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11:27 am
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Thursday roadkill report
Couple of flat garter snakes, little guys about a foot long. Q: Why did the garter snake cross the road? A: He didn't.
Still sunny. As ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) suricattus points out, probably a trap. But I went out on the bike anyway. Clear blue sky, only a couple of poof-clouds, which will probably gain friends and relations later as evaporation occurs. More cornflowers and roses blooming, yay! First flower spikes on the cattails, yay! More purple loosestrife, hiss and boo!
15.29 miles, 1:07:25
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09:19 am
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That's strange
Just checked the weather radar. No green globs showing anywhere in New England.
Must be malfunctioning.
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08:09 am
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Civil rights subject to referendum . . .
The group opposed to same-sex marriage claims to have garnered enough petition signatures to force a statewide vote. This also blocks the new state law from effect until after voting:
www.bangordailynews.com/detail/110249.html
Pretty much "business as usual". Opinion polls give the actual voting results a 50/50 chance -- weather on election day may swing the decision one way or the other.
I bet that if school integration, integrated lunch counters, etc. for blacks went out to a vote in the Georgia of my youth, they never would have passed . . .
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08:08 am
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Foggy foggy dew
Fog is actually an improvement. And this seems to be burning off -- I could see a bright spot in the gray when I walked for the newspaper.
Forecast suggests that bike ride may be possible.
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10:19 am
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Forgot to mention
With all my grumping about rain, I haven't mentioned that our high temperature yesterday was 58 F. Right now, 56 F (approx. 14 C) outside, with no solar energy available to either us or to the neighborhood cats. I'm back to winter layers, shirt and sweater and over-shirt, indoors. Wife has rebelled against the tyranny of weather and turned up the thermostat.
We should not be accumulating degree-days in July.
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07:58 am
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Exceeding the statutory limits
Still, or again, raining. We are well beyond the requisite "forty days and forty nights" here. Thought we were promised the fire next time . . .
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04:30 pm
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One in a continuing series
Raining again.
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01:55 pm
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The latest news from Moosesylvania
Moose terrorizes shopping mall, dies in hail of bullets:
www.bangordailynews.com/detail/110145.html
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08:18 am
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Not currently raining
About an inch of rain overnight, according to Weather Underground. Temperature mid-50s F for the newspaper walk. Pavement not actually dry, gray sky.
Bike ride?
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06:46 pm
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By the way
Please, don't anyone tell me where McNamara is gonna be buried. That way, I won't feel this overwhelming compulsion to make a pilgrimage to piss on his grave.
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06:43 pm
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I suppose I should mention . . .
. . . it's raining again.
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12:31 pm
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Things I post about so that I won't actually do them
Contemplating the innards of an electronic device that will analyze sound, searching for a particular sequence of waveforms. Which, when it recognizes the exact acoustic signature of a few bars of Scott Joplin played on a tinny sound system, will detonate a roadside mine and erase the Good Humor ice cream truck from our neighborhood . . .
Note: I have nothing against ice cream trucks in general. They used to subsist on a genteel bell, which you could still hear some city blocks away. And even the current version has alternative tunes built in.
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08:10 am
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We have seen the sun
Actually, we have seen it for two days in a row. And saw the stars and moon last night. Strange phenomena in the sky.
Will probably go away now.
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01:23 pm
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Sunday roadkill report
One flat painted turtle up by the sawmill, one yearling raccoon just after the first river crossing.
Actual sunshine, temperatures vaulted into the 60s F (70 now), so I slathered on sunscreen and headed out on the bike. First mullein flower spikes showing, also sumac flower masses. The latter still green. Rode upriver and inland a bit, then crossed over and headed back down the other side.
Took a water stop at the site of a big apartment fire of a few weeks back, first time past since, and decided that the historic brick part (tavern and stage stop, early 1800s) may be salvageable. Some else must agree, as I heard a pneumatic nail-gun popping away inside -- not steady, sounded like nailing braces in place rather than serious repair work.
30.80 miles, 2:20:24
Total 600 miles for the year, which is about 100 less than it should be at this point. Weathergrump.
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07:38 am
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Not raining
No green globs (or yellow, or orange) aimed at us on the weather radar. Temperature upper 50s F. Bike ride may occur.
Nothing new and entertaining under Neighbor Daughter's window this morning.
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09:18 pm
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Prediction rescinded
Okay, booms echoing up from the waterfront. Up until about half an hour ago, we had rain. Now we have fireworks.
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11:07 am
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Variety
Raining now. Wet firecracker Fourth?
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10:06 am
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Weird scenes inside the gold mine
(Reference to The Doors song "The End", for youngsters ignorant of The Classics)
Okay, we have this ongoing "situation" with Neighbor Daughter dumping things out her bedroom window, whence they end up on our lawn. Propinquity and all that, life in the big city. Cigarette butts, which presumably she thinks she's hiding from her mother, used condoms, whatever. So when I see a bottle over there this morning, my first assumption is "alcohol" -- Neighbor Daughter being a teen. Bud Light, Smirnoff Ice, Allen's Coffee Brandy.
Turns out to be an olive oil bottle, empty.
Is this the latest thing in getting high, swigging olive oil? Has teen decadence fallen so far?
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09:11 am
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In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
When in the course of human events . . .
www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
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09:00 am
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Damp, just for variety
Drizzle this morning. Overnight thunderstorm, of the minor variety -- no reports of blasphemers struck dead or even houses set afire. As opposed to the previous night:
www.bangordailynews.com/detail/109906.html
Celebrate the Glorious Fourth! Revolt against a tyrannical overlord! Blow something up!
Just do it in an environmentally-responsible manner . . .
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