Musings

In honor of this cold, voila!, the Cut Bank, Montana, penguin…on a sunny day with no snow, ice, or freezing temps. [Photo from our archive.]

Learned the term qubit today. Not a cubit. A portmanteau of quantum and bit. Instead of being binary, either one or zero, a qubit can be one or zero or both. I fail to understand how that can work, so it’s a good thing that better minds than mine are working with the darned qubits. Somehow, a qubit can also hold two bits. Now my brain is fractured.

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I played ostrich today and stayed inside. This photo is from Before the Arctic Blast.

My wrist device claims single digit temps for at least four hours beginning before dawn tomorrow. On the other hand, my hand-held device (and a different app) indicates it’ll only get down to 10°F. That’s a hair-splitting difference, however.

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All plants! Pay attention! We’re to have below freezing temperatures for three days beginning in the dark hours overnight tonight. All of 45°F now should drop to 16°F by 7am, and 14° an hour later…dropping dropping brrr. Yikes!

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Turns out it is grass germination season. I suspect it won’t last. Beginning this weekend we’re to have lows in the teens and as low as 10. Not growing weather for plants.

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From this house we don’t have a good view of the low-light parts of the day (faves for me), but this morning I caught a nice view of the light-graduation-transition (cropped out of this shot), ornamented by a waning crescent moon.

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I didn’t pay close attention to the weather prediction this morning, and got the impression that we’d have off-and-on rainy weather. Turns out that this afternoon was to be—and was—lovely. Next lovely time will usher in the weekend.

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Another day with plenty of rain, but not all day. After all, it’s the rainy season.

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Lotsa Nicole wind did bring down lotsa leaves, yet look how many green beauties remain above.

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Hearing that we were to have a rain band arrive this afternoon, I figured I should move some leaves before the moisture weighed them down. In the process, I found these daffodils have already shot up, although they are rather flimsy and insubstantial. After all, it is NOT yet spring. I doubt if they’ll send up buds….

With the bands came wind, and the worst of it will pass by during the dark hours. I expect it’ll wake me up more than once. Yawn (already).

Posted at 8:10 PM | Comments Off on Looking ahead

Overcast and winds arrived today, the outer bands of the outer bands of storm Nicole that is down in Florida. The last map I saw showed the center of the storm will cross Florida, then head for us. Inland means less power, yet we’ll still have plenty more wind and probably over two inches of rain before the weekend. For now, our blooming basil remains.

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