Reminds me of a great song...

But that's not recently acquired knowledge

Mean ole levee... 😠

Temecula was high desert... 1200' above sea level.

My motivating thought was If I was super lazy, and I wanted to conquer a peak in the Lower 48, where would that lowest, high peak be?

Weird in retrospect I was Motivated enough to look for something so Lazy.

Timm’s Hill is Wisconsin’s highest natural point at 1,951 feet. It’s up in the NW Wisconsin, off the beaten trail (3.5 hours) away.

Yesterday was Christmas Adam. Because Adam came before Eve.

Gave a ride to a Corpral in the Marines today. Shared a sharable story from our Cbid resident Senior Chief and he laughed.

It was a fun chat, and I asked his if there were nicknames for Marines that I may have not have heard.

"Well, there is Crayon Eater. As in Maries are so stupid, they eat crayons. It's funny. And kinda true."

Are they flavored Crayons? Like those wax candy things that had fruit or root beer "juice" in them? I liked those things as a kid but I'm not sure they sell them anymore.

I might have to buy a box of Crayons and test them out with some scented candles and stuff.. ya know... for research and stuff.

One O forty NINE!

spectacular pink clouds are caused by air pollution

A bit paradoxical. [gonzo]

It's called the Barbie Effect.

When baking for the holidays DO NOT Google: cream pies

Google: cream pie recipes

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The 1996 calendar is the exact day's of the month as the 2024 calendar. 🤔

You may have too many calendars. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Frederick Chopin’s Minute Waltz is actually a minute and 49 seconds. 🤔

The oceans are 71% of the earths surface but we know more about the surface of Mars than we do of the oceans floors which contain more varied topography than the land.

"Bearded Vultures are among the world's most unusual birds: an adult's diet consists mostly of bones, which they often drop from on high to break up into smaller pieces before consuming.
For centuries these birds were greatly misunderstood. Europeans falsely believed them to be predators that terrorized livestock and people, leading to their widespread persecution.

"In the Alps, the last of these scavengers was killed in 1913. Now, thanks to a reintroduction effort, the alpine's species' majestic silhouette is again soaring over the region's snowy granite peaks."

Audubon
Winter 2023 issue

There is such a a thing as "too much silicone spray" on the bottom of a flat plastic snow sled.

The oldest living American (a female of course) turns 116 on Feb. 5th.
The oldest living human is already 116, a woman in Spain