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Good morning everyone.
Wringing everything out from the last atmospheric river flowing through the Pacific Northwest. It was a doozy.
Otter Creek through the Farm was up 4 ft. and washed a lot of debris down and out into the Cowlitz River, itself at flood stage.
Another AR coming Wednesday and Thursday mixed with snow.

I read a few days ago that the official death toll in Gaza had passed 70,000. I have no idea how accurate that is but I think it’s safe to say that number is low, and probably very low.

Pirates, Thieves, and Murderers

Onward with the degradation of the West. Taking tankers full of oil...how do they connect that with a so called drug war? Then in the EU the bureaucrats dictated new laws with no vote to allow Ursula fond of Lying to steal Russia's money deposited in the EU. Murder in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen continue unabated using US weapons that we tax payers purchased. Meanwhile Russia continues to advance in Ukraine. End of empire is in the air...

Afternoon folks!

As usual, there's a buncha good stuff this week. It looks smaller, but the albums are longer. Starting off is Bobby "Blue" Bland's early r&b recordings on the Duke label. After that is Chicago jazz-blues guitarist Floyd McDaniel with a studio album. Next we shift into Rock/r&b/etc. with a compilation from the Flamin' Groovies. We finish up with Tex-Mex/rock with Doug Sahm's band the Texas Tornados.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

I recently had a little spat with some people on Facebook who claimed that Poland was "democratic" despite its banning the Communist Party. Their proposal, here, appears to be that banning parties is totally democratic because we don't like them. My response:

Good morning, good people! I hope everyone is doing well, and those of us that will experience freezing temps this weekend will take note of the 3 minute tutorial that LO brought to us in his WW last week. Now, just because the video features southerners saying and doing unusual freeze prep in your opinion, in our southern opinion, it is what my friends and neighbors are saying and doing right now in preparation for tomorrow night. I have been listening to them for days. In the office, in the grocery store, in the courthouse...

Refresher course below:

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

In the film era of photography, camera settings were limited to shutter speed, aperture, and film speed. Not much to go wrong there. Today's digital cameras are small computers, and the settings you can program into how the camera functions are in the hundreds. And like all computers/programs, you get bugs and glitch's. One of those glitch's popped up when I went to the zoo Wed. morning. When I turned the camera on and looked through the viewfinder, there was no color. Everything was B&W. That was something I didn't expect since the last time I used the camera a few days earlier, everything in the view finder was in color. One of the hundreds of programing options available is to save your preferred camera settings on a memory card (which I've done) so when a glitch happens you can throw that memory card into the camera (which I did) and reload your preferred settings. Color restored. Crisis averted. It was a beautiful day weather wise. Sunny and mid 70s. A big plus was there were very few people visiting the zoo that day. The big minus was the animals were being very camera shy. Now if only there was a setting on the camera to make the animals less camera shy.

Bonobo