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KB2VXA > PACKET 20.07.13 14:04l 142 Lines 8391 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: G8PZT > What to talk about?
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : PACKET@WW
Hi Paula and anyone left among the dead and dying,
I can't think of anything that may be of interest to others either so I'll
write something in response to your bull as always. Mr. Original? Not me.
(;->)
Yeah I DO find bees on the lawn interesting, I haven't seen that since I was
a child. Why? No bees, no lawn or both. Then when I lived with a beekeeper we
had plenty of bees (until the die off here in the US) but no flowers (damn
deer) although a neighbor complained of dead bees in her birdbath. They need
water and with little bug brains they're not the smartest, at the creek back
in the woods they probably ended up in Barnegat Bay. BTW the name of the town
is West Creek, now you know why.
FB on the heat wave and yes, I know all about it as you probably know about
ours here in the eastern US, more on that later. My home away from home is
The Island Of Misfit Hams (an internet site as if you might be puzzled by
navigation charts) and we have Misfits from Spain, (an American transplant)
The Netherlands, The UK, New Zealand Canada, and the odd Aussie. Did I forget
anyone? We have ongoing threads where we complain about the weather and you
may remember Glen aka WEIRDO who keeps me posted via e-mail what's oot n'
aboot in Edinburgh, mostly mowing the lawn and tending shrubs and gardening.
Well let me tell you, it's bloody HOT 'round here and himididtity making it
feel like I'm in a bag in a microwave cranked up to max. UGH! At least the AC
takes the edge off it, I pity those without it particularly the elderly. The
heat is taking it's toll on the infrastructure too, railroads experiencing
sagging overhead wires (catenary) and sun kink, that is heat warped rails.
Trains are going slow to avoid snagging the pantograph and tearing down
catenary, then with rail geometry all screwed up staying on the track is a
bit challenging. The other day a garbage train (;->) derailed blocking a
commuter line from NYC to upstate NY and has everybody upset, not to mention
workers putting up with the stink of sun ripened garbage. There have been a
few heat related power failures (outages if you're PC) due to air conditioner
overload, in Queens, NY wires actually caught fire and fell in the street.
Eh, could be worse, a couple of years ago an antiquated underground system
caught fire and left most of the borough without power for two weeks in
sweltering heat. Well, come tomorrow it's expected to break and temps drop to
seasonable levels.
Well let's see, ants are interesting to ME at least. When I was a kid
somebody gave me an ant farm, OK, it started my interest in ants but they
never supply a queen and the ants die off in a few weeks. Planned
obsolecense, the very heart of Capitalism. Summer is the time to watch
nature's ant farm, especially migrations and when they hit the mother lode,
an attractive food source. Then you see ANTS! Back in West Creek we had ant
lions in the front yard, sand is their environment. Ants would go walking by
their pits oblivious to them so I intervened with a small twig and steered
some to their doom. When they fall into the conical pit they can't get out
with sand sliding down on them, then out pops the ant lion and they both
disapear under the sand. Remember that weird looking sand critter in The
Wrath of Kahn? It looked like a really big ant lion, nasty looking thing.
I fed the spiders on the porch too, (no, I don't light cats on fire) and one
day witnessed a battle to the death, I tossed a wasp in a web. Out comes the
spider and torn between hunger and fear cautiously and very gingerly went at
the wasp wrapping it up and invenomating it BUT wasps are tough, it kept on
fighting. Then it happened, WHAM! The wasp nailed the spider, it staggered a
few inches and stopped dead in it's tracks, literally. Had the wasp won?
Hardly, it's still caught in the web and going nowhere. Ah, boring, I went in
the house and checked on the wasp a bit later, dead, the spider venom did
it's work. <cue Taps>
Yeah, we have nothing to say but let's see, maybe we started something? I
hope so, I just KNOW we have a few lurkers, Ian, Barry, Dave and a few whose
names escape me so WAKE UP and post something dammit! Here's something to
talk about... he he he.
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