Musings

Been especially enjoying the maple leaves lately (nothing to do with hockey). Here’s gold and there’s red.

“Not enough power for both camera and pan tilt motors”

The Guru just found those words on a frozen (haha) photo on the live-cam image up at Sault Ste. Marie…overlooking the locks.

And now you know, too.

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I seem to be getting too tired and going to bed on New Time, and awakening on Old Time. Always an experience to go through Time Change Plus One Week.

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I killed more mold and mildew today, and bonus: found a few almost-hidden pink azalea blossoms. I guess I’m living right!

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I was a killer today. A wanton killer of mold and mildew. On our front steps, walk, and driveway. With a power-washer.

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Piedmont Park near the BotGarden hosts sometimes unexpected species, like this longleaf pine specimen. The species is typical on the coastal plain, where in pre-modern times, stands were like a plantation mono-culture…as I understand it. I do adore the super-long needles, and never think of them as leaves.

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I saw this spiky plant crown and was mystified. Then I saw the adjacent nut, clearly an acorn. A bit of research later, and yes: an oak “hat,” of an Asian species. Cupule is the technical term, I believe.

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I was pretty cocky last week and wore my clogs. For perhaps, I dunno, 300 steps.

Bad move. In about three days, mobility was…compromised.

Today was the worst so far. I’m darned creaky everywhere in my lower half, especially hips and right knee. No fun. I went from 17 minute splits two weeks ago (and sometimes in the high 16s), to just barely 20 today. Heat or ice? Alternating?

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I give this seasonal decoration the Most Likely to be Homemade of everything I saw, but I suspect that it isn’t. Traditions do mutate, but I never would have guessed Halloween would have gone from the pagan All Hallows‘ Eve (meaning Saints‘ Eve) to this, the holiday of plastic yard ornaments and gewgaws, now including giant black spiders with fur in their joints.

Also, here’s a gorgeous flower, a camellia, surely both real and not the least bit scary, eerie, or witchy.

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Earlier it was college football time (in this half of the continent), and of all unexpected results to see: MSU beat Mich. Go Green. We didn’t watch; the score just flipped by.

Also, Georgia beat Florida (bound to happen).

Now, it’s baseball time. Third inning, with the other team in the lead 1–0. Nowhere near the end of the game. Or the series.

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The election is Tuesday, and today is the last day, according to the city website, to drop your absentee ballot in the box. Interestingly, the ballot envelope indicated we could do that on election day. We chose to believe today at 7pm was the real deadline, thank you Republicans.

We looked at the list of drop-off locations. For the whole of Atlanta, and this is a sprawly city, there were about eight. The Guru chose the nearest location, up in Buckhead perhaps six miles away. Again, thank you, Republicans.

So we slogged through rain and traffic, past construction areas occupying a lane here and there to further obstruct the flow of vehicles, and avoided the latest out-of-service bridge from a vandal’s fire beneath (as I recall). And now we are once again good citizens.

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