Reed Ranch- Cute & Tasty

I thought I would right large because I am tired and starting to squint at the screen, but I wanted to finish.

You heard a little from Grandpap about the Raccoon being on the porch a few times. Two days earlier I was taking Addisson to preschool where I heard a cat crying under the care. I looked and it was Jinx. I had just seen him about 20 min. earlier before I let Woody out and he was fine. Now he was under our car and couldnt move and was crying for his life. I backed up the car, I couldnt reach him from the side, I hoped he wouldnt move and took one of the kids blankets and wrapped him up. He was soaking wet. I knew what had happened. Woody had played with him and got too rough. I told Addisson when I dropped her off at preschool that he may not be alive when she got out. I called the vet and he could get us in. It turned out he was just stunned. If it was Salem I dont think I would have taken him to the vet but I really liked Jinx because he had six toes.

It will teach me. Two days later he turned up missing with the turkey. Only to have the Raccoon show up the next night looking for more kitties and turkies. We sure feed the wild life great around here.

More view from Grandpap

And by the way, the goats got out again yesterday and ate up most of Asa B’s new blueberry bushes, hope the goats taste good when we eat them.

By the way if you care, Cheryl did not get the goats back into the fenced area. They were laying in one of the shed, full of Asa B’s grain and too lazy to move, so Cheryl just locked them in. Done, they are of f the streets and out of sight, Asa B can put them in the fence when they get home form New Hampshire.

Love to all,
--Asa Reed Jr.


Hello,

Sorry if any of this is a repeat for any of you, but I just wanted to keep in touch.

I have moved to Long Island for a temporary assignment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. They are finally going to remove most of the radioactive material from the old Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor. It was an air cooled, graphite moderated, graphite pile reactor, originally with natural uranium, then with enriched uranium fuel, that has been shut down for several decades now and they are getting around to cleaning the site up. It has been run as a museum for a lot of years recently.

Right beside it and sharing some utilities, like ventilation and the 100 meter stack, is the infamous High Flux Beam Reactor, that was shut down in 1999 after a tritium leak was identified and published in the press here. It was heavy water moderated, highly enriched uranium fueled reactor. The laboratory and DOE have decided to go totally non nuclear here, nothing but accelerators of all shapes and sizes is in the foreseeable future here at BNL. So, again, I am temporarily part of a team that is working itself out of a job.

As we were working on some of the licensing documents last week we had a meeting at the local DOE office, and I got lost on the site, it was my first time herre. As I got to the meeting I found that of the 8 people on the DOE review team 6 of them were people I had worked with at ohther sites. Is it not a small world?

Well, it is getting warmer out here on the Island, Monday moring it was 35 F in the parking lot this morning it was 60 F and the leaves are starting to really fill in, the fog is rolling in off the sound every morning now, it is a pretty place. There are wild turkeys, geese, and deer everywhere here on site, a real driving hazard, those turkeys are big and fly across the road right in front of your car.

Most of the U.S. reactors were light water reactors, Westinghouse built pressurized water reactors and General Electric built boiling water reactors which were the majority, Combustion Engineering and Babcock and Wilcox also built a couple I believe.

But the main fleet of base loaded nuclear power stations in the US are either Westinghouse or GE.

The new research reactor you all just commissioned was a design by Brazil wasn’t it?

The Canada Geese who live here on the site are all leading their families around these days. The goslings, usually seven or eight balls of fluff, are getting bigger everyday as they eat grass in all the surrounding fields. There are also turkeys all over the roads here as well as deer. The deer have fawns with them in many cases, but so far there have been no baby turkeys to be seen. What are baby turkeys called anyway, does anyone know? If names were metric like some countries use numbers they would all be just babies, no kids, goslings, cygnets, fawn, foals, calves, chicks, tadpoles, etc.

Speaking of turkeys, Asa B, not that he is a turkey, but you know,… Anyway we were working in the hay barn with Mr. Taylor, when Sarah called him on the cell phone and told him that the turkeys were out. This was not big news as the goats, dog, and the turkeys all had been out that morning. But, Sarah said no, the wild turkeys in the field were out!!! And it was still hunting season, sooooooo Asa B goes running up to the house to collect his shotgun, which Sarah had brought out to the door for him and off he went , the great white hunter, chasing the turkeys across the fields. In this case he went down behind them and got a big tom with one shot. Very nice, we have some photos, which I will try to get to you all. His mother actually saw the turkeys first, got the gun for him and went out to tell Sarah who carried out the support roll of getting Asa B into the field, just like a safari on the Reed Ranch.
--Asa Reed Jr.