Overcast and cool again this morning. I think I didn't mention that neighbors of ours with a cabin near a lake resort up in the mountains had been afraid that the snow might crush it, but that didn't happen. They had replaced the roof and had the roof framing reinforced while at it. Thirty feet of snow accumulated on the roof, and it couldn't slide off because of the twenty feet on the (also recently strengthened) porch roof. [Note: the snow up there is typically wet.] The snow broke off weak limbs on the surrounding trees, which is their last cleanup job. ---Alan
7 yo grand won 2nd place in her grade at the National Invention Convention, for her invention of The Calm Down Bunny! She took a stuffed animal Bunny and added things that help people calm down...such as art supplies, bird calls and music, a scented foot, etc.. Furthermore, I hear she stayed remarkably calm while presenting and being interviewed. Later on, she saw a child who was very nervous about presenting, and brought her Calm Down Bunny over to them and it worked...! She and her Calm Down Bunny make a great team. Proud Gramie here! ✨🐰💖✨
Well, that was actually a fun read...in that she made it palatable...right up to her bottom line, which left me breathless in its utter truth. "Ultimately, Trump will be easier to deal with than the culture he has created."
Alfalfa: The Crop That’s Sucking the Colorado River Dry [Click] It was a huge problem around here, as was cotton; they have been partially replaced by less thirsty crops. Much of the alfalfa was exported to China, which lacked the water to grow what they needed for their increasing dairy herds. ——Alan
I found myself quoting from Macbeth today. From 8th grade through 12th grade we had a Shakespearean play each year in English class; I remember that Julius Caesar was the first and Macbeth the last; in between came Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet--the order I don't recall. Those remain the ones I know best and enjoy the most. I wonder if a Shakespearean play per year is still common. ---Alan
Josh Marshall: the sheer ordinariness of the whole Trump documents story [Click]
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Overcast and cool again this morning. I think I didn't mention that neighbors of ours with a cabin near a lake resort up in the mountains had been afraid that the snow might crush it, but that didn't happen. They had replaced the roof and had the roof framing reinforced while at it. Thirty feet of snow accumulated on the roof, and it couldn't slide off because of the twenty feet on the (also recently strengthened) porch roof. [Note: the snow up there is typically wet.] The snow broke off weak limbs on the surrounding trees, which is their last cleanup job.
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WOW! 30ft of wet snow is a LOT of weight. Good for them having it reinforced!
Delete7 yo grand won 2nd place in her grade at the National Invention Convention, for her invention of The Calm Down Bunny! She took a stuffed animal Bunny and added things that help people calm down...such as art supplies, bird calls and music, a scented foot, etc.. Furthermore, I hear she stayed remarkably calm while presenting and being interviewed. Later on, she saw a child who was very nervous about presenting, and brought her Calm Down Bunny over to them and it worked...! She and her Calm Down Bunny make a great team. Proud Gramie here! ✨🐰💖✨
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DeleteMarina Hyde: The charges mount, but Trump’s not worried. He’s just the guy to make jail great again [Click]
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Well, that was actually a fun read...in that she made it palatable...right up to her bottom line, which left me breathless in its utter truth.
Delete"Ultimately, Trump will be easier to deal with than the culture he has created."
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, 81, dies in US prison cell [Click]
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The next time you're watching Good Will Hunting remember that Kaczynski went to college at age 16...to Harvard.
DeleteAlfalfa: The Crop That’s Sucking the Colorado River Dry [Click] It was a huge problem around here, as was cotton; they have been partially replaced by less thirsty crops. Much of the alfalfa was exported to China, which lacked the water to grow what they needed for their increasing dairy herds.
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Strange as it seems, tomatoes use far less water than alfalfa.
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Nobody Expected These Mysterious Radio Structures Stretching Toward Sgr A* [Click]
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I found myself quoting from Macbeth today. From 8th grade through 12th grade we had a Shakespearean play each year in English class; I remember that Julius Caesar was the first and Macbeth the last; in between came Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet--the order I don't recall. Those remain the ones I know best and enjoy the most. I wonder if a Shakespearean play per year is still common.
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Our elder three grands have all had Shakespeare in class in the past year. (Grades 8, 9 and 11.) So that seems likely!
DeleteGood!
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