Fat Tuesday!! For anyone living life bound to archaic superstitions, today is the day to fatten up ahead of lenten fasting, 40 days until the semi-pagan easter celebration. Party On. Being a Holladay, just another day on the 365 day celebration calendar..and a two-fer Tuesday!!
Last year's celebration in New Orleans kicked off the TrumpVirus spread in Louisiana (and likely helped spread it elsewhere). Our "leaders", already aware of the virulence and highly contagious nature of the virus, did what they did all year (and many are still doing)deny and lie, killing, so far, almost half a million Americans; the TrumpVirus, his legacy..well, there's the insurrection fully supported by the "law & order" prez. Prosecutions await..spineless republican senators unable to do their job, fulfill their oaths to the constitution; others are willing to go after the traitorous garbage that is donny the douche.
While the middle of the US remains stuck in the deep freeze, we are forecast to be in the 50's by day's end as a Warm Front brings us a puff of southern air. That warm air will be very short lived as the eastern edge of the Polar Vortex slides into VA tonight setting the stage for another round of ice Thursday. Another round of moisture will ride up over that cold air bringing the entire mixed bag of winter precipitation. We are in the bull's eye this time for a major icing.😱
The corner boundary zone of the Aussie/Pacific plates continues to shift and shimmy. A 6.2 quake and the obligatory aftershocks have fish and the few residents in the region on edge again. Tsunami reports sent but no warnings or wave issues reported. Fairly normal looking map elsewhere around the Pacific rim; Kamchatka, Indonesia with today's biggest shakes.
I would have thought the 1.3" of rain overnight would have melted more snow but much still lingers on the leaf litter of the forest. My paths and trails snow free but quite soggy, Hershey Dog Creek running free!!
Space Weather reports a comet cruising between Earth and Mars appears to be from elsewhere..not the Kuiper Belt or even Oort clouds, perhaps from outside our solar system based on its strange, highly hyperbolic "orbital" path; doesn't seem to actually be gravity bound and orbiting the sun. No worries for Earth, a pretty sight through a telescope and hopefully not sparking alien invader ideas/hoaxes from internet trolls locked in basements worldwide. Simple reality so often leading to insanity and stupidity these days..
Avoid all that and look for a safe way to celebrate Mardi Gras, Today On Earth!!
Or you can simply follow a dog's sage advice: Feeling down, go out and chase some squirrels, "all your troubles disappear when you're chasing squirrels"!!
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