March 2, 3

 Sunny this morning. It feels like it is a bit warmer. That I just confirmed on  the Weather Channel. They say the temperature will reach the mid 50s. We started off this morning with BBC. I really didn't want to see continued coverage of Trumps legal woes or the debate on whether the Supreme Court gave him a gift or might just sink his hopes that he will skate once again. Nor did I want to see more stories about him trying to plead poverty to get out of the monetary judgements against him. So we went from BBC to Premier League Soccer for the rest of the morning. Unfortunately the rugby season is on break for this week. Hope it is back next weekend.

Stray thought: Putin might have been better served if he had been a bit magnanimous and allowed Navalny a public funeral. Russia might be one of the few countries where it wasn't covered and the crowds came in spite of the government's efforts to stymie the proceedings.

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Nice lazy Sunday. I made up a cream of potato soup with left over pork roast and veggies yesterday. We will finish most of the rest of it today. This morning has been spent putting a few more rows in a crocheted blanket and assembling a couple of flower arrangements. They are artificial because that will last through spring when I will remake them for summer. Growing any plant inside is problematic because there isn't enough light and the cats like to munch. I also got a look at the gardens and emptied out a couple of the drip pans that had accumulated water from the rains and snow. Found some green shoots in my two pots of chives and what might be a start of a shoot in the pot of asiatic lilies. Otherwise no growth elsewhere.

I saw a headline that the U.S. and Jordan are airdropping aid into Gaza. Yesterday one of the news accounts noted that an earlier U.S. drop  supplied the equivalent of 35000 meals. Sounds like a lot doesn't it. But there are 2million people (give or take) so it would take about 57 such drops to provide ONE meal for all those people. And that assumes everyone would get their share through the crowds.

I found this article posted on The Telegraph and was surprised by the picture of wind turbines on fire. I hadn't seen anything on that before. I wondered how often such fires occur and more generally how often the turbines fail for any reason. So far the information is sketchy and thin but I didn't see that wind turbines fail more often or more catastrophically than other power generating plants. The article did say that a turbine fire is generally left to burn itself out which results in a total loss and replacing any turbine for any reason is a very expensive prospect. However, I didn't see anything that justified the headline about an "American revolt" against green energy. It didn't give any statistics on how many counties and where they are that may not be willing to agree to host green energy plants. It does note that the legal framework for green energy is still being built.