I figured this was AI, but Google is trying to make me believe it’s real!
Well, not the tilted Earth, but the clouds, which are said to be Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds.
It’s a rare cloud formation that “resembles ocean waves, also known as billow clouds or fluctus clouds.
They form when two layers of air with different densities and speeds interact, creating a phenomenon called wind shear. This instability causes the air to ripple and curl into the distinctive wave-like patterns. The clouds are short-lived, often lasting only a few minutes, which makes sightings relatively rare.”
Okay… I looked at my calendar… It’s not April 1st.
And there are photos of other occurrences…. but… I mean…. but…. okay maybe?
I follow “Timelapse Trucker” on youtoobe, and he lives in Red Deer, Alberta. He works in the oil industry hauling equipment around. This time of year he thinks -20c is fine, and -15c as “Not too bad today.”
Sure… there are lots ot places it gets that cold in Canada.
But in Wisconsin, we, too, had some (but certainly not all) winter days in that range, and a few much colder… around -15F, which is -26C.
And Alaska is the US… you can imagine the weather there.
She just objects when I say things like “how’s life in the frozen North?”, when she lives in a perfectly temperate area, and thinks I’m making fun of Canada…
which of course I am.
Then again, it’s hard to find something I don’t make fun of, including myself.
I googled it, and I can’t find a book about a cat named Dewey who died in 1910. There plenty of mention of this gravestone, but not a book about the cat.
I googled it because I have a good friend of many years who loves reading about cats. We don’t see each other as often as we’d like, so we put stuff aside to give each other when we get together.
I do have a book I’ve been saving for her, which I haven’t read, about a cat named Dewey… but it can’t be this cat, cos the one in the book lived in a library in the 21st century.
Is that the book you mean? I bought it looking brand new at a thrift store for $1… but maybe I should read it myself.
Oh yeah… we had drive-ins when I was little, in the last ice age.
I remember being startled when I first saw a drive thru… it wasn’t a restaurant, but a bank.
I was in high school, so i’m sure they’d been around for a while, but my mother didn’t drive, so I didn’t see one till my aunt used one, when we were visiting.
You exchanged money, checks and deposit and withdrawal slips by putting them in metal capsules, like science fiction.
I used them years later, myself, in the 1980s, but they soon disappeared.
I don’t remember a drive thru restaurant till at least no earlier than that
Well… I never like to mention it… but we had a long discussion about this picture yesterday, or I guess the day before….. computers and megabytes of memory and cell phones.
One man’s ruin is another man (or woman)’s pleasure.
Don’t ruin my food by telling me what to have on it….
especially when it’s something perfectly reasonable.
They already have tomatoes on them, and pickles… ketchup is made of tomatoes, with vinegar and sugar.
If I’m pouring hot fudge over it, I’d understand you thinking it was ruined, but it’s still up to the eater, just like I try not to say anything when my friend eats roast beef well done (ruined, in my eyes.)
I’m not one of those people who pours ketchup on my eggs or mashed potatoes, bit I don’t enjoy a hot dog or hamburger without it
Also, I can’t eat mustard and really hot peppers without digestive upset… not doing it because someone says I must.
We must withdraw to our corners and enjoy our hot dogs in peace! 🙂
Apparently, they’re popular in Chicago, and considered essential on a Chicago hot dog, but hardly known outside the Midwest, and somewhat in the south, where they’re grown.
The Spruce Eats website says they’re not very spicy, only a little bit hotter than jalapenos… which means they have a different definition of “spicy” from mine, cos to me that’s pretty hot.
They’re similar to pepperoncini, and both are sold pickled, in jars, but sports peppers are hotter.
I wouldn’t want them on my hot dog, but that gets boos in Chicago.
I’m not worried, cos they already don’t like me at Chicago hot dog stands, or rather, wouldn’t, if they knew me, cos I don’t eat mustard on my hot dogs, and I drown them in ketchup.
Right down in the bottom left corner it says “absolutely no ketchup”, so I might not get a hotdog till I’m back in California, where footlong Kosher beef dogs are only $1.50 at Costco anyway, and they quite sanely have big ketchup dispensers.
I have a niece who was literally like that as a small child.
She would have cut out a big piece all around the offending tiny bit of whatever she thought she didn’t like, and refused to eat it…. and probably also left a couple of inches between “her” half and the half with the “wrong” ingredient.
And then cried loudly because it wasn’t fair that her half was smaller.
…
Once while I was there she measured the cookies with a ruler, to make sure she got the biggest one, and another time, moved the icing flowers on her father’s birthday cake with her fingers so she could demand the corner piece where she’d placed an extra rose.
That time i told her it was disgusting that she put her fingers all over the cake before it was cut… She ran into the bathroom and had a major tantrum, howling and crying, and delaying the cake for everybody.
Of course, I wouldn’t have delayed the cake for a minute because of a tantrum… but I was told it was my fault and I should apologize to her!
A bit of history, from Wikipedia: Castle Mountain (Blackfoot: Miistukskoowa) is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower.
I did reply to you yesterday, but in case you didn’t see it, here’s a bit about ‘The Whiteboard’.
‘Doc’ is an inventor and paintball obsessed Polar Bear. Lots of good characters, the artwork and storytelling is good, and it normally updates M-thru-F.
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Lunch!
The milk bar is open.
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And we silly Germans just use a towel to reserve a deckchair…
Tres chic!
Even has her own cocktail, magazines, and tunes. Perfect day.
Kibble martini, shaken
not stirred
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OMG! We’re being attacked by the Mandelbrot set!
It’s already tilting the earth!
I figured this was AI, but Google is trying to make me believe it’s real!
Well, not the tilted Earth, but the clouds, which are said to be Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds.
It’s a rare cloud formation that “resembles ocean waves, also known as billow clouds or fluctus clouds.
They form when two layers of air with different densities and speeds interact, creating a phenomenon called wind shear. This instability causes the air to ripple and curl into the distinctive wave-like patterns. The clouds are short-lived, often lasting only a few minutes, which makes sightings relatively rare.”
Okay… I looked at my calendar… It’s not April 1st.
And there are photos of other occurrences…. but…
I mean…. but…. okay maybe?
…
I think I’ll send this to my sister.
She hates when I refer to Canada as the frozen North.
Especially since she lives in Victoria, BC, which has weather fairly similar to San Francisco 😁
I follow “Timelapse Trucker” on youtoobe, and he lives in Red Deer, Alberta. He works in the oil industry hauling equipment around. This time of year he thinks -20c is fine, and -15c as “Not too bad today.”
Sure… there are lots ot places it gets that cold in Canada.
But in Wisconsin, we, too, had some (but certainly not all) winter days in that range, and a few much colder… around -15F, which is -26C.
And Alaska is the US… you can imagine the weather there.
She just objects when I say things like “how’s life in the frozen North?”, when she lives in a perfectly temperate area, and thinks I’m making fun of Canada…
which of course I am.
Then again, it’s hard to find something I don’t make fun of, including myself.
We’ve had winters like that here in Bavaria, too…
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Groovy!
It keeps flipping back and forth!
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Read the book.
I’ve got it on the HOLD list at my library. Looks like a interesting life story.
Heart warming!
I googled it, and I can’t find a book about a cat named Dewey who died in 1910. There plenty of mention of this gravestone, but not a book about the cat.
I googled it because I have a good friend of many years who loves reading about cats. We don’t see each other as often as we’d like, so we put stuff aside to give each other when we get together.
I do have a book I’ve been saving for her, which I haven’t read, about a cat named Dewey… but it can’t be this cat, cos the one in the book lived in a library in the 21st century.
Is that the book you mean? I bought it looking brand new at a thrift store for $1… but maybe I should read it myself.
I believe the book and the memorial stone are two different things.
Happy³ is talking about this same book which you have. The true story about an abandoned cat at a library.
For the memorial stone, more info here:
dewey-stuart
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good clutch hitter, but chokes her bat too much
If she had taken a swing for the fences it all would have been over then.
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BTDT…
I don’t care what time of the year it is, when i want a soft serve i dont want to wait until summer.
She’s noticing how close those tire tracks are to the window.
it’s like some wise-ass thought it was a drive-in.
notice I said drive-in, not drive through/thru ….
that term came years later
Oh yeah… we had drive-ins when I was little, in the last ice age.
I remember being startled when I first saw a drive thru… it wasn’t a restaurant, but a bank.
I was in high school, so i’m sure they’d been around for a while, but my mother didn’t drive, so I didn’t see one till my aunt used one, when we were visiting.
You exchanged money, checks and deposit and withdrawal slips by putting them in metal capsules, like science fiction.
I used them years later, myself, in the 1980s, but they soon disappeared.
I don’t remember a drive thru restaurant till at least no earlier than that
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Boy, Chuck really cleans up nice.
Trying to come up with a Chuck, and drawing a blank.
Assuming you don’t mean King Charles III…
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That is exactly who I mean; (now) King (then Prince) Chuck.
Silly me… I didn’t think it was him cos she’s just meeting whoever this is.
And looking at him fondly.
Coulda been Andrew…
Funny you said that, cos I thought that fellow on the far right edge, in the background, kinda looked like he might be Andrew.
I recognize
Actually, there are people in the background I can’t say I recognize either.
Okay…. I searched the image…
The furry guy is named Ludo.
I saw him before Diana. Kinda stands out.
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Ummm…
Yogi Berra:
“It’s déjà vu, all over again!”
oh, why not?
Well… I never like to mention it… but we had a long discussion about this picture yesterday, or I guess the day before….. computers and megabytes of memory and cell phones.
Major software update since last time?
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What a great window cleaner.
That glass is so clean, it’s invisible…. you’d swear it wasn’t even there.
I bet he did great in an invisible box…
Isn’t he in one, in this gif?
see the panda?
I could not find yesterdays, but this just pops out.
Before or after popping those pills?
Just in case he doesn’t pop out for you… or just to compare, if we both found one….
The way he’s drawn with no outline reminds me of the Panda Express logo…. keeping that in here so it won’t be a spoiler.
Yup!
Yep2
Thanks, Susan!
You’re quite welcome.
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Yecch! Gotta use tomato relish!
NO! A Chicago dog has no tomato ketchup (catsup, whatever) on it, even hiding in the relish. Don’t ruin it!
One man’s ruin is another man (or woman)’s pleasure.
Don’t ruin my food by telling me what to have on it….
especially when it’s something perfectly reasonable.
They already have tomatoes on them, and pickles… ketchup is made of tomatoes, with vinegar and sugar.
If I’m pouring hot fudge over it, I’d understand you thinking it was ruined, but it’s still up to the eater, just like I try not to say anything when my friend eats roast beef well done (ruined, in my eyes.)
I’m not one of those people who pours ketchup on my eggs or mashed potatoes, bit I don’t enjoy a hot dog or hamburger without it
Also, I can’t eat mustard and really hot peppers without digestive upset… not doing it because someone says I must.
We must withdraw to our corners and enjoy our hot dogs in peace! 🙂
What is a sport pepper?
Wondering the same thing.
I had to Google it…
Apparently, they’re popular in Chicago, and considered essential on a Chicago hot dog, but hardly known outside the Midwest, and somewhat in the south, where they’re grown.
The Spruce Eats website says they’re not very spicy, only a little bit hotter than jalapenos… which means they have a different definition of “spicy” from mine, cos to me that’s pretty hot.
They’re similar to pepperoncini, and both are sold pickled, in jars, but sports peppers are hotter.
I wouldn’t want them on my hot dog, but that gets boos in Chicago.
I’m not worried, cos they already don’t like me at Chicago hot dog stands, or rather, wouldn’t, if they knew me, cos I don’t eat mustard on my hot dogs, and I drown them in ketchup.
Right down in the bottom left corner it says “absolutely no ketchup”, so I might not get a hotdog till I’m back in California, where footlong Kosher beef dogs are only $1.50 at Costco anyway, and they quite sanely have big ketchup dispensers.
I have a niece who was literally like that as a small child.
She would have cut out a big piece all around the offending tiny bit of whatever she thought she didn’t like, and refused to eat it…. and probably also left a couple of inches between “her” half and the half with the “wrong” ingredient.
And then cried loudly because it wasn’t fair that her half was smaller.
…
Once while I was there she measured the cookies with a ruler, to make sure she got the biggest one, and another time, moved the icing flowers on her father’s birthday cake with her fingers so she could demand the corner piece where she’d placed an extra rose.
That time i told her it was disgusting that she put her fingers all over the cake before it was cut… She ran into the bathroom and had a major tantrum, howling and crying, and delaying the cake for everybody.
Of course, I wouldn’t have delayed the cake for a minute because of a tantrum… but I was told it was my fault and I should apologize to her!
What an evil auntie you are! But absolutely in the right! 🙂
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EWC, i presume.
Like two ships that pass in the night.
Nighthawks… Is that Milo too?
that’s Sam—Sam one, as it turned out .
The basset I adopted next was named Sam also—so he became Sam II
Ah… I thought I recognized him from somewhere.
I guess he and Milo both got pretty white.
“Morning George”
“Morning Ralph”
“Wreck-It Ralph”?
I love that cartoon.
Castle Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, December 2022.
Aptly named.
A bit of history, from Wikipedia:
Castle Mountain (Blackfoot: Miistukskoowa) is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise.
The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower.
love that wickie
Bald Eagle, North Waterloo, Ontario.
Looks like one of ours!
I did reply to you yesterday, but in case you didn’t see it, here’s a bit about ‘The Whiteboard’.
‘Doc’ is an inventor and paintball obsessed Polar Bear. Lots of good characters, the artwork and storytelling is good, and it normally updates M-thru-F.
https://www.the-whiteboard.com/
They recommend that you start at “The Fridgemonster” (2006)
https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb651.html
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Ooh look…. Cleo got you two tables, as well!