A humorous t shirt I might get.

A crab at work. I don’t think he felt too well.

Under a bubble in the new porch surface. I started to fix it this weekend.

It was, overall, a good weekend. I trimmed a tree out front, went to the beach and started repairs on my newly repaired back porch.

Now it’s Monday, and I’d rather be off for another day. But I’ll make the best of it.

Have a good week!

My lucky day! Black cats and Friday the 13th’s have always seemed to be good luck.for me. Besides, it’s Friday, what’s not to like?

We went out for dinner at Steak Social last night. It was super good.

My scooter is in the shop today for service and rust treatment. I ordered new springs and mirrors too, because they were rusty. Hopefully it will look brand new and hopefully I’ll get it back today. I’m catching a ride to work with the wife, so probably no beach lunch hour today.

Speaking of beach lunch hours, day before yesterday, my waterproof Kindle Paperwhite got a splash and pretty much quit charging and transferring files. It’s spent the last 18 hours in a bag of rice. We’ll see how it is a but later… But they’re not waterproof at all, in my opinion. When I first opened it I thought that the USB port should have had a cover. Knew it!

Have a great weekend!

I’m afraid I might be getting sick. Sore throat and a feeling like pressure built up inside my head. Since covid started, I haven’t been sick, not even a common cold. I don’t wanna get sick now.

Still have a potential storm to our south, but the weather has been sunny the past two days. I’m afraid to ride the scooter in the mornings and wish I had in the afternoons. Went to the beach last two days and there’s some crazy beach erosion, like a four foot sand cliff from the old beach level to the new. Don’t worry, it’ll all be back.

The week seems longer this week, even though Monday was a holiday. Hope it’s still sunny this weekend.

Ciao!

The 70-meter-wide (230-feet) radio antenna Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra, Australia, and transmitter, used for the Voyager 2 spacecraft, was upgraded and Voyager was contacted for the first time since March. She says hello.

Read the article and/or listen to the story on the BBC HERE.

As I said before, I think the two Voyager spacecraft are the coolest thing humans have ever done. They will be out there probably long after humans are extinct.

The weather outside isn’t looking too bad this morning. I hafta go see in the weather apps if today might be a scooter day.

Have a pleasant day.

This has been all about the weather the past several posts. Unintentionally for the most part, but it’s :What’s going on”..

TS Storm passed by and did a moderate amount of damage. I found a “bubble” where water got under the newly resurfaced porch and I could chip off a large section using only my fingernails. My friend lost roofing shingles and has some repairs due. Many trees came down and several light poles. In our backyard woods I could hear tree wood cracking and a large sounding tree fall beyond my sight. A big beach fell off a tree on our street and I chainsawed it away the next day. Also I spent several hours clearing away small limbs and debris from our yard.

We had one sunny day after cleanup day and I went to the beach. Big waves, muddy water.

Now, the next storm is lined up.

Looks a lot like ETA, the storm we just had. ETA is still out there, by the way. It has taken a wild ride.

since out one sunny day, it’s been cloudy and rainy.

I’m not the only one who will be glad to see this years hurricane season end!

Yesterday was a bank holiday here, so this is a Monday-feeling Tuesday.

Have a good week!

Looks like Eta will get here at about 2AM Saturday morning, in other words, tonight/tomorrow. I guess the storm has picked up speed, because when I went to bed last night it was due to hit at 8AM Saturday.

And it will be quite windy.

We’re supposed to get 5-20 inches of rain. Guesses vary wildly.

Work told us to work from home today, so I’m not going in. Schools are closed and it seems fairly serious. It’s rare that a storm approaches from this direction.

Happy Friday! Have a good weekend!

I started reading “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” by Charles Mackay.

It is available free on Kindle and also a digital version of the original is available on Google Books. Published in 1841, it seems like the exact same things are happening right now. Richard M Nixon took the USA off the gold standard, meaning before that, there was a dollars worth of gold in the treasury for every dollar printed. Now printed money is, in reality, worthless paper.

Also there’s a part on the madness for tulips and rich people, Alchemists, which apparently are people trying to turn metals into gold. I haven’t yet got to the witch part, where apparently, over 100,000 women (and some men) were killed as witches.

What I don’t like is that the book seems very long and drawn out. Anything mentioned in the book can be verified and you can learn about it faster on the internet. Any name, place or event. it’s more like a school course book than a novel to me, but it’s fascinating.

This book is definitely, positively worth a gander.

The rain continues, Storm Eta is still over land, expected to re-forrn when it reaches the sea. And I’m not mentioning the US Presidential election.

Hope your day goes well!

I’ve had enuffa this rain. Months. No sun. Rain is predicted every day through next Monday.

I should be counting blessings though. I hope Nicaragua wasn’t too destroyed by that 140 mph slow grinder Eta.

Running late this morning, I don’t really know why, but I gotta go.

Have a good day!

A week or so ago, I saw the really nice article above, about a farmer’s wife who lost her ring in the garden. 16 years later, they found it. It was so sweet, I screen grabbed it and saved it.

The story was on the bottom of a website, you know, the nice ones to lure you on with cute stuff and keep you with their affiliates. Funny how they mention the odds against it ever happening again.

Yesterday, I saw this on Facebook. Not a friends post, but a FB “you might like this” type thing:

C’mon, somebody’s full of crap. The second story ruined my sweet, sentimental first story.

What do you think? One real, one fake? Both fake? Th second story is definitely disappointing for me.

As I write this, hurricane Eta is coming ashore in Nicaragua, see the picture below, Cayman is in the cone… Right now here it’s super windy and rainy, but probably not from Eta, but maybe part of the same system.

My exercises were indoors this morning and the dog walk got cut short because of rain. Hurricane season ends at the end of November. Bring it.

Stay dry and check your carrots before eating them, apparently they’re infested with diamond rings lately. I don’t want you to bust a tooth!

It was a pretty standard weekend. Errands on Saturday and yardwork on Sunday.

Can’t believe it’s November already.

Another storm, Eta, out there. It’s not headed for us, but we’re expecting more rain. Plus it could go inland at Nicaragua and Honduras and then come back out tosee and whack us. It’s one to watch on the long term.

It’s November and I have quite a bit of vacation time to burn. I’d better get onnit!

Have ye a good week!