Bye Bye, July

While much of northern world in baking heat

Here, front thru, cooler & less humid, neat!!

Another 671 'mericans will not see August

Cuz lying donnie & ronnie they did trust

Florida's gov. sent another 183 to their grave

YESTERDAY

Still no rules or mandates ronnie does rave

123,000+ new cases just yesterday

This nightmare just won't go away

One silver lining I will note

A dead republican cannot vote

(Well, maybe in texass or flowrida)

In CO, last year fire, now heavy rain

Mudslide recipe: Glenwood canyon; insane

Where CO river has cut narrow funnel

Motorist trapped, spent night in tunnel

6.2 quake rocked Ecuador & Peru

Two more spots I will not go to:)

Rest of Ring, plenty of shakes

Alaska, aftershocks, still no breaks

Sun still quiet, just passed 3/4 moon

Forecast & hope, rain coming soon

Problem with rain in our new norm

Now means, wild, ripping, raging storm

At least we'll be on Front's cool side

As into August we do slide

With the TrumpVirus on the surge

Just when mask-less was the urge

August will then remain hot

Cuz 100 million dumbasses, no shot!

Today On Earth

And, the rock, does not care

A Little Earth Wilding!!

Earth got wild(er) yesterday

Quakes, aftershocks, storms at play

Several storms roiled for miles

What it left, were not smiles

Trees & roofs, ripped & strewn

Cold front through, none to soon

Lower temps & humidity, too

With the 90's, we are through

Well, for a short while

August sure to crank up the dial

Alaska still shaking with aftershocks

Takes awhile to readjust slippin' rocks

Meso & S. America & Tajikistan

Seem today's Earth shake plan

But, no plan, just pressure release

Billions more years 'fore that'll cease

So, enjoy the ride, the daily spin

Long as you got life, ya win!!

Sadly, another 389 families got bad news

Their unvaxed mo-ron w/ TrumpVirus blues

95,000 new cases here

10K in Japan, little Olympic cheer

To the unvaxed, just like to say

Remove head from asshole, today!

Been awhile, but sun is spot free

Spinning on, soon another we'll see

Moon up late, last quarter draws near

In the morning sky, if clear

And, it's clear so far today

Time to run the tree rats away

Get a snoozing dog up & out

For our morning walkabout

And, if you want all faces seen

WTF! Get a vaccine!

Today On Earth!!

Tire Toad!!

Big Quake Off Aleutians!!!

8.2 quake off the Alaskan coast

Warnings but no tsunami toast

Dozens of aftershocks shaking, too

Others quakes: Burma & off Peru

Few volcanoes blasting away

But, many recent are calm today

Weather here still hot & muggy

Flies & gnats, still waaay too buggy

But, all good here in the cool AC

With tomatoes far as the eye can see

Tactic working to keep out deer

With tomato numbers, success is clear

Cover them in human hair

Cuz I'm just not willing to share

Today, big storms but just north of here

Derecho winds? remains unclear

Fires out west continue to rage

With world wide warming, a new stage

But, same old stage, 501 Americans dead

Lies & treason, all on Punk'n Head

100 million still believe stupid thing

So..soon more death tolls will ring

Fools, won't admit they bought the con

Racist deniers wanted to play along

Hard for the stupid to back down

But, they will, when soon in the ground

Seeeeeya

Wouldn't want to be ya

Today On Earth!

Just stare at this puzzle...

CRAZY!!

109K New Cases, Nice Job America

With vaccines so easy & FREE

It is so hard to begin to see

WTF

Is wrong with so many folks

Cuz Delta, well, it ain't no joke

406 more dead just yesterday

Those families, ICU bills to pay

Now we're all back to wearing a mask

Cuz TDS* won't do one simple task

Earth, however, still does not care

Whether pants or a mask you wear

Whether we add more & more CO2

Or about fires raging through

Most of the west or overseas

All for the oil overlords, to please

Burn, burn, burn the oil

At low wages we all toil

Hot & muggy, another day

Looks like storms will stay away

And, no big quakes again, today

Minor solar blasts headed our way

But other than heat, floods & fire

There many other ways to expire

So, stay safe, be aware

Lots of dumbasses out there

Today On Earth

Another day...another turtle

Finally, A Little Rain

While parts of Va had to seek refuge

We were at least spared a bad deluge

And, actually, 0.4" of rain fell

While nearby, wind, rain, hail; hell

At least, our world is not ablaze

Just dealing with a little smoky haze

In western US, fires rage & grow

Global warming now running the show

Still idiot humans continue to breed

Unable to provide kids what they need

So, they migrate, looking for handout

And spread their problems all about

Whiners talk about all these "rights"

But others paying always in their sights

It's not a right, if someone else has to pay

And, Earth doesn't care anyway

Adapt Migrate or Die; only Rules

Un-Planned parents; all are fools

Think someone else should care

Ho's, sperm donors think I should share

Take care of their feral spawn

I say, take a pill, put a raincoat on

If YOU can't  provide these basic needs

House, feed, clothe, teach to read

Don't have kids

Earth does have lids

And, we have crashed hard in them

But, filthy rich go for space swim

Oil companies frack and burn

Dominion, only for profits yearn

Greed building our pyramid scheme

Pretend all can live their dream

Dumbasses still no vaccine

So, yesterday, 88,000+ new cases seen

Deniers filling up ICU's

Still believing falsebook views

Seeeeeeeya, ya gone

Ya TrumpDickSucking mo-ron

Time for a walk...

Today On Earth

Take a walk, see a turtle

August On & Off Earth - 10th Anniversary

Same story here, just enough rain to get things wet, make the air even grosser but not enough to really do any good..

But, here's my August column

August 21 - On & Off Earth

August marks the tenth anniversary of an Earth event that changed our quiet Louisa world suddenly and dramatically. Everyone here remembers exactly where they were at 1:51pm on August 23, 2011 as a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, literally, rocked that world. The quake, felt by tens of millions of people up and down the entire eastern seaboard, is now known as the Mineral earthquake and while the aftershocks have, mostly, subsided, the memories have not.

In fact, over these last ten years I have yet to speak to anyone that was on the east coast that day that didn’t want to share their memory of the event; seems when the ground under your feet shakes violently, a lifelong memory is created.

Several factors combined to make our quake unusual and our Central Virginia Seismic Zone still an area of interest and study for geologists. Most big earthquakes, and 5.8 is big, occur at a boundary zone where two massive chunks (plates) of Earth’s thin, solid crust are separating, colliding or slipping past each other. We are not in a boundary zone today but we were 200+ million years ago and remnants of that history linger.

Also, unlike the shaky west coast, an active boundary with young broken rock that doesn’t transmit earthquake energy very far, the fairly continuous bands of stacked and tilted rock below Louisa stretch the length of the east coast and the rock is old, cold and dense. That allowed the earthquake waves to travel much farther and be felt by so many, from Canada to Georgia.

Ten years later, the Washington Monument has been repaired, Louisa has a new high and elementary school but traces of quake damage are still visible (certainly in my neighborhood) and much research continues; how often do quakes this big occur, decades or centuries apart? How prepared is the East coast for the next big shake? As I mentioned in my very first column after a little aftershock, the question remains, when will the next quake occur?  No one knows but we likely will all remember that one, too.

August sees the much faster Earth, catch back up with both Saturn and Jupiter, leaving the gas giant planets in the evening sky all night long. They will form a line with the Full Sturgeon Moon on the 22nd (Jupiter the brightest and closest to the moon). This full moon fits the original definition of a Blue Moon, the third of four full moons in one season. Back in 1946, a writer in Sky & Telescope magazine erroneously called the second full moon of a month a Blue moon and that easier to understand and remember definition stuck.

Venus remains low but brilliant as the Evening star in the west after sunset. A thin crescent moon sits near the planet in the sky on the 10th. The next night is the very reliable Perseid Meteor Shower; bug spray and a lounge chair all you need to watch for “shooting stars”. Our nearby, actual, star appears to move from Cancer into Leo on the 12th.

One of my goals for this column is to get readers outside to enjoy our world; August makes that tough. You realize quickly stepping into the dank August air, Earth is in charge and you are part of the food web and on the menu, a host of critters quick to buzz near a wandering human looking for dinner. I hope you still get out daily but do recommend bug spray, a broad brimmed hat and keep moving, Today On Earth..

Next month, an even bigger 20th anniversary, that we all, sadly, will also remember forever.

 

5 Months 'Til Xmas!!

We got floods, heat, fires & drought

Dumbasses dying, cuz ain't no doubt

Millions floating a river downstream

Da Nile, lying, the new 'merican dream

TDS* won't get a simple vaccine

Many will no longer be seen

Maybe they will whine or be pissed

But, the mo-rons will not be missed

Sadly it won't help world population

Bad family planning, not a sensation

At least, sun has calmed a little bit

But, it's Earth with the big hit

No big quakes but fires rage

Drought or storm, the new stage

Of the worldwide warming trend

That is going to surely send

Earth temps higher and higher

Greater extremes will transpire

And, that is right where we are

Floods taking folks in their car

No real rain fell right here

But, deluges were very near

More today? time will tell

In 5 months, winter will feel swell

But, that many muggy months away

Gonna sweat if you go out today

Me, some pickle ball inside

Then from the heat I'll hide

Right now it's time to go

Like the turtle, take it slow

Today On Earth

It looked like this turtle was stretched out

looking to chill himself...

*TDS-TrumpDickSucker

The Real July Returns

After 2 just lovely days

It's heat, humidity & haze

High is moving to the east

Bringing back SW beast

Just off coast, potential storm

AZ dealing with monsoon norm

6.7 quake shaking near Manila

No tsunami so not a real thrill'a

Little above average day of quakes

Pacific subduction, get rock breaks

Last night, Full buck moon thru the haze

Verizon service sucks for days

So, this will be short & sweet

Time to shift my slow moving feet

Track down a wayward dog

So, I'll wrap this unread blog

Today On Earth

10 years later

Denny's flower for Hershey

Still blooms!

Miss 'em both

Happy Birthday's To All!!

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Wose & CR & Rick & Asher & Emmaline(and any others born today)!! Kinda like mid-November, this week in July is chock full of birthdays of friends and family AND 5 years ago today(at a birthday party)I met a large brown dog, left to fend for himself by his idiot owners, that now, mostly lives at the tire house (he's celebrating at the neighbors right now)!! A big WOOOOO! to all!

And, a lovely day it is, still coolish and low humidity curtesy of a big Canadian High that will begin the move off shore tomorrow, the return flow send the heat & humidity back out way.

A Low twisting up off the GA/SC coast may become a storm, maybe not. Western Pacific is the place with typhoon issues right now, Atlantic basin remains quiet.

Also quiet, Earth; only two quakes above 5 today and not much shaking anywhere.

Not so quiet, the Sun; lot of spots but fortunately none too explosive at the moment. Moon is back behind Earth today, it's the Full Buck moon, lined up directly at 10:37pm.

TrumpVirus cases above 60K again with deaths (those reported) at 362, all unvaccinated dumbasses, seeeeeeya!!

It's Friday, enjoy the cool & dry, it won't last...now time to rid the yard of the tree rats, Today On Earth.

OOOOOHHHH Mexico, Wose is lounging on her birthday, yo!!

El Mundo Es Loco Y En Fuego!!

"Do you realize...

The sun doesn't really go down

It's just an illusion caused 

By the world spinning round.."

🌇

Good timing on that classic

Thanks Flaming Lips!!

With a Front gone through

Seems skies should be blue

But no; hazy with smoke

And, not from a now legal toke

Dozens of fires still rage

Years before we turn that page

Reports of flash flooding worldwide

Screwed the planet no where to hide

China getting double typhoon hit

But, no one else cares about it

Overcrowded world enema site

Few dead chinese be alright

Elsewhere, simple to explain

If you live on a flood plain

Guess what comes in heavy rain?

Raging water & human pain..

🌋

Big ole quake (6.7) off Panama

Yet no tsunami they saw

Another shake off Nicaragua

MesoAmerica feeling Earth yaw

Guatemala still blasting away

Fuego & Santa Maria dozens/day

Usual Ring spots still erupting

But, still just local disrupting

Iceland & Philippines, know to stay away

Nasty gasses in the air today

🌞

Sun is spotty with potential CME's

Wary eyes, what blasts will we see?

Here, at least, coolish & dry

But for the smoke in the sky

And, another copperhead

Scary but now it's dead

Really scary

Will make me more wary

😰

But, got a shot, so no Delta fear

Unlike another 400 no longer here

The fox & falsebook, knockin' 'em dead

But, really fat lyin' traitor, Punk'n Head

Cruising Egyptian river, Da Nile

Fewer GOP voters, all the while

You can believe what you believe

But, the planet you can't deceive

Not Today On Earth

Big moon over Caribbean

Party on Wose🎂

62,000 New TrumpVirus Cases ....WHOA!

Case numbers had gotten low

But lotta dumbasses just won't go

And get a needle in their arm

So, they pass on the viral swarm

To all their fox watching friends

Who's viewership depends

On hate, fear and stupidity

Carrying on donnie's killing spree

Meanwhile..the science they deny

Is killing them, so we wave, byebye!!

San Andreas a little slip & slide

Few more quakes where plate collide

No big issues from any shake

Here the issue, every breath you take

Inhaling tiny bits of smoke & ash

And too much CO2 gas

Warming world is all ablaze

Now we're getting that smoky haze

And, the usual July heat

With bugs aplenty looking to eat

Your body or suck your blood!

On a walk or after raging flash flood

Tiny chance of storms today

Better up New England way

Here, just heat & humidity

And, 80 fires, the smoke we see

Finally got propane delivery

Amerigas new system quite suckee

Just like anthem's insurance

Set for no pay out assurance

Claimed I hadn't filed on time

But, used my start date, what slime

Hours wasted on one claim

Not to pay their only aim

Welcome to the USA

Where the rich never pay

And, the poor just breed & breed

So proud of spewing their seed

But, want the rest of us to pay

For their feral offspring today

Me, I'm taking a dog for a walk

Already today too much talk

My name & birthdate again & again

We'll see if my claim check comes in

🌞

Sun don't care

Earth not aware

Of our whining or our plight

We forget our world's just right

For life if you follow the rules

So, doesn't care about unvaxed fools

Nor do I, I must say

Not on Earth Today

Big Dog don't care either:)

Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!!

It's Madness...

Worms are popping thru glacial ice

Floods & landslide, that ain't nice

Fires out west sending us a haze

Even Siberia is all ablaze

But populations continue to grow

With poor planning, no where to go

Mostly they all want to come here

Thinking their issues will disappear

Earth don't care, it's just spinning

Natural selection will do a thinning

Anti-vaxers continue to die

I'll just wave & say bye-bye

If you believe falsebook & fox

We'll soon slip you into a box

Fortunately, no big quakes

'Cept PNG with upper 5 shakes

Watchers carefully watching the sun

More CME's will not be much fun

Big High here keeping muggies away

But, low 90's may be back in play

It's July, heat still on the attack

Yet, shorter days are creeping back

Sun peeking into my house at noon

This evening catch a growing moon

Now, time to get a big dog out

Then some golfing, there's no doubt

Still retired, need to go play

So, that's 'bout all I got to say

Today On Earth

Is this a cool planet or what!!!

Cooler, Drier, Smokier!!

With the cold(cool) front barely passed thru, we are sitting just in the cooler drier air but it is far from clear; smoke. Smoke from all the fires in the western US & Canada has drifted our way and it is a very hazy day..but will not get into the 90's so a break from the latest heat wave. Not the case along the northern border as they bake in another massive heat dome.

Europe still digging out from truly catastrophic flooding that will change many towns forever; build on a flood plain, guess what? Eventually, it's going to flood and if you burn coal for centuries and trap massive amounts of heat, that eventually is now. They've seen the glacier's rapid retreat..still we talk and promise but really do little to change. Still Earth don't care but it will react to try and balance out the additional heat; hurricanes and storms are how!!

Fairly quiet quake day, local issues only, mostly usual spots.

Sunspots on our side are still small(relatively-still bigger than Earth) but bigger spots and trouble(?) about to rotate our way - sun rotates once about every 30ish days. Didn't realize moon's orbit is on an 18 wobble cycle, more elliptical coming over next few years which means wilder tidal cycles, just to add a little more fun for coastal regions with coming sea level rises.

Few reports on site of TrumpVirus deaths but media & ICU reports showing a surge as dumbasses party like it was 1999 and won't get the vaccine; Delta will change their world. The young & dumb may not die but with LongTrumpVirus will suffer for...well, we really don't know. "But, my mommy said I could be anything I wanted to be", well, your mommy is getting her info from falsebook and you can't be anything you want, most of the recent generations can't even do arithmetic, "2 for $5, where's my phone".

Oh yea, verizon sucks, rapp elec coop sucks...claim they are great...it's another corporate lie. Here, the squirrels suck, where's a hawk when you need one. Time to move on, into the cool smoke, Today On Earth.

Mr. No Shoulders enjoying some solar heating..

 

Stormy Rain, Front, Minor Cool Down...

Almost exactly when forecast(3pm), the squall line rumbled through, 1/2" of rain but the front wasn't here so we are not in the (relative) cool, yet. It is close and today we will likely not make 90. It is July, so the 90's will return by mid-week and with little chance for rain all week.

The rest of the country and world continue to deal with heat, storms, droughts and floods and out west, lots and lots of fires...the usual for the new, cooking planet. Northern tier of states back to 90+ heat; Glacier Nat. Park losing more ice, down to less that 15 active glaciers...need any more proof the planet is warming rapidly? It ain't forest mismanagement..dumbass..

Couple of good western hemisphere shakes today, 5.1 off N. California and 6.1 off Panama but offshore and no waves lapping up. Few quakes in the low 5's but no real quake issues today.

Tough day in my yard for a trio of birds; pile of feathers in the yard the remains of someone eaten and two siblings(?) bashed into my newly cleaned windows and did not make it. Both removed before becoming dog treats. There has been a hawk screaming and hanging about, be nice if he'd eat some squirrels.

Sun is spotty on our side but the real issue seems to be about 3 days from turning Earth's way. We'll soon see what they got left. Moon waxing on, Full Buck moon a week away. Venus beaming but behind clouds here last night.

Few TrumpVirus cases or deaths reported on site for yesterday but news reports from unvaxed states (of denial) has ICU's filling and deniers dying...seeeeeeeeya mo-rons!!

It is a lovely day on the south coast of England for the last round of the Open Championship, lot of jitters so far, lot of pressure with a stick in you hand staring at a small white ball...I'll be watching, Today On Earth.

Lot of yellow on this turtle..

Monster Floods, Cooking Droughts: Earth

Earth fast becoming an extreme place

Droughts & floods in your face

Heat & humidity still rule in VA

But, likely storms coming our way

Much of east coast bracing for a flood

N. Mex White Sands covered in mud

Towns in Germany washed away

Most of the west, another fire day

No big quakes to cause any concern

Explosion off Florida, Navy, another turn

Back side of sun, 3rd big CME blast

Sunspot must be massive, will it last

Early this morn, first quarter moon

High above Venus in the late afternoon

Across the Pond, Open Championship golf

Win Claret jug, your career will take off

TrumpVirus deaths back on the rise

Only unvaxed, really no surprise!

Time to finish coffee, check out the heat

Get a large brown dog out on his feet

Ain't nothin' but change, you know the rule

Stay safe out there, big brain your best tool

Only one life, you know the worth

Still gotta have fun, Today On Earth

How about another Red Wing shot

Steam Cooking Hot!!

It is cooking hot outside and with the high humidity that would be steam cooking or with any activity you will be basted, in sweat; it's muggy. Forecasts call for the Bermuda High to be shoved farther offshore by an approaching front increasing shower chances and bringing a slight cool down for the weekend. July heat returns next week.

Major rain/flood events all around the planet, here in US, China and Europe all kinds of stuff/people swept away after deluges and a tornado in Toronto. Just the constantly changing planet dealing with the extra heat our CO2 (and other gas emissions)laden atmosphere is trapping. Our atmosphere has always made the Earth a hospitable greenhouse but we are headed in the less hospitable direction, quickly!! Hang on!!

5 quakes at or above magnitude 5 today and no big issues there. Couple of dozen quakes in the 2's and 3's at Yellowstone require notice, we sure don't need that bad boy to go blasting; it will one day but when is the question and the resulting eruption will be very bad..waaaaaay worse than 4 years of donny the douche.

Speaking of the ongoing virus, Delta number continue to grow exponentially, meaning more cases and more deaths, all of dumbasses without vaccine. Death or vaccine seems a no brainer but millions without brain left after 4+ years of punk'n head/foxitis rot. Treasonous insurrectionists still being tried and jailed, many so stupid they didn't even know what building they were invading.

Back of sun wild, our side not, for now. Moon brightening but it's kinda too hot even after sunset to go check it out..and clouds will be increasing here.

Be heat, sun, humidity aware; I recommend AC and maybe a nap, Today On Earth.

More turtles...this boxy guy in the creek, the green color, sunlight reflecting of then flowing water. It's flowing again after rain but wasn't day after this shot was taken.

Onward Came The Rain..Woooo!

A band of fairly wild storms rolled through here yesterday dropping almost 1.4" of rain, rather quickly, and quenching our dry world. Some of that moisture has evaporated and added to an already humid scene but, it's July and I'll just say thanks ya big ole planet for the washing and continue to deal with what comes our way.

No big quakes, few small ones in place that likely needed a little reminder; Earth is still shifting..

21 blasting mountains on the week's list, Taal most concerning but Krakatoa..always good to pay attention there. 6 in the Indonesian archipelago, 4 up Kamchatka way, Popo is back, no Kilauea, Etna and Iceland still cranking it out; Earth.

TrumpVirus cases and deaths continue sneaking up, the wrong direction as deniers deny..and die!

Far side of the sun CME sent shocks around the sun, felt by Earth; that will be a sunspot to watch when it turns our way. Moon, brightening, will reach 1/4 Saturday.

Ants...jeez

Adapt, Migrate or Die..heed and follow the rules, Today On Earth!!

How about a festival shot..

But, The Breeze Helps...

It's hot, it's muggy, it's July..but a little breeze and not too bad, heat index only 92, temp 87..long as you got AC to come into, it's tolerable!! Chance of storms increases today as the Bermuda High slides a little east and begins to break down; better chances by week's end.

Fun (or not so fun) fact: Great Salt Lake is at is lowest level in recorded history!! Tapping into freshwater feeders by the ever growing mormon hoard the problem; they won't stop doing that (breeding or using the water) and prayer doesn't seem to be helping.

Half dozen lowish 5 quakes today, middle of China maybe some issues but what's a few dead chinese when ya got a billion and a half, Beijing don't care.

Blast from the sun is reported to be late, or not coming or missed us...solar activity really not a problem. Just read there is an 18 year lunar cycle of more or less circular orbit and for most of this coming decade it will be less circular..meaning..spring tides when at perigee (Super/King tides) will produce enhanced flooding along, especially, northern hemisphere coast. Mix in sea level rise from warming...surf will be up, baby!! Next Full moon in 11 days will be 3 days after perigee so only minor effect. Lunar crescent continues to grow!!

Cali reporting 414 of the US's 825 TrumpVirus deaths yesterday...yesterday...whoa! Maybe missed a few days reports. Surges surging where dumbass refuse the vaccine...seeeeeeya!!

Badly limping big dog last night seems much better, Today On Earth..and that is a very good thing.

Stay sun and viral aware out there!!

The Heat Is On!! JULY!!

Elsa is gone and with no storms in the Atlantic basin it's Bermuda High time; and that means heat & humidity and we got it. Back into the 90's today with the muggies, heat indexes over 100!! Big heat (and fires) out west, trough in between keeping upper plains a little cooler. Our storm chances increases as the week moves on but in summer fashion will be hit and miss. A good sign, The Hershey Dog Creek is still flowing!!

Also, in typical Va. fashion, if there's cool sky to view, clouds will not let it through. Moon, yes; Venus, yes; Mars, nope, couldn't see it and while on other days it might have been a lovely sunset sky, not last night. The two planets will be close again tonight but Mars is very dim and dropping quickly as we leave it behind. Venus will remain in pursuit of Earth, still months away from catching us and remain the Evening Star.

Few 5+ quakes around today, usual rim suspects, plus Iran (hopefully not an Israeli bombing) and northern New Mexico with some good little shimmies today. Sinkholes opened up in Florida's heart of denial and self-centeredness recently, the villages, land of TDS* on golf carts; sadly it hasn't yet swallowed the whole place...keep the faith!!

21 volcanoes on the list last week, some old favorites are back: Krakatoa and Stromboli while usual suspects keep blasting away. Western Pacific rim is, as usual, the week's winner for activity with Philippines Taal running off the most people with a nasty sulfur dioxide addition to its eruption; yummm to that smell.

Minor solar blast headed our way but just auroras the likely outcome. Waxing crescent gets a little bigger and higher in the west below the belly of Leo, Venus still beams below.

TrumpVirus deaths still several hundred a day and likely to continue to trend upward with TDS* assbrains remaining unvaccinated and Delta variant expanding exponentially. Unvaxed neighbors of my sister are no longer neighbors, both got it, both dead. Donny the douche continues lie-fest on the source for fake news, insurrection and attempted coup was all about love...if by love you mean hate...his lips were moving..you know it's a lie.

Time to get a very tired dog up and about before heat gets crazy and a guest arrives, Today On Earth.

Always good to see a box turtle..

*TDS-TrumpDickSucker:)

Home Again, Home Again

After an amazing weekend of live music, Red Wing Roots Festival, I'm home and it feels like July, but not in the tirehouse:)

No major quakes happening, weather issues on a rapidly warming world continue and two neighbors of my sister's, dead, TrumpVirus, not vaccinated, duh!!

Maybe a real blog tomorrow, until then, stay cool, Today On Earth.

Elsa in Fla. Muggies Here

Hurricane/Tropical Storm Elsa is just about to make landfall into the Florida notch, pass near the capital (maybe a tree will take out de Santos) and thrash it's way up the east coast exiting near VA/NC border. Rain and wind..you know the scene. High pressure with SW flow muggies rules around Va way today, front heading in from west will push/interact/merge with Elsa..who really knows, likely tomorrow.

Few quakes around but only into low 5's on around Pacific/Aussie plate boundary so no real shockers anywhere.

Space seems pretty quiet, Moon is New Friday so back into evening sky near Venus & Mars conjunction on Sunday & Monday just as it gets dark. Last notice, no blog til Monday or so. Red Wing Roots music fest!!!

Cali reported 459 of the 714 TrumpVirus deaths yesterday...but that's not just yesterday and most of the states of denial with no report. MO is out of ventilators in places and delta variant is going to charge on and take out TDS* in droves; believe that you deniers...and we'll seeeeya..or not!!

You know the rules, adapt, migrate or die...Today On Earth.

Florida, Meet Elsa!!

Poor Elsa down to tropical storm

But, Florida about to get a new norm

Ain't no sunshine in the state today

Just wild wind & rain hammering away

Governor'll be soon begging for aid

Help me FEMA, but only whites get paid

Blaming the feds for all Florida's ills

But, begging them to pay the storm bills

Hope Mar a Lago gets battered up good

donny's home turned to splinters of wood

Family & friends there, hope they're ok

But, Villages & Miami, wash 'em away

5.2 shake of Hawai'i's north shore

And, eastern Montana, fracking? not sure

Alaska is shaky but all are small

Philippine's Taal, minor lull is all

Here, High pressure is in charge

Heat & humidity, today will barge

Likely hottest day of the week

Shade & AC is what you should seek

Only 5 states with TrumpVirus update

But still lots of TDS* won't vaccinate

So..Delta variant will continue its surge

More dumbasses will get ultimate purge

Won't be sucking up donny's lies any more

Likely a long queue down at hell's door

Just after sunset, the zodiacal light

Now we know Mars dust causing that sight

WHOA!!

Dust from Mars

With background of stars

WHOA!!

How cool is that!!

Tonight, off Earth

Same as it ever was

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

Elsa Visits Cuba, Muggies Return Here

After a two day breather, breathing today requires moisture tolerance as the normal summer heat and humidity return to VA. Hottest day forecast to be tomorrow but 90's 'til Thursday when Elsa may pass to our east (or right over us, no one truly knows) and/or a cold front may bring some clouds and showers.

Today, Elsa is about to make landfall on Cuba, a country likely more prepared for hurricanes than the collection of refugees and retirees just to the north in the state of Denial (aka:Florida). Forecasts call for a good west coast raking by the storm; we'll all know by week's end what happened.

The rest of the half collapsed building was brought down not long ago creating an even bigger rubble pile that the storm will give a good soaking to, a major tragedy and a major mess but will the deniers heed the warning; rising seas, shoddy construction on sand bars is not a good mix.

Another fairly low shake day around the world. A 4.1 shake in central Wyoming..but, got mountains, probably going to have the occasional shake, not close to Yellowstone. Only quakes at mag. 5 waaaay out in oceans.

Heat wave continues it's slow creep across northern tier, not quite as hot as when cooking west coast.

The sunspot that just turned away from Earth had fired off the first X-class flare in 4 years, signs the new cycle is heating up. The thin, waning crescent will be above Taurus's Aldebaran tomorrow before dawn and above Mercury Wednesday morning heading toward New on Saturday. Venus beams on, but still low, in the west after sunset with dim Mars dropping closer by the day; binocs for Mars and the darker the better.

Very few reports of TrumpVirus deaths, not surprising it was the 4th of July and with today's government offices shut down for the holiday, not likely to be much tomorrow. Reality is, if you're vaccinated you aren't going to die from virus; if not and like many that are not, you are obese and sedentary, good chance if you get Delta variant, it will get you. Seems the TDS* would have figured out, that their boy both got it and got vaccinated...he lies about it but knows the reality and has his fat ass covered..by a lot of fabric. Less republican deniers alive to vote, or shoot ya, that's a good thing.

Local gun blasting asswipes in full blast mode last night, waaaaay beyond guns, sounded like bombs going off, insane. Bet they feel all patriotic today, bet none have ever read Declaration of Independence or any of the constitution but one sentence fragment in the 2nd amendment. Like the bible, they wave it around but have not a clue..that Jesus was a peace guy. Democracy remains tenuous, pay attention, Today On Earth.