Good morning today, if you ignore the crazy world away from my little bubble. Sunny right now but becoming partly cloudy later. Temperature yesterday reached about 80F--definitely not normal for mid March. Forecast temperatures should top in the high 60s before plunging overnight. They expect a wintery mix with a slight accumulation of snow (less than 0.1 inch).
I washed down the wall of the shed behind the air conditioner. It was pretty bad but it has been too hard to get to since I can't move the AC unit and had several large containers lined up there. I intended to move the pots anyway and wanted to move the patio table/planting bench into that area so it seemed a good time to wash the wall down. I got most of it and it looks a lot better.
The corner where the table had been has a couple of areas of fence that need to be washed down so I will try to get to that and the gate today before moving some more of the buckets pots. A future project will be cleaning off the top of the fence inside and outside. We feed birds and they perch on the fence doing what birds do so often--creating a mess. I need to do that before I bring out the over-the-fence pot hangers. Luckily I have most of dinner cooked already.
I am a bit slow getting going this morning because thunder storms rolled in last night with high winds and heavy rain along with the thunder and lightning. Mom says they woke her frequently and I know I woke up twice. It was NOT a peaceful night.
Stray thought: I saw a small snippet of news that Musk is planning to launch a Starship rocket to Mars next year. He thinks that, if the tests between now and then go well, a manned mission could launch in 2029 or 2931. I only hope he is on the first manned flight.
Another stray thought: Musk claims to have saved about $115B or $700 per taxpayer. Funny, I didn't see any of it. How about you? I would bet that we won't either.
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Winter is back--but not with a vengeance. The temps are in the mid 30s and won't be going much lower over night. Rain fell early but now snow has replaced it. Not heavy and I don't expect it to stay--if it sticks at all. Needless to say, I won't be getting any more clean up/rearrangements done outside.
A pleasant St. Patrick's Day eve. We watched the end of the Six Nations Rugby Championship which France won running away. The games today were very lopsided affairs with England beating Wales by 50+points and France beating Scotland 35 to 16. We are watching speed skating right now. It is a pleasant change from the politics of today. And I just took a pan of brownies out of the oven.
On that note: we are officially no longer a "nation of laws." Our uncrowned, unanointed king has flown Venezuelan prisoners to El Salvador AFTER a judge extended the suspension of the administration's plans to use that "enemy aliens" wartime measure that saw Japanese Americans sent to Manzanar and other camps during WWII. This story provides more information. According to another story the Judge issued his extension AFTER being informed that a flight was preparing to leave and BEFORE it had.
I followed the links on this story to see where it came from. The intermediary story ran on FUTURISM which got it from Jen Griffin at Fox on her X page. So we might have some bomber taking an explosive through the line because someone at DOGE simply doesn't understand what the entry on a spreadsheet means. What did the barely post pubescent nerd who found this bit of "fraud" think? That the TSA dogs were someone's pets? And this just after the (formerly) Golden God celebrated our "heroic canine vets."
Don Moynihan has a good (but long) piece on the administration's attempt to erase parts of American history. Moynihan cals it "Stalinist" and it is; though the fact that Stalin's erasure of parts of Soviet history failed. It was still there and in people's memories.
In the wake of the nasty weather system that carried high winds, thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding across the center of the country Joyce Vance reports on the administration's determination to reduce the staff of NOAA by 1000 employees. Updates this morning put the death toll at 34. We haven't entered hurricane season, but, as the wildfires already burning have shown, there is no season to any weather pattern nowadays. We did get the thunder, lightning and rain but the tornadoes hit about 30 miles west of us. I don't know what local damage might have happened. And right now: the snow is falling faster but still not sticking.
I found this story by way of LAST WEEK IN COLLAPSE recounting the largest wildfire in Japan is 50 years. Like the L.A. fires the Iwate Prefecture fire came after a hot summer and dry fall which dried out the vegetation that grew up after two wet seasons.
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