for those who may not be aware, this is what list-owner Twila has had in her back yard for the past month... << Oregon Marks Day Ship Finally Sank .c The Associated Press WALDPORT, Ore. (AP) -- The sinking of the ship that ran aground off the Oregon coast has been declared ``Two-thirds of the New Carissa at the Bottom of the Ocean Day.'' Now attention turns to the other third, the stern, mired in the surf. ``The only thing more stubborn and uncooperative than Mother Nature was the New Carissa herself,'' Gov. John Kitzhaber wrote in his declaration Thursday. ``We burned her, we burned her again, then we broke her in half, dragged her out to sea, then dragged her through a hurricane, but to everyone's displeasure, she wound up back on Oregon's coast,'' he said in the declaration, released Friday. The saga that went on for more than a month finally came to a partial end Thursday afternoon, but the 420-foot bow of the New Carissa did not go quietly. In what looked like a sea battle 300 miles out in the Pacific, Navy demolitions experts first blew holes in the ship with explosives, then a destroyer riddled the wreck with 70 artillery rounds. When the stubborn ship insisted on staying afloat, they brought in a nuclear submarine that fired a torpedo, which provided the knockout blast. The ship gurgled back-end first below the surface and now sits two miles down, where its 130,000 gallons of fuel oil onboard can do no more harm. The 639-foot New Carissa first washed ashore at Coos Bay on Feb. 4 and began leaking oil four days later. Efforts to burn the 400,000 gallons of fuel oil on board succeeded in burning only half of it away. The ship split in two and spilled 70,000 gallons on southern Oregon's pristine beaches. When salvage crews tried to tow it out to sea last week, it broke away from the tow line and washed ashore, spilling more oil on that beach. It was hauled out to sea Monday for what proved to be the last time. The Coast Guard, salvage officials and others were to meet Friday to look into how to remove the 220-foot stern still mired in the sand. Tom Robison Ossian, Indiana tcrobi@adamswells.com Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.