PhineasC

Take care, matey, only one eye left. Arrrrr

I'm figuring some folks over-cut and over-fuss with their lawns making them weak and more susceptible to drought. Like a woman using too much product and high heat on her hair and then wondering why it is frizzled and breaking.

More like hills, really.

Won't someone think of the Vermont lawns, though?

I think I end up with more clear non-upslope days being slightly north of the Presidentials. I frequently noticed it would be partly cloudy at my place and overcast at Bretton Woods. Even on the upslope days, it's more of a situation of fast-moving squall clouds here with breaks of sun versus the low deck that seems to sit down there.

Are there any businesses actually requiring masks? I haven't seen a one. Maybe old granny thrift stores run by Karens or woke SJW coffee shops. Not places I want to be anyway.

I would agree that perception factors in. We will need to see how things play out as the years go by. Last summer was sunny and relatively hot up in Randolph. This warm season has been sunny but seemingly more seasonal in terms of temps so far. Both were rather dry. It looks like for whatever reason I brought an extended dry spell with me. It’s been odd because many people have told me they couldn’t stand the constant dreary overcast up here but I haven’t seen it. Many gorgeous bluebird days over the past 12+ months, summer and winter. Reminds me of high elevation in desert areas out west sometimes. Dry and clear.

It doesn't know, it's just that the mutations that convey greater transmissibility and lower mortality cause those particular viruses to be spread far and wide and therefore be more successful at propagating themselves. That's why Ebola, for example, tends to be rapidly self-limiting. It kills quickly/frequently and is (somewhat) harder to spread. You can't give someone Ebola by walking by and sneezing. Once you isolate the cluster of cases, it quickly fizzles out.

That nicely ties together several plot lines. I like it. The Navy videos were the aliens using large flying vacuums to suck the COVID out of the air?

That's my understanding of how these things usually go. A virus that mutated to be much deadlier would kill its host too quickly and that line would die out before it had a chance to really spread and take hold. COVID-19 will eventually just be another background coronavirus in circulation that causes seasonal outbreaks of mild disease, like colds. It's almost at that point in some countries. Just goes to show the futility of pursuing the destructive and pointless "zero-COVID" BS.

Unvaccinated people are not worried about it now and have never been.

Irrigate your immune system and vax your lawn. That's the only way.

It's best to just tune out the media fear-mongering. It's clearly being done for some purpose, whatever it may be. Turn off the TV and just look around at your community and use that as your basis to evaluate the risk. My community is 100% wide open and everyone is fine. So I am not worried about any variants.

LOL even the dogs today are weak. Where are the gun dogs of the past? A blast to those good boys meant time to fetch a duck.

It's good to see Americans giving a shit at least. We have been so beaten down. The dogs will be fine. Take them for a walk tomorrow.

The neighbors here are shooting off legit skyrocket in flight shit.

Still some patriots out here after all. So many illegal fireworks. People might be finished with the mommy government finally.

Down here in MD it's like the Battle of Verdun. Just constant explosions.

Definitely a WWI vibe out there right now. Explosions every second.

Glad the drought worriers and surburban grass farmers are getting everything they asked for and then some.

The firehose that is seemingly always over SNE is just crazy. I watched it from a distance for years but seeing it now actively screwing me in events is something else entirely. And yet a couple of them always whine about a drought... @dendrite warned me about this. I always assumed NNE life was about socked-in clouds and drizzle for days, with things being generally wet. That has not been my experience at all. It goes long stretches with little cloud cover and precipitation and then dumps in 2-3 days all at once, rinse and repeat. Today was a nice soak. It was needed up there. I haven't been around much this summer but I always worry about the well for the fall when we start coming back up more.

Sounds like Omaha Beach out there.

Nah, I am in MD. 4th party down here this year.