Do you ever engage in symbolic behavior? Not superstition, exactly, but actions to give force to your intentions or hopes?
Rick and I cleaned house today. It wasn’t anything that didn’t need to be done, but it felt good to have it tidy and clear. We also took a walk in the woods to survey any damage from yesterday’s winds. We’re assessing the situation. Tomorrow, since Wednesday is Trash Day, we’ll bag up the garbage, and do a run into Cedar to clear out the recycling. It’s Election Day, and we’re literally hauling out the trash.
We had chicken-fried rice for dinner, but I don’t think there’s anything to that–other than it’s one of Rick’s favorites.
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Describing djt as trash is kinda like calling a blue whale kinda big.
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LOL Mike Bryant, I saw your ‘djt’, immediately thought of my Irish Grandfather’s (exhasperated!) turn of phrase and heard “the bloody idjit!”
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Been thinking about this memory in bits and pieces for about an hour now and, I’m fairly certain it was only the once I ever heard him say it… Likely it was summertime as they (some of The Boys) were working outside in the little garage with the wooden doors flung wide open. (Seems someone – be they family, neighbour or friends – was always working on a vehicle of some sort there, and I think that likely someone was down in the pit working without their tires being properly blocked.. Now even as a child, I knew that ‘the pit’ was a very dangerous place to be, even with taking proper precautions. Anyway, Grandpa came along and I can hear his voice again in my ear, just like it was yesterday, saying: “What, are ya a bloody idiot(idjit) man?!”
And here he’s been gone for half a century, yet that phrase sprung to my ear as though he were standing behind me only a second ago… Thanks Mike.
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Ain’t the twisted path of memory grand? It’s like someone hid easter eggs in the garden, and you keep finding them. (Hopefully before they rot.)
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Oh Gawd, can’t put a ‘like’ on that one, LMAO
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I truly wish I’d taken a screenshot of the ‘stop action’ (North American Weather Satellite) photos on the Environment Canada webpage yesterday, because ‘A Clean Sweep’ was exactly what was happening…
… So HA! Went back a full day (150 frames @ 1 frame every 10 minutes!) and found what I was looking for. Truly hoping that what I was seeing meteorologically yesterday was the same as what you were doing metaphorically… (I mean, talk about a sign; )
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You’re as nutty as I am.
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I’ll take that as a compliment. Thanks!!; )
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Exactly as it was meant.
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And I did get those screenshots this morning that I should’ve done yesterday, btw… ( Absolute proof that the Cosmos has spoken, lol )
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What do you make of the absence of arctic ice?
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D’you mean right this minute? (Currently in the process of refreezing after the Summer thaw… )
Or the general (very scary) trend… ?
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This minute. They’ve never seen it not freeze at this time of year, and it’s throwing a wrench into all their other projections.
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Well, the extraordinarily high/ record breaking Summer temperatures this year are likely connected, but the trend had been accelerating at an alarming rate – far faster than even the most aggressive modelling had predicted.
And then there was a massive amount of fresh water added to the mix when part of the Milne Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island collapsed in August… Tuvaijuittuq is the Inuktitut name for the area and means “The Place Where the Water Never Melts”. All of that and more in this CBC News story from August 07, 2020
http://cbc.ca/amp/1.5678802
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For the people of Canada’s North, Climate Change is real, and NOW.
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I also recall hearing about extraordinary wild fires in Siberia this year? Here’s another piece (with minimal overlap) on the Siberian Arctic. This one from RCI(Radio Canada International)net: https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2020/10/30/ice-blog-when-the-arctic-ice-wont-freeze/
Honestly, I can’t help but wonder how much the under-sea testing of nuclear weapons has contributed to the Oceans’ continued warming (and so many other ways:/) over the decades…
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And yes, you managed to hit a hot button, sorry
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My hot button, too.
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