MICHAEL ROSS AULT
Bio
I began writing at age 13. Short stories, novellas, poetry, and essays. I did journals while at sea on submarines. I wrote technical books for a decade before I went back to fiction. I love writing, photography, wood working, blacksmithing
Stories (35/0)
Converting a Canning Shed into a Smokehouse (Part 1)
Introduction In 2012 my wife and I purchased some land in North Carolina. In addition to our dream retirement house there was a second smaller house we could rent out, a 3-stall barn, a huge workshop/shed a small canning shed beside the rental and a small shed that had probably been a canning shed but was now all that remained of a fertile egg farm, an egg candling shed.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Journal
How Not to Take an Underwater Photo
We see article after article about how to take the perfect underwater photograph. There are articles about how to photograph reefs, how to photograph fish and how to photograph critters so small they could share your wetsuit and you wouldn’t even notice (doesn’t that encourage some interesting thoughts?) However, while those articles are great for those who want to take great underwater photographs there must be a market for an article on how not to take a good underwater photograph since we have seen, and taken, so many bad ones. Let’s get started.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Photography
A Home Built Modular Solar Array Part 1
Introduction I decided to design and build a solar array that was modular in nature and would allow a homestead to add modules as needed in 1-2 KW increments. I wanted the arrays to be elevated, and X-Y positional to take maximum advantage of the sun.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Earth
Mounting a Wind Generator Mast
Introduction When pursuing the use of alternate energy sources, two that are usually available to most people are solar or wind. Unless you are an urbanite with no access to the sky or live somewhere where such things are restricted you can usually find at least a limited use of either wind or sun. In a previous tutorial I showed how to build a two-axis solar array that would track the sun and provide a KW of electrical energy. In this one I will show how to mount a small (1 KW) wind generator using a guy wire stabilized mast.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Earth
My Accident
It was a dreary, rainy evening. Even though official sunset was a good hour off, the sky was dark, and all of the cars had their lights on. It wasn't raining hard mind you, just enough to make you wish you had intermittent wipers. It had been raining for nearly a week. Cold, wet and windy pretty much describes the weather forecast on any given day. I left right on time, 5 PM. Usually I leave about 10 to 15 minutes early because I usually arrive 10 to 15 minutes early, but today the meetings and jobs ran right up to normal quitting time, so there I was, stuck with the other rats in the rat race for home.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Journal
Cenote
The worn stone path leads down through the verdant Yucatan jungle to the edge of the Cenote. How many thousands of years has man come down to the cave, first to sacrifice then in wonder? Long enough to wear the stone, like the steps of some medieval cathedral. Through the undergrowth the birds and other life make their presence known with calls and stirrings. Sweat trickles tickling down my brow as I drop the heavy gear at the water’s edge, the tank, backpack and wing, mask, fins and camera housing. Catching my breath before donning the gear I gaze into the crystalline water seeing the myriad tunnels leading off into the unknown depths of the cave system.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Earth
Nano-Nano
Avery and I had just come out of Frank's required onsite weekly lack-of-progress meeting. As if an in-person shouting match blame storm was any more progressive than one over the web. Frank had held Avery back at the end of the meeting so I had slogged on to obtain prime cubical real-estate from which to determine where to obtain lunch. We took turns paying, but it was frightfully easy to convince Avery it was his turn, though I used this super power sparingly.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Fiction
Lake Huron Horror
On taking a leave of absence after the rather intense Maritime summer semester of study given by Professor Harriman at Miskatonic University, I endeavored to follow my interest in subaquarian archeology by travelling to the cold shores of Lake Huron there I was requested by Professor Harriman to obtain for him samples of the primordial ooze recently discovered in sink-holes there that he might update certain sections of the “Hitherto Unknown Protozoa of Neglected, Faraway, or Unknown Lands” volume written in 1885 by Dr. Hermester Barrington. If only I had known of what was to come.
By MICHAEL ROSS AULTabout a year ago in Fiction