@usefewersyllables Very inventive!
Low cost, too!
We had a fun visit from the ranch owner's old German Shepherd, "Shep". We guess that he was likely a real bad ass when he was a young dog.
I hope your music selection will be wonderful.
Thanks for dropping by, friend.

schedule "no-tech" or Amish evenings now and again, where the only thing we allow are candles and a single soft playlist that we start at the beginning and that doesn't get touched until we're ready to turn in for the night.

No buttons, no mice, no clicking, no screens. They are incredibly restorative. Speaking of which, we haven't done one since March, so we are way freakin' overdue...

Enjoy the downtime!

@jakkalbessie The Loop was solid wildflowers this past spring. It was fairly rainy.
We see pastures along the Hill Country highways where ranchers keep their livestock fenced out of certain sections that are actually planted with bluebonnets. That's real dedication to the wildflower culture of the state. After we eat Mexican food in Fredericksburg, we will spend some time in Luckenbach and Albert.
The big concert is tomorrow evening at Albert Hall.
Have a wonderful weekend, friend.

Willow City Loop is a great ride and one that is incredible during Bluebonnet season. Enjoy Luckenbach and surrounds and hope it restores your souls!
Am in Santa Fe and getting ready to do a walk along the Santa Fe river.

@mimi @mimi have an arrogance that is unfathomable to me.
Your authorities seem to be punishing you for having a disabled sister. I am so sorry.
Get than plan in place and get to Hawaii and you son, friend.
edit: my typing sucks when on vacation, it seems. Get that.....your son...

easy said, hard to be done.

It's a dog life, so I am thinking of getting a dog. Oh gosh, how many elderly women I see courageously walking their dogs in my meighborhood. I don't want to become one of them. All my neighbors are well over 75. Would be nice to see some kids running around.

Sigh. I have to get out of my depressive thoughts. I want to get away to Hawaii. Why the fuck is it so far away?

What gets most of my nerves is that people around me never give a thought about some people not having the money for getting away. I don't have a car and TPTB make sure I am not using or getting my sisters car. Assholes the whole fucking bunch. I have so many revenge thoughts of how I can pay them back for their inhumanity.

ok enough for being negative.

Thanks for the flash mob video. Long time I hadn't seen one. I love them. It is hard not to worry. Makes me feel like an idiot not to worry. I ain't a fucking idiot. Or may be I am. Oh, fuck that too.

Enjoy your get away trips. Just enjoy everything. I cut off the TV. I need to start reading again.
hmm, the glasses are not strong enough.

so, whatever. We will make it.

@snoopydawg than at home. Still, we are going to take a drive to Albert Hall to listen to some music, make inquiries about how the dance hall will be cooled during the concert tomorrow night. We both packed shorts and dressy slacks. We are thinking we may just wear shorts.
Biden is also opening up public lands to drilling. At the same time, he is trying to outlaw gas stoves and grills.
I read some article about TPTB having a climate change summit in Spain. They all flew in via private jets, then made a big deal out of riding bicycles to the summit's building.
It appears the 99% should be shamed, punished, behaviors modified, access to energy limited, so it can be reserved for the use and benefit of the 1%. We do not deserve it. Only they do.
Take good care of my client. Give Sam a hug for me.

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The WHO just announced that the world is in a boiling phase and temperatures will be hotter than ever. But what caused it? Well for one thing many people are pointing at the sun and how it’s going through a hotter phase, but here’s something else.

Ready to learn something? Let’s meet the historic, record-shattering Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption of 2022, which I bet you never heard of. Back in January 2022, you were probably distracted by covid mandates or maybe by Biden calling himself “Senator” again. The short version is an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano named Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, 490 feet under the waves, massively erupted, bigger than any other modern eruption, even bigger than Mount Pinatubo.

You never heard about it since it was underwater and nobody died. But the erupting lava instantly vaporized fantastic, unimaginable amounts of sea water, which billowed into the atmosphere, changing the water composition of Earth’s atmosphere and heating it up for years. In only a few days, the superheated water from the Hunga Tonga eruption blanketed the globe, pole to pole, East to West.

The eruption was so big it could be clearly seen from space.

Here’s an August 2022 headline about the eruption, straight from the NASA website:

“Unprecedented” is accurate but doesn’t do it justice. Here’s how the rocket-slash-climate experts at NASA described Hunga Tonda as one of the most dramatic events in modern history:

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.

The not only injected ash into the stratosphere but also large amounts of water vapor, breaking all records for direct injection of water vapor, by a volcano or otherwise, in the satellite era. …The excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano … could remain in the stratosphere for several years. This extra water vapor could influence atmospheric chemistry, boosting certain chemical reactions that could temporarily worsen depletion of the ozone layer. It could also influence surface temperatures … since water vapor traps heat.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Over the next year it would turn out that NASA badly underestimated the amount of water Hunga Tonga vaporized into the atmosphere. Current estimates are three times higher than the original: scientists now think it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or 40 trillion gallons, of super-heated water instantly injected into the atmosphere. Talk about a greenhouse. Water vapor — humidity — is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

A new study published in April this year analyzed the 1-year aftereffects:

Read the rest here. There is a lot more important information in the article that you don’t want to miss. Like how the Arctic ice started melting during an unusually cold winter…..

And of course let’s not forget about Biden blowing up the Nordstream pipelines that released billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere. But make sure that you separate your garbage and drive less and stop flying in order to do your part for climate change. One jet flying for 1 hour uses as much fuel as a family of 4 uses all year. Plus remember the pictures of hundreds of private jets at the parasites meetings around the globe throughout the year. I wonder how much fuel they use?

Hope you guys are having fun in the Texas hills. Hopefully it’s a break from the heat.