10-21-22: rain totaled another .75"! This has not deterred the pruners—they're latest target: the lily of the valley. The other day I looked out and those around one of the base of the cedars had the green leaf nipped off leaving a patch of stems:
10/23: a busy day at the Diner with many fur and feather friends stopping by. I noticed that we have a mating pair of chickadees who were dining together. A LongTail:
Mrs. Redbird, Sparrow and a Junco:
Our DHS was keeping an eye on things:
The slider deck covered in a variety of leaf and locust bean litter:
I had tossed out some peanuts out for the Jays and found some nice leaves:
Sun going down:
10/25:
31° this morning—frost on the pumpkins! Our first frost which is quite
late this year. The average first frost date is around 10/6 although
last year it came on 10/17. It really has been a odd weather year.
10/26: we've had two frosts and they have taken a toll on the coleus:
Mr. Maple out front is glorious as ever—here backlit as the sun is close to setting:
10/27: C returned to work and it went well!
10/28: another frosty morning. I saw this big girl on the slider while washing dishes:
In Michigan, praying mantises undergo a one-year cycle: adults mate in late summer/fall, lay eggs in a protective case called an ootheca, and die before winter. The ootheca, which can hold 50-200 eggs,
overwinters until spring when tiny, wingless nymphs hatch. The nymphs
grow and molt multiple times through the spring and summer, eventually
maturing into adults to repeat the cycle. Female mantises are larger and heavier than males. Despite their rep for sexual cannibalism, roughly 25% of males get their heads eaten after sex-the females recognize the need for nutrition and since the guy is there and smaller...C'mere honey, for a little luv bite.
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Hodgepodge for $200:
Lord Longfellow, whom C often refers to as "Stretch" after Stretch Cunningham, a character from All in the Family. Fun fact: the character was played by James Cromwell in one of his first TV roles as Archie's co-worker:
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I'm seeing ads on YT from Replika: Premium AI Companions 90% human-like! Have conversations that go deeper, brighter and lead to moments of revelation!
Wow. With a company name eerily and most likely purposely referencing "replicants", bio-engineered beings from the film Blade Runner. In the sequel, Blade Runner 2049, the blade runner is a replicant who hunts down rogue replicants. He has a holographic AI girlfriend Joi and there's a scene where human prostitutes bust his chops: "Oh, that's right, you don't like real girls."
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Fun Vids:
Kelly Boesch AI A Very Unusual Town:
19th C fad: wealthy English farmers would commission paintings of weirdly oversized livestock:
Strange mushrooms:
Owls flying through soap bubbles for researchers trying to understand the aerodynamics of their flight:
Interesting pics featuring a lot of pareidolia:
One featured a unmixed can of paint that presented a "cat wave" pareidolia that made me think of the famous woodblock print by Japanese printmaker Hokusai:
FUBARland:
The Roach's destruction of the White House East Wing is a twofer: an act of petty projection against Melania—the East Wing served as the First Lady's domain for her and staff—well, she's never there so who cares?; and a chance to further his gilded era/Versailles lust for bigger, better, gaudier displays. It's been reported now, that what exists under the East Wing is the White House Nuke bunker that is being upgraded.
Curiously, Hitler did a similar thing with
The New Reich Chancellery:
This massive building, completed in 1939, was a separate and grander structure built next to the old one.It
was designed to embody the power of the Nazi regime and included
Hitler's office, a grand reception hall, a marble gallery, and a Füherbunker for air-raid protection. It was there in April 1945, where Adolf ate a bullet.
Speaking of bunkers, London Times Radio reported that there are rumblings that Vladdy is spending more time in his bunker.
I came across this vid examining the collapse of empires from the 17th C forward. Evidently there are seven stages and America is accelerating through them and currently at stage five. I tried to track down who is behind these posts from Economy Rewind without any luck. There are more in this series and I guess one can take them with a grain of salt while keeping the concept of historical deja vu in mind. Still, if accurate, this is quite sobering:
Reprise: T Bone Burnett's It's Not Too Late from 1992:
The wind turns like a dagger The rain falls like a hammer The sky has grown dark But it's not too late
The weather crashes down What's lost cannot be found The night is closing But it's not too late
It's not too late, it's not too late It's not too late, it's not too late The atmosphere is lethal But I will fear no evil
The ocean rolls like thunder The tempest pulls us under The dogs are howling But it's not too late
As broken structures rust False idols turn to dust All lies in ashes And it's not too late
It's not too late, it's not too late It's not too late, it's not too late The atmosphere is lethal But I will fear no evil
In the dark before the dawn The echo of the siren's song Dies away like a ghost As the day breaks
It's not too late, it's not too late It's not too late, it's not too late The atmosphere is lethal But I will fear no evil
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