DINER NEWS
Lil' Woody has been a daily regular at the Diner this week. Mornings and Evenings. This guy is really packing it away-a human version would be one of those guys who rotates all-you-can-eat breakfasts around town.
IT'S SMORGASBORD NIGHT AT THE DINER!!
Yep, C cleaned out the department frig and brought home a variety of food to be put out on the giving stone. The peanut butter jar was our contribution.
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| Stampy was a early diner. |
The next day:
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| Not much left. I put out green tomatoes after trimming in the morning for MamaC who, oddly has not been seen in days and the tomatoes remain uneaten. | |
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| Where is MamaC? PS Brief sighting evening of 8/30 |
Early fall evening:
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| Look at this long tail! Name evolution: from Stubbs to Rene to LTR for Long Tail Rene or LT for short. |
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| The Bun Bros grazing |
There is something enjoyable and satisfying about tending to the tomatoes especially when events have postponed my attention. With the protective fencing in place, this is not a quick job along with the pruning and picking of fruit. The centers of the plants need to be opened up to provide both sun for the fruit and provide air circulation. Tomatoes can be divas in temperament: they whine about too much sun or too little, same with watering and food and of course the temperature. They complain if it's not like Southern Italy-hot and dry. But we tolerate this demanding plant because its fruit is so delicious and versatile that we prize these once a year treats (store 'maters: fuggitaboutit-they are tasteless billiard balls). So, mission accomplished as we approach the final stage of the season.
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| Bowl of newly picked cherry tomatoes-these are Moby Grape variety that I have grown for years. Very prolific, tasty and available as plants from Horrocks. |
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More paw paw fun facts: The paw paw is the state fruit of Ohio.
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| 2021 |
It's been a meager water summer for the Watergirl. Only 6 pool days, 2 days of pool at the Saugatuck Hotel, 0 days at Motz Lake. Weird weather: hot & chilly, drought & rains, a few v muggy days. But in true Michigan fashion, other than the 2 month drought, most things changed after 2-3 days.
The Watergirl loves sea turtles.
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| Justin Kelefas |
We were watching turtle vids during supper and she mentioned how curious it is that I have no affinity with water. "A whole different universe" she said and she especially loves looking up at a wavy, sunlit surface from below. "Water is a roof".
"Turtles look like they have an easy life" she said watching them just floating weightless in ocean shallows buoyed by the salt water. "Yep" I replied "they eat, procreate and avoid not becoming a meal for a predator. We, on the other hand, are pretty much on the top of the food chain in terms of predators. What is dangerous to us are each other and microscopic viruses and bacteria who use us as a host, often killing us as a result".
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While watching ocean life vids, the subject of sea monkeys came up. "A bad scam targeting children" said C. Just add water and watch them come to life. Actually, what was being sold was dead, dried shrimp that never reanimated". Ads for such turned up in kid's magazines and comics in the 60's-80's before the authorities finally cracked down. Kits are still being sold and complaints are still out there.
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| Photo by Krista Bennett, Archie Giant Series Magazine, The World of Jughead, №523, 1982 |
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| A great tonic for any teacher who has completed their first day back to work in late August: Deck yoga with Buddy! |
C and Buddy have a pretty stable morning routine. She's often up 5ish and he seeing the frig light come on and hearing a glass rattle, comes up on the deck and mews. He's let in through the slider and his lordship's breakfast is already plated. While he's eating, she goes out on the couch with her tea, journal and blanket up. A few birds are singing. The Diner already has its early regulars: Mr.& Mrs. Redbird, Stampies and Freddie. After finishing breakfast, Buddy comes out to the couch and jumps onto the protective blanket and first laptime proceeds. Often quite vigorous to start then settling down to a lengthy belling rub. With my getting up signalling what time it is, she'll head to her office picking a cup of joe on the way. She begins bed making chores with Bud's unsolicited help. Done, she'll be in her chair firing up the internet and readying for 2nd laptime with a protective blanket across her lap. Bud will deposit himself across her thighs and receive some prime massages from Mum. Often, I'll pop in with a cup on my way to my office, give a kiss and a scritch and Bud will jump down giving C a chance to go pee, freshen her cup and stretch out her numbing legs from the 15 pound cat. Bud will claim the chair only to be deposited on the bed when C returns. This routine continues often with Bud becoming more and more persistent about having the chair. Finally, C will get fed up and mosey to her business of the day.
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| Isn't it time for you to go to work? |
A subtly intelligent move by him-he knows who the bread winner is. Gotta keep the flow of Little Friskies coming in.
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He really would like to take his morning nap. He's been at work all night and Mum's chair smells like her, nice and soft and he curls up nicely in it. Plus, it's elevated. Like a tree limb in Africa.
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| A Comfykatter who is totally at ease with manspreading. |
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DICTATOR'S CORNER
Life imitating Art: you couldn't cast a better evil villain in any 007 than Vlad Putin. The people jabbed in the calf by a passerby's umbrella delivering radioactive poison, those dubious window jumps and car "accidents"-all explained away by the Kremlin. Just a mere coincidence that they had run afoul with Vlad.
He could not give Yevgeny Prigozhin and other Wagner leaders a pass after their attempted putsch. Hmm, not a missile or drone strike on the jet but an onboard explosion? Vlad was coyly silent the first day after the jet went down. Then cryptically calls Prigozhin a man "with a complicated fate." What?? Shortly afterwards, the Kremlin machine swung into action with blanket denials and that poor Vladdy was the victim of western anti-Putin propaganda. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling whether Prigozhin was actually on the plane. He was known to have used body doubles and Wagner owns a number of jets. We'll probably never know the truth even if the Kremlin sez they have DNA evidence. PS August 27-The Kremlin's investigative team verifying via DNA that Prigozhin was on the jet.
This was a clear message to the oligarchs: you cross me, you die. It is reported that the smart ones have already raised private security forces to give themselves a fighting chance to survive. You crawl into bed with the devil...
Really, isn't this playing out like some low-grade Netflix flick?
Meanwhile at the Fulton Co. jail:
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| #P01135809 Donald John Trump |
My pick for the official presidential portrait to hang in perpetuity.
One of Roach's continuing conspiracy rants (it turned up on his special with Tucker) concerns the lack of water pressure across the country. It's everywhere! Hotels, restos, homes! Why? So Roachy can't do his coif. Those libtards want him to look bad.
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| Hypnotoad's evil cousin-Hypnotrump |
How the Roach manages to control the GOP and his unswaying followers.
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Fabulously strange Fan Duel (sports gambling app) ad with chickens considering the morality of gambling: living the straight life or let loose once in a while-after all, life is short.
Wow.
And its follow-up:
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You know it's muggy when your bare feet stick to the linoleum floor.
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I was watching a tornado vid-upon entering a small Kansas hamlet you are greeted by a sign that says "I'd turn back if I were you". Stephen King territory for sure!
Tornado Fun Facts-tornado color: front lit-white, back lit-black when relative to the viewer.
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| Gene D Roden |
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| Stephen Jones |
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cutebuddypix
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| I'm pooped from the heat and the big storm |
8/30-I was deadheading the butterfly bush when I spotted a new butterfly, our third species this season.
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| Gilles San Martin |
This is a red admiral.
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| Lindsey Wasson |
And they're off...the T-Rex World Championship races at Emerald Downs in Auburn, WA on August 20.
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| Anadolu Agency |
Last night, August 30, there was a memorable lunar event. Not only was it a blue moon, meaning a second full moon occurring within the same month, but the moon was at perigee or its closest point in orbit to Earth. We saw it emerge from the neighborhood treeline, fat and bright. One those rare things where a good chunk of the world's population experienced an event together.
The following morning, the temps dropped to 45°. Yikes! As we drove to campus, in the fields to the north of us:
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