Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Google Just Sucks...
Monday, May 30, 2022
New Mexico..Ya Burned
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Many Tides A'Rising
Saturday, May 28, 2022
After A Week..The Sun Returns
Friday, May 27, 2022
Squall Line W/ Tornado... Happy Friday
Thursday, May 26, 2022
4 Years..Retired..Woooo!!
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Welcome To Texass, Prepare To Die!!
Then go out and kill some kids for fun
No way in Texass to get an abortion
But, anyone can go buy a killing gun
And, that’s the only thing a gun’ll do
That’s to kill them, him, me or you
If gun safety’s the goal of the NRA
Why are so many getting blown away
NRA's the gun lobby's stooge, total joke
Load another clip, take another toke
Screaming 2nd amendment; what a crock
Be ok if you only had an ole flintlock
Cuz, only one reason to buy an AK
That’s to blow lots of folks away
Weird little dick, ain't wrapped too tight
You should have a gun, you got a right
At least this latest shooter is dead
Don't have to care what was in his head
Without guns, when ya have a bad day
Dozens don't get blown away
But, that ain't true in the "great" USA
Blame someone else then make them pay
It's never our fault in the land of Da Nile
"I don't unnerstand, was a perfect chile"
21 dead in Texass, likely 5X more elsewhere
In the USA, about gun kills, we don't care
Maybe GOP's not Gang O Pedophiles, no
Guns Over People, is the way they go
Still they spew same old tired jive
Tshirt over fat belly: Guns Save Lives
W/ maga hat on gross, bulbous head
If we're so great, why are 19 kids dead?
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Count 'em all, ya NRA TDS* bitches
On you Greggg & your abortion snitches
Last week of school, ready for summer
Now gotta live the ultimate bummer
Texass, # 1, case/death TrumpVirus ratio
If you wanna die, it's the place to go
Maybe..should give it back to Mexico
At least trade Ted for a taco or two
Today On Earth
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Today just clouds after 2" of rain
Cool in late May, shouldn't complain
Big storms in dixie, more rain on the way
But, sure on cool side of the front today
Very few rocks doing the slide
Showing low quake numbers worldwide
What isn't low, TrumpVirus dead
PA reports 175 in their forever bed
Bird flu, monkey pox, we got it all
Real issue still, human numbers not small
In 3rd world, live w/ or eat anything
Give new viruses a chance at a fling
Lot of whining about clean water & food
Won't consider..having 8 kids not so good
Claim, a great dad, to his kids, all ten
No..just a sperm donor stickin' it in
Hear sun's still spotty, moon wanes on
Locked in clouds, both seem gone
Small sun window tomorrow??
But, good weather for Memorial day sorrow
We kill more than Russkies in Ukraine
Logic of mo' guns..hard to explain
Onward w/ mo' murders & suicides
In 'merica, no safe place to hide
Today On Earth
Local beef
Looking for trouble
Or a bun...
*TDS - TrumpDickSucker
Sorry about font..
Did I mention..GOOGLE SUCKS
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Rain, Rain, Rain & Rain...
Monday, May 23, 2022
What A Comeback..!!!
June 2022 - On & Off Earth
I had to go all the way back to my first column, over two years ago, to find a reference to the reality that not far below our feet lie tilted bands of very old, fractured rock that will occasionally shift a bit, to relieve pressure and get more comfortable. At midnight, on May 20th, the new day began with a magnitude 1.8 adjustment tremor. That big shake and rumble (felt bigger than 1.8 to me) brought all the quake and aftershock memories back.
As a geologist teaching Earth Science and, as my students would tell you, someone seemingly obsessed with rocks, I was often asked after our big 2011 quake if I liked living in such an active earthquake zone; NO, was always my reply. In hindsight, I’m glad I experienced the big quake, that no one was seriously injured or killed but living near the epicenter, with hundreds of aftershocks; the shaking got old. I’d move to the west coast or these days, west Texas if I wanted daily quakes.
The fractures in those old rock bands became a conduit for hot fluids from deeper in the Earth to work upward, forming the Central Virginia mineral (and gold) belt. We see the evidence when we work in our gardens, or when I cut my yard (closer to a field than a lawn) in the chunks of rocks we encounter; almost without exception, the mineral, Quartz.
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide), in its many shades and forms is likely the most common mineral on Earth’s surface. It is fairly hard (resists scratching), polishes nicely (Amethyst, Onyx, Citrine, Agate, Rose, Opal; all semi-precious varieties) and dissolving in very hot water, with a host of other minerals in tow, is the milky white vein that gold miners seek out.
If you have beach plans this summer, more, once local, quartz will be there waiting for you. Most of the sand on the beaches of Earth, and certainly the eastern seaboard, is quartz. Earth, rarely in a hurry, is slowly breaking down the quartz in your yard and garden and storm by storm, moving it ever closer to joining the river of sand, that is a beach.
If you are at a beach mid-month, the Full Strawberry Moon on the 14th, is also at perigee (closest monthly approach to Earth) and will look bigger than normal and cause huge tidal swings for several days. Enjoy watching our natural satellite and planet interact.
June 1st kicks off the Hurricane Season and the Summer Solstice, at 5:14am on the 21st, the Summer Season. That point of greatest northern tilt allows the sun to shine over the top of the Earth, gracing June days with almost 15 hours of sunlight, and long, lingering twilights; lots of time to explore the countless outdoor options of summer(all requiring sunscreen!).
But, all that daylight, combined with the warm, hazy humidity of our summer sky, limits evening sky views. I try and get out, on that rare, cool dry night for a peek at the Milky Way and summer constellations but June is about daylight, and with lots of it, it’s time to get out and enjoy Summer.