "We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up." On Fox last weekend he vowed to "push back." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested opponents would prefer illegal immigrants be killed; Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said those who oppose the bill want "mass deportation." Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson said those who oppose the bill are "anti-immigrant" and suggested they suffer from "rage" and "national chauvinism."

"What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks."

If you insist on acting like the other party that the electorate will eventually get around to simply electing the other party. Why vote for a fake when you can get the genuine article? That is going to be both of the Bush presidents legacy. The conservative base didn't vote for Bush so he could have photo-ops with Ted Kennedy.