MY PARENTS

1930 Autobiography of Lois Kroll, Henry's mother
While working for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and as Public Health Nurse in Alaska, Lois delivered more than 200 babies.
Lois first came to Alaska in 1937 after answering a small newspaper ad requesting a Public Health Nurse in Seldovia, Alaska. She applied for the position and to her surprise was accepted. When the Alaska Steamship Company ship, Aleutian arrived in Seldovia she remarked in her diary, "I met the outgoing nurse and inherited her cat and the boyfriend."
Upon arriving in Seldovia, Lois discovered that the landscape was dotted with outhouses. The people had no running water and were drinking polluted well water. Influenza, colds, and dysentery ran rapidly through the population. She immediately petitioned the Town Council to raise money for a pipeline and organized a group of men to install the water line from a makeshift dam at Fish Creek. Her job consisted of inoculating the population against typhoid, diphtheria, and smallpox and generally improve the living conditions and health of the people. Her territory was Seldovia, Homer, Kenai, Anchor Point, Port Graham and English Bay. The city of Soldotna didn't exist yet.
Having babies is a life and death matter. The stress of this occupation can wear heavy on a person after a few years. Here in her own words is her story titled, Frontier Living written for the Seattle, Ballard Senior Center 1990.

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Mad Trapper of Alaska

Legendary pioneer and bush pilot.
This is the story of Henry Kroll I, who ran away from home at age eight and was raised by the Nez Perce Indians, learning their language and culture. He later became a circus strongman, chopper pilot, commercial fisherman, and deputy US Marshall. Henry was a constant source of invention and excelled at everything he did. He was fluent in seven languages. As a musician, he played every instrument. Every day was an adventure. From trapping live wolverines to defending himself from a bear with an axe, there was nothing he couldn't do. Read about the adventures of this fascinating man.

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Factual accounts by various authors, Henry Kroll
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COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES

You are probably aware by now that I owned the 72-foot Mary and fished crab 23 years catching over 3-million pounds of king crab and about the same amount of tanner or snow crab. I operated boats up to 130-feet in length. After accumulating more than 12,000 days of sea time in Alaskan waters and having to deal with nature and reality to overcome adversity in many situations where your life and the lives of our crew are in eminent danger it’s like staring directly into the face of God. I look like Father Time yet I don’t feel my age. At age 71, I plan to make at least 22 crossings of Cook Inlet next summer towing barges and to pick up salmon.

Having had to depend on my ability to navigate in zero visibility for weeks and months on end in rough weather using compass bearings, and sets of flashing numbers on a loran-C along with dim radar echoes off points of land 16 to 23 miles away to find strings of tiny crab pot buoys I consider myself a pretty good navigator.

After reading that our solar system it traveling toward Hercules at 19.5 kilometers per second I drew a line through a star chart from Hercules extending it out through the middle and it winds up in Orion. Orion has to be the birthplace of our sun.

Having read the Sirius Connection and other books by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval and many others I came to the conclusion that some of the Egyptian hieroglyphics was translated wrong. Instead of Zep Tepi being the ‘first time’ it should read “In the beginning,” the first three word of the Bible.

Recently I read Lost Star by Walter Cruttenden and From Atlantis to the Sphinx by Colin Wilson (which was very good by the way). Most all the books on the history of ancient civilizations are speculation based on our modern perceptions of reality. None of them know that our sun was born in Orion and got captured by Sirius A and B because they don’t have my knowledge of navigation. They don’t realize that it was the intense UV light from Sirius B - 100 times greater than our sun that is responsible for most all the carbon energy on this planet. They try to attach some sort of religious significance to all of the extremely precise alignments of ancient monuments around the world. Come on guys! Ancient civilizations were much smarter than that. Due to various extinctions there is no linear evolution of civilizations. Some of them reached peaks of technology that rival what we have today.

Nobody seems to get that yet all the ancient monuments around the world aligned with Orion and Sirius were trying to pass down vital information that might save our hides in the future. Yet, we attach religious significance to everything they did. How stupid is that? Wake up guys! 

I started writing COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES after reading Scientific American magazine article on Antarctic Ice core graphs showing a regular drop in CO2 every 100,000 years or so. I called my friend Brad Guth in Seattle who was also reading the same article and he had already taken the next mental leap. He started looking around our sun for another source of light that could mop up CO2 with plant growth in the oceans. (The oceans cover 4/5ths of globe and its’ tie plankton and diatoms that mop up the CO2 and give us most of the oxygen we breathe. Trees and grass contribute a much smaller amount of oxygen to the environment.)

Brad discovered that our sun is traveling toward the 3.5 solar mass Sirius System of two stars at 7.5 kilometers per second and it is only 8 light years distant. He had already calculated the orbit period based on the gravity in that neighborhood. You got the 3-solar mass Procyon at 10.5 light years sort of in the same general direction and the galaxy gravity behind those stars transmitted from star to star in a big Fibonacci spiral the black hole in the center. Because of the galaxy gravity you have to multiply mass difference times four for Sirius and because Procyon is further away you have to cut that figure down by ¼. Being that the mass is the sun and planets is 2.0 e 30 and Sirius A and B 6.8 e 30 (3.5 solar mass) and Procyon 6 e 30 (3-solar mass) and you get about 20 to 25 times the gravity of our sun in that direction. We calculate the orbit period of our sun around Sirius to be over105,000-years which matches ICE Ages.

Sirius A puts our four times the visible light of our sun. Little Sirius B, the size of Earth but 1.5 solar masses puts out more than 100 times the invisible Ultraviolet Light as our Sun is responsible for creating coal layers 100-feet thick and limestone layers up to 12,500 feet thick and pools of oil made by diatoms in ancient shallow seas. When you are driving your car down the road and heating your home you are recycling energy that didn’t come from the sun. It came from the Sirius System.  

The Ice Age cycle began 2.5 million years ago. Before that time the average global temperature was 63 degrees F. We lost our tractor beam Sirius Ba and got blasted out of orbit 3-million years ago after the Barnard’s Loop explosion in Orion. We had 58 Ice Ages since that time. The first Ice Ages lasted only a few hundred years. It is a decaying elliptical orbit. Now we go out to 9 LY and Ice Ages last 105,000 years. The next one may last forever. It’s critical that we understand this. The book title is COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES.

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GLOBAL WARMING HOAX

THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX

Societal manipulation didn’t start with the sinking of the Maine. Nor did it start with the surprise attack on Perl Harbor. It may have started with the invention of money or possibly the invention of religion and has been going thousands of years before Biblical times.

It takes a disaster of huge proportions like the demolition of the Trade Towers when Zionist, Larry Silverstein pulled the switch and a whole lot of media brainwashing to get people to sign their rights away with bills like Homeland Security and to get the people behind invading a third-world country with no ‘weapons of mass destruction.’

People are finally getting wise to the False Flag operations designed to rob us of our money and freedom. The pendulum will swing the other direction in November. The next big disaster will have to top all previous disaster. Get ready for a dirty bomb on a subway or possibly a nuclear attack on a major US city.

It may surprise you to learn that Enron chief Ken Lay and the CEO of British Petroleum (BP), John Browne, had a meeting in the White House in 1997, with Vice - President Al Gore and President Clinton. Their agenda was to insure that the US agreed to the Kyoto Protocols. Yes, you read that correctly. BP wanted the US to agree with to the Kyoto Protocols. Why? Such a compliance with the Protocols would have imposed major costs upon the US energy industry and all of those who use energy—a very large hidden tax. Both Enron and BP would have made billion from this hidden tax that would have been extracted from the American People.

Al Gore might thus be seen by many as the one who revealed a truth that the Bush administration was trying to hide. Indeed, for a long time, the fact that Bush was unwilling to endorse and ace upon global warming was seen as evidence that it had to be real! When it comes to climate change, Gore might be a far more evil villain than Bush!

            Dr. William Gray, a pioneer in the Science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, has argued that humans are not responsible for the warming of the Earth. “We’re brainwashing our children,” said Gray, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.” Gray does not deny the phenomenon, but instead argues that a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures—related to the amount of salt in ocean water—is responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges had taken place. However, he said, that same cycle means a period of global cooling will begin soon and last for several years. “We’ll look back on all this in ten or twenty years and realize how foolish it was.” Gray said. “The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures.” He said, that his beliefs have made him an outsider in popular science. “It bother me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong.” He said. “But they also know that they’d never get any grants of they spoke out. I don’t care about grants.”

            This author has written on the propaganda of ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ for human control now for five years. For some reason nobody will look up the fact that carbon dioxide is a trace gas making up only .033% of our atmosphere while nitrogen is 78% and oxygen 20%. In other words Carbon dioxide amounts to less than a third of one percent of our atmosphere yet it is necessary for plant growth,

            The most potyent greenhouse gas believe it or not is water vapor. It is one hundred times more effective as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Water vapor from evaporation can make up to twenty percent of the weight of air by weight at 100% humidity. I know these things because I have installed evaporators on diesel engines to increase their efficiency. When inducted into a high compression engine 20 % of the weight of the air can instantly turn into steam making the engine burn cleaner and producing more horsepower.

The Earth is a self regulating organism in that when the temperature increases the amount of water vapor in the air (clouds) increases thereby reflecting more sunlight back into space cooling the Earth. Nobody knows how much water vapor is in the atmosphere at any given time.

Then there is the fact that Earth is recovering from a series of volcanic eruptions that started in the 1700’s. Each major volcanic eruption lowered global temperature .5 degrees.   

THE GLOBAL WARMING PROPONENT’S HOCKY STICK GRAPH

The graph has been subjected to manipulation. This graph was used by IPCC to further global warming propaganda. The graph was produced by modifying temperature data and proxies, and was generated by a computer algorithm to predict a future temperature rise. Detailed analysis of the data and the algorithm by Steve McIntyre          and environmental economist Dr. Ross McKitrick demonstrated very improper and unscientific conduct in the graph’s creation.

For example, the graph does not show the well-known warmer times of the Medieval Warm Period lived and farmed in Greenland for centuries. The chart also does not show the Little Ice Age, which extended from about 1350 to 1850 CE. The history of those times includes show falling in Paris in July, ice festivals held on four feet of ice on the Thames River in London, people walking from Denmark to Sewden across the frozen Baltic, as well as people walking from from Manhattan to New Jersey across the frozen New York Harbor.

What McIntyre and McKitrick found was that the algorithm could produce a “hockey stick”—shaped graph from a table of random numbers. No temperature data was necessary—proving that Al Gore’s statistics lie.

On December 6^th 2006, Geophysicist Dr. David Deming of the University of Oklahoma gave some telling testimony to the US Senate. He testified that, around the time that a paper of his was published in Science in 1995 he received an email from a prominent climate change researcher, stating: “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.”

In 1998 Dr. Robinson, director of the Oregon Institute for Science and medicine posted his first global warming skeptics petition on the Institute’s web site. (www.oism.org). It eventually attracted more than 17,000 Americans with science degrees.

In late 2007, Robinson mailed a new copy of the petition tot the original signatories, asking them to recruit additional qualified scientists. Now his list includes around 31,500 man-made warming skeptics with science qualifications. More than 9.000 hold scientific PhDs. Almost 31,500 skeptics happen to me more than 12 times as many scientists as the 2,500 scientific reviewers claimed by the IPCC to form a scientific consensus.

Robinson’s petition states a truth: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that humans release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth.

Recently there have been warnings portending disaster because man threatens to melt much of the ice covering Greenland. But researchers reported in July 2007 that Greenland really was green a half-million years ago—covered with forests. Who or what was responsible for that warming trend?

The sad state of the matte is that our climate has been reduced to a debate about man-made carbon dioxide emissions, and this has bee reduced to a “cap and trade” system in which the problem is not seriously addressed, but politicians have come up with a means of taxing heavy polluters—often underdeveloped countries, whose infrastructure relies on old machinery and which, hence is polluting. Their plan is to arrest the industrial development of India and China. However, those of us who are operating outdated diesel engines that do not meet Tier 4 standards will be put out of business.

Alas, the fallacy of the science, upon which this new form of economy is meant to be based was shot from under their feet because of “Climategate”. It meant that the international politicians left the Danish capital without being able to announce their favorite new toy to manipulate the world economy. Will it continue to be played on in the field of International politics or will it silently fade away?

The question is, what will be their next big excuse to rob of us of our freedom and our labor?  www.GuardDogBooks.com

  

I have been on a quest to alter societal evolution into more benign directions with my books. My book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES explains how the carbon resources were made. Our sun is in a 105,000-year elliptical orbit around the Procyon and Sirius star systems. After reading about the direction our sun is traveling through space I plotted our course from Orion toward Hercules and in the process discovered that our Sun was captured and is till in orbit around the Sirius A and B which are only 8.5 light years away.

We are part of a cluster of 100 stars ruled by these two giants. Sirius B is a white Dwarf star of 1.5 earth diameters orbiting 20 earth distances from Sirius A. Every fifty-four years it gets so close to Sirius A that it feeds off from it several metric tons per hour causing it to put out thousands of times more invisible ultraviolet light than our sun. I am now convinced that the intense light from Sirius B is responsible for advanced multi-celled life forms on earth. It is the only thing that could break through a 750 PSI atmosphere extending 2,500 miles above the planet to get life started.

Our sun was born with about 40 other stars in an Orion dust cloud not too far from the Horse Head Nebula currently 1330 light years toward the center of the Galaxy (toward the Southeast). After our sun was born and most of the planets formed from dust rings we drifted out in the Orion Arm toward Hercules (northwest) for two+ billion years.

Galaxies make suns in dust clouds and send them out to make the body of the galaxy. After our sun was born and the earth formed from dust around the sun a billion years of volcanism gave earth a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere of 750 pounds per square inch. {The December Astronomy magazine mentions that early Earth had an atmosphere of 1,450 pounds per square inch and one third of that was carbon dioxide. Now Co2 is only .033 percent and the government is using this as an excuse to control us?}

Earth was about one-third smaller diameter at that time. After that, we (our sun) drifted out into the cold of space for a billion years and earth had an ice age that lasted one billion years. All the oceans were frozen. Our sun didn’t burn as hot as it does today.

After a billion years of being covered with ice, earth and our sun drifted between Procyon and Sirius A and B which are over a billion years older than our sun. These giant stars orbit each other at 8 to 12 earth distances (AU) and each have about 8 times more gravity than our sun. When little, Sirius B orbiting Sirius A every 54 years came around, it grabbed hold of our sun and pulled it into orbit around Sirius A because they have 12 times more gravity than our sun. This was fortunate for us because the light and heat from these giant stars melted the ice on earth and started plants to grow in the oceans thereby releasing free oxygen.

For the next 700-million years there were no ice caps on Earth and tropical plants grew at the poles because we had light coming in from many directions 24-hours a day.

Our fortunate capture by the Sirius system happened about 750 million years ago and was the beginning of all complex multi-cellular life forms on earth. During the Carboniferous Era the intense UV light from Sirius B laid down limestone layers up to 12,500 feet thick. (The 3.8 solar mass binary star system Sirius A & B is 8 light years to the south and is the brightest star in the sky. We are heading toward it right now at 7.5 kilometers per second are in orbit around it. In my book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES we do the math to concur that our orbit period exactly matches the last ICE AGE cycle.  The continental United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Carolinas was laid down at time with limestone layers on average over 2,500 feet thick. [Look up Carboniferous Era in Encyclopedia Britannica.] Carbon removed from the atmosphere during that era was laid down in Pennsylvania and Virginia as coal layers up to a hundred feet thick.

Coal is made from grass and trees and plants. Anthracite or hard coal is compressed from plant matter at a ration of 40 to 1. Soft coal is compressed down at a ration of about 20 to 1. The point is, coal, oil, and limestone are made from carbon dioxide using photosynthesis and ultraviolet light from space and the majority of it came from Sirius B. Three million years ago an explosion went off in Orion creating banard’s Loop. After that time our solar system went into an elliptical orbit and Earth started to have small ice caps for the first time in 700-million years.

We are now in a 105,000 elliptical orbit where we go out to nine light years and practically stop. At present we are 8.5 light years and heading back toward Sirius at 7.5 kilometers per second. Our orbit period is 105,000 years which directly corresponds with the current Ice Age cycle.

Our sun does not have enough power to keep us out of the ice ages otherwise we wouldn’t have them! If you want to know more please read my book. Go www.alaskapublishing.com or www.GuardDogBooks.com or www.Trafford.com/books Type in COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES.

Earth is loosing its atmosphere. We have a limited time on earth. During Biblical times the Oxygen was 35%. Reference books list it as 20% but it is down to about 18% yet we go on burning things? At the time of the dinosaurs the atmospheric pressure was around 30 to 60 pounds per square inch. Now it is down to 14.5 pounds per square inch. Before our sun was captured by the Sirius system earth had an atmosphere of 750 pounds per square inch. Over time and it was laid down as limestone, coal and oil using photosynthesis in the oceans and light from these stars. We have a limited time to get our act together and get off the planet so that we can seed life in other biospheres. 

Green foliage increasing due to more CO2...

Deserts ‘Greening’ from rising CO2 levels.

Increasing levels of CO2 have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years.

http://www.cisro.au/Portals/Media/Deserts-greening-from-rising-CO2.aspx

FYI. Most people know that CO2 is plant food and necessary for most of the life on this planet. Instead of listening to Al Gore about global warming and how bad CO2 is they should look up the facts. Carbon dioxide or CO2 amounts to only .033% of our atmosphere.

In other words CO2 amounts to only 1/3 of 100th of a percent. It is a trace gas. Nitrogen is 78% of our atmosphere and oxygen only 20.8 percent. It is now proven that every time a big volcano goes off it lowers global temperatures. Obviously the greenhouse effect is a myth. Something else warms earth between Ice Ages and it isn’t greenhouse gas. It’s the fact that we, (our sun) is in orbit around another star system that imparts more light and heat to earth every 105,000 years. To discover which star system is responsible for this read my book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES.  

Now that plant growth is increasing the oxygen content of our atmosphere should increase. If humans quit burning things oxygen would stay at its present level. I believe that during the time of Moses about 1000 BC the oxygen content was between 25 and 30 percent.

Internal combustion engines of all kinds consume oxygen and the industry to create all the steel by burning coal also decreases the amount of oxygen. I believe Earth is at a critical stage where the oxygen-producing plankton in the oceans and the remaining rain forests cannot keep up with the human consumption of oxygen. I believe Earth is losing oxygen and releasing more CO2 is a good thing yet our government wants to tax us for releasing it. Everything in our entire civilization is upside down. 

Now that the statute of limitation is up I can tell the story...

Now that the statute of limitations is up I can tell the story. Below is the old Seldovia Post Office.

Jack and Susan English operated the Post Office.

The beautiful little fishing village of Seldovia used to be the “center of the universe.” Many commercial fishermen based their fishing operation there and moored their boats in the harbor for the winter. A lot of money passed through the small town which boasted the highest standard of living of any place in Alaska. It had six operating fish canneries, six saloons and three churches. The 1950 Book, Guinness Book of World Records listed Seldovia as having the most alcoholics per capita of any city in America. One of the representatives of the Guinness Book upon arriving in Seldovia asked a local wag how many people consumed alcohol. He replied that 100 % of the people drank. 

(One of my first jobs was cooking and butchering king crab in the Wakefield plant below.) I had five steam cookers and four coolers. Juneau John and Kenny Wrestler were two of my butchers. 


The butcher station consisted of a 6-inch pipe sticking up 3 - feet with a steel blade sticking out about a foot on either side. You gab a ten-pound live crab by the back legs with both hands and smashed him down over the knife blade at waist level separating the crab into two halves ripping the top shell off all in one stroke. Tourists were appalled at seeing this. This took considerable arm strength and you had to wear special crab gloves because the crab are covered with 1/4-inch spines. 


I used an air winch to raise and lower the rectangular 500-pound baskets of crab legs into the boiling water. Sometimes tourists would come walking in to tour the plant. When they saw me drop a 500-pound basket of crab legs into boiling water the legs would contract as if they were still alive reaching over the edge as if they were trying to climb out of the basket. At the precise moment i'd  throw my voice making small screaming sound effects. Some ladies would run out of there in a hurry with a horrified look on their faces. 

We cooked the king crab 23-minutes. I had overhead timers with a red light bulb that would turn on when it was time to winch the baskets up and put them into the cooling tanks. We usually processed 8,000 to 10,000 crab a day. There were live holding tanks out on the dock. At the end of the day I had to scrub the blue crab blood out of the cookers with ta wire brush. This took four hours some days because it stuck like glue. I usually worked 12 to 14 hours and got paid $6.50 an hour. The cannery workers only got $5.50 an hour.

The boiler was huge. It came out of a Liberty ship. The boiler man was a drunk. He'd light the boiler and leave. Some days I didn't have enough steam to bring my cookers to a boil and some days I had so much steam that when I cracked a valve all the water would explode up out of the tank. I'd run to the boiler room to shut it down because if it ever blew up  it would have wiped most of the town off the map.    

I'd run across the street to find the boiler man inside the mess hall sneaking up on a cup of coffee. He drank more than anybody I knew. The cook would pour half a cup of black coffee and set it in front of him. While resting both hands a elbows on the table he'd inch forward and grab the cup and slowly raise it to his mouth. His hands shook so much that there would be a ring of spilled coffee all around his cup. He did this every morning. Its a wonder the boiler didn't blow up and if it did he didn't care.


Anderson Dock served as a freight depot for most of south Central Alaska including the city of Anchorage. Juneta Anderson owned it when I was a baby. Dutch Gruthoff was one of my father's friends bought it from the Anderson's. 


Years later when my father brought his Bell helicopter to Seldovia and landed on the airport the kids were out there using rock to scratch their initials in the bubble. Needless to say this made him extremely angry. He took off and landed it on Anderson Dock. Dutch came out and they snapped the wheels on underneath and rolled it inside the warehouse. 

One fisherman I know coined the phrase that Seldovia was the “Center of the Universe.” One spring morning he came out of his boat cabin looked around at the beautiful rolling hills sprinkled with patches of leftover snow drifts and said “This is the Center of the Universe.”

After the March 1964 earthquake the land sunk five feet. The tide water covered the floor of the canneries and the hotel and into the basement of the houses lining the slough. Portions of the board walk were floating up off their foundations and floats in the harbor floated up over the top of the piling and started floating out the bay.


They called on the federal government for disaster relief. Boy, was that a mistake. The contractors doing the job for the feds came to town and brought with them a model of the city with high-rise buildings. When they had the town meeting to decide what to do the locals were so impressed by the model of what the town would look like they didn't pay attention to what the contractors were saying. With an expression of amazement on his fact the Mayor asked, "Is that how it's going to look like?"


The contractor boss said, "Yes, if you if you want." That very moment the Town Council decided to vote for urban renewal.


Federal contractors came and tore down all the boardwalks and  buildings. They blasted down a 105-foot-high rock hill named Cap's Hill located in the middle of town and spread all the rock and gravel along the waterfront creating one long gravel landing strip.


All the canneries saw a way to get out of the business and sold out to the government. All the bars along the waterfront were torn down. The one remaining store moved into a large two-story steel building. Two of the bars moved into rooms on the ground floor and some of the people moved into the apartments above.


Only one processing plant honored their commitment to rebuild. Wakefield Fisheries built a bran new plant outside the city dock. From 1966 to 1979 I delivered close to a million pounds of king crab to this facility plus another million pounds of tanner crab.


We'd fish in Kachemak Bay for tanners all winter from November 5th to May first. In February each year the king crab would start to migrate into the bay heading for their spawning ground on 20-fathoms of water off from Bluff Point. As soon as the king crab showed up we'd start catching one or two per pot in the middle of the bay so we mover our big 650-pound pots from the middle of the bay to shallow water off Bluff Point. 


Fish and Game usually closed the season season February 15th. They would give us an extra day to get the doors on our gear opened up so they wouldn't catch crab. If you got caught with open up after that you would get a ticket. 


Another option was to put 1 by 4-inch boards across the tunnels of the pots secured with heavy rubber bans. The boards would keep the big king crab out of your pots and still allow the tanners to get in. 


Most everybody fished through the last day of of the season to catch an extra few hundred crab. The crab would school up (bunch up) when they hit 20 fathoms so you could get twenty to thirty crab per pot. 

The bigger boats moved their pots across Cook Inlet to fish off the active volcano, Augustine Island. I fished eight to sixteen miles off Burr Point along 22 to 25 fathoms and would catch 50 to 100 crab per pot. We usually loaded the live tank in the boat after two picks of the bear.


I spent a lot of time anchored up in Inniskin Bay waiting for weather. Some times the wind and swell would roll in there from the southeast. When the tide turned the boat would lay right in the trough for a couple hours rolling violently. My boat, the Mary M had close to a twenty-foot beam and drew over 8-feet of water but it rolled like a pig in the mud in a six-foot swell. 

During the first week in September Interior Alaska cools down below the freezing point and the winds begin to strengthen out of the west. Cold air is heavier than the warm air over the ocean so it has to flow in that direction. When you are fishing close inshore off Cape Douglas or Augustine volcano you can still get to your pots but there is a lot of chop. The crew gets spray in their face and their rain gear beats them. The further offshore the bigger the waves. 


As the Interior gets colder the winds steadily get stronger and shift to the northwest because the biggest land mass is in that direction. Now they have a run of open water over 100 miles long down Cook Inlet. It doesn't matter what size boat you have if you have pots out in the middle of the Inlet it might take a long time to get them back. You might have to wait a week or two and by that time the humongous fall tides and swell might carry them out into deeper water where you will never see them again. Pots used to cost over $500 apiece. You loose ten and you just lost $5,000. Now days they they can cost close to a thousand dollars each. 


When the northwest September abates it means there is a big storm coming out of the Gulf of Alaska pushing the cold air northward. The weather might be calm enough to get out there and get some of your gear back but you might get caught in something unusual. Its kind of like the movie Perfect Wave. Your anxious to retrieve all your valuable pots and the swell starts getting bigger and bigger and all of a sudden the wind hits. You immediately turn tail and head for Seldovia.  A half hour later you are surfing down huge swells with an eighty-foot boat and the waves are crash over the stern filling up the back deck. Your bait box gets washed over the side along with everything else that is loose. The crew hides in the galley as you fight to keep it on course.


After entering Seldovia Bay the snow-caped hills never looked better. As soon as the boat is secure and you are walking up town the color of the flowers and grass and trees are never more vivid. The board walk never felt better under your feet. You feel thankful and privileged to be alive.


I think back and remember two falls where the whole fleet never left the dock for a month.The weather really got down with 80 to 100 knot winds that never seemed to end. 


After the king crab season closed some of us fished tanners in Kachemak Bay.

After the March 1964 earthquake the big tides covered the boardwalk and flooded the basements of houses.

After Urban Renewal Seldovia looked like a small town in Communist Russia. The boardwalk was gone, the canneries were gone, most of the stores and services were gone. Only one processing plant rebuilt. The Commercial Fishermen were disgusted and mad about the city council’s decision to go with Urban Renewal. Most of them moved to Kodiak and Chignik. Even the towns people were disenchanted with the look. Instead of outnumbering the churches two to one the number of bars were the same as the churches. People were calling the new Seldovia bourbon renewal.  

Tony Martin was one of my father's friends. He lived directly across Seldovia Bay from the town. The Urban renewal contractors had left hundreds of cases of dynamite in a shed next to where he was living. My father and I went across the bay with his little Diesel Boat. It didn’t have a name except Diesel Boat. He let it go dry at half-tide below were the dynamite was stored and we proceeded to carry cases of dynamite down and load it in the boat.. 

Back in 1965. I weighed about 200 pounds with biceps like Mike Tyson. I grew up pulling nets and picking salmon all my life. I carried two or three cases 50-pound cases at a time down the beach. I tried to keep up with the old man. You can always lift a lot more when you are stealing something.

Tony was glad to get some of the dynamite out of his front yard and helped us carry the stuff. A week later the authorities burned up all the rest of the rest of the dynamite. It was good that we got our share first. As any homesteader can tell you dynamite is a very useful tool.
  

We had the boat loaded in a couple hours and had to wait for the tide to float it. We got underway about six in the afternoon. The Diesel Boat only had an 18 horse power three-cylinder Lister diesel for power. The only redeeming quality of that boat was you could run twelve hours at seven knots on ten gallons. You were lucky to make six knots if there was any kind of weather. 


The flat bottom boat was pretty low in the water so it didn’t pound as hard as usual. The Wood Freeman autopilot kept us heading in the approximate direction. After eleven hours of zigzagging and pounding we entered Tuxedni Bay. Pop beached the boat about a mile from Crescent River and we proceeded to pack all the explosive up into the woods. We stacked it on scrap lumber and covered it with the remains of a surplus army tent left over from WWII. Those old olive drab canvas tents were good camouflage.

Over the years we used the dynamite to remove stumps, build roads, and blast boulders into pieces so that we could remove them off the sand spit. Pop had a Piper Super Cub at that time and the most convenient landing place was on the sand spit in front of our homestead. The winter ice packs shoved several 8-foot high boulders up onto the spit and they were a hindrance to landing a plane. I inserted a primer with fuse into one of those big sticks of dynamite which were two-inches in diameter and 18-inches long and placed it on top of the boulder. I packed several shovels full of mud around it and lit the fuse. We watched from a distance of about four-hundred yards. It split the boulder into three neat pieces just small enough for me to push out of the way with the bulldozer.


Over 50 years we used the sand spit/tideland/landing field. One time we had six planes parked there.

One day I painted the top of the wings on my Citabria with an airless paint sprayer. The fabric was getting a little bare so I thought it might protect it. There was very little wind that day and thousands of July flies, blowflies and gnats stuck their feet in the fresh paint. The paint sprayer wasn't working right and was spitting out globs of paint making a very rough surface.The next day when I went out there the flies were still alive. You could put you finger up to them and they'd lean away from it. I climbed in started her up and took off. The flies and blobs of paint created so much air resistance that the plane just barely flew. The Citabria had a 150-HP engine with excellent performance. I put her down immediately and spent the rest of the day hand sanding flies and blobs of paint off the wings. That was a very long time ago. I am poor now so I fly a 1948 J-3.

After Pop passed away in 1968 a brown bear found our dynamite stash, uncovered it and ate a couple 50-pound cases. They will eat just about anything.

In 1966 I built a big house and shop building in Halibut Cove which is located up Kachemak Bay about 6-miles from the city of Homer. In those days I worked hard all the time fishing, trapping, building or mining coal. We used both wood and coal for heat. 


I cut down some of the big trees behind our house to clear a spot for a garden. When I split them for firewood I encountered three huge blocks 2-feet in diameter that wouldn't split. They had six to eight 3-inch knots sticking out in every direction. You could pound on them with the blade of splitting maul and it would bounce back up into the air. I even tried driving a wedge down into the middle of one block and it wouldn't even penetrate the wood. You couldn't even get a wedge to stick in the wood. I let them sit behind my shop building for a couple years and occasionally used them as lawn furniture. By that time I owned the 72-foot Mary M ans was fishing king crab.

Sometime after that I acquired a 1000-foot roll of 3/8-inch diameter primer cord. Primer cord is wonderful stuff. You can mold steel into different shapes or cut things in half. You can even fall a tree with it by wrapping six to eight turns around the trunk and tape a blasting cap to it. I used the primer cord to make nozzles out of one-inch pipe for wash-down hoses. You always need a good nozzle on the end of your deck hose to blast the fish slime loose. I’d wrap four turns of primer cord around the pipe and set it off and it would squeeze the middle of the pipe down into a nice ½ diameter taper. I’d cut the taper in half with a hack saw and i'd have two nice tapered nozzles. I gave several of them away to fishermen.

One day I got to looking at my lawn furniture blocks of wood and I thought to myself, ‘what if I bored a hole down in the middle and filled it with explosives…? I searched around for the large electric drill and chucked a 1-inch wood bit in it and proceeded to bore 6-inch deep holes down into the middle of the blocks. I taped a three-inch length of primer cord to an electric blasting cap and placed it into the hole and filled it with water. It was below zero temperatures at the time and I figured the water would help force the wood apart. I fed 30feet of wire inside the shop building, laid down on the floor and shoved the ends of the wire in a light socket. There was a loud blast and thump against the side of the building. I went outside and Eureka! The first block split into three neat pieces.

The second block also split neatly into three pieces. Everything was working out really well. Finally when I set off the blast in the third block of wood and went outside to inspect it was still sitting there with a little smoke curling out of the hole. It was one of those huge wood rounds with six giant knots sticking out in every direction. I thought to myself, ‘I guess I will have to double the charge’. I put two pieces of primer cord into the hole and filled it with water. I went inside and plugged it into a light socket and blam!


The explosion was much louder than I anticipated. A piece of wood came completely through the wall of my warehouse not far from where I was laying and knocked a shelf off the wall containing a dozen or so paint cans dumping the whole mess on the floor. It took the rest of the day to clean up the mess and patch the hole in the wall. I did get my firewood split though--the hard way!

Energy that makes your car go down the road didn't come from the sun.

The coal energy that you heat your house with didn't come from the sun either. It was made by light from Sirius A and B.

Back in the 1970’s I lived in Halibut Cove 13 years. Halibut Cove which is located on the south side of Kachemak Bay from the city of Homer. Each fall I’d tow a 30-foot scow six miles across the bay to McNeil Canyon to mine coal. We heated our houses with it and cooked with it along with some wood. What’s this got to do with Sirius? Hang on and I will tell you.

I used to make two or three trips over there every fall. I’d mine 8 tons to keep my family warm all winter and five or six tons each for my two elderly neighbors who were in there eighties. They didn’t do much but sit around play solitary and drink home brew. They made great home brew by the way. Two glass of that stuff and you had trouble walking home.

On either side of McNeil Canyon are steep bluffs that get knocked down by south west storms at high tide. As the bluff gets washed away the coal seams break off and fall onto the beach. Some of the chunks of coal measure four or five feet thick by five feet. The coal mining process is simple. My neighbors also mined it and we shared information as to the best methods. I used a wheelbarrow and a wood splitting maul. I’d put the smaller pieces in the wheelbarrow and run down the beach and up a 12-inch wide plank and upend the wheelbarrow onto the scow. If you accidentally ran off the side of the plank you took a nasty spill and had to reload the wheelbarrow and make another run at it. When the smaller chunks were all picked up I’d whack away on the big ones with the splitting maul. The lignite and bituminous soft coal is laid down in layers and has a grain to it enabling a person to split large slabs from it.

I could see fossilized trees in the coal and imprints of large leaves. We are not seeing coal being made today because it is not warm enough and there isn’t enough incoming light. Also the atmosphere is much thinner than it was in ancient times. In order to make coal you have to have a source of carbon and I assume most of the carbon came out of the air from carbon dioxide. Most or our atmosphere on Earth came out of volcanoes in the form of CO2. Volcanoes also spew a lot of water, sulfur steam.

When I was writing the book about Sirius and studying the Antarctic and Greenland ice core data I realized all the carbon resources were laid down by UV light that makes plants grow then I realized that practically everything we eat, use and wear was made by UV light and most of it came from Sirius B. Then I thought back to the times I used to mine coal. I called the University of Alaska and asked the head coal expert how old the layers of coal were in the Homer area. The info I got back was the layers were 3 and 6 million years old. This didn’t make any sense at all so I sent them $15 for an 8000 page CD on all their coal research. I read most of it which was mostly info on how much coal there was in Cook Inlet.

Finally I accidently talked to an old geologist in Sterling who explained to me how coal is formed. Soft coal like bituminous and lignite is compressed with a 20 to 1 ratio. In other words it takes twenty feet of grass and trees compressed down to make one foot of coal. Now hard coal is made with a 40 to 1 compression. To make a 100 foot of anthracite hard coal like is in Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming and other places that was laid down during the 80-milliion years Carboniferous Era it takes 4000 feet of trees and grass (carbon).

The 58 layers of the soft stuff that I was mining was formed within the last three million years. Each layer of coal was separated by eight to ten feet of glacier silt and rounded glacier gravel the size of your fist and larger. In between there were thin layers of volcanic ash which was to be expected. Finally I realized that each layer of coal represented an Ice Age where mile high sheets of ice covered the area and there were 58 of them. The first Ice Ages were short the layers of coal thicker but as the ice ages got longer due to our increasing longer deteriorating orbit around Sirius the coal layers became thinner.

The point is all the evidence of our Sirius orbit is right there in front of us if you have eyes to see it. I apologize for the long post but I don’t see any other way to explain this.

China is building one coal generating plant a month. We haven’t built one in four years. All that Sirius photon energy laid down over hundreds of millions of years is being released into our environment in a couple hundred years. It isn’t just the carbon that is being released into the atmosphere. Radioactive radon gas is released along with radium particles that float in the upper atmosphere around the globe increasing cancer rates. Thorium is also being released and cesium gas. We haven’t got a clue as to what we are doing to ourselves and the environment and the rich want to keep it that way because they are making trillions off from our labor. I am convinced we are on the wrong evolutionary path. Then again, all our problems may be solved by the next extinction. We are due for one as they occur at regular intervals every 27-million years.