First things first. This not-so-old A&J comic strip is from January, 2015. There’s a controversial subject I’ve been avoiding for a long time, but I might as well bring it up today: the weather. It hasn’t rained where I live since the middle of September. Not. A. Drop. We’re in what’s called an “exceptional drought,” as bad as it gets. The next reasonable chance for rain is a week from tomorrow, according to the Weather Channel website’s “10-day Outlook” which is notoriously unreliable beyond three days out. And it’s unseasonably warm with no frost yet. I am certain that, if not for the drought, we’d still be cutting the lawn a week from Thanksgiving. There. I said it.
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emb, but a few hundred rabbits in one spot are pretty stinky!
Debbe, one day we will all be together, I think! 🙂
That ‘Russian mail order bride still in the bubble wrap’, today’s TIP BlogSpot,
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
is actually entitled ‘After the ball.’ Not clear how long after [there’s that wineglass an iced champagne bottle], nor whether she’s in her apt. or his, but we oughtn’t jump to conclusions, ought we?
Peace,
Thanks for the link to the Helix Nebula photo (in the constellation Aquarius). I hadn’t heard it called the Eye of God before, but it is a really dramatic photo. M57, the ring nebula in the constellation Lyra look similar but blue.
The Super Moon looked like a big orange lopsided egg yolk as I drove over the bridge tonight, hanging just over water. Quite a day today.
Saw my cardiologist who pronounced me more beautiful and healthy than I had been in 20 years and gave me his blessing for knee replacement. Why can’t I ever meet someone like that between wives? Because he trades in for younger models is why. But I love him.
He says I am still alive after numerous near misses and attributes it more to response and reaction than divine intervention. So he thinks I need new knees so I can keep moving fast.
Then I got call that freezer and fridge died and everything was going south. Took me 5 minutes to pick replacement at Lowe’s and 2 hours to get it written up by which point I had lost it and walking out. I am going to bed as soon as I brush teeth.
Lowe’s is delivering new fridge Sunday or Monday as they had to get one from another store. Is it Turkey Day that makes everyone go refrigerator shopping?
Debbe, Rich, whomever:
About dramatic astrophotos. Color differences btw. photos of similar astronomical objects may result from intrinsic differences in the objects, but may also result from differences in the photography. A given photo may be sensitive to particular wavelengths of light [e.g., ones emitted by particular elements, compounds, or ions of one or more elements] and another photo sensitive to a different set of wavelengths. In scientific articles, those are usually indicated in legends below the photos.
Also, the nebula, molecular cloud, galaxy, or whatever, which looks like you are viewing it from relatively nearby may not be what it would actually look like to you in your spaceship from the appropriate distance. In particular, it might be much dimmer or much less colorful. We expose to get the maximum amount of detail or info, or stack multiple exposures to get the best results. Nobody is faking anything, just squeezing the maximum info out of the instruments and such.
I am grateful for awe-inspiring astrophotography, and happy that it causes excitement and even reverence for our physical universe and whatever brought it about [it does all of that to me], but a bit leery of what some read into it.
Peace,
Jackie
So if they had got their act in gear you could have saved food in fridge but
because they(where you shopped) had their finger up where the sun does not shine
you lost a ton of food. All your crock pot cookings?
Did you see from other day?
Jackie
For Dickens
http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/seat-protector-scouts-seat-saver-32006.aspx?p_redirect=1&p_keyword=32006&p_utk=32006&p_search_sid=&gndr=&processor=content
Not only protects Dickens but vehicle as well.
Emb
The “this is a return call” is how they try to get around the
Do Not Call List – just remind them that there is a $15,000.00 fine for
deliberately calling people on that list.
Or get the book of different responses to those calls.
GM Debbe
MBH is drawing on my SS til 70 1/2 then she has to draw her own.
She will also have to draw IRA
The older we get, the fewer things
seem worth waiting in line for.
(Mostly because we forgot why we
were waiting in line in the first place!!)
I’ve never done it, but the best way to handle callers in my opinion is to say “OK, hold on a second.” Put down the phone and walk away. I try to keep in mind that it’s some poor soul trying to make a couple of extra bucks, but when it is clearly a rip-off I can be very rude. When my mother was dying and I was at her house the phone rang at least once a day with calls from the IRS letting her know that she was about to be sued. I told them that she was dead before she was.
Good morning Villagers….
GM Old Bear.
Thank you Emb, a little over my head though, but a good explanation of the color spectrum. As to why it’s called the ‘Eye of God’, don’t know…maybe someone was having an epiphany at that time.
Dang the bad luck, Jackie. Both at the same time…where you able to save your savory meals you’be been working on so hard? Pray so.
Telemarketers, sometimes I do have fun with them. Like the one time two of my friends were sitting at kitchen table having coffee. Phone rings, I answer, she identifies herself with some publishing company and I was picked to receive, at a special price reduction, this particular book, if I would answer a question correctly. “Who played Rhett Butler in ‘Gone with the Wind'””
Rolling my eyes I answered, Clark Gable, and in her most enthusiastic voice she tells me that I am able to…stopped her dead in her hype and said….let me ask you a question. Who played Lumpy in Leave it to Beaver….I don’t know, she said. Well, I said, you lose and I don’t buy the book….goodbye
gonna be a good day out…in the seventies….
heard this one time, and even this morning I was laughing so hard…warning may contain some expletives….it’s on telemarketing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIVfrBFc5og
Miss you GR 😉 , pray you are safe…..Amen
http://cheezburger.com/8987386624
…..and I’m trying to keep mine in place
Frank Bank….What do I win?
God bless us every one. God bless the USA. Busy day ahead.
Steve 🙂 a smile on my face….you know that took place about 40 years ago, made my day recalling that morning….I was a lot quicker back then.
Why do we worry about Ghost so? Debbe I do too.
Going to buy ice for big ice chest, may have to send food home with my workmen. Lowe’s says they will be here Sunday or Monday. Manager got a fridge freezer located at another town, sending truck for it.
Debbe: Tom Mabe was a hoot.
Bear: Call sounded like a recording, so I just hung up.
Peace,
Oh my, Debbe, that was just the best on telemarketing! I bet Arlo would do that!
Just scored incredible clearance prices on brand new fleece winter wear for my young helpers baby girl. Thanks to global warming and 80 plus degree weather here the stores are packed with winter goods going unsold.
My helper was going to North Carolina tonight where it will be cold and toddler had no warm clothes. Normally I give everyone food or beverages for thanksgiving but I ran down and bought a week’s worth of baby clothes, then ran back for another weeks worth for when she returns.
This does relate to global warming and weather. Chain stores usually commit to goods a year out. If bought from China they must be paid for before container hits land and is released. If American company brand, they front the cost of goods for the chain and extend credit with a deferred due date of 60-90 days from shipping.
How does this affect you? I just bought brand new goods at less than landed cost (usually about 35% of retail cost to you) so the chain loses money, the American manufacturer loses money but the factory in China got paid.
And my helper was reduced to tears and the baby looked adorable and kissed me.
I sympathize with everyone in the SE with the droughts and wildfires, both of which we are all too familiar with in the SW. The thing I find interesting about Jimmy’s comment is being in an ‘exceptional drought’ after only a couple of months rain-free, although that could include less-than-normal rain in the preceding months.
In New Mexico our droughts aren’t usually labeled ‘exceptional’ until many months of little to no precipitation. almost no moisture for us Sep-Nov is just an average fall.
It has been very warm here, too. I have yet to have a single freeze at my house when usually the first frost is in mid October and by now we’d have felt at least a few hard freezes.
The difference between living in the high desert and the southeast.
I do hope ya’ll get relief soon, though.
Today has been high dry temperature and high winds, usually a package deal for wildfires. I saw smoke billowing down road about a mile, which may be grass from a tossed cigarette. Our neighborhood arsonist vanished without ever being arrested. We did think anyone in Oklahoma would turn in their mama when reward went over $30,000. He roamed free for several years setting dozens of fires, often on same day.
Bryan, y’all have horrible fires when yours get going. I have been in New Mexico during fire season.
This is live, not ‘highlights’. Wonder what’s going on. Peace,
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/orcalab-base
Little seems to be afoot. Some folks moving about on the boat. Maybe webcam trouble so they just left it. Peace,