Somewhere I have a photo of the Magalloway River up in the woods that looks almost identical to this. Very nice work.

It's clear you've never experienced one of my turkey sandwich, cole slaw and baked bean farts.

*nook-you-ler

Chickens are only confined to a ROW if they are in a vehicle and wearing seat belts. George Washington wanted it that way.

No different than a right of way. If I have a deeded ROW over your land, and you sell it to Jake DeBrusk, I still have that right of way whether he likes it or not.

Went from him to my grandfather (I remember learning to play cribbage with him on one of the pull-out writing shelves). When he died it went to my cousin, and when she died it came to me. I have a few other artefacts from great-grandpaw's time with the desk including a tintype photo of him in front of one of the churches he praught at (teach -> taught :: preach -> praught) and a book of his somewhat religious poetry that he self-published.

1:30AM. Bupkis. Rats.

My great grandfather was a minister in Mars Hill about a hundred years ago (among other places). I have the rolltop desk he bought in 1909, along with the receipt.

Midnight, still nothing.

10:48PM, Skowhegan area. Just took a look outside - clear skies to the N, but no roarers. Will check again in an hour or so.

It may be warm or it may be cold. It may rain or it may be cloudy or it may be sunny.

Maybe.

This is the future Republicans want.

I remember climbing Katahdin about 30 years ago and thinking there were an awful lot of other people on the trail with me compared to the other times I had climbed it. First time was probably around 1975 or so, I think I saw less than five other people outside my group of two. Climbed it a few years later (in nicer weather) and probably saw about two dozen others, mostly at the top. Last time (that time 30 years ago) I saw lines of people, probably over 100 overall. I can't imagine what it must be like today. I'm imagining walking on a crowded sidewalk.

Damn they oughta be about done building it by now yo.

Gold panning (and lessons) is available in Byron on the Swift River up route 17. Not exactly in the Portland area, but great camping and hiking and scenery up there. And there's a lot more gold in them thar hills than anyone thinks there is.

I never got into fishing, but my uncle was literally the fish whisperer. He had a place on a small lake in NH (he's dead now, lived to 90+), and he had named the fish individually. He knew where to find each one, and would catch/release them just to maintain contact. He'd go out on a new lake and just sit for an hour watching, pull out some obscure lure, and in about three minutes land a gigantic bass or trout or whatever he was after. He would literally yell at the fish if they weren't biting, and they'd wake up and hit his line. It was amazing to watch. I miss that dude.

This is where the excess heat has been going for decades. Back in the 90's we hadn't really done any deep water temp assessments and we certainly didn't have historical data for comparison. I was auditing a discussion group with a bunch of Ph.D. candidates, looking at satellite data and watching them being all baffled about where the extra energy (insolation was known, radiative loss was known, delta indicated accumulation) was going. I (non-degree candidate and therefore scum) asked if they had looked in the ocean. They said it wasn't there. I think I invented the facepalm at that point. Water has a very high specific heat, and there's a f*kload of water in the ocean. We only started measuring deep water temps around 2004, and not extensively until within the last 5 years or so. All that energy that was stored (and is still being added to) back over the last half-century or so has been cheerfully flowing along in the AMOC at depth, and is now showing up where we can notice its effects. Just watch those glaciers, baby. We're coming up on the time frame for the industrially-warmed waters from 100 years ago to start working on the edges of Antarctica. Party time.

Good thing the global population isn't still exploding.

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oh wait

Private companies built the electric grid.

Government regulators got involved when power distribution started to cross state lines, but private enterprise built it.

Hmm, what kind of government is it that's famous for taking over private business and making it state-run?

LD 522 currently in committee (Transportation, work session on March 9) would make it illegal to drive without removing the snow.

https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0327&item=1&snum=131

5 items in testimony - 4 citizens in favor, logging industry opposed. Call your representative, especially if they are on the Committee.

https://legislature.maine.gov/committee/#Committees/TRA Committee members listed on the bottom left of the page.

Who you gonna trust? Some paranoid redneck who can't tell one chemical from another? A bunch of imbeciles who can't seem to understand that the fucking cloud moved out to sea almost two weeks ago? Or maybe a group of scientists who actually know what they're talking about?

Now say "ankylosaur larynx" three times fast.

We're working on it at the state level. One step at a time.

I'm more concerned with the elevated cancer risk. SIL has lived in an area of "chronic non-attainment of NAAQS" for the last 35 +/- years. She's in the hospital fighting brain cancer. Thanks, industry.