@jakkalbessie In some places, cokes = soft drinks, like Lookout says in his comment. If I prepare chicken or potato salad, it is with mayo. If Dear One prepares it, it is with Miracle Whip. I didn't hear pop or soda until I went to college with people from all over the world. Spinach good, turnip greens are bad.
Well, you are biking, I am still having coffee. Lazy day. I am going to don jeans and rubber boots and walk to some flower beds to yank some weeds. I will be speckled tomorrow and have to wear boots and jeans for several days. Good grief!
Enjoy your weekend!

I know there are many more but my sister in Michigan says Pop instead of soft drink. It is more in sayings I see a difference. If someone tells me to “catch the light”, it does not mean it is floating somewhere above our head, it is to turn out the lights.

Food is another regional difference to people in the north. Do you use mayonnaise or Miracle Whip.
On barbecue, vinegary sauce or a sweet sauce. I’m sure more will come to mind.

Have a great day and stay out of the grass barefoot!

@Lookout I am jealous!
Dear One gets a kick out of the local speak. He has finally figured out that when someone says, "The garbage can tumped over" means it fell and emptied onto the floor.
I know my grandparents used expressions that were Creole on maternal side, Old English on the paternal side.
I am going to try to get in some shopping ahead of the Sunday and Monday heavy storms and rains. Must run into town, fetch some groceries. Gas went up to $3.29 per gallon, so running got a bit pricier this week.
Take care, enjoy your weekend, my friend!

A lovely 53 degrees and sunny. High today 70. Rain coming back most of next week. We've had 3+ inches this month so far. About right for the garden, but makes mowing a more regular chore. Spent much of yesterday mowing, weedeating, and pruning...still fighting fire blight in the apple trees. Hauled off the the infected cuttings to the dump. I normally burn them, but went to town this AM and discovered them in the back of my little car.

I like the variety of dialects. I think much of it is fading with the influence of TV and other broadcasts. Linguist suggest the Appalachian dialect is directly related to old English.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/

Some of my favorite expressions:
Of a morning (or evening) means in the morning
I'm afeared (afraid)
fixing to (about to) As in: I'm fixing to go to the garden.
done (completed) As in: I've done hoed the beans
All soft drinks are cokes in our corner.
And the common y'all which most know. In NC they say youins.

So hope y'all have a lovely day!

@Tall Bald and Ugly I have never seen an aurora, other than videos. One day, we might head north to Alaska to see the night light show.
Stay awake, dude! Eyes wide open!

don’t know if anyone caught the aurora
last night should have a couple more nights
to view it supposedly seen as far south as
florida alabama and arizona I’ll try to stay awake
tonight and cruise up to the airstrip to goggle

here’s hoping this one works

https://youtu.be/pA4PK8NTImA?si=tBZ3LoiOscou3mbu

@snoopydawg to her, get numerous emails daily.
Good for her!
She is litigating her license return, but it is a long and costly slog. She will ultimately prevail, in my humble opinion.

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What Cow’s Milk tells us about PCR testing -

The agency tested the sample for viable replicating viruses using egg inoculation and found all were negative. Tests on 96 PCR-positive retail milk samples were negative. They then tested 201 more PCR-positive dairy product samples, including cottage cheese and sour cream. All were negative for viable virus.

The World Health Organization hastily put together a webinar on the public health risk of avian influenza (H5N1) detected in US dairy cattle. The expert reaction was reassuring.

“The message was also reassuring in regard to food safety with pasteurization successful in limiting virus in consumer milk and milk products despite genetic material of the virus (but not infectious virus) being found in 20-40% of supermarket milk samples in the US. There are large amounts of infectious virus in the milk of heavily infected cows, and the finding of remnants of the virus in pasteurized products isn’t too surprising.”

One wonders how many other viral fragments can be found in milk, as well as stray proteins, peptides, DNA, carbohydrates. If you look you will find. This is absolutely true.—Nass

Instead, every scrap of RNA detected was added to the ‘positive cases de jour’ to scare the bejesus out of everyone… with the people with the genetic material of the virus (but not infectious) quarantined for two weeks…”

Heh…those doctors who took away Nass' license should be kicking themselves for giving her the time to do all that she is doing. She puts out up to 7 or more essays every day.

@soryang do that! Holy cow!
Speaking of smoke, we are getting smoke from some fire in Mexico. Air quality is poor.
It rained hard here for an hour, is now a light rain. Storms and heavy rains tomorrow and Monday.
Not sure I remember this much rain in spring. But, this is really a record setting rain level.
My Florida gator story: Ok, equestrian sports is pretty big here. My dressage instructor was in the 1980 Olympics, which was our year of boycott, compete in the US, finger given to Russia, where the Olympics was held. All the best competitors from the US do their competition for selection to the teams in Florida. All of the equestrian folks hire someone to be in or near their horses' stalls, since horses have been known to be injured or killed by gators, according to my instructor.
We have gators right where I live, but they prefer the lake to yards, and we only get a report of gator injury every 10 years or so.
However, wild hogs kill people much more often, and those damn things are everywhere. I know they leave tracks as close as 30 feet from my home.
If this doesn't kill us, something else will, friend!
Thanks for dropping in the OT, friend!

...were on the unusual side here. It hasn't rained here in about three weeks. The last three days particularly Thursday and Friday were the hottest days this year so far. When we returned from my daughter's place on the other side of Florida, we weren't feeling very well, everyone had some kind of uri granddaughter brought home from the daycare center.

The temps were just about maxed out when we got home, a couple of hours later the aircon went. To add to the discomfort, there was a wildfire burning on Friday not too far away, adding to the poor air quality. Over the last two days it has just gotten larger but the Fire Dept now says it is 115 acres but 90 percent under control. They also said, if the smoke bothers you, stay inside and keep the windows closed. LoL. It's really bothering me. To top it off, there's a "Rockville" event going on over at the raceway; it's heavy metal and louder than the large jets taking off from the airport, if you can believe that. The bass sounds were thumping against the house for a couple of days and nights and its miles away.

Ms So was concerned gators could get in the yard at my daughter's place by climbing over the fence. Daughter was skeptical. Ms So just found this video below which has the exact same fence as my daughter's place, with a similar body of water behind it. A gator had eaten a neighbor's dog over there a couple of months ago which gave rise to the concern, but they didn't have a fence. I'd never seen a gator climb like this, but apparently it's not all that unusual, as there are a number of similar youtube videos.

@snoopydawg for electric car batteries are supplied with diesel to operate.
Solar panels and solar wind mills break, wear out, or get damaged, and are buried in land fills, and they are pretty much poisonous. They cannot be recycled.
But, Snoopy, carry your cloth bag to the grocery store, do not drive, recycle your mail, and be a good Earth Protector.
Oh! Donate to kill off cows and eat crickets and worms!

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Who’s bright idea was this?

Hail storm in Damon Texas a couple weeks ago did millions of dollars of damage pic.twitter.com/I44XBbaWCJ

— Todd Paron (@tparon) May 6, 2024

Wind mills need energy to run them when the wind doesn’t blow.

@soryang of my country being embarrassed by our Fearless Leaders. Bush Jr., Reagan, Clinton, Trump, Biden...I left out a few, no doubt.
Presidents are not the best of the best citizenry. They are the best corporate donors can buy.
North, south, feh...just a gaffe. Nothing to see here.
By the way, the song you posted is just enchanting!

Biden calls North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un president of South Korea in latest world leader blunder

President Biden referred to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the president of South Korea on Friday in his latest gaffe involving world leaders.

Biden, 81, was in the middle of attacking his 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, over his close relationship with the dictator when he made the blunder.

“We’ll never forget his love letters for the South Korean President Kim Jong Un or his admiration for Putin — what a great leader Putin is,” the president said during remarks at a campaign reception in Portola Valley, Calif.

Pleasantly surprised to find this Ayageum youtube earlier today. I actually like this recording of Magic Lily better than that of the original artist, Ahn Ye-eun. Can't believe she made this 5 years ago.

상사화 Magic Lily
안예은 – Ahn Ye-eun: Lyrics, melody, original performance

In Pennsylvania it's pop and a hoagie, not soda and a sub. I can do a pretty good gold ole boy accent, but can't remember much of the distinctive vocab that's fit to print. I used to have a pretty marked new york accent, but worked hard to disguise it once I came to the south after being mocked relentlessly by my "shipmates."

@Dawn's Meta I awakened with this morning:

There is no itching, no dryness, no cracking, and in fact, I wouldn't know they were there if I could not see them. Every grass rash is itchy.
As for chemicals, we use none, nor does my secretary at her home, and neither of us have neighbors within a half mile of our residences.

The stars were bright last night as the crescent moon slipped to the western horizon. I checked maybe six or seven times from 11 pm until 5 am this morning to see any hint of Aurora borealis (northern lights - gets more results than the Latin). Nada. Maybe tonight, but clouds are moving in.

Our weather has been mercurial, moving between very warm back to early Spring. Very confusing for birds, insects and plants. Putting spring greens in raised beds but none of the lettuce came up because it got suddenly too hot. We have a marvelous and mysterious white slime mold growing among the Radishes since yesterday noonish. Quite a scary sight to see as I was putting the cover on in the dark last evening.

Growing up in the Pacific NW, we always said 'ant' for my mother's sister. The phrase 'oh man'
is used frequently and will never leave. The first time we visited my cousins on Long Island I kept hearing about a cousin named Carl and couldn't figure it out until I was introduced to my older cousin Carol. Ohhh, kay.

In middle age I spent lots of time around fishing for Salmon and the story-telling culture was pervasive. The number of local sayings and phrases woven into the stories was a given. Things like colder than a witches' elbow or some other body part. The art of story telling is almost lost but it is a great way to learn someone's history and timelines.

Storytelling is learned by hearing others for many years, and then practicing by doing. Some can tell the same story many times and it never grows old. When I was married to the pirate, he had that gift. As time went on he would catch me telling the old boys on the boat ramp about our latest sortie for Salmon. I got better as time went on.

I've been thinking a lot about your spots. Do they leave any sort of permanent mark or problem? Sometimes the best source of information are plant or garden people as they have likely seen such things. I have no faith in the standard medico to even come close. And they will want to slather on the cortisone cream I'll bet.

It sounds like a contact dermatitis, which raises a local immune reaction then subsides. If you have systemic inflammation or allergic reactions to other things, you might be more susceptible to reactions. There could also be pollens from the grasses, molds, and even spray drift from a neighbor. Just spitballing here.

A really good naturopath or integrative doctor may have ideas. If your body is dealing and you have no lingering bad effects, maybe it's ok.

Best wishes on your weather. We've had floods in the last several weeks: The Loire is the highest we've ever seen it. Swans keep trying to nest at waters' edge and have gotten wiped out maybe three times so far. Storks nest in trees and rooftops so they are ok. A very large birdie which stands as tall as a cow's rump. Wow.