Not as cold as the local forecasts had it this morning, well above freezing. That is good. Maybe very light snow flurries to our north but even that is iffy. I am still hoping for a very mild winter here. A couple of things I have hanging on a fence got a bit tilted last night, tilted in opposite directions, so no wind involved and there is nothing near them that could have touched them. A very mystery! What agency was at work, what forces could have been at work? Other objects near them were not affected at all. These things are the metal parts of very old rakes, missing the wooden handles, and suspended against the fence near each other, so that the heavy parts of these rakes would be like pendula, and they would have had to move against the resistance imposed by the rough surface of the fence, so some non-negligible force would have been required, and as I say, one was canted about twenty degrees out of vertical and the other the same, but in the opposite sense, so that the ends with the tines formed an inverted "v" pointing UP. In fact these things are attached to the fence with decking screws tight enough to allow these objects to hold their current tilted positions. A microcosmic mystery indeed!
In fact, if you pay attention to small things, as I do, quite a number of anomalies appear. Such things fly beneath the radar of most. But I seem to be observant enough to catch such things. An early memory from my early childhood: a lamp on my mother's dressing table began to tilt slowly over, falling over in very slow motion. I was able to catch it and set it upright. I told my mom what had happened, but she had little to say about it. I think she was busy with other things and not paying attention.
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