Monday, September 22, 2014

The Autumnal Equinox begins today at 10:29pm EDT!




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  1. Still a fan of Howard and happy that my most favorite of seasons is beginning. I love the crispy Autumn days! Glorious oranges and golds, crunchy leaves underfoot, lovely cool breezes that lift the hair and tease the cheeks. No more grass to mow and not yet snow to shovel. Love it.

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    1. We're still mowing the grass. Normally it would be brown and dead by July, but this year we've had rain throughout the summer. Never had to use our new rain barrels for water. And no sign of the frost that might put a stop to mowing and change leaf color.

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    2. We have a frost advisory for tonight. . . .

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    3. Lovely description, Susan.

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  2. "Yeah, puddle. Thanks for the reminder. It's kind of interesting that its the nuts who manage to get past security. They may be imbalanced, but they sure have courage and intelligence…!"

    I should say rather cunning, and nothing to admire.

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    1. Rest assured, I don't admire mental illness, especially when it turns violent. My point is that it doesn't seem to be the meek or below average in intelligence people with mental illness who do such deeds.

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  3. We had a beautiful day here for the beginning of Autumn.

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    1. Here as well! :-)
      It's the first night of Autumn, yet no frost up here! Warming tomorrow for the first daytime.

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  4. Cat--glad the DVD player fills the bill, but the details are a bit foggy in my mind… as I recall it was a reasonably priced digital multi-region wide-screen DVD player. Am I correct?

    We had a good 50th year High School reunion; I even recognized some of the attendees (although I DID double-check the name badges)! One person I recognized instantly was my 10th-grade Spanish teacher, Mrs. Huber--92 years old and going strong. We played tourists and found some souvenirs. When the artists were forced out of Carmel by rising property prices back in the 1950's, a number of them relocated to our area, and over the years their influence has been considerable. Although there is plenty of the standard tourist pap to buy, there is also a lot of good quality work from local artists available.

    On the way up we had a close shave; we exited the freeway in Richmond (SF Bay Area) to use the (ahem) facilities at a fast food place (we bought something as a trade). As I was preparing to turn from the street into the parking lot, an idiot in a purple car flew past us in the curb (parking) lane. I managed to jerk the wheel left just in time to avoid a collision, but the two card did in fact touch. (Miyoko and Naomi felt it, I didn't.) A slight scratch on the outboard edge of the right rearview mirror, maybe an odd scratch on the right front door, and a tire scuff mark on the edge of the right front wheel well. There was no time to be frightened. As it happens, I have some spray paint of the right color. Other than that, the drive up and back was uneventful.

    One thing I noticed at a previous reunion (20th?) but hadn't really thought about was that in the area near where we used to live (it was also obvious at one place in town), several marshy areas had disappeared and small perpetual streams had ceased to flow--indeed, there was no obvious sign of either. The trees and shrubs seemed to be growing less luxuriantly as well. Granted that this is a dry spell, it wasn't twenty years ago. But just as a rough estimate, there must be at least three times (maybe four times) as many people living in the area as there were fifty years ago, and all of them using well water. The water table must have fallen. Back in the day a thirty-foot well was considered deep; a twenty-foot well was plenty.

    Hereabouts we continue to have problems with smoke from fires in the mountains, and temperatures in the high 90's or even slightly higher; but the weather prediction is for cooling come the middle of the week, and no hot weather thereafter until next summer. Hope so.

    --Alan

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    1. two card = two cars

      --Alan

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    2. There were also many more stop signs in town; back in the day there were few stop signs and many blind intersections. Much better now.

      Alan

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