Rene's Bluebells
Today should have been Rene VanHulle's 70th birthday,
but he died when he was 53. He was Thankful's beloved brother. In my garden, I keep Bluebells in his honour.
Here are Rene's Bluebells from this year.
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Shushing emojis! Al Capone and Murder Incorporated knew better than that!
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After a full week of sleeping 6-7hrs a night, last night I slept just 3.5 hrs. Sigh. Dang dry stuffy nose...with no known cause.
ReplyDeleteBetter luck tonight!
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Thanks, Alan.
DeleteWe increased the humidity in the house (water simmering on the back burner) and turned off the heat pumps for the morning. I was then able to nod off and slept an additional 2 to 2.5 hrs! =Whew!=
Biden to overhaul Uniform Code of Military Justice [Click] This is a VERY big deal.
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ReplyDeleteTrump Calls New Charges ‘Ridiculous’ [Click] “election interference at the highest level,” calling the allegations “ridiculous.” “This is prosecutorial misconduct used at a level never seen before.”
ReplyDeleteFormer Trump attorney Ty Cobb: “I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity. This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.” [Click]
From Talking Points Memo:
ReplyDeleteThe superseding indictment was still fresh late Thursday when Special Counsel Jack Smith made another significant filing in the Mar-a-Lago case. Prosecutors renewed their motion for a protective order for the classified information in the case. You’ll recall U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied their initial motion for a protective order and urged the parties to confer.
They have since conferred and get this: Trump’s remaining objection to the protective order is that it prohibits him from discussing classified information with his attorneys outside of a SCIF. Ol’ Trump wants to be able to talk about classified information in his homes!
Smith conceded one point: Trump can have the same access to the classified information in the case as his lawyers. But Smith is not conceding that Trump can openly discuss classified information in unsecured locations. It’ll be up to Cannon whether Trump can just willy nilly discuss classified information where he might be vulnerable to foreign espionage.
---Alan
Ninety predicted for this moment. It's eighty. Counting my blessings. And new DVD player due to arrive today.
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So, you're saying we shouldn't expect to hear from you for awhile? 😉 😆 😘 ENJOY!!
DeletePredicted high here today 100F, which probably means about 98F. There is a nice cool breeze from the north. When I went out to add to the compost heap after our daily walk, I counted sixteen sandbars sticking out of the river below. I plan to murder some weeds during the early afternoon.
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I wouldn't set foot outside at such temps, let alone gardening. But I'm used to 85% humidity.
DeleteSpoke with a friend near Tucson yesterday. They've been having 110 and had to get a new HVAC system.
Nematodes Revived After 46,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost [Click]
ReplyDeleteJust noticed we have a possible cyclone formation sitting on our coast. It was not there this morning. We did get a good downpour earlier.
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DeleteFrom Yale Climate Connections:
Land areas should remain free of serious threats from Atlantic tropical cyclones into at least early next week. A tropical wave located midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles will continue rolling west-northwest across the Atlantic during the next several days. By Monday, July 31, the wave is expected to be several hundred miles northeast of the Leeward Islands, and there is some support for development around that time from a number of members of the GFS and European model ensembles. However, it now appears any such system would most likely recurve over the open Atlantic. Bermuda is likely to be the only land area threatened by the system next week. In its 2 p.m. EDT Friday Tropical Weather Outlook, the National Hurricane Center gave the disturbance two-day and seven-day odds of development of 20% and 60%, respectively.
A weak but fairly organized disturbance pushed into coastal Georgia on Friday morning with a swirl of scattered showers and thunderstorms, fortunately without having had time to organize into a tropical cyclone. Another tropical wave will be coming onshore into Nicaragua and Honduras by Friday night, with only a 10% chance of development while still offshore.
~ Dr. Jeff Masters
China Typhoons and Atlantic Outlook
Pretty exciting to see that Dartmouth has a new President, the first woman to have the job!
ReplyDeleteOur eldest two granddaughters, now in high school, are already looking at colleges.
Andy Borowitz wrote this:
MUST-READ: The arrival of Dartmouth’s first female president should be a cause for celebration. Instead, our local newspaper greeted her with misogyny:
Help Wanted: NH Journalism without Sexism
(If you get stopped by the paywall, refresh the page and you should get access.)
California's public college systems have suffered from decreased support, but are still good. I speak as a veteran of California public high school, junior college, state college and land grant university. I would dismiss private colleges out of hand, but that reflects their basic impossibility for me. I was the first of my family to attend college so had no guidance within my family, and back then it was sink or swim; nowadays efforts are made to assist the first in their families, although I can't offer any opinion about how effective they are. BTW, the last I heard there were a number of states that grant within-state tuition to students from out of state in order to maintain their public universities. But going out of state entails extra expenses for travel.
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Andrew Weissmann: The new indictment is 'an incredible crime story' [Click]
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It seems quite possible that Nauta and other charged co-conspirators might yet realize how much trouble they are in and turn state's evidence; but that door is closing.
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