It's good to see @pjn on TEG today.
The bad thunderstorms coming NE from Houston (@baymule ?) are sure banging at Central Tennessee. PJN must still have power.
It's windy this afternoon but the Weather Service says that Mother Nature whispered to them, "you ain't seen nothin yet." Tomorrow...
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone" on 7 March 1876.
1849 on this date, Luther Burbank is born in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
His home and gardens in Santa Rosa California are now a city park.
That is something like our forecast, @Dahlia , except I doubt if "dumped on" would be an accurate description for the rain.
Our rainy day this week did give us a half inch, nearly. I checked the nearest Snotel and there had been a full inch of rain and it rained a couple of more hours. That...
Today in 1975 was the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. It was held in a garage in Menlo Park, California.
Among the members, computer entrepreneurs ..
. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple Computer.
Ending my 30 minutes of cardio ... Pandora played this song for me :). What a nice way to come down. So, I listened to 2 more songs on the album: Bewildered and Railroad Worksong ;) , on Missing, Presumed Having a Good Time.
All gardening is local. Perhaps, you are located on wonderful fertile ground. New construction didn’t pull subsoil up and push topsoil off where your plants can’t reach it. Maybe, previous residents did a good job maintaining the soil. Chances aren’t the best and are not what I have experienced...
Meteorologists record "Winter" as December 1 through February in this part of the world. The University of North Carolina has used averages to rank US weather stations. You can fill the screen and then stretch the map with 2 fingers to enlarge an area. Apparently, I live in an area where the...