VT*Grand getting a snow tow
~photo by DIL
First photo from Mars today...
~ NASA / JPL Caltech
~ NASA / JPL Caltech
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That looks like some serious snow, listener!
ReplyDeleteYesterday we sliced the kumquats (using a food processor), picked out some more seeds and boiled the seeds for pectin. Today we make marmalade--two measures of fruit to one of sugar by weight. Almost all the remaining seeds will come to the top while cooking and can be removed with a spoon. Then into the jars.
Down here in Georgia there are loquats (chinese plums) growing wild. They have huge seeds and make good jam. But, we have to compete with the squirrels to collect them. The squirrels also eat new leaves as they emerge. For that matter, squirrels eat the tops of some bamboo so it dies and does not feed the next year's crop.
DeleteBamboo, an annual, is actually indigenous to the Georgia lowlands. Some industrial uses are being revived.
Alan...that was just a little snow that fell after their driveway had been plowed from the previous storm. What's impressive is when we get a storm that drops feet of snow rather than inches. I recall one February when we had a storm that dropped 4-5 feet of snow. THAT was a challenge to shovel, because one had to heft it up so high onto the pile.
DeleteHannah...in 2019, squirrels chomped through the strings of lights on our outdoor Christmas tree. We bought new lights and they did it again in 2020. So Wil bought a bag of peanuts in the shell, and every day we place a few handfuls of them down by the road, for the squirrels who live up in the trees there. And! They haven't chomped through the lights this year! Wil thought maybe they were so hungry that they imagined the lights were some sort of fruit. I thought that sounded nutty (pun intended), but it turns out that he may have been correct.
DeleteAbout five hours until Perseverance is scheduled to land on Mars.
ReplyDeleteDid you watch it? We did! It was amazing!!
DeleteThe team at NASA sounded SO happy and relieved. Years of work was hanging on that moment...and they’ve seen that moment fizzle before. Great to see and hear them when it worked!
Capitol Police Investigate Two GOP Lawmakers [Click]
ReplyDeleteGOP Candidates Caught In Trump-McConnell Feud [Click]
Why Some Cities Rent Their Property to Themselves [Click] In two words, financial desperation.
Supreme Court Sitting on Trump’s Tax Returns [Click] “. . . an extraordinary departure from its usual practice . . .”
Trump Frets Foes Will Be ‘Suing Me for the Rest of My Life’ [Click]
New Jobless Claims Rise [Click]
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops In Pandemic [Click]
The Texans facing blackouts and burst pipes: 'Do I wait for the ceiling to cave in?' [Click]
Having your grid cut off from the rest of the country is great for avoiding those pesky federal regulations. Not so much when you desperately need electricity.
DeleteI've heard suggestions to donate to the Red Cross and to the Houston Food Bank.
I noticed somewhere or other that those photos of allegedly frozen wind electric generators in Texas were taken in Sweden. . .
DeleteFound an article about it actually being Sweden:
Deletehttps://www.unilad.co.uk/viral/viral-conspiracy-photo-of-helicopter-de-icing-texas-wind-turbine-was-actually-taken-in-sweden-in-2014/
OHIO; COVID cases 947,389 and 16,611 deaths.
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DeleteJust saw this on Twitter from Rollcall:
ReplyDeleteNEW: Freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., asked to be provided a personal security detail if she’s prohibited from carrying firearms into the House Natural Resources Committee’s hearing room. http://ow.ly/Pw9150DDYyo
2:17 PM · Feb 18, 2021·Hootsuite Inc.
🌟TOUCHDOWN! 🌟
ReplyDeletePerseverance made it
onto MARS!! 😊
HURRAH!!
DeleteLow-definition photos coming in; nary a thoat or zitidar to be seen, not even a calot or a sorak. Drat!
DeleteVT cases: 14,149-13,996 = 153
ReplyDelete2733active cases
193 deaths(+2)
Recovered 11,221 (79.3%)
Hospital 38(-6) ICU 13(+5)
Tests 321,462 (+664)
Texas was "seconds and minutes" away from catastrophic monthslong blackouts, officials say [Click] Lots of links to related articles. In short, it was preventable; it was foreseeable; it was foreseen. But freedom!
ReplyDeleteWhen people lust for power, they have to inflict hurt because power, to be felt, has to hurt. Who lusts for power? Mostly people who perceive themselves to be powerless/incompetent. How to they come to that conclusion? I blame the parents or endemic cognitive deficits that are not recognized.
DeleteFor example, an individual who does not perceive the relationship between cause and effect, tends to see punishment for infractions as unwarranted aggression. And that aggression triggers self-defense and resentment.
How many people do not get the connection between cause and effect? Do they believe in Qanon instead?
They also feel confused enough to seek something that offers black and white certainty. That's where fundamentalism comes into the picture. This really needs to be studied and amended. It's way too prevalent.
DeleteI didn't click through for obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteProtestors outside Ted Cruz's Texas home as senator returns and admits
Cancun trip 'a mistake'
Fox News
4 mins ago
Earlier today an e-mail came in from Common Defense wanting me to sign a petition demanding Cruz resign and one from Vote Vets wanting contributions to support Cruz's eventual opponent. Both sited the Cancun trip as the last straw. Somehow I doubt going home and admitting the trip was a mistake will cool many tempers.
DeleteProtesters got to his house, eh? Did they have to walk to get there? Impressive.
DeleteWil tells me Cruz got a police escort to get the airport enroute to Cancun. 'Cuz, you know, the police had nothing else to do just then...
Sign the petition: Tell Dr. Fauci to Speak Out Against Vaccine Apartheid! - Click
ReplyDeleteDon't Mess With Texas
ReplyDeleteThey're already a mess
Heather Cox Richardson's daily is quite pithy tonight:
ReplyDeletehttps://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-18-2021?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjg0MjUyNiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzI3MDMzODYsIl8iOiJDMkNHYSIsImlhdCI6MTYxMzcxMTk5OSwiZXhwIjoxNjEzNzE1NTk5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA1MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.vmVjT2tduk1sGPhE58el-dRBIi9e1wPqXVWyiGrxXNk&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
Sounds about right to me. I would only quibble that the increasing power of the Presidency began with Hoover. Coolidge has been called the last 19th-Century President because he viewed his role as the executor of laws passed by the Congress, and had a minimal administrative apparatus at his disposal. Hoover built the modern administrative apparatus that FDR used.
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