Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - Leitchfield KY
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Overview of new workshop open for business, November 24, 2009
What a disappointment I suffered today when I tried photographing my new workshop open for business. I couldn't find a way to show the magic so startling to my friends who have seen the 10 second transformation from stowed to open. The work bench flips down from its stowed position above the tool chest - the tool chest front flips up. That's it. Done.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Leitchfield KY
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #2638, 12504 U.S. Route 60, Ashland, KY 41102 - (606) 929-9510
- This Walmart Supercenter is about a mile east of Leitchfield on US62.
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Five Trillion Spiders
Spiders begin their hunting with a few handicaps. They're often smaller and weaker than their prey, and they have no wings to give chase in the air. Some species extend their legs by hydraulic pressure, using the same liquid that carries oxygen from their lungs, so they have a hard time running and breathing at the same time. Even their poison may be no match for their victim's: a crab spider's bite is to a honeybee's sting as "an air-gun compared with an elephant rifle," John Crompton wrote. Yet spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen.
From Spider Woman by Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker magazine, March 5, 2007, page 69