So this afternoon I went out to get groceries. I stopped at a gas station on my way home, about 5 miles from home. After having heard a weather report, I checked the cars thermometer… 75 degrees. Nice warm day. Five miles later as I pulled in the driveway… 60 degrees. Within an hour… snow.
By tomorrow I expect nitrogen to rain out of the sky.
For some reason, my neighbor dumped a couple truckloads of onions in his field for his sheep critter to nom upon. I first noticed this one day a week or two back when, going into my garage, I was hit with the overwhelming smell of onions. As my garage is not normally the sort of place that encompasses a great many culinary smells, my first thought was “oh, no, what horrible chemical disaster has occurred to my home and/or car that has resulted in the co-incidental odor?” And then the garage door opened and, behold, a field of onions.
And for those interested… living for a decade next to a field full of sheep, an overwhelming scent of onions is *far* from the worst stank to come from that direction.
Next week, March 11, ATK will do a static test fire of the QM-1 rocket motor. This is a five-segment derivative of the 4-segment Shuttle RSRM solid rocket booster. This past evening (March 5) ATK held an open house for the local community to come and take a close up look at the motor, and to get information about environmental concerns about the test (there are none, but there was someone who went bonkers a few years back…). I attended and took a number of photos of the motor and other stuff. This was one of those cases where it would have been better to get *more distance* from the subject; but you make do with what ya got.
I’ve made a bunch of these available at full resolution to APR Patreon patrons.
February is now FIRE TIME out here in the west. I can remember a time when fires were reserved for summer… but the environment *and* the people have decided, ah, screw it, let’s torch the joint. The past few days have seen a number of farm fires, and I heard about at least one wildfire on the radio news. Such as:
And on the way home from some travels today, I saw smoke rising from not-far-from-my-house, which is always an attention getter:
Upon getting closer (this was just a mile or so down the road from my house) this turned out to be a field fire… and a stack of *big* tractor tires merrily burning away. I don’t know if this was intentional or the field fire got away from ’em:
Very shortly after I got home a fire truck went scooting by, so, what the hell, I followed.
Summer is going to be a blast.
This car shall not be stolen.
Saw this trundling up the road between Brigham City and Tremonton this afternoon…
On this evenings walk I saw this cloud. Do you see what I saw?
Yesterday when I picked up Buttons from the vet, these two guys were in the truck next to me.
A few nights back, via cameraphone:
Saw this menu board at a shopping mall food court Monday (stopped to get away from rush hour traffic). Something tells me they should’ve given it a once-over before signing off on it.
