REALLY Dusty Yesterday!

 But I'd rather have a brown-out than a white-out, and it was not cold. Limited visibility and a lot of hazardous crap blowing around. Almost had a wreck swerving to avoid what looked to be one of those plastic utility boxes blowing across the street right in front of me. It must have been sitting in an alley waiting for installation and the wind got it. Yesterday began windy and it stayed that way until well after sunset. Today it won't be so bad. 

A lot of flimsy fences got knocked over and that means escaped pets. My fence has 8 foot steel uprights with 2 feet anchored in concrete with a concrete skirt all around the perimeter. That's what it takes to deal with this kind of wind. Expensive? You bet. Cedar planks six inches wide and an inch thick fastened to cedar 2 by 4 horizontals with treated decking screws. Someday I really ought to consider ribbon wire as an adornment for this structure. 

Windy, Dusty

 But I won't complain. It isn't cold, no snow, no ice, no "historic" blizzard. What is with those idiot weather headlines? ANOTHER freaking historic blizzard?? If something happens several times a year there is nothing historic or generational about it. It's par for the damned course. I would have to say that modern journalism is a joke. Of course, it's corporate and geared to click bait headlines and advertising revenue. There is no enterprise on the planet that capitalism can't or won't destroy, degrade, debase. That includes journalism, medicine, and religion, among many other things. Greed kills. Greed is poison. 

Nice Weather Here

I can do a lot outside, the usual clearing. Some rain chances. Extended forecast is still looking very mild. 

 People seem to be getting crazier. What explains that? William Burroughs had a good idea, way back in the fifties. He described a feedback effect in, I think, "The Ticket That Exploded". 

Like Spring

 It's way too early for Spring to have sprung but the weather is like that and will be like that for several days. Windy of course, but some rain chances. Certainly better than snow, ice, and sleet. I am now reading a biography of James Pike and will follow that with Pike's own book describing his paranormal experiences. After that it'll probably be more conventional mysteries. Plenty of mysteries are going on right here, right now. 

Aberrant human behavior is becoming more common, it seems, and there are other things going on as well. 

Yesterday

 Yesterday began with a wintery mix that turned into light rain. And the skies cleared and now we are having a very definite warming trend but it will be windy every day. Windy. More tortured sinuses. Wind is indicative of the great emptiness of this part of the state. 

Rain is unlikely, as usual. The drought goes on, and on, and on...