Heat, Humidity & Hornworms

It feels like August today, almost 90 in the shade and muggy; seems like perfect weather for tomato hornworms. I picked 8 off my tomatoes yesterday and only one was smaller than my little fingers; they had been feasting. They don't do well on rock at high speed though...still on the lookout today but haven't seen any more. No storm clouds yet but that is in today's forecast. A breeze makes it a little less oppressive but, nonetheless, it's hot out there.
The crescent moon and planet display continues and it's was Jupiter's turn to shine near the moon last night. A little cloud action made both a hazy. Those two will be even closer tonight. Mars, is still so bright and so red in the east. Venus is brighter but sinking lower and lower these days even though it's at it's greatest eastern elongation today.
For the 3rd day in a row there is a quake in the magnitude 6+ range: today 6.5 in Indonesia, no tsunami  warning; yesterday Tanaga volcano in the Aleutians of Alaska went big - have to think the 6.6 quake was from an eruption, but can't find any reports to link quake with volcano. No tsunami reported with that quake either. Still a fairly shaky day on the old planet, not a real surprise.
Word is still spreading, alerting as many as we can to the backroom slime going on with the attempted rezoning of 2,000 acres of Louisa ag/forest land. Looking like three out of the county LLC's are trying to make this happen with the help of the head of the board of supervisors and the county manager. Not sure the taxpayers want them in those positions of power to make behind the scene deals that will greatly enrich some already wealthy non-residents (currently paying very low taxes with forest land tax breaks) but cause the residents of Louisa more in taxes while offering little positive for the county (sure, Dominion and Columbia Gas will make more...). Seems to be the way America works, a few get even filthier rich and everyone else pays for it.
I have changed settings on this blog. Comments were coming to my now dead LCHS email but I've changed it to my old rock guy google account. If anyone is reading this, make a comment, you will not be email spammed. Time for this lazy guy (nice nap again today) to get up and do a little grass cutting in the heat before the rain showers forecast for the next few days settle in. And, to take another walk with a large brown dog, Today on Earth.
Speaking of large, spotted the biggest mushroom I've ever seen today. Below is the picture, that's my foot for scale. Huge!