Beautiful day here
Mango tree trimmed, two loads of laundry done, dog persuaded to go outside, aspirin taken to counteract the cold. What could be better? Take-out dinner!
Mango tree trimmed, two loads of laundry done, dog persuaded to go outside, aspirin taken to counteract the cold. What could be better? Take-out dinner!
Yesterday afternoon I started coughing as though I’d been chain smoking all day, and a little later I developed a lovely headache. I woke up this morning stuffed up and still coughing. Yep. My annual cold has arrived.
But it has taken a 180-degree turn. Abby the Dog used to sleep on a rug at the foot of Mom’s bed all day long unless we remembered to toss her outside, and then she’d do her thing in the yard and then flop by the windows and sleep until we let her back in. …
This looks promising. WarkaWater, which is named after an Ethiopian fig tree, is composed of a 30-foot bamboo frame containing a fog-harvesting nylon net that can be easily lowered for repairs and to allow communities to measure the water level. Collecting water through condensation is hardly a new technique, but the creators of WarkaWater say …
First posted in 2007. Boy Scouts at Punchbowl National Cemetery of the Pacific after placing leis on headstones and plaques there. From Imported From Migratr
That’s what our weather’s doing this afternoon. I got caught at the local mall and had to wade through ankle-high water in the parking lot (it’s got really lousy drainage!) to get back to the car. I don’t think Chi Coltrane is singing about the weather, but the title suits.
I don’t know why I get these things going through my head while I’m showering, but I occasionally do. The question is: did Frank or Joe Hardy, Tom Swift, Rick Brant, Chip Hilton, Nancy Drew (or boyfriend Nick), Trixie Belden, or any other YA book hero or heroine of the 50s and 60s ever get …
And go outside at 3:00AM ET to watch Comet 209P/Linear and its friends the Camelopardalids, a meteor shower making its first appearance in recorded history. The shower should be active from 10:30 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday, EDT. The comet’s track is shown in these diagrams.
It’s not just American states which sell or lease their patrimony to the highest bidder. The province of Alberta is doing the same thing with land that scientists say is critical to caribou habitat. Consider that a recent study (really recent, as in earlier this month) asserted: This population is endemic to Canada and occurs …
Nah.