That's a relief. Doesn't mean no horrible storms here (Andrew was in an El Nino year) but I'm likin' the odds more. Plus, if anyone needs the rain, it's the West.
Oh, does this mean there's a good chance of massive snowstorms here this winter? That would be fun.
eta: can find nothing on their toxicity……so maybe not deadly.
It probably depends on what kinds of metals/pesticides/other contaminants are in those alkali soils out there. You could limit that if you raised them yourself, but there goes all the fun of the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle.
Well, if you're searching muddy puddles in the desert for food, anxiety is probably the dominant mental state, not depression.
I wouldn't be surprised if the native peoples ate them as a summer supplement, but can't yet find anything on that.
Were I a Native Person, I'd probably use them to play practical jokes on all the White folk.
"Sure, we eat those all the time!"
Maybe get the French to try them?
Anyway, nothing found but locusts, of course, and sphinx moth larvae.
I bought Cmdr a |Scorpion Sucker|, but he didn't seem to like it.. Fuck it, I'll eat it.
[Welcome to Arizona!]
I won't tell him about the time ,[out in the Dudleyville boonies in the double wide] post shower, sitting there in only loose swim trunks because it's still too fucking hot to have anything else on, when a little brown climbs up out of the chair onto my bare thigh. I levitated about three feet off the chair in a twisting frantic fit, then spent the next hour trying to find the little fucker in the the ratty orange/brown shag carpet.
this is when you find out cartoons are really documentaries.
There's four peaks over 14k ft right there. I'm down at 4k, and have to look up to catch it all. I'm very fortunate to be here in Big Pine.
Lovely. You're not on fire, are you?
No fire here, thanks. We've been getting a lot of smoke from a few fires to the west near King's Canyon, but the winds have been keeping us clear more recently. Of course wind isn't our friend, either.
The highest point in my state is called a hill. There's a for-profit college on top of it. It's pretty embarrassing.
Don't take this the wrong way, Karen, but the highest pt in NJ is higher than all of O Hi O.
Oh, don't worry, I know we're basically just Kansas with rednecks tacked onto the side.
Edit: Kansas at a much lower altitude
…and it's a landfill!
Fresh Kills Staten Island LIBEL!
No joke. Growing up in central NJ, the highest nearby hill was 500 feet high. Now I'm a quarter mile above SF Bay, and I ride my bike back and forth to the supermarket, a paltry 650 feet below. Something about mountains. I like being around them.
Ugh, the heat is just crippling today. I'll gloat later in November.
Let's hear it for high level wind shear in the Atlantic hurricane spawning mid-latitudes! Also more rain on the left coast?
Odds are for both, which is great for North America.
I hope the odds are for both, because with this drought? I can't even!
That's a relief. Doesn't mean no horrible storms here (Andrew was in an El Nino year) but I'm likin' the odds more. Plus, if anyone needs the rain, it's the West.
Oh, does this mean there's a good chance of massive snowstorms here this winter? That would be fun.
Likely just the opposite: Drier and warmer winter in this portion of the country.
That's good news for the garden's container herbs.
I get wet just thinking about it.
You know what's going to happen once you get puddles out there…
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nothing a little frontline can't prevent.
Lawn shrimp!
A sure harbinger of Land Sharks
*Gasp* Don't open the door, Blue! IT'S NOT A CANDYGRAM!
I'll never forget the first time I saw those.
"What The Actual Fuck!!!"
Yeah is must be real weird to have something that looks like it's straight out of the Burgess Shale spring up out of nowhere.
Do people eat those?
"When there was no crawdad, we ate sand"
"Luxury!"
Dunno. I did not.
eta: can find nothing on their toxicity……so maybe not deadly.
It probably depends on what kinds of metals/pesticides/other contaminants are in those alkali soils out there. You could limit that if you raised them yourself, but there goes all the fun of the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle.
I did find this just now. The Blog it's in seems appropriate, no?
Well, if you're searching muddy puddles in the desert for food, anxiety is probably the dominant mental state, not depression.
I wouldn't be surprised if the native peoples ate them as a summer supplement, but can't yet find anything on that.
Were I a Native Person, I'd probably use them to play practical jokes on all the White folk.
"Sure, we eat those all the time!"
Maybe get the French to try them?
Anyway, nothing found but locusts, of course, and sphinx moth larvae.
I bought Cmdr a |Scorpion Sucker|, but he didn't seem to like it.. Fuck it, I'll eat it.
[Welcome to Arizona!]
I won't tell him about the time ,[out in the Dudleyville boonies in the double wide] post shower, sitting there in only loose swim trunks because it's still too fucking hot to have anything else on, when a little brown climbs up out of the chair onto my bare thigh. I levitated about three feet off the chair in a twisting frantic fit, then spent the next hour trying to find the little fucker in the the ratty orange/brown shag carpet.
this is when you find out cartoons are really documentaries.
Sheep eyeball libel.
rain rain rain rain rain… bring it on
My neighborhood glaciers, or what's left of them, approve this message.
<img src="http://www.kurtwedbergphotography.com/photos/545852543_zB3dC-M.jpg"</img>
Wow.
Palisade Glacier, in better times. Visible from my living room window.
Living where I do, I forget what actual terrain is like and that, my friend, is Terrain. "Mountains come out of the sky, they stand there!"
In a Roundabout way, Yes!
There's four peaks over 14k ft right there. I'm down at 4k, and have to look up to catch it all. I'm very fortunate to be here in Big Pine.
Lovely. You're not on fire, are you?
No fire here, thanks. We've been getting a lot of smoke from a few fires to the west near King's Canyon, but the winds have been keeping us clear more recently. Of course wind isn't our friend, either.
The highest point in my state is called a hill. There's a for-profit college on top of it. It's pretty embarrassing.
Don't take this the wrong way, Karen, but the highest pt in NJ is higher than all of O Hi O.
Oh, don't worry, I know we're basically just Kansas with rednecks tacked onto the side.
Edit: Kansas at a much lower altitude
…and it's a landfill!
Fresh Kills Staten Island LIBEL!
No joke. Growing up in central NJ, the highest nearby hill was 500 feet high. Now I'm a quarter mile above SF Bay, and I ride my bike back and forth to the supermarket, a paltry 650 feet below. Something about mountains. I like being around them.
Ugh, the heat is just crippling today. I'll gloat later in November.
yeah, that's when it starts cooling off in florida, too