It was spitting snow here this morning, but has transitioned to rain. Lots of wind overnight...which is just what we want this time of year! It's rain and wind that break up the ice in the bays and get the water ready for BOATS!
More than half of Louisiana's oyster reefs are privately leased and managed, and the leasing companies can respond promptly to natural disasters. Apparently funding constraints force states to wait a year or more.
Tulare Lake basin filling [Click] A couple of counties south of here, it is the lowest spot in the area. Before the diversion of water for farming, it was one of the biggest [by surface area] lakes in the US, aside from the Great Lakes. I think it has flooded/refilled a couple of times since I moved here. Being the lowest spot in the area, if there is fog anywhere in the area it will be there. —Alan
I read more of the article and encountered the term "minor planet." This is a basket term for dwarf planets and "small solar system objects," which in turn includes asteroids and asteroid-sized trans-Jovian objects. I guess SSOs are a third category but I don't tend to think of them tht way.
Don't know who made it, but it's about fifty years old, and he made fifty-five of them (number is on the sail) Cooter's is going to send me some pics when he gets home from church.
A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now By A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. Source: A Shropshire Lad
7AM, sky nearly clear, calm, 38F, predicted high 60F. River looks like it has fallen a couple of inches. Can't complain.
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It was spitting snow here this morning, but has transitioned to rain. Lots of wind overnight...which is just what we want this time of year! It's rain and wind that break up the ice in the bays and get the water ready for BOATS!
DeleteMississippi oyster fishery has collapsed; Louisiana fishery is doing fairly well. [Click] They are managed differently.
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More than half of Louisiana's oyster reefs are privately leased and managed, and the leasing companies can respond promptly to natural disasters. Apparently funding constraints force states to wait a year or more.
DeleteTulare Lake basin filling [Click] A couple of counties south of here, it is the lowest spot in the area. Before the diversion of water for farming, it was one of the biggest [by surface area] lakes in the US, aside from the Great Lakes. I think it has flooded/refilled a couple of times since I moved here. Being the lowest spot in the area, if there is fog anywhere in the area it will be there.
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Very interesting train station. Do you know what line it is on? I don't recall seeing it on either leg of the Lake Shore Limited.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia article [Click] listener’s photo seems to have been taken from the diametrically opposite angle from the Wikipedia photo.
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Thanks, Alan.
DeleteMy pleasure.
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Neat to see it from the other side!
DeleteI was interested to see that it has connections to both US and Canadian rail systems--which is certainly reasonable given its location.
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Gee—there have been all sorts of things going on with respect to trans-Neptunian objects that I wasn’t aware of! [Click] Including the definitions of different types of planets. It is all rather too much to absorb in a single reading.
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You weren't aware of the defintion of "dwarf planet"? After akk tge hurrah about Pluto being given that designation?
DeleteI gather that they slipped in a third classification of planet while I wasn't looking. . .
Delete--Alan
I read more of the article and encountered the term "minor planet." This is a basket term for dwarf planets and "small solar system objects," which in turn includes asteroids and asteroid-sized trans-Jovian objects. I guess SSOs are a third category but I don't tend to think of them tht way.
DeleteIsrael Spirals Into Chaos [Click]
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Trump Now Suggests [Hush Money] Indictment Was ‘Dropped’ [Click] Wanna bet?
—Alan
You can argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to bring such a case. You can argue about the optics of it. But the idea that this is unprecedented is just false. It’s just wrong.”
— Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, on NBC News, on the hush money probe into Donald Trump. [Click]
—Alan
GOP Weighs Protecting Trump with New Law [Click] Make that “three Republicans” rather than “GOP”
—Alan
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ReplyDeleteDon't know who made it, but it's about fifty years old, and he made fifty-five of them (number is on the sail) Cooter's is going to send me some pics when he gets home from church.
Cool! I can't wait to hear...!
DeleteOurs is hull #101, and I think 188 were made in all.
50 years! Is it a wood boat, then? Or early fiberglass?
DeleteOurs is a very spiffy type of fiberglass. Very strong and long lasting.
I noted in the Wikipedia article that they used the same forms for all the hulls, despite other changes.
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^^^^ Referring to listener & Wil's boat.
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ReplyDeleteA Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
Source: A Shropshire Lad
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