LOCK HIM UP!!!!

The indictment we've been waitin' to see

And, should be the first of oh so many

For the stupidest con man in history

Behind bars or shot, fat donnie oughta be

Claiming political...boo ha ha

No, the crook broke the law

More tornadoes likely today

Where only on fox TV's play

You can deny global warming

Hiding in tubs w/ twisters swarming

Good shake just offshore of Chilé

Yellowstone, few more shakes they see

Here, it's clouds ahead of rain

And, major wind, will be a pain

On Saturday

More solar wind headed our way

High lat skies, auroras will glow

But, unlikely another southern show

Now..any way..

Today On Earth

Arti...what a sweet girl

Got her priorities right

Nap On!!

Lock that fat bitch donnie up

Throw away the key

Yellowstone Shakes, verizon Sucks

Well...Yellowstone's not on volcano list

But, locally, those shakes are not missed

Fuego, Krakatoa, Santa Maria, Stromboli

Volcano tour, those are the ones to see

Big bird dog is back after morning tour

Bird into window, long gone for sure..

March, not exactly out like a lion

But, calling it lamb-like, I'd be lyin'

Kevie & GOP, still no budget we see

But, negotiate remains their idiot plea

Standard scene from every republican

Lies, denial & blame, no hint of a plan

Buy their ticket on the fox lie express

To any reality, they will not confess

Ukraine still kicking little Vlady's ass

Into their country, no ruskies may pass

Sun still raging, auroras a'glow

Warning: Saturday, wind gonna blow

Sure some dumbass will start a fire

Trees & house, will then expire

Let's hope not...

Today On Earth

You know it ain't the East coast:)

California dreamin'

Amazing...crap verizon connection made it...

A Daily Reminder: verizon SUCKS...

Stream TV, yea..that's a real joke

Seems, like R. daSatan, it's woke

Can barely get internet..& it's slow

W/ verizon, few bars will show

Like their ads, traffic they clog

Be surprised if I can post a blog..

🌋TIME💣

Yellowstone; a little shaky today

Better hope it don't blast away

Will make global warming HALT

Global winter will be on the assault

Least will stop lyin' GOP frustration

W/ unwanted illegal immagration

We'll be the ones looking to get out

Welcomed elsewhere, that I doubt

Usual Cali rain & snow

Up north, another blizzard to blow

Miss. warming denier pray on

Houses & jesus both...gone

Solar wind continues to stream

Aurora tours..living the dream

Kind of amazing, connected so long

verizon attitude, rural don't belong

We run ads, proclaim we're great

But, for any service...we wait

Today On Earth

Where is my dog's head?

As usual...

Looking for birds

A Lull In The Destruction...??

Seems to be nothing too severe today

Nothing trashed or washed away

Avalanche in Utah, 6.0 quake off Japan

New invasive skeeter in Florida, again

Massive blob headed toward east coast

Hot oceans have set algae on roast

Hazy & cool, rain staying to the south

More lies spew from devil's mouth

Fat donnie out on campaign trail

But, gotta hope justice will prevail

And, lock his cheatin', traitorous ass up

Still they rant, idiot watchers of fox

Tiny stunted brains, in hateful box

When all you do is blame & deny

It's just too hard to give reality a try

As on & on the stupid breed

Then, quick to whine about their need

Still Earth's rules pass on by

Ignored..but real

Adapt, Migrate or Die

Today On Earth

The thick, gross fungl growth

Only a hint of its former self

A Peek Into April...

April 2023 - On & Off Earth

After living in town my first year in Louisa, I have lived in or almost in the woods ever since. The first neighborhood I moved into already had the homes connected with moss covered trails. I was happy to join in with trail maintenance and then enjoy wandering the forest on quiet, cushy pathways.

The piece of Louisa forest I purchased was wooded, no hint of a driveway and I had to build trails to even get in to make camp to then decide where a house might go. I worked on the house and added trails; those first trails, now mostly covered in lush moss. Seems if you clear the leaves, moss begins to slowly appear. Many friends would say the growth of my house and the growth of the trails and the moss have moved at a similar pace.

Moss is amazing stuff, growing best in the deep shade of a forest, through deluge or drought, it hangs in there. The fossil record shows mosses evolved beneath the first trees about 350 million years ago, when much of today’s coal was forming (coal is just dead plants compressed to rock). After any bit of a dry spell, the moss on my trails fades and cracks, crunchy underfoot. With even a light misting of rain, it is back to a lush green cushy carpet again. I’m trying to get it to grow everywhere I can; no mowing needed.

Before April is out, there will be grass mowing to do. While the mosses greens up in the woods, yards, too, are in grow mode. I have just found the first tick of the year, seen a couple of black snakes cruising about, and spotted Lady Slippers poking their little orchid heads above ground for a look around. The dogwood are just about to burst into bloom. By month’s end my view into the woods will be much shorter and very green.

March slides into April with the moon waxing brighter every night reaching the Full “Pink” Moon on the 6th. Venus continues to shine bright high in the southwest at sunset as the Evening Star. Speedy Mercury pops up into the southwest sky early in April, highest and brightest on the 11th but is hard to spot just a week later. Mars, a dim version of its former self remains high overhead at dark but is now less bright than many of the still lovely stars of the winter constellations. The Sun moves out of Pisces into Aries on the 20th.

Every six months the Earth and moon line up and we have eclipses somewhere on the planet. This April kicks off a series of three solar eclipses that peaks in April of 2024 with another Great American Solar Eclipse. Next April’s eclipse will likely be even bigger than the 2017 event, with over 4 minutes of darkness along the shadow’s center line. The sun will only be about 80% covered here in Virginia; I will be outside Austin, Texas in the path of darkness. Start making travel plans, good spots are already being reserved.

But first, an annular eclipse (the moon too far out to cover the sun completely) occurs across the SW Pacific this month on the 20th. In October, another annular eclipse will be visible across the SW United States, (about 35% covered here in VA). I’m working on plans to be in Texas for that one, too. To practice for the big one!

April 22nd marks the 53rd celebration of Earth Day but Earth is in the news most every day. Extreme weather seems more the norm than the exception these days. Dramatic, disruptive changes will continue on our planet and proactive adaptions on our part will be far better than reactive responses made after the next disaster. As I’ve said, our home, our choices.

Gettin' snakey

Nice Here, Elsewhere...Not So Much

Dixie braces for mo' tornadoes

Cali, in new atmospheric river blows

No big quakes, solar wind calms

Maybe auroras, only far north swarms

Gotta say a big WOOOOO

Florida Atlantic to the Final Four

Slammed shut that Kansass door

Ticks and snakes are on the roam

Buzzard shadow just crossed my home

?????????

Must be something dead out there

Time to get out, it is warm & clear

Today On Earth

Black snake tail

Disappearing...

Karma Snacks On Dixie Again!!!

Way down south in the land of denial

Earth has put those fools on a new trial

Blown away, blown away, blown away

In Dixie land

Did you vote for lying donnie daLump

Well, it's on you, your house is a stump

Blown away, blown away, blown away

Dixie land

And, so sad, Houston & da Crimson Tide

Are no longer on March's tourney ride

Blown away, blown away, blown away

Dixie land

I'm bettin' any flying the dixie loser flag

Ain't got nothing left but a tattered rag

Trailers tossed near and far

As onward rages our nearby star

Auroras seen way down low

As the sun roils, mo' solar wind show

At least, no big quakes anywhere today

But, our juiced atmosphere wants to play

Snow & tornadoes, here just rain

We dumped the CO2, we can't complain

Big space rock w/ a flyby today

Any change of course, we will pay

We stayed south of the front yesterday

Today, cool & wet has come our way

Forecast to get swept on by

W/ nice weather drawing nye

(not Bill Nye)

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More gun deaths in the news

Same ole scene, same ole views

Momma wails & dyes her hair

No one tells what they saw there

Why? Who? So quick to blame

Never their fault, always the same

Maybe plan before having kids

..Close a lot fewer casket lids

Today On Earth

Shenandoah National Park

I didn't catch this...:(

Still....WHOA!!!

Which Side Of The Front Are You On?

A back door cold front's coming down

From 80's to 50's, I've got a frown

Seems, it won't linger will move along

Down in dixie singin' new tornado song

We've trapped the heat, just standing back

While Earth spins up a new, wild attack

Turkey & now Iran got few more shakes

To crumble crap, little is all it takes

Sun keeps blasting, aurora dazzle on

Farther south than they usually belong

Ukraine, still a modern version of WWI

To twisted little Vlady, just more fun

KGB killer is all he'll ever be

Backed by India & Ghina oil sales, whee

For workers, it's Friday so celebrate

Spend your cash, keep 'merica great

Today On Earth

Scary Old guy

Sitting on the sittin' tree

Enjoy temps still at 80

Still Cra-Cra

Tornado in LA, big Argentine quake

26 mountains gotta ash & lava shake

Wars still rage, traitor donnie still free

Here, it's mostly clouds I see

At least it's mild, like early Spring

My wandering dog doing his thing

Sun still spotty spewing the solar wind

Givin' our atmosphere a shimmy & bend

Second plumbing patch seeming to hold

Needs a flush 'fore I get too bold

Forests still getting slashed & burned

All our troubles, we have earned

Today On Earth

My late jonquils finally blooming

Murphy Rules...

A simple fix went a turn too far

Now, no water, maybe to a bar...

Another chilly start to the day

But, warmer times are on the way

Extreme is still the word worldwide

And, we ain't got no place to hide

Heat & hail, wild wind & big rain

Global warming mo' & mo' a pain

Make the changes, we know how

But, have to kill the big cash cow

Fossil fuels are the main concern

But, war we wage & oil we burn

Still pumping mo' babies out

Then help me, help me they all shout

Quakes around the northern Ring

Subduction doin' the earthly thing

Sun still blasting, Moon is new

Venus & Jupiter, even more askew

Easy fix, we'll soon know

Maybe get back to water flow

Today On Earth

Nice bear chin pillow...

Oh please.. can somebody...

Put fat lying donnie in jail

It ain't politics, he's a criminal!!

Don't Feel Like Spring...

Vernal Equinox is later today

But, late winter won't go away

23 was the morning low

Big High dome will not go

Until later in the week

Change to near 80...freak!!

5.4 Alaska quake

Pretty good lil shake

Huge coronal hole on the sun

Gonna be mo' aurora fun

No readers...No mo'

Today On Earth

What Breyer thinks of it all

Last Day Of Winter..

Spring equinox is 5:24pm tomorrow

An extension winter seems set to borrow

Big quake in Ecuador, at mag. 6.8

That is major, maybe not quite great

Deaths reports, massive damage, too

And, though his policy set the stage

We all know the pope ain't coming thru

Subduction zone on plate boundary

Why surprised when quakes ya see??

Similar story in US, land of denial

W/ a mo' rain & snow, warming style

Way overbred and way under-built

Don't take much to put it all a'tilt

3rd world all scream, it's not our fault

But, w/ mo' babies they just won't halt

If you can't feed 'em & got no school

Don't have kids, seems an easy rule

Massive pile-up, 100's stuck

We all know, caused by a truck

Hauling ass in snow & no visibility

On any drive, lotta semi stupidity

March lion continues to roar

Drifted open, can't shut that door

But, Spring is coming & the heat

This time next week, mosquito treat!

Sun continues to blast away

So..at high lats auroras will play

Venus & Jupiter ever bigger spread

Mars still sits way up overhead

Moon getting close to New

Earth, still not too bad

Enjoy your view

Today On Earth

Same hole different look

But, none are....

More Daylight Than Dark

St. Patty's Day is usually 12 & 12

Exact hours of light and dark

Should be the equinox, it's not

Atmosphere bends light, that's hot

No big quakes today

Well, maybe on the sun

Elsewhere, so much rain & snow

Here, still mostly a no show

Mosses are fading & got a crunch

Can change quickly, need not a bunch

But, some rain is required

Otherwise, things easily fired

Be safe out there...

Today On Earth

Was to be..before rain pic

Remains so

Will reshoot after actual rain

Little Vlady Putin...still sucks

St. Patty...Patron St. of Potatoes?

Ireland... gave monoculture a bad name

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Not so good at the breeding game

Religious wars & over-immigration

Maybe some alcoholism frustration

Praise the pope & kill your fellow man

I'm ok w/ green beer boycott.. again

In other crazy, twisted, pathetic places

Floriduuh, daily seeing 40 fewer faces

TrumpVirus still raging there

We know governor don't care

He's out battling all that is woke

Asked to explain reveals the joke

Poser christians waving bibles about

Scream loudest..have most doubt..

What is not in any doubt, Earth rules

And, we humans carry on as fools

Few quakes today, Ghina & Iraq

Perhaps a few bodies in plastic sack

Too many in both places

Already got more to replace

Few drops w/ lots more to come

W/ wind & mo' cold winter bum

Hopes for warmer late next week

Or not, world still set to freeeeek!!

Today On Earth

Pileated Woodpecker

Gettin' busy

Guess I can do green today

Global Warming Real...Whaaaaat!

With denial & lying still all the rage

Earth keeps shifting into its new stage

Hot & dry, big storms then flood

Dust bowls coupled up w/ mud

It's so obvious, w/ weather extremes

Earth's rapid changes ain't just dreams

Still poser christians & the lyin' GOP

Wanna rule from the 5th century

Insane laws from barbaric times

Then poof...forgiven for heinous crimes

Earth quakes on, mountains erupt

Most of planet set on weather disrupt

Coming changes easy to explain

Yet, repeat & repeat...truly: insane

Plastic & toxins everywhere

In the water & in the air

But, ever onward we keep drilling

As more blood & oil we keep spilling

At high lats, auroras glow

Solar wind w/ the pretty show

But, as 8 billion humans seethe & fight

Screaming that they got the right

But, ain't no rights, just get a shot

At life, that is all we got

Earth don't care if it is fair

Fairly certain, Earth don't care

If we live or if we die

We better give change a try

Cuz...that's all there is

Today On Earth

Soon..want food

gonna have to grow your own

Where's the cow gonna sit

W/ your fat ass on the couch?

Beware The Ides & Big Wind Wedgey!!

'Tween High dome & Nor'easter Low

NW wind continues to blow & blow

That Nor'easter's dumping lots of snow

In Cali, all the rain now full flood flow

San Andreas got the little shakes

Water lubed...that's one take

Puerto Rico remains shaky, too

Plates shift, it's what the planet do

At least, I've got good solar heating

And house burial, easily wind beating

Sun remains spotty & blasting wild

Arctic radio blackouts, so not mild

New spots soon turning our way

It's a star, it don't play

3/4 moon lit up house in wee hours

Planet check, DST...I forgot to look

March Ides..don't be Caesar, get the hook

Today On Earth

Not last night...

Donnie the douche

Ever the same

"Never my fault..."

Yet, still we wallow in 

The TrumpVirus

March=Wind...At Least Some Sun

The sun is back but the wind is wild

Compared to others..we got it mild

Today's treat here, flying ant infestation

Still can't find point of infiltration

Birds are still a frenzy in the yard

Hitting the sunflower seed hard

Almost 2 tubes already today

Sure a refill will vanish quickly away

Cali/Nev. border got the little shakes

Off PNG, sea floor w/ 6.3 quake

Otherwise, usual scene, 'round the Ring

Nearby star, big spots still blasting

Good news from dog lump check

Add in a bird from window deflect

Chomping on a bone, he's good

Time to get into the wood

Today On Earth

Few days back

Skies cleared

Planets appeared

What A Croc...

Seems down under, a flooding worry

From a croc you may have to scurry

Warming seas mean mo' evaporation

Easily translates to mo' precipitation

Flooding then's so easy to explain

Humans like to build on a flood plain

Here, no flooding, 2/10" is all that fell

Much as snow, didn't stick but was swell

Gloom remains for today

But, hints of blue sky in play

Lot of quakes, SW Puerto Rico

Round the Ring, same slippin' show

Minor space rock collision worry

Not til 2042, so no real hurry

Little vlady can't even take one city

Turns out his army's rather shitty

Bird feeder frenzy has subsided

To greener pastures they have glided?

Still a few more days of cold

Before tis Spring, tis foretold

Today On Earth

The handsome lad..

Needs a vet visit today

🤞

Merapi Erupts, Freddy Lives On, TIME CHANGE!!

Mozambique, again, are you ready

It's the return, again, of cyclone Freddy

7 time the storm has intensified

E. Africa, ain't no place to hide

Merapi is also erupting, again

Indonesia, new land you win

My guess, little allah will not care

Even as you continue w/ mo' prayer

Cali may have said Ullr once too many

Places to hide from snow god, aren't any

Here the rain is almost here

Skies..not even close to clear

Spectacular sunrise this time change day

Orange glow, in armageddon, fiery way

Think is was sailor "red sky morning"

I'm a gonna heed the warning

Time to go, get a big dog out

Time change issues, ain't no doubt

With later sunrise, I am good

And, later sunset, like it should

But, gotta change back in the early Fall

Cuz 8:30 sunrise is just stupid, y'all

Today On Earth

This does sum up the issues

between the sexes...sadly

Been awhile since I asked

But, WHY isn't fat ass donnie trump

In jail??

Or better yet..

Shot...for high treason!!

Less Yuck, More Bluster

After very little rain but lotta yuck

Today, w/ wild wind & clouds; stuck

Cali, more ills of flood plain construction

Later or sooner, big water destruction

Aleutians, Adak, lot of little quakes

Me thinks, dormant volcano awakes

After few days of low visitation

Birds at feeders w/o cessation

Seems more yuck on way tomorrow

Still... fairly low on meter of sorrow

Red tide in Gulf, cyclone Mozambique

Cali rain & snow, still set to freak

More CO2 so more energy stays

Gonna see mo' & mo' wilder days

Are ya ready???

For...Today On Earth

Plasma waterfall on the sun

10x bigger than Earth

Photo courtesy of 

Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau

thanks Eddie from Argentina

WHOA!!!

Just Yucky....

While we got nasty & raw

Glad I'm not in California

They got more rain & more mess

All those cars now lil' Earth process

We cut the trees, we burn the oil

A once fine planet, onward we spoil

But, I need a walk in said forest..

Now..Today On Earth

My personal tree recycler

I noticed, after adding a mustache, that Va's lying governor, Glennn Screw OurYoungkin, looks just like Hitler..same hair style, just needed a little 'stache. He's out bragging about all the gains his Dept. of Education have made with increased parental involvement, insight and guidance. But, his Dept. head just resigned, with $220+ million not sent to schools, violence rampant and math and reading scores abysmal. Nice job parents, easy solution; blame the teachers!! But, he can't find many of those, so...like test scores, if we just lower the standards we can hire new "teachers" and give every, non-gay, kid an excellence trophy. The TrumpVirus way...lie and lie and lie..till it is the "truth"!

Still earth quakes, an old cyclone still wanders the Indian Ocean and trains crash. Sunspots still blast high energy streams of particles at Earth, Venus & Jupiter move farther apart (both in reality and from our view), the moon wanes on and stupid people have more kids they can't feed or care for..another day cruising Da Nile. Today On Earth!

A Sad Day...Miss Ya Meg!!

A good friend should have hit 50 today

Sadly, it didn't turn out that way

Pancreatic cancer, a nasty scourge

Did with her life a deathly merge

Always hard to say, we never know

How this whole life thing is gonna go

Enjoy your ride while you can

It's a one way ticket & very short span

Thanks Meg for just being you

Making life better for all you knew

🍻

Winter is not going without a fight

Even w/ Spring nearly in sight

Blooms continue, but gotta be tough

Tomorrow's rain, many will slough

Aleutians seems to be in eruptive mood

Kamchatka quakes up to no good

Earth, doing what it does, every day

Adapt or move if you wanna stay

Sun remains covered in BIG spots

Sending Earth mo' solar wind shots

Auroras still lighting the skies

Jupiter, farther from Venus flies

Waning moon still lighting the night

All in all, Earth's got it right

Too bad we're trashing the place

Too much greed, too little grace

Today On Earth

Peach blossom

Long tough road to peachness..

Cyclone Freddy Will Not Die!!

Freddy intensifies again, now round #6

In Mozambique will see mo' flying sticks

Forming off Perth in early February

Just how long will it continue to be

Speaking of flooding, there's California

More rain means floods, gonna warn ya

Here we've got the wind w/ the cool

Change in March is the only rule

On a warming world, it's likely extreme

But, a few greedy are living the dream

TrumpVirus+easy opioids=dead

Course...another 100+ bullets in a head

GOP plan..mo' babies & mo' guns

Mo' denial & blame for everyone

Quakes, few in 5's around the Ring

Our star still w/ spotty blastin' fling

Full Worm moon, O' so bright

Venus & Jupiter, O what a sight

Bundle up & get out...

Today On Earth

Trains..great idea for America

Just not Norfolk Southern..

Cool Down...

While west & north, mo' snow storms

Here, we're in for a dip below norms

Not really very far below, but for awhile

Will not make blooming fruit trees smile

2 quakes at mag 6.0 today

Philippines & PNG all a'sway

Colombia & Puerto Rico shaky, too

Big solar winds got Earth in view

Auroras & radio blackouts, so far

Bigger blasts could do big grid mar

Antarctic ice continues to melt away

Sea level rise..coastal cities to pay

Too fast to build puny walls??

Burn less oil, we don't have the balls

Cancer economy of war, drugs & shopping

Sets us up for big hard dropping

Where ya gonna bury 8 billion

Or cremation, mo' CO2, few zillion

GOP fools say, crank the babies out

But, not in my yard, heard to shout

Great ideas still being pushed aside

And, only one planet, no place to hide

Jupiter & Venus, shine on, unconcerned

If Earth lives or gets burned

Full Worm moon earlier today

Another night of moonshine our way

TrumpVirus still knocking 'em dead

Need science, get stupid instead

Today On Earth

March Periwinkle..

CraCra

verizon just sucks so bad

$95/month for crap...

WTF....

Email won't open, everything is slow

verizon don't care, that much we know

Local sups, idiots, want to expand

Claim mo' taxes, but none they demand

Why would anyone want amazon?

Just mo' cardboard & choices gone

Add in walmart w/ mo' ghinese crap

As 'merica falls deeper into debt trap

We got stupid & we got a lot

Another train wreck...that's so hot

Warm weather is soon going away

Early bloomers all gonna pay

Earth Extreme

Is the new scene!

Moon is one day away from Full

Mo' seawater, mo' tidal pull

Venus & Jupiter still a delight

Get out, check it out tonight

Today On Earth

Planets are in the shot...

Got better w/ mo' dark